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Only FBI probe will be acceptable, says Asma Kibria

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Investigation carried out by any agency other than the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) into the killing of Shah AMS Kibria will be unacceptable, said Asma Kibria at a press briefing yesterday at her Dhanmondi residence.
The wife of the slain diplomat-turned-politician reiterated her demand for the FBI probe into her husband's grisly killing in a grenade attack on a Habiganj public rally.
"I will not shift my stance an inch in ensuring independent probe into the killing and fair trial of my husband's killers," she said.
The local probe body neither has the guts nor is independent of the influence of powerful quarters to name the real culprits, she said.
"As the local probe body has been being influenced in different ways, we will not accept its findings even if made public," she said. "We demand to see the chronological records in the case diary."
Much of the evidence in the killing has been damaged deliberately or otherwise since the day of occurrence, she said.
Dr Nazli Kibria, daughter of SAMS Kibria, said referring to her talks with the US State Department that the US is prepared to send the FBI team to investigate the killing but its terms of reference is yet to be accepted by Bangladesh.
"They say that Bangladesh does not agree to their demand for working independently," said Nazli.
She also said that the investigation must have transparency and accountability in the whole process beginning from the grenade attack on Kibria in Habiganj to his death in Dhaka.
"We demand fully independent participation of the FBI in the investi-
gation," said Kibria's son Dr Reza Kibria, "but we do not have trust in government's 'sincere will' in this regard."
Dr Reza had recently been to Australia to organise his colleagues at the Griffith University and his father's former colleagues there to mobilse public opinion for fair investigation and trial of his father's killing.
Apart from serving as the UN under secretary and finance minister of Bangladesh, SAMS Kibria had also been the High Commissioner to Australia during 1973 to 1976.
Asma Kibria said that her family is going to form a peaceful human chain along the Manik Mia Avenue on March 31 displaying thousands of signatures collected from across the country on long pieces of cloths in protest against Kibria's killing.
Both Nazli and Reza Kibria have been working to mobilise a movement in North America and Australia for a fair trial of their father's killing.