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Attacks on Dinajpur Hindus

It was political, not communal

BNP probe body concludes after two-and-a-half-hour visit to spot; Spokesperson lambasts Hasina for urging Khaleda to live in Pakistan

Star Report
Within a two-and-a-half-hour probe, a BNP body yesterday concluded that the January 5 attack on Hindus in Dinajpur sadar upazila's Komai village was a political one but mysteriously made to look like a communal assault.
Meanwhile, BNP lambasted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for urging Khaleda, at a Caibandha rally on Friday, to leave Bangladesh and live in “her beloved Pakistan".
After that day’s 10th parliamentary polls, law enforcers had safely transported the ballot boxes from Komai Government Primary School Centre to the upazila parishad where the assistant presiding officer was stationed, said Dr AZM Zahid Hossain.
Addressing a press briefing in Dinajpur Press Club after leading the 10-member body to the village around 11:30am and talking to some victims, he questioned how the attack was possible amidst law enforcer's vigilance.
According to many locals, the attack, ransacking and looting of at least 155 houses and shops at Komai Bazar was carried out allegedly by around 1,500 to 2,000 BNP-Jamaat-Shibir men. the remaining three bodies.
Lambasting Hasina, BNP also urged her to bring a change to the "politics of hatred and vindictiveness" against archrivals and give peace a chance.
Addressing a press conference in BNP's Naya Paltan central office, BNP Spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon said how can a responsible person like the premier utter such a heinous speech?
"Why would she go there? Bangladesh is also the country of the BNP chief. Does she not have any contribution to the country?" asked Ripon, also BNP international affairs secretary.
"In retaliation, we will not ask the premier to go to India because it will not be decent for any of us to speak ill of politicians, especially chiefs of political parties," he said.
Expressing deep concern over the alleged suicide of a Rana Plaza collapse survivor on Friday, he demanded that the government publish a whitepaper on the amount of monetary support it received from home and abroad and distributed.
The body is among four BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia formed on January 23 to get a “clear picture" after investigating the attacks, countrywide violence, extrajudicial killings, human rights violations by law enforcers and oppression on the BNP-led 18-party alliance men.
BNP has been facing immense criticism from home and abroad over involvement of the alliance's men in communal attacks before and after the polls. Formation of the bodies was BNP's clear message to all that it is against such attacks, said BNP insiders.
Last night, Dr Zahid did not pick up several calls The Daily Star made on his cellphone for further comments on the probe.
The insiders say BNP also plans to inform foreign diplomats in Dhaka about recent raids against the alliance activists.
BNP Standing Committee Member Zamir Uddin Sircar and the BNP chairperson's advisers ASM Abdul Halim and Shaukat Mahmud are separately leading