The Bnp on Thursday said that two Juba League leaders – Manik and Babul – were held and taken to the thana by police after the bus torching in Chouddagram on Tuesday night, but they were released at the instance of the railway minister Mujibul Huq.
In a statement to the press Bnp joint secretary general Salahuddin also complained that the order for the attack came from even higher levels. He said that the people of comilla believed that the order for the attack had come from the upper echelon of the administration.
The statement condemned the administration for filing cases against Khaleda Zia and other 20-Party leaders for allegedly instigating the Couddagram petrol bomb attack.
Salahuddin in his statement said that at least 15,000 leaders and activists of the opposition alliance were arrested police by during the last one month of movement for the restoration of democracy. Every day many activists were being killed in crossfire, many others made victims of killings, abductions and enforced disappearances. At dead of night hopes of ordinary people were being attacked and their abodes torched as was done by occupation forces.
He said that the government has adoipted a scorched eatch policy with a view to sticking to power. He warned that more rigorous programmes of movement would follow if the government does not accept their demand offer resignation and call free and fair election under a non-partisan cartaker government, the statement said. – Staff Reporter
