Speakers at a discussion yesterday strongly criticised law enforcement agencies and administration for, what they said, playing a silent role and even instigating the September 29 attack on the Buddhist community in Cox's Bazar's Ramu.
They also condemned the remanding of Madhu Barua and Aadi Barua by police, stating that this was what Jamaat-e-Islami was hoping for.
Madhu is the mother and Aadi is the aunt of Uttam Kumar Barua, whose Facebook account was falsely used to launch anti-Buddhist propaganda that triggered the violence.
The discussion, “Jamaat's link with militants and trial of war criminals”, was organised by Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee in the capital's WVA Auditorium.
If punitive action is not taken against Cox's Bazar's superintendent of police and deputy commissioner, such mayhem might be repeated in other parts of the country, they said.
“Law enforcers will forcibly take confessional statements from them (Madhu and Aadi),” said the committee's acting president Shahriar Kabir.
Claiming that agents of Jamaat were active in the administration, he said, “How can we expect an impartial investigation.”
Around 17 militant and fundamentalist organisations are active in the Bangladesh-Myanmar border while some non-government organisations are patronising them, claimed Kabir.
Addressing the function, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu said Jamaat has connections with armed activities, militancy and international terrorism and the government primarily found proof of Jamaat's link with the attack.
Voice should be raised demanding a ban on Jamaat's politics and bringing the party under war crimes trial as an organisation, he said.
International Crimes Tribunal Prosecutor Advocate Rana Dasgupta said the fundamentalist force has been launching attacks on households and temples of minority communities as part of their conspiracy to foil the war crimes trial.
“We are trying to provide some results of the trial process by next December,” he said.
State Minister for Liberation War Affairs AB Tajul Islam, academician Prof Muntasir Mamun and cultural personality Kamal Lohani also spoke at the discussion.
Meanwhile, female leaders of Sector Commanders' Forum, Liberation War-'71; Rajshahi University teachers; and Khulna's artists condemned the attack and demanded exemplary punishment for the perpetrators.
The seven female leaders, in a statement, expressed deep concern over the destruction of the over 300-year-old invaluable and ancient sculptures in Ramu.
The teachers, at a human chain in the university, urged people to strengthen communal harmony among all communities in Ramu and the country.
The artists formed a human chain at Picture Palace Intersection in Khulna city where they demanded exemplary punishment for the perpetrators.
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