Declassify data on Bangabandhu killing

Communist Party of Bangladesh President Mujahidul Islam Selim yesterday urged the intelligence agencies, CIA of America, RAW of India, ISI of Pakistan, and DGFI, to declassify all data about the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Bangabandhu was slain on August 15, 1975 in a bid to “kill the country's liberation war” and to take revenge of the defeat in the war, he told a discussion in the capital.

 “The conspirators had a contingency plan [to kill Bangabandhu if defeated in the war] ahead of the liberation war and the 15 August massacre was the outcome of that plan.”

The leftist leader also urged the government to form a national committee for prosecution of the “political crime”, apart from execution of the killers of the father of the nation.

Selim said it would be a true revenge only if the country was run in the spirit of the liberation war.

The discussion on the 1975 and 2004 August massacres was organised by Moni Singh-Farhad Memorial Trust in Shahid Tajul Auditorium.

President of the trust Shekhar Dutta chaired the programme, while poet Nirmalendu Goon recited poetry written by himself.

Former general secretary of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) Mahbub Zaman, also a member of the trust's board, spoke among others.