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General Ershad,
What Is That Plan You Are Talking About?
May I Know It?"
THE TESTIMONY OF AIR VICE MARSHAL SADRUDDIN
Excerpt from Statement Provided on March 25, 1995 to Inquiry Convened By CID Under The Jurisdiction of The Manzur Murder Case.
. . . they told me that a plan was afoot
to trap Maj. Cen Manzur in this incident
[the killing of Ziaur Rahman/
May 31, 1981
I am Air Vice Marshal Sadruddin (Rtd.), former Chief of the Air Force . . .1 was informed around 7 AM that General Ershad wanted to speak with me on the phone. When I received the phone call, General Ershad gave me the news of President Ziaur Rahman's assassination the previous night at the Chttagong Circuit House, and he requested that I return to Dhaka quickly. I left /lessore/ for Dhaka a little later by helicopter and arrived there around 10 AM.
I went directly to the Army Chiefs [Ershad/ office. I saw several senior army officers in his office . . . General Ershad gave me a quick briefing on the incident. 1 was there for about twenty minutes. Maj. Gen. Sawkat /Mir Shawkat Ali/ and Maj. Gen Moin [Moinul Hossain Choudhury/ followed me as I came out of that office. In the corridor they told me that a plan was afoot to trap Maj. Gen Manzur in this incident [the killing of Ziaur Rahman/.
“Sir, please make sure
that nothing happens to Manzur . . .
June 1, 1981:
I was in the office of the Acting President (Justice Sattar) on June 1, 1981 around 5 PM. Lt. General Ershad was also present there . . . A telephone call came and the Acting President spoke. The Acting President informed us after the call that the Inspector General of Police informed him that Maj. Gen. Manzur, and others had been captured by the police.
On hearing the news General Ershad became agitated and immediately got up from his chair. Without further words he moved to the Red Telephone by the President's side and dialed a number. What I heard him say over the phone was: "Manzur has been captured by the police. He should be immediately taken over and carry out that plan. " He put down the phone.
I said, "General Ershad, what is that plan you are talking about? May I know it?" He [Ershad] got further agitated by this and said, “Air Chief, you do not understand anything." I said, "What I understand, I don't have to know from you."
I later addressed the President and said, “Sir, please make sure that nothing happens to Manzur and that he is given a trial. If anything happens to Manzur, you will be answerable to the nation." In reply, Mr. Sattar said, there will be a trial...
“You all have killed Manzur."
June 2, 1981
On June 2, 1981 around 1:30/2:00 AM, Wing Commander Kamal, Director of Air Force Intelligence gave me the news that General Manzur had been killed. I called General Ershad around 6:00/7:00 AM over the phone and said: “You all have killed Manzur."