BNPs 10-pt directives to partymen

Staff Reporter :
The BNP has given 10-point directives to its leaders and workers in order to resist the killings, abductions and forced disappearance. The party has also extended its moral support to the lawyers’ daylong hartal for Sunday in Narayanganj.
The District Bar Association has called for hartal in protest against the killings of seven people, including senior lawyer Chandan Sarker.
The party Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir disclosed these to the journalists at the party Chairperson’s Gulshan office in the city on Friday afternoon. He asked the party leaders and the activists to
 implement the ‘organisational red alert’ issued by Begum Khaleda Zia to prevent abduction and killing. The BNP Chairperson issued the ‘red alert’ on Thursday at a rally organized in the Suhrawardy Uddyan on the occasion of the historic May Day.
Mirza Fakhrul, nonetheless, issued the 10-point guidelines in order to successfully execute the ‘red alert’.
The guidelines to the party leaders and the activists are the followings:
1. To create awareness among the people against the killings and abductions through leaflets, posters and holding view exchange meetings.
2. To remain alert during any movement, not to move alone, and to avoid solitary and unsafe places.
3. To cooperate with one another i.e. between activists and activists, leaders and activists, and between leaders and leaders. To work for the safety of the common people and maintain mutual contact as far as possible.
4. To collect the phone numbers of journalists, print and electronic media, the human rights activists and the members of law enforcing agencies. If any unavoidable incident takes place anywhere, it must be informed to the law-enforcers, the party leaders and the activists instantly over telephone or by SMS in cell phone.
5. To keep regular contact with party central office for reporting each incident.
6. If any news of attempt to abduct any man is heard, the party leaders and the workers must go to the spot with more people and try to resist it jointly.
7. To ascertain the identity of the men in uniform or in plain clothes in the name of law enforcers and to try to know the name of the venue the detainee being taken.
8. To go to the area where the detainee had been taken. To establish contact with the responsible persons of that area and to collect information about the reason of detention or abduction. To try to know also when he will be produced to the court. If possible, journalists and eminent persons should be convinced to accompany the BNP activists and leaders.
9. To raise resistance against those who carry fake identity cards of law enforcers for handing over them over to police.
10. To stand by the families of victims and produce them in the media, to chalk out protest programme against killing and abduction, and to seek the cooperation of other political parties and social organsiations of the locality.
Giving the suggestions, Mirza Fakhrul said: “Apart from the organisational red alert and guidelines, we also urge the common people to wage protest and raise resistance. We want a safe, civilised and democratic society.
He said that the government was working against humanity by way of patronizing killings, abductions and repressions throughout the country. The killings and abductions will not cease as long as Awami League is in power, he said.
Replying a question, the BNP leader said that the pro-BNP lawyers of Narayanganj would remain active during the hartal.