Home affairs adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Tuesday announced that a committee would be formed within the next five working days to ensure justice for the BDR massacre.
Addressing an urgent press conference at his ministry in the secretariat in the morning, the adviser announced that the committee would comprise retired judges, civil service officials, police officials and members of the armed forces.
鈥楾he interim government is determined to reinvestigate the incident and ensure justice for the BDR massacre,鈥� said Jahangir.
He said, 鈥楢 committee will be formed within the next five working days to ensure justice for the BDR massacre.鈥�
Answering questions by journalists, he said that court had the authority to order a reinvestigation and the government was going to form a 鈥榝resh inquiry committee鈥�.
He also said that the number of the committee members would be decided soon and whether it would be a committee or commission would also be decided after discussions.
The announcement from the government came amid growing calls for justice and accountability for BDR massacre in 2009.
Md Mahin, central member of the Student Movement Against Discrimination, meanwhile, on Monday announced a programme of laying siege to the law and home affairs advisers鈥� offices on Tuesday demanding a commission to ensure justice for the BDR massacre.
Addressing a rally on the Central Shaheed Minar premises, Mahin welcomed the announcement and said that students along with the BDR massacre victims would take to the street if the committee would not be formed within five working days.
Mahin said that the massacre not only left the border areas insecure but also threatened the country鈥檚 independence and sovereignty.
Former law enforcement official Shamsul Islam, one of the first six sacked officers in the BDR massacre, said that victims of the massacre had been waiting for the past 15 years for the fall of fascist Sheikh Hasina and a complete justice for the massacre.聽聽聽
On February 25, 2009, several hundred Bangladesh Rifles soldiers took arms against their officers deputed from the army at Durbar Hall during their annual gathering at the paramilitary force鈥檚 headquarters in Dhaka, leaving 75 people鈥�57 army officers, two wives of army officers, nine BDR soldiers, five civilians, an army soldier, and a police constable鈥攌illed.