Marking the International Human Rights Day on Tuesday, oppression victims, their families, political and student leaders renewed the call for ensuring punishment for Sheikh Hasina and her accomplices for gross human rights violations during Awami League鈥檚 misrule of over 15 years.
They also said that AL could not be allowed to involve in politics without ensuring justice for the victims of enforcement disappearances and extrajudicial killings, BDR carnage, killings during Hefazat rally and聽 student-people mass uprising.
People from all walks of life need to be united to resist all conspiracies hatched by the Indian government in recent times, speakers said at a mass gathering organised by Mayer Daak, a platform of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing victims鈥� family members, at Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital.聽
鈥業 demand to the interim government for ensuring punishment of Sheikh Hasina and her collaborators at the earliest for killing people indiscriminately,鈥� said Korban Sheikh Hillol, who lost eyesight during the student-mass movement on August 5 in police firing.
According to the interim government latest data, about 1500 people were killed and 19,931 were injured during the July mass uprising.
Adiba Islam Ridhi, whose father disappeared in December 2013 and still traceless, said 鈥榃e still don鈥檛 know where my father is. I demand trial of the people involved in disappearing my father forcibly.鈥�
On November 5, the Commission for Inquiry into Enforced Disappearances that it had received over 1,600 complaints of disappearance incidents occurred during the 15-year rule of Awami League.
The complaints were lodged from September 15 to October 31 this year by the enforced disappearance victims and their families. About 200 of the victims are still traceless.
Maayer Daak co-founder Sanjida Islam Tulee said that it was the biggest event of the platform and it could be possible due to ouster of Sheikh Hasina.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan said that fascist AL government had committed extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances as their views went against AL.
鈥楢L had proved time and again as a human rights violator party. We also demand punishment of Sheikh Hasina and her collaborators,鈥� he added.
Addressing the event, Student Movement Against Discrimination convener Hasnat Abdullah said that AL would not be allowed to involve in politics or take part in elections before ensuring punishment for extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances.聽
鈥楾he Awami League did not even say sorry after killing about 2,000 people in July uprising. There will be no compromise with AL,鈥� said Hasnat, urging people from all walks of life to unite to resist Indian Narenda Modi鈥檚 conspiracy to divide the protesters.
Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology adviser Nahid Islam said that AL was a party that never respected humanism.
鈥榃e have to ensure punishment of Awami League people for their misdeeds. If anyone tries to rehabilitee AL, they will be identified as mass enemy,鈥� he added.聽聽
On February 25鈥�26, 2009 rebellion in the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles carnage left 75 people, including 57 army officials killed.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Mia Golam Parwar said that Sheikh Hasina had ordered the BDR carnage in a planned way. He said that AL had to be resisted in a united way through a proper electoral system.
Jatiya Nagorik Committee convener Nasir Uddin Patwary said that they would not allow any elections before ensuring trial of Hasina and her collaborators.
Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna and Ganosamhati Andolan chief coordinator Zonayed Saki, among others, spoke.
