Bangladesh and Canada will further discuss ways for extradition of Noor Chowdhury, a convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in Ottawa this week.
Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali left for Ottawa yesterday night and will have talks with his Canadian counterpart Stéphane Dion, a senior official at the foreign ministry said yesterday.
The meeting, which will discuss other issues, is likely to be held tomorrow with a special focus on how to bring Noor Chowdhury to justice and execute the verdict of the Bangabandhu murder case.
Earlier in September, Bangladesh and Canada agreed to find out a way for the extradition of Noor Chowdhury during a meeting between Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Canadian counterpart Justin Trudeau at Hyatt Regency Montreal, said the official.
Official sources said the government is moving ahead taking all legal complexities into consideration and is redoubling its efforts to bring back the fugitive killers of Bangabandhu making sure that none of the killers will be spared.
The foreign minister will leave Ottawa for Paris tomorrow to attend a conference and will return home on October 29.
Chowdhury is a former Bangladeshi military officer who was convicted in absentia in the August 1975 for the assassination of Sheikh Mujib. He is leading a fugitive’s life in Canada.
He is one of the five absconding killers of Sheikh Mujib. In 2009, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh sentenced Chowdhury and 11 others to death in the case. Five of those convicted were hanged in 2010; another five, including Chowdhury, have avoided returning to Bangladesh, and one has died.
Chowdhury was granted visitor status in Canada in 1996, and hasn’t left the country since.