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Bangladesh’s army chief and a tale of revenge

A political family in Dhaka has accused the army chief of targeting them for testifying against his brothers in a murder case.

The murder of Hasan Mahedee Munna’s uncle has led to a decades-long feud [Al Jazeera]

By 

David Bergman and 

Al Jazeera Investigative Unit

4 Feb 2021

Hasan Mahedee Munna now lives and works in a five-star hotel in Germany, but he spends much of his time thinking about his family back in Bangladesh who he says have become victims of a bitter feud with the country’s army chief, General Aziz Ahmed, and his brothers.

On Monday, Al Jazeera released All the Prime Minister’s Men, an investigation revealing political and financial corruption at the heart of the Bangladeshi state involving the chief of army staff and his family.

The feud started with the murder of Mahedee’s uncle, Mustafizur Rahman Mustafa, in the streets of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka in May 1996. Rahman was shot multiple times but survived for a brief time and, from his deathbed in hospital, gave a formal statement to a magistrate where he identified the men who shot him. Three of them – Josef Ahmed, Haris Ahmed and Anis Ahmed – were brothers who were part of a criminal gang that operated in the area of Mohammadpur where the shooting took place.

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Mustafa’s murder took place at a turbulent time in Bangladeshi politics, with a caretaker government in place between a contested general election and a redo of the vote in June. The Awami League party, which had been in the opposition for five years, was preparing to take on the beleaguered Bangladesh National Party whose leader Khaleda Zia had been forced to step down.

The three Ahmed brothers were aligned with the Awami League – Haris was bodyguard to its party’s leader, Sheikh Hasina, whose father Sheikh Mujib is considered the father of the Bangladeshi nation and the hero of its independence.

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With Aziz as head of the army. It is like a mafia state now in Bangladesh.

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“With Aziz as head of the army. It is like a mafia state now in Bangladesh.”

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit contacted General Aziz Ahmed and the three other Ahmed brothers, inviting them to respond to its findings. None provided a response to our inquiries.

SOURCE : AL JAZEERA

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