The judicial commission formed to probe the 2001 post-poll violence on minorities and Awami League men found involvement of several leaders of the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami in the incidents.
A senior official at the home ministry said nothing had so far been done following submission of the report by the judicial commission.
If the recommendations of the report were implemented properly recurrence of such attacks on minority people just after an election might scale down, the official said.
As a result, after the election on January 5 the minority people came under attacks in various districts including Jessore, Dinajpur and Gaibandha, the official added.
Following the 2001 post-poll violence, a three-member judicial commission comprising M Shahabuddin (president), former deputy secretary of home ministry Monowar Hossain Akhand and former additional DIG Mir Shahidul Islam (now DIG police), was formed on December 27, 2009 to probe the violence.
Although three months were given to complete the investigation, the commission worked on it for one year and three months.
“We handed over the probe report to the then former home minister Sahara Khatun on April 24, 2011,” Member Secretary AKM Monowar Hossain Akhand told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
The complete report comprises five pieces having a total of 1100 pages. “We prepared the report visiting around 35 to 40 districts.”
The judicial body during its probe into the 2001 post-poll violence received 5,571 allegations of killing, rape, arson and looting by activists of the then ruling BNP-Jamaat alliance and it took into account 3,125 allegations, Chief of the Commission M Shahabuddin Chuppu said.
“During the probe, we found a total of 355 politically motivated murders while 3,270 incidents of rape, arson, looting and other atrocities,” he said.
The commission also found the involvement of some BNP and Jamaat leaders in the attacks on minorities and oppression on Awami League workers after the parliamentary polls in 2001.
Shahabuddin said the names of BNP leaders Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, former home minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, Abdul Wadud, Joynal Abedin (known as VP Joynal of Feni), Nadim Mostafa, HM Selim of Bagerhat, Maulana Shakhawat Hossain of Keshabpur in Jessore, Abdus Sobhan of Pabna, Maj (retd) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed, Ruhul Quddus Talukdar Dulu, Hafiz Ibrahim and Zahir Uddin Swapan were mentioned in the report.
Jamaat leaders Matiur Rahman Nizami, Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher of Comilla and Delwar Hossain Sayedee were among the leaders who led the atrocities on minority people and AL workers, he added.
“We recommended bringing the people involved in post-poll violence in 2001 under trial, filling cases against the accused and restoring the cases withdrawn on political consideration, and providing compensation to the victims of political attacks,” the member secretary said.
He also said the judicial commission also suggested forming short-term investigation committees or investigation commissions at district level involving additional district magistrate, additional police and an executive magistrate to probe the incidents of political violence and attacks on minority, and setting up a monitoring cell at the home ministry to coordinator the tasks of the probe bodies.
If the recommendation of the report was implemented, the incidents of attacks on minority might decrease, the chief of the commission noted.
Asked about the steps by the home ministry, additional secretary Kamal Uddin Ahmed told the Dhaka Tribune that the law ministry was taking steps.
Meanwhile, the High Court on Wednesday ordered the home secretary to submit within February 2 the judicial probe report into the attacks that were carried out on the minorities and the then opposition members following the eighth parliamentary elections on October 1, 2001.
The court also issued a rule seeking an explanation by two weeks as to why it should not direct the government to make public the inquiry report.