Saturday, August 1st, 2009Kashmir-based militant outfit Asif Reza Commando Force (ARCF), which works together with Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), supplied grenades to LeT Bangladesh chapter leader Moulana Tajuddin for the August 21 attack in 2004.This was revealed by detained LeT leader Indian national Moulana Mansur Ali as the government pushes for further investigation into the grisly attack particularly to unearth if any influential quarters supplied the grenades.Mansur, who is also an ARCF organiser, told Detective Branch (DB) during interrogation that an ARFC leader, who is also from India, directly handed over the grenades to Tajuddin, brother of detained former BNP deputy minister Abdus Salam ...
(read more) Thursday, June 12th, 2008Charges were finally pressed yesterday in the sensational August 21 grenade attack case against 22 persons including top Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and BNP leader and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu.The development came after years of drama during the rule of coalition government led by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami over investigation into the grisly attacks on an Awami League (AL) rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004.The top brass of the then government had even said that the attack was not meant to kill AL chief Sheikh Hasina.Investigators of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have, however, found now that ...
(read more) Wednesday, June 6th, 2007Former premier Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman, Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami and 25 others were charged with murder yesterday in the August 21 grenade attacks on an Awami League (AL) rally about three years ago.Badar Aziz Uddin of Cox's Bazar filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka. He too was injured in the blasts that left 23 killed and scores wounded on the city's Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004.The other accused include Jamaat Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid, former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar, former BNP lawmakers Amanullah Aman, Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, Mirza Abbas, ...
(read more) Wednesday, October 18th, 2006As the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is repeatedly seeking to know the actual status of investigation into the August 21 grenade attack case, Speaker Jamiruddin Sircar continues accusing the Awami League (AL) of non-cooperation with the probe.Sircar has even asked the IPU not to continue examining the August 2004 grenade attack case regarding the assassination attempt on Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina to let the legal proceedings go unhindered, sources said."It would not be wise to proceed with this matter any further in this forum. With heartfelt thanks in anticipation of dropping the matter," he said in his reply to ...
(read more) Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006Opposition leader and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina said the present government will not bring the perpetrators of the August 21 grenade attack to book as it directly backed the attack to eliminate the entire AL leadership.Hasina vowed to bring the killers and their patrons to justice if her party is voted to power in the next election."The government has taken the lives of hundreds of our party leaders and workers, including 24 persons in the grenade attack on our rally on August 21, 2004 that aimed to kill me," Hasina said.She was addressing about 200 AL party activists ...
(read more) Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina yesterday said perpetrators of the grenade attack on the Awami League (AL) rally on August 21, 2004 are still at large even after two years because the government itself was involved in the heinous attack."The culprits of the August 21 grenade attack cannot be brought to justice under this government because the government itself was behind it," AL President Hasina said in a commemorating rally at Bangabandhu Avenue yesterday.Hasina reached Bangabandhu Avenue at 11:23am under unprecedented security measurers and placed floral wreaths at the memorial plaque built in memory of the 24 people killed ...
(read more) Monday, August 21st, 2006Two years into the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) rally on the Bangabandhu Avenue to assassinate party chief Sheikh Hasina, many questions still remain unanswered.Who plotted the attack, what was the motive behind it, who supplied the grenades, how were the same type of grenades sneaked into Dhaka Central Jail, why was the evidence destroyed deliberately, and why were two victims buried hurriedly have remained mysterious since the attack that killed 23 people and maimed and injured about 300 others.The government has not only shown lack of interest in bringing to justice those who carried out ...
(read more) Monday, August 21st, 2006The August 21 grenade attacks in 2004 took away bread-earners of several families while scores of others became crippled, lost their eyesight or born grenade splinters never to be got out.The fact that none of the perpetrators are yet to be brought before justice even two years after the gory incident only adds to their anguish."The government did not even show any sincerity to make a fair probe into the attack, let alone do us justice," grudged Mamun, son of a grenade attack victim Ada Chacha (Rafiqul Islam), a favourite among AL activists."There is no hope that this government will ...
(read more) Monday, August 21st, 2006Eminent citizens and opposition political leaders yesterday termed the August 21 grenade attack on the main opposition in the parliament as the most brutal in the country's political history. They said perpetrators of such a highly calculated and planned attack should be brought to justice to prevent a similar incident in the future.Expressing their reactions on the eve of the second anniversary of the attack, leading jurists, academics, former bureaucrats and leaders of different opposition political parties severely criticised the government for its failure to investigate properly the deadly attack which killed 24 and injured over 400.They said the attack ...
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