A criticism has been filed with the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against ancient top minister Sheikh Hasina, her security adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddique and 56 others in connection with the killing of 57 military officers all over the 2009 Pilkhana carnage.
Attorney Uday Tasmir filed the criticism with the executive prosecutor of the tribunal at the original time (19 December) on behalf of the relations of the slain military officers.
About 15 to twenty relations of the slain officers had been latest, including Barrister Rakin Ahmed, son of then-BDR Director Total Main Total Shakeel Ahmed, and Sakib Rahman, son of deceased Colonel Kudrat Elahi.
Briefing newshounds, Advocate Uday Tasmir talked about, “The killing of 57 military officers on 25-26 February 2009 align with the definition of crimes against humanity and genocide. The then top minister Sheikh Hasina and her pals had been eager.
“Sheikh Hasina dedicated these crimes against humanity undermining the sovereignty of Bangladesh, weakening its mighty militia forces, and perpetuating her autocracy.”
On the briefing, Mehrim Ferdowsi, wife of deceased Colonel Mujibul Haque, talked about the killing of the 57 military officers all over the Pilkhana carnage used to be premeditated.
“This used to be now not a mutiny. A rebel does not occur esteem this. These killings had been premeditated,” she talked about.
She called for the truth to be uncovered by an investigation.
“Ideal a thorough investigation can ticket the truth in the wait on of the carnage, and it want to be made public. Even at the original time, neither we nor our teenagers know why our loved ones had been killed. There want to be a reason, and it need to reach to gentle,” she added.
Meanwhile, the govt. has determined to chorus from forming a commission to analyze the BDR carnage for now, as two linked circumstances are for the time being below allure at the Appellate Division.
The Ministry of Home Affairs informed the High Courtroom about the govt.’s decision on 15 December.
In October, Supreme Courtroom attorneys Tanvir Ahmed and Biplab Kumar Poddar filed a writ petition looking out out for a directive to tag a nationwide objective committee to analyze the 2009 “bloodbath” at the then-BDR headquarters on 25-26 February.
Attributable to this truth, on 3 November, the petitioners submitted a plea to the home secretary (Public Security Division), inquiring for the formation of a nationwide objective investigation committee or commission to shriek the truth and to shriek 25 February as “Martyrs’ Day for Squaddies.”
After a preliminary listening to on the writ, the High Courtroom issued a rule and order on 5 November, directing the home secretary to rep rid of the application within 10 days and submit a document to the courtroom.
Severely, actions annoying a reinvestigation into the BDR killings intensified after the political shift on 5 August.
