[ALOCHONA] Post-Polls Violence 2001:355 killings, 3270 other offences

Post-Polls Violence 2001:Probe body detects 355 killings, 3270 other offences


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A judicial probe body has identified 355 incidents of political killing and 3270 more serious offences including rape, arson, loot and asset grabbing in the aftermath of the parliamentary elections in 2001 that the BNP-led alliance won.
The three-member Judicial Inquiry Commission on the post-polls violence in 2001 submitted the report to Home Minister Sahara Khatun at her office on Sunday.

The text of the report was not made public immediately.

However, a Home Ministry press release said the Commission identified a total of 3,625 incidents of violence committed between October 2001 and December 2002.Member secretary of the commission and a Home Ministry Deputy Secretary Monwar Hossain Akhand submitted the report as chairman of the Commission and former district judge Muhammad Shahabuddin was not present.

Asked who committed the crimes specified in the report, the home minister claimed that the BNP-Jamaat alliance government carried out such crimes.

"They (BNP-Jamaat) tortured, raped and killed minority people and leaders and activists of the Awami League and its front organisations," she said during the briefing on submission of the report.Sahara said she just received the report and after going through it, the ministry would publish the findings and recommendations soon.Legal steps will be taken against the offenders, the minister said adding that directives would also be sought from the court on how to resolve the issue.

Home Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikdar, present at the briefing, said after the 8th parliament elections in 2001, a number of incidents including killing and rape, occurred across the country. Some victims filed cases and some others could not do so, he said.

Following the High Court order in 2009, the Awami League government on 27 December 2009 formed the three-member Judicial Inquiry Commission.On behalf of Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh, advocate Monjil Morshed filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking investigation into the causes of violence and identifying the persons involved.

The judicial probe report said the commission received a total of 5571 complaints. Of them, as many as 3625 complaints were taken into consideration.The Commission reportedly recommended that the government should form a committee or commission in every district to further investigate these incidents.

Bdnews24.com adds: The report claimed that incidents, ranging from militant attacks in the name of Islam to the 21 August 2004 grenade attack on the current prime minister, were linked.

The report is said to have pointed out that no such violence did occur at the instigation of the leaders of the party that won the ninth parliamentary elections."Post-election violence can be avoided if the top leaders of political parties are conscious this way," the agency quoted the report.

The report recommended that the government should file new cases, revive old ones and compensate the affected people on the basis of the probe.

http://www.daily-sun.com/?view=details&type=daily_sun_news&pub_no=197&cat_id=1&menu_id=1&news_type_id=1&index=2

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