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Habiganj Carnage Probe

Kibria family, plaintiff unhappy over report

Staff Correspondent
The plaintiff in the cases filed on the Habiganj grenade attack yesterday rejected the government probe for keeping the masterminds 'out of scene', while the family of slain Awami League lawmaker Shah AMS Kibria refused even to acknowledge it.
"We won't accept any probe by any agency other than the FBI," said
Reza Kibria, son of the former finance minister.
A high-powered government probe in its report submitted last Monday identified eight BNP men as responsible for the January 27 grenade attack on an AL rally at Baidder Bazar that killed five people including Kibria and injured about 70 others. Asked whether they would reject the probe report, Reza told The Daily Star, "The question of rejection or acceptance doesn't arise here, as I've not seen the report. But we are affirming again that we won't accept any probe except one by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation of the USA)."
Explaining the reason for the stance, Reza said, "We know for sure that the local investigators are not allowed to interrogate powerful individuals who might have been behind myfather's killing."
He said they have no objection to local investigators or doubt about their competence, but the handicap is they are not allowed to work freely. "That's why we're demanding an FBI probe."
He, however, expressed his concern at the newspaper reports that the investigators failed to identify the masterminds behind the grenade attack.
Reza said the probe report has implicated eight Habiganj BNP men in the attack. But, "Habiganj BNP doesn't run independently. Powerful leaders of the greater Sylhet region and the central leaders ultimately control operations of the grassroots units," he said. "But the roles of these higher level leaders [in the incident] have not been revealed [in the report]."
Talking to The Daily Star last
night, Habiganj district AL Organising Secretary Abdul Majid Khan, who filed a murder and an explosives case in connection with the January 27 carnage, also regretted that the masterminds behind the attack have been 'kept out of scene'.
"They [the masterminds] are powerful men and every thing has been done to keep them out of public eye," he alleged, declining to accept the probe findings as reported in newspapers.
Khan said, "I've learnt about the probe findings from newspapers. None of the investigators told me anything about it."
"But, if the news reports are true, they prove that several ministers who accused the Awami League itself for the attack made untrue comments." On the contrary, they indicate that BNP leaders themselves were involved in the attack, he pointed out.
Majid said, "As the plaintiff, I've the right to know about the progress of investigation into my cases. But the probe authorities are yet to inform me any thing. Whenever I inquired about it, the investigators told me to wait, saying the probe was on and they were hopeful to track down the criminals."
He was also for the government to make the probe report public.