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Many of the jawans, who were admitted to the BDR hospital in Pilkhana, or serving as attendants also participated in the mutiny last year, the prosecutor informed the court.
The court started at about
The trial proceedings of the case were adjourned till
The other members of the court are Lt Col Md Nurul Alam and Maj Md Ali Mustain Khan.
on Wednesday, the special court took a case filed against the 256 mutineers of the hospital unit into congnisance and asked the prosecutor to produce them before the court on Thursday.
Medical assistant of this unit nayek subedar Md Nannu Mia filed the case.
Ninety of the accused were arrested last year in connection with a case for killing, looting and arson. They have shown arrested in this mutiny case. The court also ordered to arrest the rest who were serving at the hospital unit till Wednesday.
Lt Col Dr SMA Al-Muid of the hospital gave a brief but pathetic description to the court about atrocities during the mutiny in which 57 army officers including four doctors were killed.
Several male nurses (medical assistants) of BDR took up arms and helped others in killing and dumping the bodies during the bloody mutiny at the headquarters on February 25-26 last year, he said.
The male nurses, number of which could not be known, might not have killed or tortured officers of their own unit. But they indeed took up arms with the mutineers and helped them kill officers of other units, he added.
Many of them played an active role to remove bodies from Darbar Hall. They took the bodies on trucks and pickup vans and also played a leading role to dump those in a mass grave besides the mortuary of the BDR hospital to destroy evidence.
Doctors Brig Gen Md Zakir Hosain, Lt Col Kazi Rabi Rahman, Lt Col Lutfur Rahman Khan and Maj SM Mamunur Rahman were killed by mutineers of other units.
A total of 74 people, including 57 army officials, were killed during the February 25-26 mutiny at Pilkhana
Clockwise Bd killer image: Syed Farooq Rahman, Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan, Bazlul Huda, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Mohiuddin Ahmed
Besides Tajuddin, Hannan and Zandal, the other Huji men believed to have carried out the blast are Hannan's younger brother Mohibullah Ovi, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul, Naim Ahmed Arif alias Limu, Badrul Alam Mizan, Mizanur Rahman Mithu, Mufti Shafiqur Rahman, Mufti Abdul Hye and Ahsanullah Kajal.Of the 11, Kajal died in
IO Rafiqul is convinced that Mithu and Mizan threw the grenade at Kibria's rally in Baidder Bazar under Habiganj sadar upazila.
Besides the former finance minister, the blast killed his nephew Shah Manzurul Huda and local
The IO said, "If we had Tajuddin in our custody, we could know for sure who helped him procure the grenades.
"We are almost done with our investigation. Even if we cannot arrest Tajuddin, we would still get to the source of the grenades. Our officers have been working hard along that line.”
He said they had lately learned who helped Tajuddin flee the country. The information could help make a major headway.
The investigators are also analysing the role of the local and central administration and police officials.
The IO has already questioned the district's the then deputy commissioner and superintendent of police.
Kibria family have all along been suspecting involvement of some high-profile leaders of the then ruling alliance.
Asma Kibria, wife of the slain
Talking to The Daily Star, she said the way the then ruling BNP tried to cover it up suggests some of its influential leaders had been involved in the killing.
She also alleged the BNP government had tried to mislead the investigation.
On different occasions after the AL-led grand alliance took office in January last year, Asma said if they do not get justice during its rule it would mean another tragedy for her family.
She said she doesn't know whom to turn to if AL, the party which her husband held so dear, fails to bring the killers to book.
In response to Kibria family's demands, the investigators are at last looking into the role and statements the then ruling alliance leaders played and made before and after the killing.
They are seeing things from fresh angles now. For instance, an investigator questions why the authorities did not send a chopper to bring Kibria to
He also wonders why Emdadul Haq, the then DC of Habiganj, did not have to face disciplinary action when the SP of the district and the officer-in-charge of Sadar police station were suspended for negligence.
Abdul Mazid Khan MP, the complainant, said the IO recently told him that they have identified around a dozen persons responsible for the killing and were now trying to track down the masterminds.
The investigators in the August 21 blast case too find it hard to unearth the source of the grenades used in the attack that left 23
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