
The police foiled the lay siege programme of the Inqilab Mancha, demanding the resignation of home affairs adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury for his failure to ensure justice of the massacre in the student-led mass uprising, near the secretariat in Dhaka on Sunday.
After a brief rally at the Anti-Violence Raju Memorial Sculpture on Dhaka University campus, the platform went to lay siege programme to home adviser’s office at the secretariat, which ended amid the police’s barricade.Â
The Mancha announced four-point demands, including the resignation of Jahangir Alam for his failure to ensure justice of the massacre in the uprising and publication of a roadmap for the trial of the massacre by February 20 and issuing an official notification banning the participation of collaborators of the ousted Awami League in all public programmes.
It also demanded that the officials in Chattogram who assisted the fascist AL in escaping and attacked protesting students and citizens must be brought to justice and bureaucrats and military officials who were aiding in the rehabilitation of the AL must be identified and prosecuted without delay.
Spokesperson of the platform, Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, said that six months had already passed but the government was yet to bring the AL leaders and its associates involved in the killings in the uprising under book.
Sharif also mentioned that the platform would give a set of ‘glass bangle’ to adviser Jahangir, a retired lieutenant general, for his failure of serving justice.