A number of events were held in Dhaka on Friday to observe the 13th anniversary of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks to condemn the terror groups and to express solidarity with the innocent victims killed.
A photo exhibition was held at Shilpakala Academy organized by Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal in the presence of High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Vikram K Doraiswami inaugurated the exhibition.
The exhibition highlighted the horrors inflicted by the terror groups through seventy framed photos.
Terror incidents of August 21 grenade attack and Holey Artisan attack in 2016 were also showcased in the exhibition.
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In another event, theatre artists enacted a drama depicting the Mumbai attack at the city’s Bashundhara Shopping Complex in the evening which was applauded by the huge crowd.
Meanwhile, Muktijoddah Mancha, a platform of descendants of freedom fighters, protested in front of the Pakistan High Commission with banners and placards condemning the role of the Pakistan government in sheltering masterminds of the attacks and calling for global efforts in bringing the perpetrators to justice.
Bangladesh Online Activist Forum (BOAF) organized a discussion meeting titled ‘International Terrorism and Mumbai Attacks’ at the National Press Club in Dhaka.
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Besides, a documentary movie was screened at Shahbagh after around two hundred volunteers with candles paid tributes to the martyrs at the Shaheed Minar in Dhaka University.
Hundreds of volunteers in Rajshahi, Chittagong, Sylhet, Khulna, Satkhira, Jashore and Cumilla also organized protest demonstrations, human-chain programmes and cycle rallies to mark the day.
On November 26 in 2008, a group of ten Pakistani nationals trained by proscribed terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) carried out a gruesome attack on 166 innocent people including foreign nationals from USA, Canada, Jordan, Malaysia, Mauritius and other nationalities. The masterminds behind the attack mainly LeT Ameer Hafiz Saeed and his accomplice Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi had planned and trained the militant cadres.