The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said that the ruling Awami League government became the public enemy by committing mass killings to quell the student movement for quota reform in civil service jobs.聽聽聽聽聽
鈥楾he isolated government has turned into a public enemy by committing the worst massacre in history. Indiscriminate killings for suppressing the movement are a crime against humanity, and a crime punishable by the International Criminal Court,鈥� BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said in a statement.
The existential crisis of the government was mounting every day, he stated, adding that regardless of the government鈥檚 rampant arrests in false and fabricated cases, nothing would stop the fall of the Awami League government, disoriented and divided, through the movement of the students and mass people.
鈥楶eople from all walks of life, including the civil society, are braving to speak out against the government鈥檚 misconduct, injustice and genocide of students,鈥� he said.
Calling on people to join the students and mass people鈥檚 movement on the streets and end all injustice by ousting the government and reform the state.
Fakhrul said that the government committed an unforgivable crime by carrying out brutal attacks to suppress the movement of ordinary students demanding quota reforms.
The list of crimes of the government is too long to detail out, he stated.
He said that many parents were still not able to trace their children and parents of many students were worried and helpless.
鈥楨ven though there is a law to be produced before the court within 24 hours of detention, the anti-people government is disregarding it,鈥� he said, adding that in the name of giving security, the coordinators of the student movement who were under treatment in hospital were taken to the Detective Branch office. Saying that they were not arrested, the detective branch police held them hostage, Fakhrul said.
The story of detaining individuals in the name of giving them security did not have any legal basis and also unprecedented, he said.
He termed a mockery the calls of the law enforcement agencies asking the members of public to find and hand over the culprits without arresting the perpetrators despite the presence of ample evidence of opening fire on the protesters.
鈥業t is a proven fact that law enforcers and Chhatra League [the student wing of the ruling party] cadres killed hundreds of students by firing indiscriminately on the orders from the government,鈥� he said.
The BNP leader said that most of those arrested were ordinary people and every day the police and Awami League were jointly attacking and vandalising people鈥檚 homes in different areas, and even allegations of looting and theft were brought against them.
He called for an immediate end to killings, disappearances, filing of false cases, arrests, suppression, persecution and detention.
He reiterated the demands of revoking the curfew, withdrawing the army to barracks, lifting the ban on gatherings, and reopening educational institutions.
