AL deplores BNP's rejection of charge sheet in BDR carnage
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif Wednesday strongly condemned BNP's rejection of the charge sheet filed by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police in the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) carnage case.
"The BNP-Jama'at alliance did not take lessons from the history. They are still engaged in the old politics of conspiracy and dreaming to capture power by any means," he said.
He was addressing a press conference at the party president's Dhanmondi office, reports BSS.
Hanif appreciated various aspects of the charge sheet and said an experienced team of the CID had carried out investigation into the BDR mutiny with complete neutrality and professional attitude.
It has been reflected clearly in the charge sheet that none was implicated for any political reasons, he added.
He alleged that the BNP was frustrated and agitated when the government could face the BDR mutiny peacefully.
They wanted to fish in troubled waters by shedding crocodile tears for the army and making provocative statements, he said.
If the government had any intention of political vengeance, it could influence the investigation agency and implicate the BNP or any other party. But unlike the past BNP government, the grand alliance government did not do it, he added.
Though there was a mystery why BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia left her cantonment house before the BDR mutiny for three days, the investigation did not try to prove any political affiliation of the mutiny, Hanif said.
He referred to 'fictitious stories' formulated by the last BNP-Jama'at alliance government over the August 2004 grenade attack on AL rally to kill Sheikh Hasina and urged the BNP leaders to explain why they manufactured the Jaj Miah drama.
He questioned why the last alliance government diverted the investigation into 10-truck arms haul in Chittagong to another direction to hide the truth.
The AL joint general secretary said the whole nation was deeply shocked at the death of 57 army officers.
Hanif said late President Ziaur Rahman and BNP government killed hundreds of freedom fighter officers of the army and air force from 1975 to 1981 to destroy the armed forces.
The AL leader said his party would not allow the country to go back to the era of misrule, injustice, politicisation, corruption and criminalisation, he said.
"Law will take its own course. We will end for ever killing- terrorism-mutiny and evil efforts like instigating mutiny," he said.
"The BNP-Jama'at alliance did not take lessons from the history. They are still engaged in the old politics of conspiracy and dreaming to capture power by any means," he said.
He was addressing a press conference at the party president's Dhanmondi office, reports BSS.
Hanif appreciated various aspects of the charge sheet and said an experienced team of the CID had carried out investigation into the BDR mutiny with complete neutrality and professional attitude.
It has been reflected clearly in the charge sheet that none was implicated for any political reasons, he added.
He alleged that the BNP was frustrated and agitated when the government could face the BDR mutiny peacefully.
They wanted to fish in troubled waters by shedding crocodile tears for the army and making provocative statements, he said.
If the government had any intention of political vengeance, it could influence the investigation agency and implicate the BNP or any other party. But unlike the past BNP government, the grand alliance government did not do it, he added.
Though there was a mystery why BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia left her cantonment house before the BDR mutiny for three days, the investigation did not try to prove any political affiliation of the mutiny, Hanif said.
He referred to 'fictitious stories' formulated by the last BNP-Jama'at alliance government over the August 2004 grenade attack on AL rally to kill Sheikh Hasina and urged the BNP leaders to explain why they manufactured the Jaj Miah drama.
He questioned why the last alliance government diverted the investigation into 10-truck arms haul in Chittagong to another direction to hide the truth.
The AL joint general secretary said the whole nation was deeply shocked at the death of 57 army officers.
Hanif said late President Ziaur Rahman and BNP government killed hundreds of freedom fighter officers of the army and air force from 1975 to 1981 to destroy the armed forces.
The AL leader said his party would not allow the country to go back to the era of misrule, injustice, politicisation, corruption and criminalisation, he said.
"Law will take its own course. We will end for ever killing- terrorism-mutiny and evil efforts like instigating mutiny," he said.