UNB, Dhaka :
BNP on Sunday alleged that the government is seriously violating human rights in the country by indulging in enforced disappearances and killing of its opponents to perpetuate its power.
Speaking at a human chain programme, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also presented their party’s statistics on the incidents of human rights violation by the ‘government’.
BNP arranged the programme in front of the Jatiya Press Club, marking the International Human Rights Day. Several hundred leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies joined the programme.
Some family members of enforced disappearance
victims also took part in the human chain programme with the photographs of their missing near and dear ones.
“The government has been in power by force and using the state machinery after obliterating human rights and democratic norms. They’re either killing or making disappeared those who express alternative opinions,” Fakhrul said.
“As per our party’s statics, 78,323 cases have been filed implicating 7,83,238 BNP leaders and activists while 520 people were killed and 747 were abducted by law enforcers. Around 157 people still remain missing,” he added.
Besides, the BNP leader said, about 37 lakh people have been subjected to repression by the ‘current government’.
He also alleged that BNP top leaders, including its chairperson Khaleda Zia and senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman, are being harassed in ‘false’ cases.
BNP on Sunday alleged that the government is seriously violating human rights in the country by indulging in enforced disappearances and killing of its opponents to perpetuate its power.
Speaking at a human chain programme, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir also presented their party’s statistics on the incidents of human rights violation by the ‘government’.
BNP arranged the programme in front of the Jatiya Press Club, marking the International Human Rights Day. Several hundred leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies joined the programme.
Some family members of enforced disappearance
victims also took part in the human chain programme with the photographs of their missing near and dear ones.
“The government has been in power by force and using the state machinery after obliterating human rights and democratic norms. They’re either killing or making disappeared those who express alternative opinions,” Fakhrul said.
“As per our party’s statics, 78,323 cases have been filed implicating 7,83,238 BNP leaders and activists while 520 people were killed and 747 were abducted by law enforcers. Around 157 people still remain missing,” he added.
Besides, the BNP leader said, about 37 lakh people have been subjected to repression by the ‘current government’.
He also alleged that BNP top leaders, including its chairperson Khaleda Zia and senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman, are being harassed in ‘false’ cases.
