BNP to hold countrywide human chains on December 10

Staff Reporter :
The main opposition party-BNP said on Friday that it has taken preparations to form human chains across the country, including in the capital, on December 10 marking the international Human Rights Day.

The programme will be held together with the family members of victims of enforced disappearance and political killings.

BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said this while speaking at a virtual press briefing.

Rizvi said they will form a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club in the capital at 11am.

“BNP’s Dhaka city units – North and South – have taken all necessary
preparations in this regard,” he said.

The BNP leader said that all of their party’s district units are going to observe the programme on the same day at the same time to highlight the issue of human rights violations in Bangladesh under the Awami League government.

Rizvi warned if the government tries to create obstacles in forming the human chain, their party’s leaders and workers will have no choice but to put up resistance with the people of the country.

He called upon the leaders and activists of BNP at all levels and the family members of those who were victimised to enforced disappearance and political and extrajudicial killings to spontaneously take part in the human chain programmes including the capital city.

Rizvi thanked opposition leaders and workers for observing their 48-hour blocked programme that ended at 6am on Friday to realise their demand for holding the 12th parliamentary election under a nonparty caretaker government.

The BNP leader alleged that the police have arrested more than 215 BNP leaders and activists in the last 24 hours of 5pm on Friday sued more than 875 of the party men.

He also said till now some 20,490 leaders and activists of their party have been arrested or detained, since October 28.

Rizvi said humanity and human rights have no value to the ‘authoritarian’ Awami League government.

“The Awami government has now turned into a despotic regime to retain power…They want the country’s people to forget the truth and they want to remove the truth from the society. They’re also trying to eliminate justice from the country,” he said