BNP’s standing committee member Moudud Ahmed on Friday threatened that they would turn to the United Nations for investigating the joint operation of law enforcers on Hefazat-e-Islam’s Dhaka siege programme in Motijheel.
The main opposition party claimed that the law enforcement agencies killed over 1,000 Hefazat workers to flush them out of the capital in the early hours of May 6. It also alleged that the authorities took the bodies away to hide the truth.
“I want to ask the government to immediately form a judicial probe committee headed by a retired chief justice. If you do not do so, we will place our demand to the United Nations for international investigation,” he told a discussion at the Jatiya Press Club.
Bangladesh Youth Forum organised the event.
Moudud alleged that many people were killed on the night when the power connection was snapped. He, however, did not mention exactly how many people were killed.
The senior BNP leader said: “The government is saying that there were no casualties during the operation. Then why was the media barred to go there during the operation? Why were Diganta Television and Islamic TV shut down?”
Terming the operation as “genocide,” the former law minister said the government could resolve the problem after holding talks with the Hefazat leaders. “But they did not do it and rather used weapons to disperse them from Shapla Chattar. It cannot be the language of any democratic government, but voice of the fascists.”
He also claimed that the rise of Hefazat came only because of Ganajagaran Mancha.
Regarding the prime minister’s call for dialogue to resolve the political deadlock, the BNP leader said there was no atmosphere of dialogue in the country. “They [government] started politics of vengeance after assuming the office. The government will have to repent one day for their misdeeds and misrule.”
He said: “We were in the power and did wrong and now we feel sorry for that. That is why we are telling the government to shun the path of misdeeds.”
