DHAKA, Dec 15, 2023 (BSS) - Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq today said trial must be held over the brutal killings that took place marking hijack of a plane of Japan Airlines in 1977.
 
"You all will definitely get the justice, as our Prime Minister is also a victim of such crime. Her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed along with her whole family. Ziaur Rahman and Khandaker Moshtaq had initiated the chain of killings through their killings (on August 15, 1975)," Anisul said consoling the families of the victims of killings carried out by Ziaur Rahman in 1977, 1978 and 1979.
 
Anisul was addressing a discussion organized by 'Mayer Kanna', an organization of relatives of the victims of killings carried out by Ziaur Rahman in 1977, 1978 and 1979, at capital's Shilpakala Academy here.
 
The law minister said Ziaur Rahman used to enjoy killing people as it was his nature to murder someone by using another person.
 
"It is because he (Ziaur Rahman) came to power illegally and he had to commit such crimes for staying in the power. He killed freedom fighters as they could have confronted him for his crimes. He even did not let go his friend Colonel Taher. Taher saved him on November 7. But he arrested Taher and hanged him within next seven days," he added.
 
Presided over by Mayer Kanna convener Kamruzzaman Miah Lelin, the discussion was addressed by lawmaker Nahid Ijahar Khan, Emeritus Prof Dr Khandaker Bazlul Haque, Dipto Television chief executive officer Fuad Chowdhury, Bangladesh Chhatra League president Saddam Hossain and general secretary Sheikh Asif Wali Inan, among others.