BNP-Jamaat committing genocide: PM

FE Team | Published: February 27, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Alleging that the BNP-Jamaat alliance is carrying out genocide in the name of hartal and blockade, Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said Thursday such a situation is not at all acceptable to anyone, reports UNB.
"May Allah give good sense to those who are burning people to death so that they stop such arson attacks…these are sheer killings and acts of genocide, and they're accused of killing people. The BNP-Jamaat nexus has been carrying out genocide," she said.
The PM was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the four-day 4th International Conference on Plastic Surgery or PlastiCon 2015 at a city hotel.
Sharply criticising the ongoing killings of people through hurling petrol bombs by the BNP-Jamaat, Hasina said "What kind of cruelty is this? What kind of politics is this? This is not politics….these are entirely terrorist and militant activities."
She said such brutalities cannot be tolerated. It is very unfortunate, pathetic and painful. "How could a man burn another to death?" she added.
The PM alleged that a particular quarter is providing necessary finance, training and other support to the BNP-Jamaat miscreants for committing such heinous acts.
She questioned why such pains and sufferings are inflicted on innocent people. "If we've failed to run the country, they could wage a movement against the government. But, there's no sign of government failure in Bangladesh," she added.
Hasina said when the country is moving ahead in all fields while peace, stability and comfort have been restored and people have started dreaming of a better life, why are such anarchy and subversive acts being unleashed and for whose interest? "This is not at all for public interest rather for personal interest. Then why should people suffer?" she commented.
Without mentioning the BNP chairperson's name, she said why the country's common people would have to pay for someone's wrong political decision.
In the name of hartal and blockade, the PM said attempts were made to create a terrific situation in the country which is beyond imagination as no one could think that a human being could burn another human being in such a way.
She said when the BNP-Jamaat found that the people are not responding to their so-called hartal and blockade, they started hurling petrol bombs at buses, trucks, CNG auto-rickshaws, trains, private vehicles killing innocent people, including children and pregnant women as they did before the January-5 election.
Hasina said over 100 people have so far been killed and hundreds more are groaning in the burn units of different hospitals due to their indiscriminate and barbaric petrol bomb and arson attacks.
Announcing agitation programmes from undisclosed locations, they have also put the lives of some 1.5 million SSC examinees in danger.