Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday said the previous day’s attacks on bloggers and publishers were pre-planned and motivated.
Jamaat, Ansarullah Bangla Team, Harkat-ul-Jihad and IS-all are interconnected in this regard, he remarked.
“Anti-liberation forces Jamaat-Shibir are carrying out these destructive activities in a new way,” the minister said while answering questions of reporters in his ministry.
“I can assure you that we will arrest the criminals who are involved in the incident and find out the reason behind the incident. We will publish everything in time,” said the minister.
He added, “The law enforcing agencies are trying to clear the mystery and you will be informed after getting report from them.”
The minister also said that the assailants attacked the bloggers and publishers in the same way.
“Earlier, we requested all to bring all the places, including shops, markets and business establishments, under surveillance of Close Circuit Camera (CCTV). I’m making the same request again. We’ll also take steps to enforce the rule so that every building is brought under CCTV surveillance compulsorily,” Khan said. Asked why law enforcers did not take steps when the bloggers filed general diary, the minister said the attacked blogger Tutul’s business establishment was under police guard.
But once he requested to withdraw police guard as it was troubling his business.
Responding to a question about overall law and order situation, the minister said, “The law and order situation is good… In which countries, such stray incidents do not occur?…. Such stray incidents occur in all countries.”
Earlier, Ahmed Rahim Tutul, publisher of the books of slain writer and blogger Avijit Roy, and two bloggers and writers Sudeep Kumar Roy Barman alias Ranadeep Basu and Tareque Rahim were stabbed by some unidentified miscreants in the city’s Lalmatia area on Saturday.
Hours later, Avijit’s another publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, 45, publisher of Jagriti Prokashony and son of former professor of Dhaka University’s Bangla Department Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq, was stabbed to death by miscreants on the 2nd floor of Aziz Super Market in the city’s Shahbagh area.
