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Liberation War Hero Seeks Justice

Kader Siddiqui, a leader of Bangladesh's liberation war and politician, wants the "real plotters" behind the 1975 assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family to be tracked down and brought to justice. While some of the army officers directly involved in the killings have been tried and convicted, Siddiqui believes the true masterminds remain untraced. He also calls for those who joined the cabinet of President Khandaker Mostaque Ahmed after the assassination to be prosecuted. Additionally, Siddiqui claims he led an armed resistance against the new regime in 1975 that occupied parts of the country, but many of his forces were later handed over to Ziaur Rahman

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Liberation War Hero Seeks Justice

Kader Siddiqui, a leader of Bangladesh's liberation war and politician, wants the "real plotters" behind the 1975 assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family to be tracked down and brought to justice. While some of the army officers directly involved in the killings have been tried and convicted, Siddiqui believes the true masterminds remain untraced. He also calls for those who joined the cabinet of President Khandaker Mostaque Ahmed after the assassination to be prosecuted. Additionally, Siddiqui claims he led an armed resistance against the new regime in 1975 that occupied parts of the country, but many of his forces were later handed over to Ziaur Rahman

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INTERVIEW: Kader Siddiqui wants 'real plotters' tracked

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 2:29 pm BdST

Reazul Bashar
bdnews24.com correspondent

Dhaka, Nov 20 (bdnews24.com)—The army officers directly involved in the killing of Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman and his family have been tried and convicted, but the "real plotters" remain
untraced, says Abdul Kader Siddiqui, a leader of the liberation war and politician.

In an interview with bdnews24.com, he called for tracking down the men "behind the scenes"
and bringing them to justice.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a verdict that handed down death sentences to 12
former army officers in the Bangabandhu murder case, sealing the gruelling and often-
disrupted case proceedings of 13 years. Five of the condemned killers await their fate in jail
now, while seven remain fugitive.

In an immediate reaction to the verdict, Siddiqui told bdnews24.com, "Killing Bangabandhu


was not just murder of a man…It was destroying the liberation of Bangladesh."

"The perpetrators behind the scene must be traced out and tried", he said.

The veteran freedom fighter was one of the few who had protested Sheikh Mujib's brutal
killing at the time and claims to have led an 'armed resistance' against the new regime.

Siddiqui told bdnews24.com, "Those who joined Mostaque cabinet after the assassination
should also be brought to justice."

Khandaker Mostaque Ahmed became president after Sheikh Mujib was brutally killed, with
most members of his family, on August 15, 1975.

Some members of Mujib's cabinet had jumped ship to join the new government formed by
Mostaque Ahmed.

Siddiqui claimed he had raised an armed resistance against the killing of Bangabandhu.

"We occupied some 300 kilometres area along the border stretching from Rangpur to Sylhet
with about 9,500 comrades on our side."

"A number of army and BDR camps and police stations came under our control," Siddiqui
claimed.
"But after the political change-over in India, the then Indian Prime minister Morarji Deshai
handed over our 6,000 comrades to Ziaur Rahman," he said.

"Otherwise, we could have installed our government in Bangladesh," he said.

Siddiqui claimed that his forces had put up an armed resistance against Bangladesh
administration in Sep-Oct 1975 which triggered some small battles at different parts of the
country in which 72 of his comrades were killed.

He also claimed that some 17-18 army personnel died in a helicopter crash in Pabna in
October 1975 while trying to capture him.

Siddiqui said he distributed leaflets on the very day that Bangabandhu was assassinated
which read, "Bangabandhu's three sons were killed, but one of his sons is alive who will
avenge the murder," referring to himself as 'Mujib's son and avenger'.

"Pro-Awami League forces would have been totally eliminated if we had not put up that
resistance", he said.

Kader Siddiqui returned home in December in 1990 after a long exile. He became a member of
parliament on an AL ticket before being sacked from the party for unresolved differences.

He later floated a new political party, Krishak Sramik Janata League.

bdnews24.com/rb/sh/of/ec/rah/1410h

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