All the five death row convicts in the Bangabandhu assassination case were hanged to death minutes after midnight in the first one hour of Thursday.<br/><br/>Ex-lieutenant colonel Mohiuddin Ahmed and ex-major Bazlul Huda were hanged first as the execution process started while ex-lieutenant colonel Syed Faruq Rahman was the third to be executed minutes later.<br/><br/>Ex-lieutenant colonels Shahriar Rashid Khan and AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed were the last to walk to the gallows.<br/><br/>The review petitions filed by all the five convicts against the death sentence were rejected on Wednesday morning following which the death sentences were executed as the Bangladesh President had also rejected their clemency petitions.<br/><br/>Security had been beefed up around the Dhaka Central Jail as the executions were carried out.<br/><br/>Earlier in November last year , the Bangladesh Supreme Court had upheld the high court verdict sentencing twelve persons to death for killing Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on August 15th 1975.<br/><br/>Apart from the five convicts who have now been executed, six more convicts are still at large while one person has died.<br/><br/>AIR Correspondent reports, more than three decades after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibir Rehman and his family members, his killers have finally been punished.<br/><br/>Preparations for the execution of the five convicts behind bars began hours after the Supreme Court rejected their review petitions on Wednesday morning.<br/><br/>Immediately after the Court’s ruling reached the Jail authorities, family members of the convicts were called to meet them.<br/><br/>With the Bangladesh President rejecting the last hour clemency plea of Syed Faruk Rahman one of the two convicts who had not filed their mercy petition by late evening the decks were cleared for the execution.<br/><br/>Security was beefed up around the Dhaka Central Jail as hundreds of people gathered in front of the jail gate by night. The execution process began just minutes after midnight and was reportedly completed in forty minutes.<br/><br/>Now the Bangladesh government hopes that it will be able to nab the remaining six persons who are facing a death sentence in the case but are hiding abroad so that they do not escape from justice.