Bangladesh executed former army officer Captain (dismissed) Abdul Majed for involvement in the assassination of the country’s founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on April 12. Captain (dismissed) Abdul Majed was convicted for his involvement in the 1975 coup in which Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated.
Majed was arrested in Dhaka this April after almost 25 years on the run. He was one of the defendants whose death sentence was upheld by Bangladesh’s Supreme Court in 2009.
On August 15, 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman and most of his family members were assassinated during a military coup. Eighteen members of his family, including Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, three sons, and two daughters-in-law were killed. Peasant leader Abdur Rab Serniabat, youth leader Sheikh Fazlul Haq Moni and his wife Arzu Moni were among others who were killed on that fateful night.
