Mohammad Yunus was a Bangladeshi academic and Professor of economics at the
University of Rajshahi
The University of Rajshahi (), also known as Rajshahi University (RU), is a public research university located in Rajshahi, Bangladesh. It is the second oldest and third largest university in Bangladesh. The university's 59 departments are or ...
. He was assassinated on 24 December 2004 by the Islamist terrorist organization
Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh ("Assembly of Mujahideen–Bangladesh", abbreviated: JMB; ) is an Islamist militant terrorist organisation operating in Bangladesh. It is listed as a terror group by Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, The United Kingdom ...
. He was one of four professors assassinated at Rajshahi University.
Career
Yunus was a professor of economics at the University of Rajshahi. He was the president of Bangabandhu Parishad of Rajshahi. He was the vice president of
Bangladesh Economic Association. He was the former registrar of Rajshahi University. He was politically liberal and left leaning.
As the registrar of Rajshahi University he served a
show cause
An order to show cause is a court order that requires one or more of the parties to a case to justify, explain, or prove something to the court. Courts commonly use orders to show cause when the judge needs more information before deciding whether ...
notice to
Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, an Islamist and professor of Rajshahi University.
Death
Yunus was killed in Binodpur, Rajshahi City while on his morning walk on 24 December 2004.
Trial
Shahidullah aka Mahbub and Safiullah were charged with the murder along with 6 others by
Criminal Investigation Department
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of a police force to which most plainclothes criminal investigation, detectives belong in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth nations. A force's CID is disti ...
of Bangladesh Police. Safiullah was arrested on 13 April 2006. He confessed to the police and claimed the killings were carried on the orders of
Shaykh Abdur Rahman
Shaykh Abdur Rahman, also known as Abdur Rahman Shaykh, (died 30 March 2007) was the leader and the administrative head of the banned terrorism, terrorist organization Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (''Awakened Muslim Masses of Bangladesh'').
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, the head of Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh. Shahidullah was arrested soon after from Bogra. He was the son-in-law of Rafiqul Islam, older brother of Siddikur Rahman alias
Bangla Bhai
Siddique ul-Islam (), known popularly as Azizur Rahman ( in Arabic) or Bangla Bhai () (1970 – 30 March 2007), was a Bangladeshi jihadist and the military commander of the Al Qaeda affiliated radical Islamist organization Jagrata Muslim Ja ...
, the military head of Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
The Criminal Investigation Department filed charges on 10 September 2007.
In 2009 the case was moved to the speedy trial tribunal. The convicts appealed the verdict at Bangladesh High Court which the High Court granted. The tribunal sentenced two of the accused to death and acquitted 6 other accused in 2010. At a retrial, Justice Golam Ahmed Khalilul of Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal reduced the sentence of the two convicts, Shahidullah and Safiullah, to life imprisonment on 24 February 2016.
See also
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Murder of S Taher Ahmed
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Murder of A. F. M. Rezaul Karim Siddique
A. F. M. Rezaul Karim Siddique (or Siddiquee) (7 January 1955 – 23 April 2016) was a professor of English at Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. He died in an attack suspected to have been carried out by Islamist militants that has been linked by ...
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Murder of A. K. M. Shafiul Islam
References
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Academic staff of the University of Rajshahi
2004 deaths
21st-century Bangladeshi economists