Accusing the government of adopting burn and desert policy, BNP on Wednesday alleged that it has given law enforcers a free hand for committing crimes against humanity like secret killings and enforced disappearances in a bid to suppress its movement.
“This illegal government has resorted to a scorched earth policy to turn the country into a valley of killings and bodies,” said BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
In a statement, he also alleged that the government is conducting a false campaign through the media to shift the blame of subversive acts onto the opposition after carrying out those with its agents in a planned way.
Rizvi alleged that the law enforcers are raiding the houses of opposition leaders and activists and picking them up wherever getting them and then killing them. He said that plainclothes police picked up Chhatra Dal Leader Nuruzzaman Jony in the city and killed him on Monday night while the bullet-hit body of a Narial municipality commissioner was recovered in Dhaka.
“The law enforcement agencies of the current regime again killing opposition leaders and activists in the name of so-called gunfight after picking them up,” he observed.
The BNP leader called upon people to make a success the 20-party’s 48-hours hartal in Dhaka and Khulna divisions that began at 6am today protesting the extrajudicial killings of opposition leaders and activists and the government’s repressive acts.
Rizvi said the resignation of the current Awami League-led regime is the only way to overcome the current crisis. “Now people have only one demand –this government must quit and hold an election under a non-party administration. The government must ensure participatory polls to resolve the crisis.” – UNB
