Staff Reporter :
Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB), the pro-BNP doctors’ platform, has alleged that police used pepper spray, a banned chemical weapon, on BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia being aware of its harmful impacts.
Leaders of the platform in a press conference at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Thursday said that the government betrayed with the nation by using the pepper spray, as Bangladesh is a signatory to the ‘Chemical Weapon Convention’ that banned the use of the pepper spray. They also cited a
ruling of the High Court, issued on January 21 in 2013, restricting the use of the pepper spray responding to a writ petition at that time.
DAB Senior Joint Secretary General M Rafiqul Islam Bachchu read out a written statement at the press conference, while DAB senior leader Prof Dr Siraj Uddin and other central leaders attended it.
Rafiqul Islam said, pepper spray is one kind of chemical weapons that causes various health hazards including severe burning in eyes, pain, respiratory complication, running nose, chest pain, cough and burning on external parts of the body. Besides, there are possibilities of heart disease, pulmonary toxicity and carcinogenic effect from pepper spray. Anyone can even be attacked with cancer due to use of the pepper spray, he added.
He said, there is fear of death of those who have respiratory problems, old age and remained under treatment of other drugs. In the USA, around 61 people died in Los Angles of US from 1990 to 1995 due to the use of pepper spray by police.
He alleged that police used the pepper spray on Khaleda Zia on January 5 with ill motive, as they used it being aware of its harmful impacts. He called upon the government not to use the chemical weapon in the future.
Dr Siraj Uddin, who examined Khaleda Zia following the use of pepper spray, said that the BNP chief is very ill due to the adverse impact thereof.
Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB), the pro-BNP doctors’ platform, has alleged that police used pepper spray, a banned chemical weapon, on BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia being aware of its harmful impacts.
Leaders of the platform in a press conference at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity on Thursday said that the government betrayed with the nation by using the pepper spray, as Bangladesh is a signatory to the ‘Chemical Weapon Convention’ that banned the use of the pepper spray. They also cited a
ruling of the High Court, issued on January 21 in 2013, restricting the use of the pepper spray responding to a writ petition at that time.
DAB Senior Joint Secretary General M Rafiqul Islam Bachchu read out a written statement at the press conference, while DAB senior leader Prof Dr Siraj Uddin and other central leaders attended it.
Rafiqul Islam said, pepper spray is one kind of chemical weapons that causes various health hazards including severe burning in eyes, pain, respiratory complication, running nose, chest pain, cough and burning on external parts of the body. Besides, there are possibilities of heart disease, pulmonary toxicity and carcinogenic effect from pepper spray. Anyone can even be attacked with cancer due to use of the pepper spray, he added.
He said, there is fear of death of those who have respiratory problems, old age and remained under treatment of other drugs. In the USA, around 61 people died in Los Angles of US from 1990 to 1995 due to the use of pepper spray by police.
He alleged that police used the pepper spray on Khaleda Zia on January 5 with ill motive, as they used it being aware of its harmful impacts. He called upon the government not to use the chemical weapon in the future.
Dr Siraj Uddin, who examined Khaleda Zia following the use of pepper spray, said that the BNP chief is very ill due to the adverse impact thereof.
