Dhaka, Jan 27 (bdnews24.com) – Despite the elapsing of two years, the killers of former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria are still to be brought to book.
Members of the Kibria family are still in the quest for justice and have been staging street protests alongside moving legally so that the killers are brought to justice.
Family members, on the second anniversary of Kibria's death, said Saturday that they would ask the caretaker government to re-investigate the bombing and try those responsible.
"We hope the new caretaker government will take bold steps to capture my father's murderers. We are expecting a re-investigation and proper trial," the slain finance minister's son Reza Kibria told bdnews24.com in an interview.
"If assassins can get away with killing an elected member of parliament, then a general election can never be free of terrorism," he said.
Reza Kibria Saturday said that his family would pursue both the interim government and the United Nations for justice.
"We will bring my father's killing to the notice of the United Nations and the Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) to seek a proper investigation and a fair trial."
"I, along with Dr Kamal Hossain and Advocate Mahbubey Alam will meet chief adviser to the caretaker government Fakhruddin Ahmed to pursue the matter," Reza Kibria, a Dhaka University teacher, said.
Reza said that his mother Asma Kibria on January 19 sent a letter to the caretaker government chief demanding that the incident be properly investigated and those responsible be tried and punished.
Asma Kibria said, "The investigation was faulty from the very beginning. Just as it seemed that the investigation would be fair, the trial was stopped."
"Resident BNP leader Qayyum was not even allowed to speak before the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)," she said.
Asma Kibria, who demanded the caretaker government initiate a fresh investigation, said, "A very influential ring is involved in the murder. This will only come out if there is an absolutely fair investigation. And if we get a fair trial then I will disclose some information that I have. "
The Kibria family has rejected the local police investigation carried out during the during the 2001-06 BNP alliance government.
"Speaker of the Parliament Jamirruddin Sircar, the then Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Habiganj Emdadul Haq and the two investigating officers should be questioned about who masterminded my father's killing," Reza Kibria said.
On the justification of interrogating the Speaker, Reza said, "It is important to know who ordered him not to send a helicopter to Habiganj so that my father died untreated."
"As the Speaker, he should have inquired about the treatment of my father, a sitting MP."
"Why did the Speaker say that he went to bed at 7.00pm and only learned about my father's killing the next day in the newspapers?"
"DC Emdadul Haq's role was very mysterious. He should be interrogated," Reza said.
He said that the two investigating officers restricted the area of investigation and did not concentrate on the source of the grenade.
One low level BNP leader Qayyum was found guilty, but the masterminds remained free, he said.
SAMS Kibria and four Awami League members were killed in a grenade attack on the grounds of the Boidder Bazar village school in his Habiganj constituency on January 27, 2005.
A nephew of Kibria's Shah Monjurul Huda (40), Awami League Bongao village activists Siddik Ali (35) and Abdur Rahim (50) and Abul Hosein from Shayestaganj also died in the attack.
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