Horrifying scenes in Natore: Repeat of October 28 2006

[saleen_s7]

janen ajj Hasina ki boleche:

Natorer gunda gulu naki BNP ar nijer lok, ora naki nije-ra nije-der lok ke mereche: how funny.

This so called prime minister cracks me up at times... Honestly the way awami league is torturing the oppositions, a civil war is not an impossible sight or perhaps another military takeover.
A military rule doesn't sound too bad, given its not intended the way it was back in 2007. I'm talking about the Ziaur Rahman regime. Regardless of what the ruling party says about him, he's rule has to turned to be the most beneficiary for the country.

 

[integra]

We would never know exactly what happened as none of the parties are sitting down to stop the soap opera, there might be a third party being involved so that everything goes berserk and they have there country in chaos thing checked(it looks synchronized but total irresponsibility is also a probability).

The thread is about the natore killings and its follow up,
I think we are derailing it.........
as far as we know theres only one being caught at the moment

 

[saleen_s7]

We would never know exactly what happened as none of the parties are sitting down to stop the soap opera, there might be a third party being involved so that everything goes berserk and they have there country in chaos thing checked(it looks synchronized but total irresponsibility is also a probability).

The thread is about the natore killings and its follow up,
I think we are derailing it.........
as far as we know theres only one being caught at the moment

Third party? maybe another faction of awami league which makes all of them look bad. But given the political history of true awami leaguers, this an actual awami trait.

 

[Al-zakir]

Awami League in power, no worries- Party lawmaker assures accused in Sanaullah murder case at Natore rally


"There is nothing to be worried about. The Awami League government is in power. Nothing will happen to the accused of the murder case," he told


Friday October 15 2010 00:24:23 AM BDT


M Abul Kalam Azad and Bulbul Ahmed, from Natore


Awami League lawmaker of Baraigram-Gurudaspur constituency Abdul Quddus yesterday assured his party men accused in the BNP leader Sanaullah Noor Babu murder case of "trouble-free" future.(The Daily Star )

"There is nothing to be worried about. The Awami League government is in power. Nothing will happen to the accused of the murder case," he told a party rally on Bonpara bypass.

"Tuesday's statement of the prime minister is completely different from that of previous days. You must understand the reason. We are trying our best to make the premier understand the real story," said Quddus, senior vice-president of Natore district AL.

The PM initially said stern action would be taken against the killers irrespective of their identities. On Tuesday, she blamed BNP for the killing.

Yesterday's rally, organised by local Baraigram unit AL, was the ruling party's first showdown since Friday.

At the rally, Quddus asked the police and administration to act according to the PM's latest statement.

Terming the murder case false and fabricated, he said after several attempts he finally reached the premier and managed to convince her that AL was "not involved" in the murder.

Babu was killed during an attack by over 100 AL, Jubo League and Chhatra League activists on his procession on Friday.

"No Awami League or Jubo League leader has killed Babu," Quddus claimed, asking police, Rab and DB to find out the real culprits. He strongly warned the law-enforcement agencies about harassing party men in the name of investigation.

He claimed AL local leader Zakir was trying to save Babu. "If video footages are properly examined, it would prove Zakir's innocence."

The AL MP also bitterly criticised superintendent of police in Natore Rafiqul Islam for his "anti-ruling party stand". Rafiqul was made officer on special duty on Monday for his "failure" to prevent the incident.

Contradicting local police's claim that they were not aware of BNP procession, Quddus said the upazila nirbahi officer, additional SP and SP forbid Babu to bring out the procession.

Speaking at the rally, Upazila Vice-chairman Ataur Rahman Ata said nothing would happen to AL if one or two Babu is killed. He asked the police to listen to AL leaders and act accordingly.

Shamshuzzoha Shaheb, Baraigram upazila AL publication secretary, urged party activists to prepare a list of BNP men who are still active in different unions. He asked them to tie up the police if they raid their houses in search of killers.

Chaired by elderly AL leader Aftabuddin Pintu, the rally was addressed, among others, by Natore unit president of Swechchha Sebok League Arifur Rahman Arif, Baraigram AL general secretary Mizanur Rahman Mizan, Zahidul Islam Zahid, Abdul Jalil Pramanik and wife of Zakir.

BABU'S WIFE ON MURDER

Babu's wife Mohuya Noor Kochi said the killers got inspiration after the PM's "disappointing" statement.

She alleged that Zakir's men killed her husband at the diktat of Quddus. "The video footages are the evidence. Everyone knows who killed my husband in broad daylight."

"The prime minister got justice for her father's killing. I hope I will also get justice," she told The Daily Star.

RAPPU REMANDED

A Natore court yesterday placed Russell Hossain Rappu, the lone arrestee in connection with the killing of Babu, on a three-day remand.

Baraigram Judicial Magistrate Mahmudul Hasan passed the order after Natore Detective Branch (DB) of police produced him before the court and sought a five-day remand.

Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activist Rappu was arrested from his Mohisdanga village home on Saturday.

“We will start interrogating Rappu soon. We will try to confirm the identity of the attackers by showing him the video footages,” DB Sub-Inspector Md Abdul Hannan, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, told The Daily Star last night.

All the accused went into hiding after the murder, he said adding that drives are on to apprehend rest of the offenders.

UPAZILA CHAIRMEN'S CALL

A group of 50 upazila chairmen and vice-chairmen yesterday requested all not to do politics with the killing incident of Babu.

“Natore people are witnessing politics of killing for long. We want to see an end to it,” Bodiuzzaman Badsha, chairman of Nalitabari upazila of Sherpur, told journalists.

Badsha, also the general secretary of Bangladesh Upazila Parishad, said they want exemplary punishment of the 'real' killers.

The team also met Babu's wife and expressed their sympathy

http://bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=338277

 

[Jungibaaz]

Good God
what barbarians!

These people are not just in BD but in Pak and India...
Honestly what is wrong with humans???

 

[Evil Flare]

The main problem is democracy .. it cannot work here in our region ..

All we need is an authoritarian regime like China has ...

 

[Al-zakir]

The main problem is democracy .. it cannot work here in our region ..

All we need is an authoritarian regime like China has ...

Just basic democracy would do fine for this region. Danda se sab ke sab thanda.....

 

[BanglaBhoot]

What is missing is rule of law

WHILE the rule of law calls for proper, non-partisan, investigation into incidents of crime, leading statements by the politically powerful persons, particularly of the incumbents, often stand in the way of lawful probe into criminal incidents. This is exactly what is going on in the case of investigations into two recent criminal events, in which six Bangladesh Nationalist Party men were killed. In the midst of the investigation into the first incident, in which a local leader of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and elected chairman of the Baraigram upazila parishad of Natore, Sanaullah Nur, was killed in broad daylight reportedly by ruling party men on October 8, The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has publicly suggested that the murder might have been committed as a consequence of internecine conflict in the opposition party. The result is obvious: the law enforcers have not been able to arrest any of the accused in the murder case, many of whom were seen on television attacking Sanaullah with lethal weapon. Inspired by the prime minister’s statement, understandably, local leaders of the ruling Awami League at a public meeting on Wednesday asked the law enforcers not to raid the houses of the accused in the murder case. What is worse, the ruling party leaders reportedly called upon the families of the accused concerned to ‘tie up’ the law enforcement officials if they raid their houses for arresting the accused. Naturally, the process of the investigation has significantly slowed down. The second incident, the October 11 Sirajganj train accident, which killed five BNP activists, causing extreme anger among their fellow activists, who, subsequently, set the train on fire, is also being investigated visibly with a bias.

It is indeed difficult for the government employees to properly investigate politically sensitive accidents when top-level leaders of both the ruling party and the opposition continue to accuse each other of masterminding such tragic incidents. While the BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia, and her party colleagues are describing the incident as a deliberate act on the part of the government to jeopardise her prescheduled public meeting, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and her colleagues are claiming that the former had deliberately selected the meeting venue close to rail tracks to have dead bodies to politically use against the government. Under this circumstance, the probe body is turning things from bad to worse by making public comments on its findings before the end of the investigations. The head of the five-member railway probe body has already made a conclusive remark that the driver of the train, who did not reportedly blow whistle while driving through the crowded railway track, had committed no mistake. There is no doubt that holding public meetings within 10 metres of railway tracks is a violation of rule, but it remains still unanswered as to why the BNP was allowed to violate the rule in the first place, especially when the party has been denied many a legal right, such as forming human chains, many times in the recent past. Not surprisingly, contrary to the Natore incident, a good number of leaders and activists of the Sirajganj BNP have already been arrested, and many more are made on the run by police, on charge of setting the ‘guilty’ train on fire.

The rule of law not only calls for non-partisan probe into incidents of crimes but it also abhors ‘double standard’ in treating the accused of crimes irrespective of their political colour. But, alas, both are missing in the two cases in question, which only points to the absence of the rule of law that the incumbents had emphatically promised before the last general elections.

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