BNP on Sunday alleged that the government has turned the entire country into a death valley by killing political leaders and activists and making them disappeared.
“The entire country is now a death valley due to the indiscriminate killings and forced disappearances of political leaders and activists. We want to get rid of the situation,” said BNP joint secretary general Barkat Ullah Bulu.
The BNP leader brought the allegation at a press conference at the Jatiya Press Club in the city.
Laxmipur district unit BNP organised the press conference demanding that its local leader and Union Parishad chairman Omar Faruk be found out as he has reportedly remained missing since plainclothes police picked him up from the house of one of his relatives in Chittagong on February 4.
Buulu urged the government to put an end to the culture of forced disappearance and extrajudicial killing, saying that they want the guarantee of a normal death.
The BNP leader recalled that the opposition leaders and activists and dissidents had also been made disappeared in the same way during 1973-1974.
“At that time noted journalist Nirmal Sen used to write a column in a newspaper titled ‘Want the guarantee of normal death’. The same condition is now prevailing in the country. The opposition leaders and activists are being made disappeared and illegally killed in crossfire,” he said adding, “We demand the government stop such incidents of killing and disappearance.”
Bulu warned that they will topple the government through a vigorous movement if it does not stop the incidents of extrajudicial killing and forced disappearance.
Addressing the press conference, Laxmipur district unit BNP president and former MP Abul Khayer Bhuiyan said the victim family members, leaders and activists of the party are now passing days in anxiety after Omar Faruk was made disappeared.
“We want to see an end to such killing and forced disappearance and repression. We want immediate trace of Omar Faruk,” he said.
Abul Khayer also presented a list of those killed in Laxmipur during the last five years by the law enforcers and Awami League cadres.
The names of the victims include Bashikpur ward BNP leader Jahangir Alam Khokan, Dattapara union Jubo Dal leader Anwar Hossain, Hajirpara Union Jubo Dal leader Monir Hossain, Sadar Purba Thana Jubo Dal leader Nazrul Islam Liton, Joypur Union Jubo Dal leader Selim Miah, Teyariganj BNP activist Abul Kashem in Laxmipur Sadar, and Karpara union leader Abdul Kader, Karpara Swechchhasebak Dal leader Baharuddin in Ramganj upazila, and Chhatra Dal leader Roman and Rubel Hossain in Raypur upazila.
BNP student affairs secretary and former MP Shahiduddin Chowdhury Anee, former MP Nazim Uddin were, among others, at the press conference.
Source: UNBConnect