The US ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena on Saturday said he was shocked to see attacks on law enforcers deployed on the streets to keep the peace during hartal days.
“The opposition political groups are attacking police members in the street when they [police] want to control the disorder – for keeping peace during hartal,” Mozena said, adding that like all peace-loving people of the world, the incident was disheartening to him.
Mozena made the comments while addressing the 10th Gan-Sohagi International Day of Peace Lecture-2013 at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban on the Dhaka University campus.
The peace and conflict studies department of DU and the Gan-Sohagi Memorial Trust Fund jointly organised the lecture, titled “The Power of One: Individual Action, Shared Peace,” marking World Peace Day.
The US ambassador said the political party should have respected democracy and held a tolerant outlook for the establishment of peace in the country.
The DU Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique said Bangladesh would try to keep world peace in cooperation with other countries, as the country’s foreign policy believes in “friendship to all, malice to none.”
DU Pro VC (Academic) Prof Nasreen Ahmed chaired the programme, while other speakers included DU social science faculty Dean Prof Farid Uddin Ahmed and DU peace and conflict studies department Chairman Md Rafiqul Islam, among others.
