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http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=16810   ZIA-based smuggling ring destroyed stolen artefacts Claims Rab after arrest of 10 more but fails to recover remains in daylong search; motive still unexplained   Julfikar Ali Manik and Pinaki Roy Rapid Action Battalion personnel with the help of Dhaka City Corporation workers search for the remains of the two stolen Vishnu statues at a garbage-dumping site in Amin Bazar on the outskirts of the capital yesterday. Photo: STAR   After five days of artefact theft from Zia International Airport (ZIA), investigators yesterday said a ring of smugglers based at the airport destroyed the precious archaeological masterpieces and dumped them in a dustbin in Uttara. The revelation was stunning although the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) could not recover the broken pieces of the stolen statues even after conducting massive raids in different areas following confessional statements of the arrested suspects. Rab officials raided

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Artefacts heist: the crime scene http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKDHA17836220071225 Bangladesh wants return of artifacts loaned to France DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh wants a consignment of ancient artifacts on loan to France for an upcoming exhibition to be returned after two 1,500 year-old statues of the Hindu God Vishnu were stolen while awaiting shipment from Dhaka airport. "The Guimet Museum (in Paris) would be informed, regretfully, that it would not be possible to go ahead with holding the exhibition of the items as planned," a statement from the office of the head of the interim government said on Tuesday. One consignment of items had already been successfully sent to France when the theft occurred on Saturday as a second shipment was being loaded on a Paris-bound flight. A government spokesman said the French exhibition would have to be cancelled and the artifacts already in Paris returned to Bangladesh. The authorities have ordered the remaining items

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=15426   Killing of Intellectuals in 1971 Existing evidence enough to try killers   Zayadul Ahsan and Shakhawat Liton   Bodies of unknown intellectuals dumped at Rayer Bazar mass killing field by local collaborators of Pakistan army days before Bangladesh won the Liberation War. Photo: File Photo   The killers of intellectuals during the Liberation War can be prosecuted on the basis of evidence preserved by the government. It only needs to take a move to resume the long halted process of trial of the intellectuals' murder cases. Sufficient number of documents and records on the cases have been preserved since 1972 at the home ministry, Criminal Investigation Department, Ramna police station, district and sessions judges' courts, chief metropolitan magistrates' courts and deputy commissioners' offices. Over the years, eminent jurists said all this evidence has now become ancient documents according