Khaleda wants to help arrest 'real' killers
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said perpetrators of the recent killings were not being arrested as they were members of the ruling Awami League.
Meanwhile, the party strongly condemned the framing of charges against BNP Dhaka city Joint Convener MA Quayum and six others over the murder of an Italian, Cesare Tavella, terming it “politically motivated and shifting blame to other's shoulders” and demanding its withdrawal.
Khaleda, addressing an Iftar BNP Dhaka city unit organised in the capital's Ladies Club, said, “Arrest the real offenders, we will extend our all out cooperation.”
She said the recent countrywide crackdown against militancy and extremism was aimed at diverting attention and most of the arrestees were innocent. She demanded immediate release of these men, whom she said included over 3,000 BNP men.
Intending to cling onto power forever, the government is trying to suppress political opponents, said the chief of the 20-party alliance.
But Bangladeshis always stood for democracy and fought in the Liberation War for democracy, to establish the rule of law and for people to get justice, she said.
TAVELLA CASE
Police on Monday night submitted the charge sheet to a Dhaka court. Quayum's brother MA Matin was also an accused. Tavella, an aid worker, was killed in the capital's Gulshan Diplomatic Zone on September 28 last year.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in a statement, said the government was blaming BNP after every killing to hide the real extremists.
He also said the government was trying to connect BNP to militancy to divert people's attention from the economy's sorry state, siphoning off of millions of taka and Tk 800 crore heist from Bangladesh Bank's reserve.
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