Will not tolerate any more abductions, enforced disappearances: BNP

The BNP has warned that it will not tolerate any more abductions or enforced disappearances of its leaders and activists.

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 2 Sept 2014, 09:49 AM
Updated : 2 Sept 2014, 09:49 AM

The 20-Party alliance led by it observed a human chain protest on Tuesday to mark the UN's International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances.

"A regime of terror and fear now prevails in the country. Democracy is being undermined by abductions and disappearances. The government is trying to crush the opposition using the state machinery," BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at the human chain protest in Dhaka.

"The huge mass at today's event proves that the people will not tolerate any more abductions and disappearances. I ask the government to stop these. And I tell the people that we can't tolerate these any longer. We need to stand united against these injustices," he told the gathering.  

The BNP had announced to hold the programme on Aug 30, but it had to be rescheduled as it failed to secure permission from the police.

Since 2011, the United Nations have been observing Aug 30 as the 'International Day of Victims of Enforced Disappearances'.

Thousands of activists formed a human chain stretching from the city Kakrail to Arambagh Road. 

Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, whose registration as a political party has been annulled by the election commission, also took part in Tuesday's programme.