DHAKA: (Jul 5) Bangladesh’s Attorney General Mohammad Asaduzzaman on Saturday said last year’s nationwide mob violence was not manifestation of distrust against judiciary but rather an outburst of public outrage against the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s ousted Awami League regime.

Asaduzzaman was speaking at a function organised as part of the series of events coinciding with the first anniversary of the Awami League regime’s ouster on August 5 last year after a more than a month-long student-led agitation that had witnessed violence at several places across the country.

“This (mob violence) is not a reflection of public distrust of the judiciary, rather an expression of anger accumulated in the past 17 years (against the past regime),” Asaduzzaman said.