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Mujib killer extradited

Haroon Habib

DHAKA: Lt. Col. A. K. M. Mohiuddin Ahmed (retd), one of the convicted killers of Bangladesh’s founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was deported to Dhaka by the U.S. on Sunday after decades in exile.

A Thai Airways flight flew Mohiuddin in to Dhaka from the United States.

He was arrested at the airport and later sent to the Dhaka central jail by a magistrate. Two officials of the U.S Homeland Security escorted him.

The decision on his deportation was taken after Mohiuddin lost his appeal before the U.S. Federal Court on Thursday not to deport him to Bangladesh, said acting Bangladesh Foreign Secretary Towhid Hossain.

Earlier, the family of the former army officer made emotional appeals for asylum in Canada after the U.S. decided to deport him.

He lost his last appeal to stay in the U.S., which he entered on a tourist visa in 1996 and stayed on illegally.

Mohiuddin was one of the masterminds who was sentenced to death for assassinating Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975 through a bloody coup in which most family members of Mujib were killed.

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