Ex-Bangla premier indicted for murder

DHAKA, Nov 14: A former prime minister of Bangladesh and three other political figures have been indicted for inciting street riots in the ...

DHAKA, Nov 14: A former prime minister of Bangladesh and three other political figures have been indicted for inciting street riots in the southern Port city of Chittagong which left a policeman and six others dead and many others injured, interior ministry sources said today.

Kazi Zafar Ahmad, who served as prime minister in 1989-90 in former president H M Ershad’s government, was charged in a murder case with provoking violence last Tuesday during an anti-government rally, addressed by main Opposition leader Khaleda Zia, in Chittagong.

Police in Chittagong, 240 kms south of Dhaka, said Ahmad, who leads a dissident faction of the Jatiyo Party, had called on supporters over loud-speakers to attack security forces on duty at the rally.

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Salauddin Kader Chowdhury and his younger brother Giasuddin, both local lawmakers from Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), were also indicted in the same case for incitement to anarchy in which public transport vehicles were torched, shops and other businesses looted.

The fourth prominent figure to be formally charged is Shafiul Alampradhan, chief of Jagpa, an extreme right-wing group allied with the BNP.

The rally was held to protest the imminent signing of a peace treaty between Sheikh Hasina and Shanti Bahini tribal rebels.

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