Police not actively looking for killers

Law enforcers are not working actively to capture the killers of freethinkers including blogger Niladri Chattopadhyay Niloy, spokesperson of a faction of the Gonojagoron Mancha Imran H Sarker alleged yesterday.

Because of the negligence of police, four online activists were killed in the last five months by militants, he told a condolence meeting for Niloy at the capital's Shahbagh

"People want to know how the murderers escaped safely after killing Niloy at the fourth floor of his residential building. Questions were raised whether the government patronises or inspires the killers. Everyone except the powerful are anxious about their life," he added.

Well-known sculpture Rasha said the government took the maximum advantage using taxes from people but they totally failed to stop the countrywide killing of bloggers and children.

Referring to the incident where police refused to take a general diary of Niloy, actor Mamunur Rashid said a culture of injustice existed in the country and the militants took that opportunity.

Human rights activist Khushi Kabir said those who killed Niladri at the time of Jumma prayers could not be Muslim. She said they would kill freethinkers but not freethinking.

The faction of the Gonojagoron Mancha, a youth-led anti-war criminal platform, also threatened tougher movement if no visible progress is made to bring the killers to book by Friday.

Earlier a portrait of Niloy was set up at Shahbagh where different social and student organisations including Sammiliti Sangkritik Jote, Nijera Kori, Bangladesh Udichi Shilpi Ghosthi, and Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal paid last tributes by offering wreaths.

The Mancha will bring out a mass procession from Shahbagh at 4:00pm tomorrow and hold a rally at the Central Shaheed Minar at 3:00pm on Friday, which will be observed countrywide as "Black Day".

Earlier Progotishil Chhatra Jote, an alliance of left-leaning student organisations, brought out a protest procession and held a rally on Dhaka University campus.

They demanded quick arrest of Niloy's killers.