Bangabandhu’s grandson Sajeeb Wazed Joy said that the killing of 10-year-old Sheikh Russel is a stigma that the nation is yet to overcome.

Sajeeb Wazed Joy, also Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ICT Advisor, said this in a Facebook post from his verified account.

“We are taking you to your mother” - how they lent false hope to Russel and soon after fired bullets, a pointer to the sheer barbarity unleashed in by the group of assassins, part of a larger national and international conspiracy, with the assassins went unpunished for decades,” Joy wrote, reports BSS.  

The Facebook post also includes an animated video portraying the fateful night of August 15 where little Russel is seen crying fitfully amid a pool of blood at the Dhanmondi 32 house.

Russel would have celebrated his 59th birthday on Tuesday had the assassins' bullets not ripped him apart.

The feeble voice of Russel begging for life was drowned out by the beastly laughter of assassins and the rattling shots of a brushfire. His head was dislodged; the voice of the little angel was silenced forever.

A pack of traitors perforated the “little birdie”, along with other members of Bangabandhu’s family, to avenge the defeat in the War for Liberation, added the post.

"How can we, Bengalis, get rid of this stigma? Please give sanity a chance," he further said.

"May every child grow up safely. May the altar of the bloodstained memory of Russel ring in a new, humane world," he concluded.

Sheikh Russel, also the youngest brother of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was born on October 18 in 1964 at the historic Bangabandhu Bhaban at Dhanmondi-32 in the capital.

The Cabinet Division last year declared October 18, the birthday of Sheikh Russel, as Sheikh Russel Day.

Bd-pratidin English/Golam Rosul