1st anniversary of Phulbari carnage today
Punishment to killers demanded
The first anniversary of Phulbari carnage will be observed here today.
On this day last year, three people were killed and many others wounded when members of the law enforcement authorities including BDR and police opened fire on them.
People of Phulbari and the adjoining upazilas were trying to besiege to the office Asia Energy Corporation (AEC), a UK based company, in Phulbari peacefully but the law enforcers intercepted the demonstrators about half-a-kilometre from the office and killed them. Thousands of people of Phulbari, Birampur, Parbatipur and Ghoraghat upazilas took to the streets for cancellation of Phulbari Open-pit Coal Mine Project and expulsion of AEC from the country.
National and local committees for Protection of Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources have jointly chalked out a programme to mark the day. The programme includes mourning procession, milad mahfil and laying wreath at the altar of grave of the diseased.
Anu Muhammad, member secretary of the national oil, gas and mineral resources protection committee, have demanded punishment to the killers and fulfillment of its six-point demand.
Anu Muhammad, also a professor of the Department of Economics of Jahangirnagar University, said had the project been implemented, about 4 lakh people in the area rendered shelterless and environment of the surrounding areas threatened.
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