The Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Saturday that it would write to the United Nations and the chief adviser of the interim government for an impartial investigation into killings that took place during the student-led mass movement that ensured fall of the Sheikh Hasina government.
鈥楤efore the victory in this movement, we have been talking about the brutal massacre of the Awami League government by its government forces, and the United Nations expressed its deep concern. We have decided to write to the United Nations asking for an impartial investigation into the matter,鈥� BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a press conference at the party chairperson鈥檚 Gulshan office.
He said that at the same time, the BNP would write the government to take necessary steps about the imprisonment of about 50 Bangladeshi people in the United Arab Emirates for expressing solidarity with the protesting students.
He said that these letters would be given within two days.
鈥榃e are very concerned that misleading news about the current situation in Bangladesh is being circulated in the media at home and abroad. There are various attacks on our minority communities, deterioration of the law and order situation... these are all things that we think are not right at all. There are problems in some places which are not communal, but political,鈥� he said.
He said that some news were being tried to link the BNP with communal attacks which was very wrong and alarming.
鈥榃e want to say that the BNP is not involved in this kind of incident, nor can any normal political party or individual in Bangladesh be involved,鈥� he said.
He also welcomed the move of appointing new justices including chief justice to the Supreme Court.
BNP standing committee members Mirza Abbas and Abdul Moueen Khan, vice-chairman Barkat Ullah Bulu and Zainul Abedin, chairperson advisory council member Masud Ahmed Talukder and legal affairs secretary Kayser Kamal were present at the press conference.
