Justin Trudeau has failed to honour request from Bangladesh PM on 'assassin' Noor Chowdhury taking shelter in his country

Justin Trudeau could have his own version of democracies and freedom to justify his 'pandering' of pro-Khalistani anti-Sikh votes. But the Canadian Prime Minister has failed even Bangladesh PM and a much hailed pro-democracy woman leader in Asia, Sheikh Hasina. 

The Bangladesh Prime Minister had visited Canada in 2018 G-7 Outreach meet and during her bilateral meeting with Trudeau, she had requested her Canadian counterpart for his "personal initiative" for immediate extradition of the self-confessed killer, one of the two assassins who directly shot Father of the Nation of Bangladesh, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman dead way back in 1975.

Sheikh Hasina

                                     S.H.M.B Noor Chowdhury

Chowdhury was a Major in Bangladesh Army in 1975 when was in the conspiracy to eliminate Bangladesh founder Mujib. Now in his seventies, Noor Chowdhury is said to be living in Etobicoke since 1996. 

Canada has in effect not accepted Bangladesh’s requests for extradition, arguing that under Canada’s Extradition Act, a fugitive facing the death penalty in another country cannot be deported.

Awarded the death sentence in 1998 by a Dhaka court, Chowdhury, is yet to get a 'refugee status' officially in Canada. In 2009, the Bangladesh Supreme Court upheld the death sentence awarded to Chowdhury and 11 others involved in the killing of Rahman and his family members. Five of his accomplices were hanged in 2010. 

Prior to that in 2017, Bangladesh PM had told Canada's outgoing High Commissioner, Benoit-Pierre Laramee. at her office -- "One of the convicted killers of Bangabandhu is now residing in your country, extradite him".

Interestingly, like Canada, the US and UK too have been harbouring Bangladeshi fugitives Ashrafuzzaman Khan and Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, respectively, accused of murdering Bengali intellectuals during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. 

Dhaka has been seeking an extradition treaty with the UK over the past year.

While the whereabouts of Major Shariful Haque Dalim (a principal plotter in Rahman’s assassination) are still not known, it is said Bangladesh officially 'knows' that Col Rashed Chowdhury is in the US and Noor Chowdhury is in Canada. 

Well, in all that, the double standards of the western powers come to light yet again.  

In retrospect it can be recalled that Noor and other officers conspired to remove the 'secular government' of Sheikh Mujib and replace it with an Islamic law under Khondakar Mushtaque. 

On 14 August 1975, the army officers met to finalize their plans for the next day. 

Noor was placed in the team that was to attack the residence of Sheikh Mujib, the President of Bangladesh.

Noor along with Major Mohammad Bazlul Huda shot and killed Sheikh Mujib while he was coming down the stairs.

The attack on 15 August 1975 killed Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members.

After the coup, Noor was posted to the Bangladeshi embassy in Tehran as the second secretary. 

In 1996 when a Bangladesh Awami League government was voted to power, Noor was recalled to Bangladesh. He refused to comply with the government order and lost his job as a result. 

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