Nation rids itself of stigma
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina takes part in a prayer in the House yesterday for Bangabandhu and his family members killed in the August 15, 1975 bloodbath. Photo: PIDThey were buried at their ancestral village homes. Five ambulances, escorted by Rapid Action Battalion and police, transported the bodies to the burial sites.
Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan was buried at Gopinathpur of Kashba upazila in Brahmanbaria, Syed Farooq Rahman at Marma Mallikpur village in Naogaon, Bazlul Huda at Hatboalia village of Alamdanga upazila in Chuadanga, and AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed at Neta and Nijkata villages respectively under Golachipa upazila in Patuakhali.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offered shokrana namaz and recited from the holy Quran in her official residence Jamuna after the executions.
Hasina, one of the two surviving daughters of Bangabandhu, expressed deep satisfaction over the executions, and called upon the people as well as her party leaders and activists to resist any conspiracy with patience.
Awami League leaders and activists led by Deputy Leader of the Parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi of the capital in the morning.
"The nation is now stigma free," said Sajeda Chowdhury, adding that she had been waiting for the executions for long. "The nation was waiting for the day," she said.
Other AL leaders also expressed their satisfaction with the executions, and demanded immediate extradition of the other six fugitive condemned killers.
The parliament in a special munajat also expressed deep gratitude to the Almighty yesterday for the executions.
LGRD Minister Syed Ashraful Islam said the executions prove that the rule of law exists in the country. It also proves that nobody can escape the long arm of the law after committing a crime, the AL general secretary told reporters at a capital hotel expressing his reaction.
Our Patuakhali correspondent reported, Milton Talukder received his cousin AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed's body around 2:30pm.He was buried in his family graveyard at 2:45pm after a hurried namaz-e-janaza. About 200 people however staged a demonstration there protesting against the funeral. They also manhandled AKM Mohiuddin's another cousin Kabir Hussain Talukder, and threw shoes at the body.
AL activists and other local people brought out a march when Mohiuddin Ahmed's body reached his Nijkata village around 3:15pm. Abul Hossain Howlader, an uncle of Mohiuddin, received the body. He was also buried following a namaz-e-janaza.
Golachipa AL unit leaders and activists staged demonstrations against allowing funerals for AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed when the bodies entered the upazila town around 11:40am.
The namaz-e-janaza of Bazlul Huda was held in Hatboalia High School field around 12:05pm, reported our Kushtia correspondent. Huda's younger brother Nurul Huda received the body.
Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan's son Ashraf Rahman Khan received his father's body at Gopinathpur around 6:30am. Sultan was buried in his family graveyard, our correspondent reported.
Syed Farooq Rahman's body reached his village Marma Mallikpur around 8:45am reported our Rajshahi correspondent.
Police handed over the body to Farooq's cousin Dewan Asadur Rahman Mithu. His janaza was held at 9.30am.
People at the janaza demanded to see Farooq's uncovered body before burial, and police allowed them to have a look, following which he was buried.
Local AL activists brought out a procession near Farooq's house after the burial, celebrating his exceution.
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