Dhaka – The BNP on Thursday alleged that the incidents of extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance and abduction are increasing astronomically.“The incidents of enforced disappearance, abduction, illegal detention and extrajudicial killing are increasing astronomically in the country after the return of ruling Awami League in power in 2009,” said BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
Speaking at a press conference at party headquarters, he said the pre-historic inhumanity has grabbed the entire country in its claws.
Referring to the report on Human Rights Watch, he called for carrying out international investigation by the United Nations for safety and security of the people.
“There is no alternative to carry out an international investigation on HRW report for the survival of Bangladeshi people and ensure their secure lives and justice,” he said.
Rizvi said the government kept country’s people detained in a cage of poisonous thorns.
“People in each homestead and home are passing their lives amid deep apprehension of being killed, abducted, victims of enforced disappearance, going to be missing and detention without trial,” he added.
He alleged that mass people including opposition political leaders, writers, poets, literature, human rights activists, workers leaders are being harassed and many of them are kept in secret places for years.
Of them, bodies of somebodies are found in canals, lands, rivers and ditches or beside the roads. The fate of many people are yet to be known, he regretted.
The BNP leader said the entire nation is mentally traumatised with the incident of abduction of poet Farhad Mazhar. “This trauma is not only affected Farhad Mazhar but affected the countrymen,” he added.
He accused the government and law enforcing agencies of making incoherent statements to turn the incident of Farhad Mazhar’s abduction as a mere abduction of terrorists. The countrymen think they are trying to hide the real face of the abduction through staging drama, he said.
BNP chairperson’s adviser Abdus Salam, joint secretary general Khairul Kabir Khokan and Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anie, among others, were present on the occasion. – Staff Reporter
