Experienced killers now with AL: Khaleda

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Tuesday pointed the finger at the Jatiya Samajtanatrick Dal saying that ‘experienced killers’ were now with the ruling Awami League that resulted in the prevailing situation of the country.
‘People of this party [JSD] had killed Awami League men and made them victims of enforced disappearance…They had also made indecent comments on their [AL] leader [Sheikh Mujibur Rahman],’ Khaleda told an iftar party.
Briefly addressing before iftar, she said that now the Awami League and its president Sheikh Hasina forgot those and valuing the ‘killers’ instead of her own party leaders and activists.
On Monday, Awami League general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said that JSD had created the ground for killing Sheikh Mujibur Rahman soon after independence of the country.
Khaleda said that the real killers were now with the Awami League and they had been involved in killings and crimes of enforced disappearance for a long time.
Association of Engineers, Bangladesh, a platform of pro-BNP engineers, hosted the iftar party at Rajdarshan Hall of International Convention City, Bashundhara in the capital.
The BNP chairperson said that targeted killings were on the rise in the country.
She said that prime minister Sheikh Hasina stated that she knew the killers then why she was not nabbing the perpetrators.
Khaleda alleged that real killers were being kept hidden and sent abroad after the incidents, whereas leaders and activists of opposition including BNP and innocent people were being arrested in the ongoing ‘anti-militant’ special operation, she said.
She said that more than 8,000 people were arrested in the police drive and about 2,200 of them belonged to BNP. Fifty people were killed in the name of crossfire, she added.
Khaleda said that extortion and mass arrest were going on in the name of special drive.
Calling on the people, she said that time had come to raise voice against the killings, enforced disappearance and oppression to save family members and to restore democracy.
Khaleda said that Hasina claimed to the foreigners that none except her could curb militancy while the prime minister was spreading terrorism.
She alleged that Hasina wanted to create instability in the country making rise of militancy.
The BNP chairperson asked the government to release acting Amar Desh editor Mahmudur Rahaman, also president of Association of Engineers, following court orders.
She said after getting bail from the Supreme Court in 78 cases Mahmudur was again detained in jail on false allegation of plotting to abduct and kill prime minister’s son.
Association of Engineers acting president ANH Akhter Hossain presided over the pre-iftar discussion.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net