Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen raised the issue with US acting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells during their meeting on Tuesday evening.
“We want to ensure the rule of law and good governance (in our country) what you want, too (in your country). But there’s a problem that a fugitive killer is living in your country. We want him back,” said Dr Momen as telling visiting US official Wells.
He was briefing reporters at his office after the meeting.
Wells conveyed the Foreign Minister that they will let Bangladesh know after looking into the papers of punishment.
Bangladesh expects the United States and Canada to make a “difference” by sending back self-confessed killers of Bangabandhu.
Of the six fugitive killers, Maj (retd) Noor Chowdhury is living in Canada while Maj (retd) Rashed Chowdhury in the USA. The other four fugitive killers are Col (dismissed) Khandaker Abdur Rashid, Lt Col (relieved) Shariful Haque Dalim, Capt Abdul Majed and Risaldar Moslehuddin Khan.
On August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu along with most of his family members was assassinated brutally at Dhanmondi road 32.
Eighteen members of his family, including Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, three sons -- Captain Sheikh Kamal, Lieutenant Sheikh Jamal and 10-year-old Sheikh Russel, two daughters-in-law Sultana Kamal and Rosy Jamal, brother Sheikh Naser, peasant leader Abdur Rab Serniabat, youth leader Sheikh Fazlul Haq Moni and his wife Arzu Moni, Baby Serniabat, Sukanta Babu, Arif and Abdul Nayeem Khan Rintu, were, among others, killed on that fateful night.
His Military Secretary Brigadier General Jamil was also killed. Several members of a family in the capital’s Mohammadpur area were also killed by artillery shells fired by the killers on the same day.
Five killers of Bangabandhu -- Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed -- were hanged in January 2010. Another killer Aziz Pasha met the natural death in Zimbabwe in 2001.