DHAKA, 21 March 2004 — Prime Minister Khaleda Zia yesterday handed over 25,000 taka each to 11 of those injured in the Feb. 6, 2001 incident of violence in eastern Brahmanbaria district.
The prime minister had earlier provided 50,000 taka to each of the families of six people dead and 25,000 taka each to 27 of those injured in the same incident.
She had also provided assistance for housing to the families of the six deceased.
It was during former Prime Minister Hasina Wajed’s tenure of office that police, at the directive of the then ruling Awami League, had resorted to firing on an Islamic mob in Brahmanbaria when the angry clerics were protesting the arrest of Islami Oikya Jote Chairman Allama Azizul Huq in connection with a murder near a mosque at Mohammadpur in Dhaka.
The IOJ later formed an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Bangladesher Jatiya Party and contested the 2001 general elections.
The Islamic activists were then protesting anti-Islamic stance of non-governmental organizations backed by the Awami League.
