Former Bangla spy spills beans on Hasina attack
12 Nov 2012 7:25 AM IST
A former chief of Bangladesh's main spy agency on Sunday claimed perpetrators of the 2004 grenade attack, which mainly targeted the then leader of Opposition and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, were protected under directives of the higher political authority. ‘I was asked not to catch (arrest) them (culprits),’ former Director General of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Maj Gen (retd) Sadik Hassan Rumi told a court here as the belated trial of several high-profile suspects of the attack were underway.
‘There was no dearth of efforts on my part to unearth the plot (of the attack) but I was repeatedly obstructed,’ he said.
The assailants had hurled 13 'arges' grenades at an Awami League rally in downtown Dhaka on August 21, 2004 but Hasina narrowly escaped the attack with permanent hearing impairment while 24 people, including incumbent President Zillur Rahman's wife Ivy Rahman, were killed and some 500 injured.
‘There was no dearth of efforts on my part to unearth the plot (of the attack) but I was repeatedly obstructed,’ he said.
The assailants had hurled 13 'arges' grenades at an Awami League rally in downtown Dhaka on August 21, 2004 but Hasina narrowly escaped the attack with permanent hearing impairment while 24 people, including incumbent President Zillur Rahman's wife Ivy Rahman, were killed and some 500 injured.
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