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Kibria Murder

Justice must for rule of law

Prof Anisuzzaman tells commemoration meeting

Staff Correspondent
Perpetrators of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria's grisly murder must be tried and exemplary punishment handed out not as a means of exacting revenge but at least for the sake of the rule of law, said Prof Emeritus Anisuzzaman yesterday.
The killing was part of a national tragedy, he said while chairing a commemorative discussion on the 10 years past the murder organised by Shah AMS Kibria Foundation in the capital's Bangladesh National Museum.
Ensuring justice would at least recognise the nation's indebtedness to Kibria and bring some solace to the bereaved family, said Prof Anisuzzaman.
He said all along the investigation into the sensa-tional case remained shrouded in mystery and the victim's family had to repeatedly state of having no confidence in it.
The celebrated economist and lawmaker was brutally assassinated in a
deadly grenade attack in January 2005 in his home town and constituency Habiganj after attending a public meeting.
"Kibria's assassination was a political censorship on his stand for democracy and against extremism," said law-makerTarana Halim.
The long delay in trying the killers is just another example of the culture of impunity prevailing since the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as it happened in the cases over Ahsan Ullah Master's murder and August 21 grenade attack, said Prof Dr AK Azad Chowdhury, chairman of University Grants Commission.
Prof Shamsuzzaman Khan, director general of Bangla Academy, said negligence of the then government out of political ill feeling expedited Kibria's death.
"Only those who lose their dear one this way know the agony," said economist and Kibria's son Dr Reza Kibria, adding that his father was always concerned over equal development of all people for social stability.
Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed said Kibria was a polite, modest, ideal and learned professional and politician.
Kibria's wife Asma Kibria and one of his close colleagues Inam Ahmed Chowdhury also spoke.
Police in 2011 charged ex-state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) leader Mufti Abdul Hannan among others over the killing.