BANGLADESH NEWS
The government will file case against 18 ministers and lawmakers of
the previous BNP-Jamaat alliance government this week for their alleged
involvement in the 2001 post-poll violence.
Home Minister
Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir said this in response to reporters' queries
emerging from a meeting with Saudi Ambassador in Dhaka Dr Abdullah
Nasser Al Bussairy at his secretariat office in the capital.
The
judicial commission probing the 2001 post-polls violence had found
evidence of over 3,625 incidents of major crimes including murders,
rape, arson and looting by cadres of the incumbent ruling BNP-Jamaat
alliance in the first 15 months of their tenure since October that year.
Disclosing
the findings at a press briefing at her office on December 1, 2011, the
then home minister Shahara Khatun said the government would file cases
against such offenders if the victims do not dare to sue them.
The
minister dismissed the idea of forming Judicial Inquiry Committee to
investigate the recent communal violence at Ramu which spread over Cox's
Bazar and Chittagong.
"There is no need of forming a
Judicial Inquiry Committee to investigate the matter. Administrative
probe committee has been formed. And if this committee fails then we may
think about forming a judicial committee," said the minister.
The government will extend all out cooperation to repair the damaged homesteads and other establishments, the minister added.
The minister also reiterated that the communal violence at Ramu was organized and premeditated.
"All involved in that violence will be identified and brought to book immediately," the minister added.
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