BNP senior leader Moudud Ahmed addresses a press conference at the party Nayapaltan central office in the capital on Friday. Photo: STAR
A BNP panel formed to look into the recent attacks on Buddhists in Cox’s Bazar and Chittagong found the government’s indirect instigation in the mayhem.
“Despite being repeatedly informed, the police super didn’t take any action for 2-3 hours letting the mayhem escalate. The administration’s inaction manifested the government’s silence which also indicated its (govt’s) indirect instigation in the attacks,” Moudud Ahmed, chief of the probe body, told reporters.
Moudud, a national standing committee member of the main opposition party, came up with a 67-page investigation report of his party’s eight-member team at a press conference at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office.
Presenting their findings collected through field-level investigations into the September 29-30 attacks on Buddhists, their houses and worship places in Ramu, Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar and in Patiya of Chittagong, the opposition probe panel head demanded formation of a judicial commission led by a retired chief justice to unearth the mystery behind the attacks.
Meanwhile, BNP standing committee member Rafiqul Islam Miah in another programme on Friday demanded formation of a high-powered probe committee to probe the attack.
He suggested making a former chief justice head of the probe committee so that no one can influence its inquiry.
“Form a high-powered probe committee headed by a former chief justice to find out the real mystery behind the Ramu violence,” Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah said at a discussion.
Shushil (civil society) Forum arranged the discussion at the
Photojournalists Association office in the city.
The BNP leader said it is not possible to hide the real mystery behind the attack by shifting blame on the opposition.
He observed that if a proper inquiry does not take place and the real culprits are not brought to book, the country will have to face an adverse impact in international relations.
The BNP leader urged Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir not to politicise the issue.
He said Hasina and Alamgir blamed BNP for the incident to save the real culprits. “There’s no legal basis to speak without inquiry; they should be accountable to the country’s people.”
Rafiqul cautioned that “if we don’t protect our people from the looters, our existence will be endangered.”
Pointing finger at the government high-ups, he said: “Give up all sorts of autocracy to continue the democratic process in the country and accept the mass demand on the caretaker government system.”
Alleging that the government has destroyed all constitutional institutions, the BNP stalwart said the countrymen are passing “bad days under the present regime.”
BNP chairperson's adviser Shamsuzzaman Dudu, Islami Oikya Jote secretary general Abdul Latif Nezami, among others, spoke at the discussion, chaired by Shushil Forum president M Zahid.
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