C T Online Desk: The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Tuesday that the Awami League government had started disappearances and extrajudicial killings in the country by creating the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini after independence.
‘Whenever we give a peaceful programme, the government says we will do violence. However, it was the Awami League government that killed 20,000 freedom fighters by creating Rakkhi Bahini. Disappearances and extrajudicial killings started in the country from that time,’ BNP standing committee member Khanadaker Mosharraf Hossain said at a human chain in Dhaka.
Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal organised the human chain in front of the BNP Naya Paltan central office, demanding the immediate release of BNP leaders and activists.
‘We gave 10 points from the divisional mass rally in Dhaka. The main principle of the 10 points is that this illegal government should resign. Illegal parliament should be abolished. Elections should be held by a non-partisan caretaker government in this country. People should be able to vote with their own hands and elect representatives of their choice to establish a people’s government,’ Mosharraf said.
In response to Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader’s comment that ‘BNP has destroyed the state system’, Mosharraf said that this government was distorting history in various ways to stay in power.
The AL has nothing to do with truth, and they want to mislead the people of the country by saying such things, the BNP leader said, adding that the AL has destroyed the state structure of the country one by one while holding power in the past 14 years without the people’s vote.
He also said that the Awami League was in power from 1972 to 1975 and that it destroyed the spirit of the war of independence at that time.
He said that AL killed democracy and established Bakshal throwing away the constitution.
‘In the name of a socialist economy in this country, they [AL] organised looting economy,’ he said.
