DHAKA: BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the government is violating human rights one after another in a frantic bid to cling on to power. 

The senior BNP leader made the remarks while addressing a roundtable at a hotel in city’s Gulshan area on Thursday evening (July 12).

Foreign diplomats and representatives of US, Canada, India, EU and other countries and organizations were also present at the meeting on the prevailing human rights situation in country. 

Fakhrul said thousands of BNP leaders and activists were disappeared, detained and killed. Some 18 lakh BNP men have been accused in 78,000 cases. We are reading such thing in newspaper everyday. Our men are being murdered in name of anti-drug drives. The government is now desperate do anything. 

Fakhrul told the diplomats, “I hope the documentary presented in front of you is enough for explaining the situation. The election process is also completely destroyed as you have seen it in the recently held city polls.”

Fakhrul also criticized government over quota issue and denounced the attack on quota movement leaders and activists.

BDST: 2035 HRS, JULY 12, 2018
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