DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh vowed to bring back the convicted killers of its founding leader from abroad as it prepared to mark the 35th anniversary of his death on Sunday.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who led the country to independence from Pakistan in 1971, was assassinated along with more than 20 members of his family in a coup by army officers on August 15, 1975.
Five of the 12 men convicted of killing Sheikh Mujib were executed in January this year -- just a year after his eldest daughter Sheikh Hasina stormed back to power with a landslide victory.
Local government minister and deputy chief of Hasina's ruling Awami League party Syed Ashraful Islam said on Saturday the government would bring the other killers back to the country and execute them.
“We had to wait a long time to implement the verdict (of the Mujib murder case). We have implemented the verdict partially. Others who are hiding abroad are being tracked down,” he told reporters.
“They will be brought back to the country no matter how long it takes and justice will be meted out,” he said.
Six of the convicts are believed to be hiding in North America and Africa while another died in Zimbabwe.
Bangladesh marks Sheikh Mujib's assassination date as a day of national mourning and it is a national holiday.
Top ministers flew to the home town of the independence hero on Saturday to place wreaths at his grave.
Photo: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
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