AL urges diplomats to convey atrocities to their govts .
The ruling Awami League on Tuesday urged foreign diplomats to convey the stories of killing people in arsons in Bangladesh to their respective governments and the world. ‘It seems that the almighty Allah has given BNP and Jamaat charge to kill people in arson attacks to have the excruciation of hell,’ the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, told the audience of foreign diplomats, representatives of civil society, cultural activists, ministers and her party leaders at a programme titled ‘BNP-Jammat’s arson violence: Blood-stained Bangladesh’ at National Museum auditorium. She also sought people’s cooperation to eliminate the ‘terrors’ from the country. A pall of gloom pervaded the auditorium when a brief documentary ‘BNP-Jammat’s arson violence: Blood-stained Bangladesh’ reflecting the arson victims was screened.
A pin drop silence descended on the audience when arson victim Marufa Begum, who lost her husband Nuruzzaman Paplu and daughter Maisha in arson attack in Comilla on February 3, was narrating her painful experience. Shampa Begum, who lost her husband Noor Alam in Jatrabari firebomb attack, salesman Mosharraf Hossain, also a Jatrabari arson victim, police sergeant Golam Mowla, who sustained splinter injury in the head, and 14-year-old Suman, who lost his mother and brother in Jatrabari incident, told almost similar stories of atrocities. Tears rolled down from almost all the audience while diplomats were seen bowing down their heads as the documentary was screened and the victims narrated their sad tales of losing their dearest ones during the blockade enforced by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance.
Prime minister’s political adviser HT Imam said the documentary portrayed about 10 per cent of what happened across the country and urged the diplomats to convey the message of atrocities to their governments and the world community. ‘We cannot hold dialogue with the assassins,’ said Imam, who chaired the programme. Earlier, in an emotion-choked voice, Hasina said, ‘We need cooperation and unity of the people to resist terrors and help law enforcers to arrest them.’ Hasina said that she was doing politics for the people and for their welfare while BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia was killing people. Referring to the atrocities of Jamaat, she said that the Jamaat did never believe in Islam, rather they used Islam to deceive innocent people. Hasina said that her government would do whatever necessary to ensure security of the lives and property of people. Hasina, also Awami League president, said that they had waged many movements in Bangladesh but they did never kill people in the name of movement.
She came down hard on a section of the civil society for their call for a dialogue and said that she did not hear that the civil society had told the BNP chief not to kill innocent people. ‘Their [civil society] all sympathy goes to the BNP chairperson, not for the general people,’ she said. The prime minister assured the families of the arson victims and survivors of the ongoing violence of all possible help for their welfare. Earlier, she met with the families of the victims and the survivors. She consoled them and gave a patient hearing to their problems. Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said BNP and Jamaat’s violence was not an isolated incident and it was a part of what was now happening in many countries of the world including Libya, Iraq and Denmark. The Awami League arranged a similar programme on August 23, 2014 to mark the launching of a photo album ‘Blood-stained Bangladesh’ containing pictures of the violence which broke out before the January 5, 2014 general election and over the war crimes trial.
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