Govt continues disappearances: BNP

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party BNP on Wednesday said that the government is continuing forcibly disappearances using law enforcing agencies.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said it in a statement protesting the party men’s arresting spree by the police.

Mirza Fakhrul said the law enforcing agencies used to pick-up BNP leaders and activists with plain clothes and not acknowledge about the arresting. But later they used to produce those BNP men to the court.

“The plain clothes police have detained BNP’s Cooperative affairs secretary GK Gous after he get out from the court on Tuesday. But the police later refused about his arrest. Meanwhile, they (police) produced GK Gous to the court later.”

“It become the common phenomenon of the law enforcers of the country under the Awami League regime,” Mirza Fakhrul said.

He said, “In this way, the government continuously conducting forcibly disappearance spree using the law enforcers agencies.”

He called the government to shun the way of forcibly disappearance.

Meanwhile, the BNP organised a human chain with covering face with black cloths on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on Wednesday at Nayapaltan in the capital.

BNP Standing Committee Member Dr. Abdul Moin Khan was the chief guest in the programme.

Dr. Moin Khan said the government has not heard the crying of the children of the victims of enforced disappearances.

On the other hand, ‘Mayer Daak’ an organisatoin of the family members of the enforced disappearances organised a programme in the capital’s Diploma Engineers Institute on Wednesday.

Family members from enforced disappearance BNP men Sajedul Islam Sumon, Md Sohel and such others were present in the programme.

“My last wish to the almighty Allah so that I can see my Sumon before my death,” said, Hazera Khatun, the mother of Sajedul Islam Sumon.

She said that the government should return of all the enforced disappearnce