Staff Reporter :
The BNP is astonished at the killing of blogger Avijit Roy in the flawless security cordon of the police and other law enforcing agencies. The killing is questionable, as it was committed in an open place amid foolproof security during the Ekushey Book Fair, said the party.
“The killing of Avijit Roy in a place like Bangla Academy and Dhaka University’s TSC proved that the current government had failed to ensure the security of the life and property of the country’s citizens,” BNP Joint-Secretary General Salahuddin Ahmed said in a statement on Saturday.
Strongly condemning and protesting the killing of the Bangladesh-born US citizen, he demanded the trial through a fair investigation. Side by side, the leaders and the workers of the BNP-led 20-party alliance and common people are also killed everyday. If the government doesn’t hold the trial of the killing of Avijit, BNP will do it if it comes to power again. Trial of the other killings will also be held, he said.
Avijit Roy, son of Prof Ajoy Roy and founder of Muktamona blog, was killed and his wife Rafida Afrin Banya injured seriously as unidentified criminals stabbed them near TSC on the Dhaka University campus on Thursday night. Police could not yet arrest anyone involved with the incident nor unearthed the motive behind it.
In the statement, Salahuddin Ahmed said that the government had failed to brand the BNP-led alliance’s ongoing movement as terrorist and militant acts at home and abroad despite its relentless efforts. He accused the government of devising to destroy the country’s democracy by denying the people’s democratic and constitutional rights.
He said, the ongoing anti-government movement would continue until the demand for inclusive election under a non-party government system is met.
Referring to the killing of a BNP leader’s son and firing shots at his daughter and wife at Chirirbandar in Dinajpur, the BNP leader said that the people are now spontaneously forming “resistant-struggle committees” in their localities across the country to check the “state-sponsored” terrorism.
“The illegal government will be forced to step down very soon in the face of people’s spontaneous resistance. “People won’t take much time to oust the Awami League government although the government is happy seeing the movement of some vehicles on the streets,” he said.
