PM's anti-terror directive to deepen crisis
The BNP yesterday said the statement of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina directing police to "curb terrorism at any cost" would compound the present political crisis and make it difficult to resolve the problem.
"Do the premier's directives mean there will be more bodies floating in canals, wetlands and rivers, the joint force's rampage will continue in villages, and the killings of more opposition men will be passed off as deaths in shootouts?” BNP joint secretary general Rizvi Ahmed said in a statement.
On Wednesday, Hasina asked police to "do whatever needed" to prevent violence, saying she would take responsibility of their action.
Denouncing immolation of civilians in petrol bomb attacks, Rizvi said the responsibility of the heinous acts was pinned on the opposition because the media was under the government control, and it was carrying out propaganda against the opposition.
How could BNP activists torch vehicles or hurl petrol bombs on those when the party chairperson is “confined” to her office, thousands of party men including acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir are in prison, thousand others went into hiding for innumerable “false cases”, and many are being killed in the name of shootouts? he asked.
Referring to the killing of opposition activists including Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leader Nuruzaman Jony, councillor Imrul Quayes, Motiar Rahman, Asaduzzaman Tuhin, he said they were targeted to be killed. "Were they caught red handed in the acts of sabotage?"
“Almost all of them were taken away by the joint force, intelligence agency or Rab from their houses or their relatives'. But the tears of their mothers and families are not seen in media,” he added.
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