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Article: Bangladesh to Repeal Indemnity Ordinance
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 14, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 Xinhua English Newswire. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Bangladeshi government has completed preliminary preparations
for repealing the infamous indemnity ordinance that blocked the
trial
of the killing of the nation's father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib.
Mujib, the first president of Bangladesh and father of the
present
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was killed along with his wife and
sons
on August 15, 1975, in a bloody military coup.
In order to block any trial of the killing, an indemnity
ordinance
was promulgated later by Khandaker Mushtaque Ahmed who became
president after the assassination of Mujib. The indemnity ordinance
was ratified by the 5th amendment to the constitution.
In August 1991, Mohammad Nasim, then an opposition Awami League ...