Foreign Minister DR AK Abdul Momen. Photo: Collected
Foreign Minister DR AK Abdul Momen on Thursday (14 November) urged the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) to repatriate two identified war criminals those are convicted for killing of intellectuals in 1971.
"We want the US and the UK will send back those two killers in Bangladesh to face justice," he said while speaking at a seminar titled "Energizing Bangladesh's Youth Workforce for Global Success" at North South University here.
The foreign minister said the government's effort has been continuing to bring back convicted war criminals Chowdhury Mueen Uddin from the UK and Ashrafuzzaman Khan from the US.
"They (killers) became leaders on Islamic institutes there (in US and UK) but they are killers," Momen said.
The foreign minister urged the media to make especial episode on those two killers to make local people know that killer are livening in their neighbourhood freely.
Mueen and Ashraf were sentenced to death after Special War Crimes Tribunal found them guilty of abducting and murdering 18 intellectuals including nine university teachers, six journalists and three doctors in December of 1971.
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