Dr Abdul Moyeen Khan, a member of the BNP Standing Committee, on Wednesday questioned the government regarding the benefits it has by causing enforced disappearances.
He said: "This government will be washed away by the cries of children whose parents have gone missing, and a new government will be established in the country."
He was speaking at the pre-human chain rally organized by the BNP on the occasion of International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances in Naya Paltan in Dhaka.
The BNP Standing Committee member said that at present many people are without fathers, without children, and without husbands because they protested the injustices perpetrated by this government.
He said: “International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances is being observed on August 30 as declared by the United Nations in different countries of the world. We are gathered here today along with relatives, children, parents and bereaved wives of many who have gone missing in sorrowful pain.”
Dr Moyeen Khan, referring to a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, said: "I want to say to the government today – the young children have cried. The government has to answer for this. This tyrannical government will be swept away by the intensity of the children's cries.”
He quoted a missing child as saying: “One child said, 'I don't want any disappearance day. I want Father's Day’. I want to ask the tyrannical and oppressive government: Will you answer these children?”
Moyeen Khan said: “One day democracy will be restored in the country, and we will establish the right to a peaceful exercise of the vote. This government will be swept away by the tears of these children.”
