The parliamentary sub-committee probing the August 2007 violence at Dhaka University has refuted former army chief Moeen U Ahmed's allegation of altering his testimony on the event.
Moeen, a key player in the last caretaker government, in an e-mail to Rashed Khan Menon, chief of the probe body, last week said he in his testimony to the committee did not blame the then caretaker government for the violence on the university campus. He also termed “inappropriate” the news reports done on the basis of the committee chief's press briefing.
“News items published in newspapers quoted me that I had blamed the last caretaker government for the campus violence. It is not correct. The fact is I did not tell the probe body anything blaming the then caretaker government,” a source in the committee quoted from the e-mail. Menon on Saturday said, “We are not worried about his [Moeen] claim. We had recorded his testimony on the incident.” He said, “A small part of his [Moeen] testimony got blurred for technical glitch. But that does not create any difficulty in understanding what he said during the teleconference.”
Moeen on September 13 gave a testimony to the sub-committee through a teleconference from the US, where he has been staying for the last one and a half years. Later that day, Menon told reporters that Moeen blamed field-level army officials, DGFI and the caretaker administration for the atrocities on DU teachers and students.
Violence broke out on the DU campus on August 20, 2007 after some army men beat up three students and insulted a teacher during a football match on the gymnasium field at the university.
Moeen, a key player in the last caretaker government, in an e-mail to Rashed Khan Menon, chief of the probe body, last week said he in his testimony to the committee did not blame the then caretaker government for the violence on the university campus. He also termed “inappropriate” the news reports done on the basis of the committee chief's press briefing.
“News items published in newspapers quoted me that I had blamed the last caretaker government for the campus violence. It is not correct. The fact is I did not tell the probe body anything blaming the then caretaker government,” a source in the committee quoted from the e-mail. Menon on Saturday said, “We are not worried about his [Moeen] claim. We had recorded his testimony on the incident.” He said, “A small part of his [Moeen] testimony got blurred for technical glitch. But that does not create any difficulty in understanding what he said during the teleconference.”
Moeen on September 13 gave a testimony to the sub-committee through a teleconference from the US, where he has been staying for the last one and a half years. Later that day, Menon told reporters that Moeen blamed field-level army officials, DGFI and the caretaker administration for the atrocities on DU teachers and students.
Violence broke out on the DU campus on August 20, 2007 after some army men beat up three students and insulted a teacher during a football match on the gymnasium field at the university.