NEWS report on Monday said locals have beaten to death three alleged opposition activists at city’s Mirpur area on the previous night as they were reportedly preparing to throw petrol bombs suggesting a new dimension to deal with opposition challengers in the streets. Meanwhile news report said extra-judicial killings and police shootouts are also growing at alarming rates. BNP has demanded on Sunday international probe into political killing, besides petrol bombs, arson, abductions, forced disappearance and such other human rights violations. The party has also blamed the government for having its hand behind all those crimes while the government itself is trying to pass the blames on the opposition for petrol bombs and such other crimes. BNP believes it is time for an international probe to identify the responsibilities. The report quoted the party spokesman as saying police and other security personnel are picking up people including opposition leaders and activists and killing them in shootouts with total impunity. He said the level of insecurity of citizens has taken an extreme turn but the government is using blatant lies to cover up the killing and malign the democracy movement as terrorist activities.
In fact we are terribly upset at the scale of human rights violation and extra-judicial killing now taking the worse shape in the country and really feel concerned about safety to people’s life at all level. But we still want to see that we must be able to resolve our own political crisis without asking for help of the foreign powers, which will not enhance our dignity in any way. Better is that such flagrant violations of human rights and beating of people to death must come to a stop right now. Otherwise the situation may go beyond control. We are missing precious time as abductions and extra-judicial killings are making more homes terribly shaken every day. The Mirpur incidence at midnight appeared highly terrific. The young men had also bullet injuries on the bodies raising questions about the circumstances of the killing. Report said police later sent them to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared them dead. The same report said a fourth man was killed in police gunfight at Mirpur Technical area almost at the same time. Two opposition activists were also killed in police ‘gunfight’ at Agailjhara upazila in Barisal on Saturday. Bullet-hit bodies of two more BNP men were found in Jhenidah Sadar upazila on Monday morning.
The situation is so confusing and inhuman that nobody knows for sure who kill whom. In our politics loss of ordinary people does not matter to leaders. So more people are killed is a proof that our leaders are more strong. They are more uncompromising for what nobody should ask. So protection of life is no concern of the government as long as the government can blame the opposition and the opposition can blame the government.
