Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman has said that the Pilkhana massacre was the part of an "international conspiracy" to keep the Awami League in power.

"It wasn't a mutiny; it was rather a planned murder. In the Pilkhana massacre, we lost the nation's brave sons. Their loss was an attack on the sovereignty of Bangladesh," he said while speaking at a shadow parliament organised by Debate for Democracy at the FDC in the capital on Saturday.

By killing 57 army officers, the then Awami League government created an atmosphere of anarchy in Bangladesh, he said, adding that many of the masterminds behind the Pilkhana massacre are still at large, and efforts are being made to bring them to justice.

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