Why cry human rights for dead militants? Awami League’s Syed Ashraf asks BNP

Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam has said human rights are not for those killed in anti-militancy raids.

The public administration minister has also asked the sympathisers of the dead militants to leave Bangladesh.
 
"Why cry for those who carry suicide attacks, kill innocent people by bombing? What human rights for them?" he asked.
 
He posed the questions at a programme in Dhaka on Thursday in reaction to the BNP’s criticism of the killings in recent drives by law-enforcing agencies in search for militants following the terror attacks in Gulshan and Sholakia.
 
The BNP's question is why the security agencies are not capturing the suspected militants alive to get information while international human-rights organisations are also condemning the 'extrajudicial' killings in security raids.
 
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has refuted the allegation of 'extrajudicial killings', saying killings of terror suspects also take place 'even in the US and Europe'.
 
Syed Ashraf on Thursday agreed with Kamal.

"The Gulshan incident has been exaggerated beyond measure. Fake tears are shed for the victims and also for the terrorists, militants," he said.
 
"Then again, there is this false display of emotion- why new attack? Why they (suspected militants) could not be saved? Why their human rights could not be ensured?" he said. 
 
The Awami League leader termed the behaviour of the sympathisers of suspected militants killed in raids 'duplicity'.
 
"Either play the role of a Bangladeshi citizen properly, or leave the country for Iraq or Syria," Syed Ashraf said to the detractors.