Victims' parents want speedy trial of killers

Two years into the killing of six students on a Shab-e-Barat night, parents of the victims yesterday demanded transferring their murder case to the Speedy Trial Tribunal for its quick disposal.
An angry mob, equipped with bamboo sticks and sharp weapons, bludgeoned the six and left one severely injured after calling them robbers.
The killing took place at Aminbazar on the outskirts of the capital on July 18, 2011.
At a press conference yesterday, the parents also expressed their frustration over the slow trial procedure as the first hearing of the case will take place at a Session Judge's Court in Dhaka today.
The court fixed the hearing date after Rapid Action Battalion pressed charges against 60 people in the case on January 13 this year.
"We want quick completion of the trial and capital punishment for the killers," Beauty Begum, the mother of one of the victims Ibrahim Khalil, told reporters.
The press conference was held at Crime Reporters' Association of Bangladesh in the capital.
"We are concerned about our own security as the killers are still moving freely," said a weeping Shahnoor Begum, mother of the another deceased, Palash.
The six dead were identified as Tipu Sultan of Tejgaon College; Towhidur Rahman Palash, Kamruzzaman Kanto and Ibrahim Khalil of Mirpur Bangla College; Shams Rahim Shamam of Maple Leaf International School, and Sitaf Jabi Munif of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology.
Al Amin, a sales representative of a juice company, became the lone survivor.
"There were around 15 persons in the mob on that night. As their torch lights were pointed at our eyes, I could not identify them in the night," said Al-Amin at the press conference.
Parents of the victims also alleged that law enforcers put as many as 60 names in the list of the accused only to linger the case procedure.