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Former Bangladesh PM Hasina marks 50th anniversary of 'Jail Killing Day', calls it one of nation's 'most disgraceful' moments

Dhaka, Nov 3 (UNI) Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, observing the 50th anniversary of the country's infamous Jail Killing Day on Monday, called the extrajudicial killings of four historical Awami League leaders and freedom fighters inside Dhaka Central Jail in 1975 as one of the most "painful and disgraceful" days in the nation's history.
The day marks the killing of Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmad, Captain M. Mansur Ali, and A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman — four of the most prominent organisers of the 1971 Liberation War and key figures in the country's founding government — who were murdered on Nov 3, 1975.
Widely regarded as national heroes, they were killed little less than three months after the Bangladesh's founding father and its first PM, 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was killed along with most of his family.
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