We were told that we had been given a long awaited "independence of judiciary"-- a constitutional right which all successive governments had denied. We really could not understand the real meaning of this right. We thought, from now on, the justice seekers, especially the poor victims, would get honest judgement and the perpetrators would be punished after a fair trial within the shortest possible time.
The jail killing took place in 1975, about 33 years ago. Now the court has acquitted all but one. It proves that the absconding killer acted alone, who at dead of night on 3 Nov, 1975 found the central jail gate wide open, entered into it with a machine gun, located the rooms of all the national leaders, gunned them down without any noise and slowly walked out of the jail.
The jail killing is such a horrific incident in the history of Bangladesh that everyone knows about the incident and who the killers were.