Tit for tat learn from Bangladesh history. Khondaker, Mostaq Ahmad was imprisoned by the regime of Major General Khaled Mosharrafand later by the regime of Ziaur Rahmanuntil 1978. Upon his release, he formed Democratic League and attempted to resuscitate his political career, but to no avail. He spent his last years in Dhaka and died on March 5, 1996. Ahmad was named in the investigation of the murder of Sheikh Mujib launched in 1996 by his daughter Sheikh Hasina, who had just won the national elections to become Prime Minister of Bangladesh. Due to his death, he was not charged or tried. Historians and critics assert that Ahmad was one of the key plotters of Mujibs murder. He is also criticised for legitimising political murders by protecting Mujibs killers. He is also known to be responsible for the heinous killing of the four national leaders, who led the country during the liberation war in the absence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, former Vice President Syed Nazrul Islam, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmedand Captain Muhammad Mansur Ali, and former interior ministerA H M Qamaruzzaman on 3 November 1975 inside the DhakaCentral Jail, commemorated as Jail Killing Day.
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