Security of political dissidents' lives now at stake, says BNP
FE REPORT | Monday, 27 May 2024
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) said on Sunday that security of the political dissidents' lives is now at stake.
"Security of lives of the people who are vocal against the government's misrule is now at stake," secretary general of BNP Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said in a statement issued marking the International Week in Remembrance of Disappeared Persons.
"The dummy Awami League government is surviving in power by resorting to inhuman programmes like enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings of the persons holding dissenting views," he said.
Mirza Fakhrul alleged that the government enacted black laws one after another just to muzzle the country people's voice.
"They turned the country into a deadly place by choosing enforced disappearance as a tool," he continued.
"The government is holding on to its absolute power by applying inhuman means like enforced disappearance," he alleged.
"People have been passing their days amid grave concern, fear and worrisome condition," he maintained.
Terming enforced disappearance as contrary to human civility he said that one party totalitarian governments in the world used to apply enforced disappearance as a tool to remove thorns on their (government) path.
He said that enforced disappearance (someone) is considered as a crime against humanity.
Mirza akhrul said that the air becomes thick due to the cries of fathers, mothers, wives, sons, daughters, brothers and sisters of those who became victims of enforced disappearances.
He said that the international community has become vocal against the incidents of enforced disappearance that occurred in Bangladesh but the ruling Awami League (AL) government is not caring about it.
He also said that the democracy-loving people have been passing their days amid constant fear of enforced disappearance and rising of mafias in the society and politics.
He blamed the ruling AL government for denying the happenings of enforced disappearances at the international forum whereas international human rights organisations and including Bangladesh have that proofs.