Law enforcers given licence to kill people, alleges BNP

FE Team | Published: January 22, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Accusing the government of adopting scorched earth policy, BNP alleged Wednesday that it has also given law enforcers a free hand for committing crimes against humanity like secret killings and enforced disappearances in a bid to suppress its movement, report agencies.
"This illegal government has resorted to a scorched earth policy to turn the country into a valley of killings and bodies," said BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi.
In a statement, he also alleged that the government is conducting a false campaign through the media to shift the blame of subversive acts onto the opposition after carrying out those with its agents in a planned way.
Mr Rizvi said the resignation of the current Awami League (AL)-led regime is the only way to overcome the current crisis. "Now people have only one demand-this government must quit and hold an election under a non-party administration. The government must ensure participatory polls to resolve the crisis."
Mr Rizvi alleged that the law enforcers are raiding the houses of opposition leaders and activists and picking them up and killing them.
He said Nuruzzaman Jony, general secretary of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal's (JCD) Khilgaon unit, was killed after being "snatched from his mother's arm".
Jamaat-e-Islami leader and Narail Councillor Imrul Kayes, too was killed in the same manner, the statement says.
"The government has given these agencies licence to kill only to stop the opposition's ongoing movement."
The Detective Branch (DB) had, however, said Jony was killed in a shootout with police who raided Khilgaon's 'Jorapukur Maath' around 3am Tuesday.
The police said Jony was among those who had bombed a police bus at Shahbagh on Saturday.
Another 'shootout' with police at Motijheel's AGB Colony left one Imrul Kayes, 38, dead Monday morning. The victim had eight cases against him, accusing him of attacking the police among other charges.
The BNP leader called upon people to make a success the 20-party's 48-hour hartal in Dhaka and Khulna divisions that began at 6am Wednesday protesting the extrajudicial killings of opposition leaders and activists and the government's repressive acts.