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2019-08-20 21:10:30 BdST

Aug 21 grenade attack: Demand for bringing back fugitive convicts


Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote on Monday demanded that fugitive convicts in the August 21 grenade attack cases, who are hiding abroad, be brought back home to execute the verdict against them.

It made the demand from a human chain and rally arranged in front of the Jatiya Press Club. 

Vice-president of the Jote and actor Rokeya Prachy who presided over the event said the grisly attack was carried out to annihilate the leadership.

Actor Tarin Zahan, singers Rafiqul Islam and SD Rubel were present at the event, among others

On October 10 last year, the Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced 19 people, including former State Minister for Home Lutfozzaman Babar and former Deputy Minister for Education Abdus Salam Pintu, to death while 19 others, including BNP acting Chairman Tarique Rahman, to life imprisonment in two cases filed over the grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capital on August 21, 2004.

On August 21, 2004, the grisly grenade attack was carried out on an anti-terrorism rally arranged by Awami League at Bangabandhu Avenue during the BNP-Jamaat alliance's rule, aiming to kill then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina. 

At least 24 leaders and activists, including AL's women affairs secretary and late President Zillur Rahman's wife Ivy Rahman, were killed and 300 others injured in the grenade attack. 

Although Sheikh Hasina fortunately escaped the attack unhurt, her hearing was affected badly. 

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