Accusing the government of picking up green activist Syeda Rizwana Hasan’s husband Abu Bakar Siddique, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday said it has later freed him fearing dire consequences.
“The government has shown its sense of prudence by releasing Abu Bakar Siddique amid huge protests by different quarters both at home and abroad,” she said.
Khaleda made the remarks while addressing the inaugural session of the 7th national council of Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, the BNP’s labour wing, at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh.
Rizwana’s husband Abu Bakar Siddique was freed by the abductors 35 hours after his abduction but neither the abductors could be traced nor the motive behind his abduction could be debunked yet.
Voicing her wonder over the abduction of Siddique in broad daylight, the former Prime Minister said had the government not released the victim immediately it would have to face an oust-government movement. “No one could resist that agitation. The government has realised it.”
She lamented that still many BNP leaders, including M Ilias Ali and Chowdhury Alam, remained untraced. “Their family members, friends and relatives everyday wait with a hope for their return. But, they still did not get back them.”
“I want to ask the illegal regime to release immediately those whom you still kept confined. We have all the information about those have been killed and made disappeared,” Khaleda warned the government.
Khaleda expressed deep concern over the growing incidents of forced disappearance and repressive acts ‘by the government’. “No one except those belong to Awami League is now safe in the country as the government has snatched democracy and the rule of law.”
The BNP chief asked the government to stop killing, forced disappearances and using arms against the opposition leaders and activists.
“You’re violating human rights and committing crimes against humanity everyday by killing people and making them missing. You must be made accountable for those who have been killed and made disappeared,” she said.
Source: UNBConnect
