The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday called on the people of all classes and professions, including students and youths, to continue the ongoing movement against the brutality of the Awami League government.
鈥楾he demand for the resignation of the government is being voiced from house to house today. The government has carried out unprecedented massacres and brutal repression,鈥� BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said in a statement.
A political environment should be created to solve all the problems of the nation by removing the undemocratic government, he said, adding that the Awami League could not remain in power in the face of student protests.
He said that the government continued its attacks and suppression using the law enforcement agencies without heeding any advice from inside the country and abroad.
鈥楧uring the peaceful March for Justice programme of the Student Movement Against Discrimination yesterday [Wednesday], the police hurled sound grenades, tear shells, charged baton and arrested people in Dhaka, Sylhet, Khulna, Barishal, Rajshahi, Dinajpur, Gazipur, Jessore, Thakurgaon, Magura, Narsingdi and other places,鈥� he said.
Hundreds of innocent students were arrested and assaulted across the country, he said, adding that Dhaka University public administration teacher Shehreen Amin Bhuiyan did not escape from the police brutality.
Condemning and protesting at the obstruction, persecution and arrest of the students in the statement, Fakhrul said, 鈥業n Barishal, many students and others, including journalists, were subjected to brutal torture by the law enforcement agencies.鈥�
He said that the government and its forces sank in lies so deep that whereas the people of the whole world witnessed that Abu Sayed was directly shot dead by the police in Rangpur, but the police sent Alif Shahriar Mahim, an 11th grade student of Police Lines School and College, to jail as an accused in that case.
