BNP activists urged to get ready for mass upsurge

Accusing the government of committing crimes against humanity, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir asked his party’s leaders and activists to get ready for staging a mass upsurge to force the regime to stop killing, forced disappearance and other repressive acts, according to a news agency.
“The government is regularly committing crimes against humanity by indulging in killing, forced disappearance and repression across the country,” he said.
The Dhaka city unit BNP organised the rally on the National Press Club premises Monday protesting the “government’s growing repressive acts like killing of opposition leaders and activists, their forced disappearances, filing of false cases against them”. Fakhrul said the government is hatching a plot to illegally hang onto power by resorting to repressive acts.
He said people are being killed and picked one after another in a broad daylight. No one is now safe in the country, the BNP leader said, adding that the government is using the law enforcers as its party cadres. So, they are now busy suppressing the opposition instead of ensuring the security of people.
He urged the media men to carry out investigative reports about the incidents of killing and forced disappearance and let people know the motive behind the ‘heinous acts’.