Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Saturday termed the killing of Bandarban Buddhist monk as an isolated incident and pointed finger at the relatives of the victim.

 

The Minister delivered the statement in reply of a query by the reporters at the Rajshahi University, hours after the Buddhist monk murder.

 

“It is an isolated incident and the victim’s relatives are involved with the killing,” Kamal said.

 

He also suspected that the relatives were responsible for carrying this gruesome murder.

 

Earlier, he attended a rally held on the campus organised by RU Teachers’ Association protesting the murder of Prof Rezaul Karim Siddiquee.

 

The monk Mong Shoi U Chak was a religious leader preaching Buddhism in the area, was killed brutally on Friday night by unidentified miscreants.

 

Six people, including Rajshahi University professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, USAID staff member and LGBT magazine editor Xulhaz Mannan and his friend Tonoy, Hindu tailor Nikhil Chandra Joardar in Tangail, online activist Nazimuddin Samad and Pir Shahidullah (a preacher of Sufism) in Rajshahi were killed in almost the similar fashion, asclaimed by law enforcers, in attacks by unknown assailants in the last two months.