bdnews24.com :National Human Rights Commission Chairman Mizanur Rahman has objected to engaging the armed forces in work other than defence.”It’s logical to keep to one’s jurisdiction,” he said at a public hearing held in capital Dhaka on Wednesday.The Institute for Environment and Development organised the hearing titled ‘Human Rights situation of the indigenous people’.Rahman said: “Our armed forces are becoming a corporate body. And nobody can say for sure that lands are not being acquired to protect the interest of this corporate body in some cases.”His statement came a day after Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (PCJSS) leader Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma alias Santu Larma questioned the Bangladesh Army’s deployment and activities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Rahman, however, said he was proud of the country’s armed forces. “We hail government’s procurement of modern arms, ammunition and fighter planes for them and the initiative to purchase submarines to protect the sea boundary,” he said.”But when we see the armed forces, whose responsibilities are to ensure our security and safeguard our sovereignty, are setting up banks, getting involved in contract jobs by competing with the Public Works Department, and getting busy to establish schools, colleges and universities, we get worried.
