The Christian human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC), has learned that the victims of a jihad attack six years ago in Bangladesh have still not received justice from the government.

Around 450 people held a candlelight vigil in June to mark the sixth anniversary of a tragic bomb attack at the Roman Catholic Church of Baniarchar in Bangladesh that killed 10 people.

While the church has remembered this tragedy, it appears that the government has all but forgotten what happened, as no criminal investigation has made any progress since the incident was first reported.

In 2001, unidentified Muslim extremists who are still at large orchestrated a terrible bomb attack during Mass in a Catholic Church in Baniarchar of Gopalgonj district. There were approximately 500 Catholics in attendance on the morning of 3 June 2001, when the bomb planted by Muslim extremists ripped through the service, killing 10 people and wounding many more.

A case was submitted to the local police station and then sent to the Criminal Investigation Department of Police, but neither office has submitted an investigative report - six years later.

In contrast, the parishioners of the church, which has since been repaired, continue to remember what happened and to pray for justice.

On the evening of June 3, 2007, a group of Christians gathered at the graveyard of the martyrs and prayed together by candlelight.

An ICC representative who attended the service remarked that the whole evening was full of mourning and the sound of the weeping of the martyrs' relatives.

The names of the martyrs who were killed are: Sanjiban Baroi, Peter Saha, Michael Mollik, Rodrix Jethra, Binod Das, Monnoth Sikdar, Amar Biswas, Jatish Biswas, Jhintu Mondol and Sumon Halder.

The families are afraid to speak up because they fear that they will make themselves targets for more Jihadist attacks.

Jeremy Sewall, ICC Policy Analyst, said, "The tragedy of this senseless attack is only compounded by the blatant indifference of the Bangladeshi Government. Such negligence is simply a way for the authorities to say to religious minorities 'you are not welcome here'.

"In the midst of Bangladesh's current crisis, a good first step towards preserving democracy would be for the government to prove that it will protect minorities by taking action to apprehend and prosecute the Muslim extremists who are behind the tragedy of Baniarchar."

ICC is calling on concerned supporters of the victims of this tragedy to call the Bangladeshi embassies in their countries asking for justice for the families who lost their loved ones in the bomb attack on the Roman Catholic Church in Baniarchar on 3 June 2001.

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