Govt to form tribunal to try Khaleda: PM

A tribunal will be formed to try Khaleda Zia and her associates for ‘instigating’ petrol bombings during the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s agitations against the government, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said. “The government has plans to set up an Anti-terrorism Special Tribunal under Section 27 of the Anti Terrorism Act 2009 to try cases of violence against Khaleda Zia and her allies,” she told Parliament on Wednesday. The Prime MInister and her party, the ruling Awami League, has blamed the BNP and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami for unleashing a wave of violence earlier this year during the nationwide indefinite transport blockade and hartals. Scores of civilians were killed in the violence, mostly burnt to death by petrol bombs lobbed at buses and other transport. Many others were maimed, paralysed or disfigured for life in the bombings, according to bdnews24.com.