Accusing the government of committing crimes against humanity, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday asked his party’s leaders and activists to get ready for staging a mass upsurge to force the regime to stop killing, forced disappearance and other repressive acts.
“The government is regularly committing crimes against humanity by indulging in killing, forced disappearance and repression across the country,” he said.
Addressing a rally, he also told his party men, “There’s no alternative to waging a strong movement. Prepare for staging a mass upsurge to force the government to stop killing force disappearance, repression and filing of false cases.”
The Dhaka city unit BNP organised the rally on the National Press Club premises protesting the “government’s growing repressive acts like killing of opposition leaders and activists, their forced disappearances, filing of false cases against them” and indictment of Khaleda Zia and Tarique Rahman.
Fakhrul said the government is hatching a plot to illegally hang onto power by resorting to repressive acts.
He said people are being killed and picked one after another in a broad daylight. “Five people have been made disappeared together in Narayanganj. But the law enforces cannot do any thing in this regard.”
No one is now safe in the country, the BNP leader said, adding that the government is using the law enforcers as its party cadres. So, they are now busy suppressing the opposition instead of ensuring the security of people.
Mentioning that Awami Leagues’ repressive acts outshined the barbarism of the medieval age, the BNP spokesman claimed that as per the information gathered by their party, 272 opposition men were killed by law enforcers and ruling party cadres in between January, 2013 and February 2014 while 25 others made disappeared during the period. “We want to project this at home and abroad.”
He urged the media men to carry out investigative reports about the incidents of killing and forced disappearance and let people know the motive behind the ‘heinous acts’.
Fakhrul said when the government withdrew the cases against the ruling party leaders and activists it has filed cases against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and its senor vice chairman Tarique Rahman by the Anti Corruption Commission to undermine them and annihilate BNP.
Chaired by Dhaka city unit BNP convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka, the programme was addressed, by BNP vice chairman Abdullah Al Noman, chairperson’s adviser Shamsuzzaman Dudu, finance affairs secretary Abdus Salam, international affairs secretary Asaduzzaman Ripon and Jubo Dal president Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal.
Source: UNB Connect