No case of firing from helicopters happened: MoFA

No case of firing from helicopters happened during the quota reform movement. 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said this in statement on Sunday night.

Helicopters were used for surveillance, rescue of stranded law enforcement personnel at certain locations, and facilitating passage for firefighting vehicles during emergencies, it said. 

The government has said it remains committed to “hold accountable” through proper investigation all those responsible for each incident of death among students and the ensuing terrorist acts involving killings, arson, vandalism, subversion and sabotage. 

An Inquiry Commission led by a Judge of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court, constituted on 18 July 2024, has already started working to this effect. 

In addition, a number of relevant departmental inquiries are also being conducted to ascertain responsibilities for the corresponding acts of killings and violence, including any case of negligence. 

There is no scope for associating the mostly peaceful and issue-specific students’ movement with the ensuing terrorist acts perpetrated by the BNP-Jamaat combine against the State, it said.