Punish culprits of Phulbari firing
Different social, political and cultural organisations yesterday observed the 9th anniversary of “Phulbari Day”, paying tributes to the three persons killed and some 70 others injured in Dinajpur's Phulbari when police and Bangladesh Rifles opened fire on protests against open-pit coal mining.
The National Committee for Protection of Oil-Gas and Mineral Resource, Electricity Sector and Ports organised a rally at the base of Central Shaheed Minar in the capital where the Communist Party of Bangladesh, Ganatantrik Bam Morcha and Bangladesh Chhatra Union placed wreaths.
They demanded complete implementation of the six-point agreement the then BNP government signed four days after the deaths, and bringing to book those responsible for the deaths.
The committee Convener Sheikh Muhammad Shahidullah said errant multinational companies were still active in the country under different names.
Bangladesh Chhatra Federation and other left leaning organisations erected a temporary memorial in front of Ducsu and laid flowers there.
They organised a musical programme and rally and brought out a procession, also protesting the coal-based Rampal power plant and Rooppur nuclear power plant projects and “the threat posed by foreign companies on the country's coal and gas”.
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