They said the aim of the perpetrators was to gain politically and occupy Hindu properties.
The body shared their findings after visiting the affected neighbourhoods for three days. In a news conference held at the Liberation War Museum in the capital, they also demanded for proper compensation to the victims and their adequate security.
Rights activist Sultana Kamal asking for a judicial investigation, said without a judicial inquiry, any administrative inquiry would not be acceptable. Because, she explained, that ‘police and local administration were being accused of influencing the attack.’
She said the event of Nasirnagar is an outburst of ‘our sectarian attitudes that we have been nurturing for years.’
‘The perpetrators are not always brought to justice...and such a tradition of impunity also inspired the assailants to commit the same crimes, repeatedly,’ she observed.
Sultana Kamal named two Awami League leaders, Faruque and Atikur Rahman Aki, and said they both used people of minority communities to harvest their political benefits.
She said other political parties, such as, Jamaat and Bangladesh Nationalists Party, also got involved into the dirty business.
‘Whatever their (perpetrators) identities are, they are enemy of humanity and sectarian harmony,’ Sultana Kamal, also a former adviser to a caretaker government, said.
She said the meagre compensation allocated for the victims are simply a farce.
Pankaj Bhattacharya, president of united National Awami Party, also vice president of Sammilito Samajik Andolon, read out their findings. Liberation War Museum trustee Ziauddin Tariq Ali chaired the news conference.
Among others Nijera Kori coordinator Khushi Kabir, Liberation War Museum trustee Sarwar Ali, Mohila Parishad joint-secretary Rakhi Das Purkayastha, also spoke.
About 200 houses and business establishments and 22 temples of Hindus were vandalised and robbed on October 30 by groups of miscreants at Haripur union and Nasirnagar town, following a so-called Facebook post.
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