The parliamentary sub-committee formed to probe the August 2007 clashes between the students and army personnel in Dhaka and elsewhere, on Sunday decided to ask the chief adviser to the then military-backed interim government and the former army chief to appear in the committee to give information about the incidents.
The sub-committee at a meeting decided to invite former chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed and former army chief Moeen U Ahmed to its next meeting to take their statements on the incidents, meeting sources said.
The sub-committee on Sunday took the statements of the then chief of general staff Sina Ibne Jamali and former DGFI official Shamsul Alam Khan while the former DGFI officials ATM Ameen and Chowdhury Fazlul Bari did not appear in the committee.
The former army officers told the committee that the DGFI had no role in the incidents that had taken place on the Dhaka University campus in August 2007 as the intelligence agency always followed the order of the chief adviser and the army chief at that time.
‘We have decided to invite the former chief adviser and the former army chief to our next meeting,’ the convener of the sub-committee, Rashed Khan Menon told reporters after the meeting, adding that the date for the next meeting had not yet been set.
Parliament formed the four-member sub-committee, headed by Workers Party lawmaker Rashed Khan Menon, on August 9, 2010 to probe the violent incidents involving Dhaka University students and army personnel in August 20-22, 2007.
The other members of the committee are Mirza Azam, Biren Sikdar and Shah Alam.
Earlier, the sub-committee gathered information about the incidents from witnesses, teachers and students of Dhaka University and former advisers to the then interim government.
The then education adviser Ayub Quadri in his statement accused an intelligence agency of instigating the incidents.
On August 20, 2007 the violence erupted after some army personnel beat up three students on the Dhaka University campus and insulted a teacher during a football match on the university playground.
Hundreds of DU students took to the streets in protest at the incident and demanding withdrawal of the army camp from the campus and an apology from the persons responsible.
As violence spread through educational institutions in the capital and elsewhere, the military-backed government imposed a curfew on the divisional headquarters and closed universities and colleges on August 22.
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