Prime minister Sheikh Hasina put all records of brutal crackdown in the history Bangladesh in the manner she had attempted to suppress the ongoing student protest over quota reform in government service, opposition politicians said on Saturday.
They said that killing of such a huge number of unarmed people by law enforcers and party people during a single protest had never happened in Bangladesh.
They recalled that such brutal repressions of people were rare even during Pakistan era save the horrific March 25 killings in 1971.
鈥榃e even didn鈥檛 see such brutality during the regime of Ayub Khan [former military ruler of Pakistan]. Such repression never took place under any circumstances,鈥� Socialist Party of Bangladesh general secretary Bazlur Rashid Firoz told 抖阴精品.
People never expect such brutality from a political party as well as government, he said, adding that the Awami League has already lost its political character as it is clinging to power without people鈥檚 mandate.
鈥楾he student movement on a rather nominal demand turned so violent just due to the obduracy of prime minister Sheikh Hasina,鈥� he said.
He said that the government as well as the ruling Awami League could not avoid the responsibility as PM made statement insulting students and AL general secretary Obaidul Quader instigated Chhatra League to carry out an attack on students鈥� peaceful protest.
He said that Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 resignation might give a solution to the crisis.
Communist Party of Bangladesh general secretary Ruhin Hossain Prince said that the government had committed brutal killings on student鈥檚 procession.
鈥楽heikh Hasina鈥檚 brutality has also surpassed the regime of HM Ershad as her forces are now openly firing on peaceful protests of unarmed students and common people,鈥� he said.
鈥楢s she showed her brutality, if it did not end now, more brutality would follow. So, her rule should end now,鈥� he said.
Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain said that the people of Bangladesh had never seen such brutality.
鈥楬asina just crossed all limits. She of course crossed HM Ershad in brutality. People didn鈥檛 make the country independent for seeing such a day,鈥� he said.
Revolutionary Workers Party general secretary Saiful Huq called the ongoing brutality a kind of 鈥榞enocide鈥�
鈥榃e never saw such brutality after March 25, 1971. The fascist and authoritarian government is committing coolheaded genocide,鈥� he said.
He also said that the government should be responsible for the total incidents that had happened.
Nagorik Oikya president Mahmudur Rahman Manna said that the brutality of the government had no match in the country鈥檚 history.
鈥楽heikh Hasina is doing this brutality just to secure her power,鈥� Manna said.
Jatiya Party leader Kazi Firoz Rasid said that people had become speechless seeing this brutality and the country had never seen this type of crackdown.
鈥榃ho is dictator in Bangladesh, the history will say,鈥� he said. Over 120 people, mostly students, were killed in deadly clashes between anti-quota protestors and police along with the ruling party people in the past five days.
