Khaleda\\\'s red alert to resist killers, abductors

Announcing that she herself would take to the streets together with people, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia Thursday issued an 'organisational red alert' across the country to put up a resistance against killing, abduction and forced disappearance, reports UNB.
"It's pointless to seek security for people from this government. Now a strong resistance must be put up… I'll myself take to the streets together with people to save the country, its people and democracy from the grasp of this killer regime… I urge all the leaders and activists of BNP and the 19-party alliance to remain ready and alert across the country," she told a May Day rally in the city.
Khaleda continued: "I issue an organisational red alert so that BNP and 19-party men can get ready and take to the streets responding to the call I will make in due time. You'll stay united
to resist the incidents of abduction and forced disappearance."
Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, the workers' associate body of BNP, organised the rally at the historic Suhrawardy Udyan.
The BNP chairperson also urged her party and the alliance activists to give a thrashing if anybody, including Rab and police men, comes to illegally pick up anyone. "Encircle and capture those who will come to abduct people and hand them over to the law enforcers."
She alleged that the ruling party men were involved in the incidents of killing, forced disappearance and abduction. "So many people have been killed and abducted but the government is not taking any action against anyone. Even no one is held for killing and forced disappearance as the government itself lets loose its people to indulge in such acts."
Condemning the killing of seven people, including a panel mayor, after abduction in Narayanganj, Khaleda said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina must be made accountable for the gruesome murders as she was in charge of the Home Ministry.
On Wednesday, the bodies of six people, including that of abducted panel mayor Nazrul Islam, were recovered from the Shitalakhya and Dhaleshwari Rivers, three days after their abduction.
Police on Thursday morning also recovered another body, believed to be that of Nazrul's car driver Jahangir from Shitalakhya River.
Mentioning that no one in the country was now safe, Khaleda said bodies were found every day everywhere, including in the rivers, forests and jungles. "This government is a bloodthirsty Dracula…this is an illegal regime and repressive regime. They can't stay in office anymore."
The former Prime Minister accused the government of making youths victim to so that they wage a movement against the government.
Comparing the country's current situation with the post-independence one, she said at that time a number of forces (Bahini) had been formed who used to kill and picked up people. "Now people are being picked up by plainclothes forces."
Khaleda asked the government to identify those who were in plainclothes picking up people from their houses and even on the streets.
Referring to a Jubo League leader's alleged involvement in snatching three militants in Mymensingh, she said it had now become clear that the ruling party and their associate bodies were patronising militancy and indulging in terrorism and killing.
Khaleda alleged that Awami League regime could not protest against border killing and repression by India on Bangladeshi people as it had become an Indian slave.
She further alleged that though the government raised a large amount of money from home and abroad for helping the family members of those killed and ensuring better treatment of those injured in Rana Plaza collapse, the affected workers and their families were not properly helped and compensated.
The BNP chief claimed that many mills and factories, including RMG factories, were shut in the last five years due to misrule and plundering of wealth and extortion by the Awami League men.
Branding the government illegal and unelected, the BNP chief said ghosts and genies had elected the current regime in the January 5 election as people did not go to polling stations to cast their votes.
Chaired by Sramik Dal president Anwar Hossain, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, BNP standing committee members Moudud Ahmed, Mirza Abbas, Nazrul Islam Khan and BNP vice chairmen Abdullah Al Noman and Sadeque Hossain Khoka, among others, spoke at the rally.