BNP is extreme violator of human rights: Hasan Mahmud

 
Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said BNP cannot talk about the human rights issue as the party itself is an extreme violator of human rights.

"BNP's founder had killed a number of people indiscriminately and established his party through bloodshed. BNP had killed innocent people alive through arson attacks in 2013, 2014 and 2015 and the party is doing same subversive activities in 2023 also," he said.

The minister said this while replying to a query of reporters after unwrapping a book 'Suhrawardy' marking the 60th death anniversary of prominent politician Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy at the conference room of Press Information Department at secretariat in the capital, BSS reports.

Author of the book Ahmed Firoz, senior deputy principal information officers Khaleda Begum and Md Abdul Jalil, among others, addressed the programme. Dr Hasan said the World Human Rights Day will be observed on December 10. But, Bangladesh saw gross violation of human rights through killing Bangabandhu in 1975. Even the then military backed government had enacted Indemnity Ordinance to stop trial of the killing, he said.

He said Ziaur Rahman had killed hundreds of armed force officials and soldiers without any reason to cling to power. Even, many soldiers were hanged prior to their trial and those all are documented, he said.

The minister said twenty two Awami League leaders and activists and two unidentified persons were killed in brutal grenade attacks in a rally of Awami League on August 21 in 2004. But it is regretfully true that the then prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia and her party's MPs made fun centering the attacks in the parliament, he said.