'Form credible probe committee'
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday demanded a fair and credible investigation committee headed by a retired justice instead of calling foreign investigators.
Chirantan Bangladesh organised the roundtable titled the 'Pilkhana tragedy: Sovereignty and national security' at the National Press Club in the city.
Former law minister Moudud Ahmed said those who tried to prove Bangladesh as a failed state in the past have committed the brutal killings at Pilkhana against the army officers.
Strong forces are working in the country for long to prove it a failed state. Unfortunately, the plot was hatched during the interim caretaker government, he added.
He said politics has been dysfunctional and paralytic through accusing leaders in corruption cases, while media was engaged in ruining good images of the key political leaders instead of revealing the truth.
Now the culprit forces attacked the armed forces of the country to destabilise national security and sovereignty.
The government can identify the forces or the people responsible for the Pilkhana mayhem if it wants, but the government is riding on its wrong decisions.
Barrister Rafiqul Islam, former minister, called on the government to make things clear to the public and not to let the criminals go unpunished.
Presiding over the roundtable, Wing Commander (retd) M Hamidullah Khan said the government is now calling FBI and Scotland Yard to conduct a proper investigation into the killings.
“But I haven't found these organisations solved any such problem in recent time. They even could not give any solution to the terrorist incidents of their own countries.”
Senior Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, former BDR DG Maj Gen (retd) Anwar Hossain, Editor of the daily Amar Desh Amanullah Kabir and Jubo Dal General Secretary Moazzem Hossain Alal also spoke.
They speakers echoed the demand for a creditable probe committee headed by a retired justice.
Emphasising the need for national unity, they urged the government to unite all political parties to overcome this national crisis instead of handling the situation alone.
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