Published: 01:52 AM, 11 December 2017
'Govt violating human rights, killing rivals'
BNP yesterday alleged that the government is seriously violating human rights in the country by indulging in enforced disappearances and killing of its opponents to perpetuate its power. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made this remark while speaking at a human chain program in front of the Jatiya Press Club, marking the International Human Rights Day. He also presented their party's statistics on the incidents of human rights violation by the 'government'. Some family members of enforced disappearance victims also took part in the human chain program with the photographs of their missing near and dear ones.
The government has been in power by force and using the state machinery after obliterating human rights and democratic norms. They're either killing or making disappeared those who express alternative opinions, Fakhrul said. As per our party's statics, 78,323 cases have been filed implicating 7,83,238 BNP leaders and activists while 520 people were killed and 747 were abducted by law enforcers. Around 157 people still remain missing, he added.
Besides, the BNP leader said, about 37 lakh people have been subjected to repression by the 'current government'.
He also alleged that BNP top leaders, including its chairperson Khaleda Zia and senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman, are being harassed in 'false' cases. The entire country has been made a prison. There's no family now living in peace. The only reason behind it is the government's illegal stay in power by force.
Fakhrul voiced concern that an ex-diplomat, one journalist, one teacher, a politician and one businessman who have been made disappeared recently still remain traceless. He said people have no place to stand for justice now as the government has established its control over the judiciary, and politicised the administration. The BNP leader said there is no alternative to establishing a pro-people government through a fair elected under a neutral administration to get rid of the current situation.
Speaking at the program, BNP standing committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan said the government not only made its opponents disappeared, but also the human rights. He urged the United Nations to look into the human rights violation issue in Bangladesh as the country has signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
Another BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said the government is violating the human rights only to cling to power. Several hundred leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies joined the program.
The government has been in power by force and using the state machinery after obliterating human rights and democratic norms. They're either killing or making disappeared those who express alternative opinions, Fakhrul said. As per our party's statics, 78,323 cases have been filed implicating 7,83,238 BNP leaders and activists while 520 people were killed and 747 were abducted by law enforcers. Around 157 people still remain missing, he added.
Besides, the BNP leader said, about 37 lakh people have been subjected to repression by the 'current government'.
He also alleged that BNP top leaders, including its chairperson Khaleda Zia and senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman, are being harassed in 'false' cases. The entire country has been made a prison. There's no family now living in peace. The only reason behind it is the government's illegal stay in power by force.
Fakhrul voiced concern that an ex-diplomat, one journalist, one teacher, a politician and one businessman who have been made disappeared recently still remain traceless. He said people have no place to stand for justice now as the government has established its control over the judiciary, and politicised the administration. The BNP leader said there is no alternative to establishing a pro-people government through a fair elected under a neutral administration to get rid of the current situation.
Speaking at the program, BNP standing committee member Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan said the government not only made its opponents disappeared, but also the human rights. He urged the United Nations to look into the human rights violation issue in Bangladesh as the country has signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.
Another BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said the government is violating the human rights only to cling to power. Several hundred leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies joined the program.
