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Saturday, January 12, 2013
Staff correspondent
Speakers at different programmes yesterday reiterated their demand for a fair re-investigation into the abduction of Kalpana Chakma.
Despite being identified by eye-witnesses, the abductors are being protected through systematic attempts rather than being punished for their crime, they said.
On June 12, 1996, Kalpana, the then organising secretary of Hill Women's Federation (HWF), was abducted from her residence at New Lallaghona in Bhaghaichhari upazila of Rangamati allegedly by security personnel in plainclothes.
At a roundtable organised by HWF at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital, speakers rejected all official investigation reports published so far in Kalpana's abduction case, including the final probe report submitted by Criminal Investigation Department last September, as those had failed to name the real perpetrators.
HWF demanded that new cases be filed against the perpetrators responsible for abducting Kalpana as per the accounts of witnesses.
Kalindi Kumar Chakma, Kalpana's brother and an eye-witness to her abduction, said the previous investigation reports had distorted his statements and favoured the false accounts of the security personnel.
Meanwhile, leaders and activists of three front organisations of United Peoples Democratic Front, including HWF, Pahari Chhattra Parishad and Democratic Youth Forum, held a protest rally followed by a procession in Khagrachhari town yesterday, demanding a fair investigation into Kalpana's abduction.
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