A complaint has been filed with the World Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in opposition to earlier high minister Sheikh Hasina, her security adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddique and 56 others in connection with the killing of 57 military officers throughout the 2009 Pilkhana carnage.
Attorney Uday Tasmir filed the complaint with the manager prosecutor of the tribunal on the present time (19 December) on behalf of the kinfolk of the slain military officers.
About 15 to twenty kinfolk of the slain officers were current, including Barrister Rakin Ahmed, son of then-BDR Director Identical earlier Main Identical earlier Shakeel Ahmed, and Sakib Rahman, son of deceased Colonel Kudrat Elahi.
Briefing newshounds, Recommend Uday Tasmir mentioned, “The killing of 57 military officers on 25-26 February 2009 align with the definition of crimes in opposition to humanity and genocide. The then high minister Sheikh Hasina and her associates were involved.
“Sheikh Hasina dedicated these crimes in opposition to humanity undermining the sovereignty of Bangladesh, weakening its extremely efficient militia forces, and perpetuating her autocracy.”
At the briefing, Mehrim Ferdowsi, main other of deceased Colonel Mujibul Haque, mentioned the killing of the 57 military officers throughout the Pilkhana carnage became premeditated.
“This became no longer a mutiny. An carry up doesn’t happen admire this. These killings were premeditated,” she mentioned.
She called for the fact to be uncovered through an investigation.
“Supreme a thorough investigation can shriek the fact on the wait on of the carnage, and it would possibly per chance level-headed be made public. Even on the present time, neither we nor our kids know why our kinfolk were killed. There would possibly per chance level-headed be a reason, and it must come to gentle,” she added.
In the intervening time, the authorities has determined to refrain from forming a commission to investigate the BDR carnage for now, as two related cases are currently under appeal on the Appellate Division.
The Ministry of Dwelling Affairs advised the High Courtroom in regards to the authorities’s decision on 15 December.
In October, Supreme Courtroom attorneys Tanvir Ahmed and Biplab Kumar Poddar filed a writ petition looking for a directive to make a national independent committee to investigate the 2009 “bloodbath” on the then-BDR headquarters on 25-26 February.
Subsequently, on 3 November, the petitioners submitted a plea to the home secretary (Public Security Division), soliciting for the formation of a national independent investigation committee or commission to clarify the fact and to shriek 25 February as “Martyrs’ Day for Troopers.”
After a preliminary hearing on the writ, the High Courtroom issued a rule and shriek on 5 November, directing the home secretary to receive rid of the utility within 10 days and put up a document to the court.
Significantly, movements stressful a reinvestigation into the BDR killings intensified after the political shift on 5 August.
