Death-row convict Ashrafuzzaman Khan was seen in most of the places accompanying Chowdhury Mueen Uddin, according to investigations on some events of the intellectuals killing committed in Dhaka particularly between December 10 and 15, 1971.
Born on February 28, 1948, Ashraf is the son of late Md Ajahar Ali Khan and late Roimunnesa. He hails from Chotobhatara, Chiler par of Gopalganj. He was a central committee member of Islami Chhatra Sangha, then student wing of Jamaat-e- Islami. Later he was given the responsibility of al-Badr as its “chief executor.”
On several occasions, Ashraf had moved side by side the “operation-in-charge” of al–Badr, Mueen, when the intellectuals had been abducted from their residences on gun point, according to the witnesses’ deposition.
Presently, he is believed to be living in New York and serving as a member of Islamic Circle of North America.
According to the published reports in Bangladeshi media just after the independence, Ashraf had been the owner of a diary widely known as “Jollader Diary” (diary of a butcher). It was used to list down the names of prominent intellectuals who were being considered as threat to the “sovereignty of Pakistan and the rule of Islam.”
A prosecution witness Ali Sazzad while testifying against Ashraf told the war crimes tribunal that the diary had been found from their house where Ashraf’s elder brother Rowshan Ali Khan used to live as a tenant. Ashraf had stayed in that house during the last few months of the Liberation War.
