Bangabandhu murder case's plaintiff AFM Mohitul Islam dies at 63

The plaintiff in the Bangabandhu murder case AFM Mohitul Islam - who was Bangabandhu’s resident PA at the time of his assassination -has died aged 63.

AFM Mahitul Islam was the personal assistant to Bangabandhu. File photo AFM Mahitul Islam was the personal assistant to Bangabandhu. File photo

He breathed his last around 3pm on Thursday at Dhaka's Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University hospital ( BSMMU), Professor Md Ali Asgor Moral told bdnews24.com. Moral is the treasurer of BSMMU.

 

Mohitul Islam had been on life support at the hospital's Intensive Care Unit since his admission to the hospital last month with kidney complications.

 

Islam could not be flown abroad for better treatment as his health condition was too critical to allow any travelling for him.

 

Doctors said his kidneys had failed completely, leading to repeated dialysis. The infection in his lungs was also critical. His brain, too, was failing.

 

President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina have mourned the passing of Mohitul Islam, who was witnessed and survived the carnage of 15 August 1975 when Bangabandhu and almost his entire family were murdered by a group of rogue army officers. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the time was Bangladesh's president.

Mohitul Islam filed the case over Bangabandhu’s assassination in 1996 after the Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina came to power twenty one years after the killings of August 1975..

After trials, five of the killers of Bangabandhu were executed in January 2010.

Six others are still hiding abroad. There has been no headway in the government's efforts to have them brought back to the country.