Manik Saha Murder
Fresh probe, speedy trial demanded
Well-wishers of Manik Chandra Saha form a human chain before Jatiya Press Club in the city yesterday demanding exemplary punishment to those who bombed and killed Manik Saha, a Khulna correspondent of the Daily New Age and a stringer of BBC Bangla Service, on January 15, 2004. Photo: STAR
Speakers at a rally yesterday demanded the arrest, speedy trial and exemplary punishment of the killers of journalist Manik Chandra Saha. At the rally organised by “Manik Sahar Suridra” (well-wishers of Manik Saha) in front of the Jatiya Press Club to observe the 8th death anniversary of the journalist, they also demanded a re-investigation of the killing, said a press release. Khulna correspondent of the Daily New Age and a stringer of BBC Bangla Service, Manik was killed when unidentified miscreants hurled bombs at him on January 15, in 2004 near Khulna Press Club. The speakers said the killing of Manik was a political plan of the then BNP-Jamaat led government. Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) Secretary General Mujahidul Islam Selim said although the present government also had blamed the BNP-Jamaat for the murder, it did not take any steps to try the killers. Journalist Aminur Rasel Babul chaired the rally while President of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury, and General Secretary Abdul Jalil Bhuyian, Dhaka Reporters' Unity Secretary General Sajjad Alam Khan Topu, and CPB leader Ruhin Hossain Prince spoke at the rally.
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