Jail Killing Day

Jail Killing Day
Location	Dhaka Central Jail, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Date	3 November 1975
Attack type	Massacre
Deaths	4

Jail Killing Day (Bengali: জেল হত্যা দিবস) is observed by the Awami League (AL) of Bangladesh and many other political organisation on 3 November each year. It commemorates the killing of four Awami League and national leaders: former Vice-President Syed Nazrul Islam, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmed and Captain (Rtd.) Mansur Ali, and former Home Minister A H M Quamruzzaman on this date in 1975.

Sheikh Mujib was killed in military coup. The coup leaders were overthrown in a counter coup by Brigadier Khaled Musharraf. The assassins were to be sent into exile but before they left they decided to execute the four leaders imprisoned in Dhaka Central jail. Vice-President Syed Nazrul Islam,, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tajuddin Ahmed and Captain (Rtd.) Mansur Ali, and former Home Minister A H M Quamruzzaman were shot and bayoneted by army officials inside Dhaka Central Jail. Those killers, later, got indirect benefits from two President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman and Hossain Mohammad Ershad.

Nearly 29 years after the killings, those responsible went to trial. In the judgement, which was pronounced on 20 October 2004, during the premiership of Begum Khaleda Zia, three fugitive former army personnel were sentenced to death, 12 former army personnel were sentenced to life term imprisonment and five people, including four senior politicians, like Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders A KM Obaidur Rahman, Shah Moazzem Hossain, Nurul Islam Monzoor, Taheruddin Thakur and the then additional foreign secretary Khairuzzaman, were acquitted.

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