Bangladesh interim government chief adviser press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Thursday said the interim government was trying to unearth the July martyrs who were buried in unmarked graves.
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鈥業nvestigation is under way and we are searching more (to identify all July martyrs) since the number of July martyrs is over 1400 as per the United Nations,鈥� he told a press briefing at Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka.
Replying to a question, Alam said many July martyrs were buried in unmarked graves in some graveyards and some places, so the government continued a process to identify the martyrs.
He said the number of the July martyrs would go up, adding that right away 834 July martyrs were named in a gazette.
The press secretary said the government had stood by the martyrs鈥� families and victims of the July uprising to support them.
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Chief adviser鈥檚 deputy press secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumder and senior assistant press secretary Foyez Ahammad were present at the press briefing.
