The Bangladesh Nationalist Party's acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday censured the civil society for their 'silence' over the use of mobile courts during the opposition-sponsored hartal.
'Which society we are living in? Nobody is raising voice against it. Where the members of civil society are today when human rights are being trampled,' asked Mirza Fakhrul while addressing a roundtable at the National Press Club.
Swadesh Parishad, a pro-BNP social body, organised the roundtable styled 'Zia Killing and conspiracy to destroy independence' marking the 30th anniversary of death of Ziaur Rahman, the founder of BNP and the country's 7th president.
'People are being sentenced to different terms under mobile courts without evidence of their offence, without witnesses and even without giving them chance for self-defence. Did we fight the liberation war in 1971 for such a society,' Fakhrul asked.
Terming 'illegal' the launch of mobile courts to punish political rivals, he alleged that members of civil society were not raising their voice against the use of the 'black law'.
The BNP earlier claimed some 200 leaders and activists were sentenced to different terms during the 36-hour hartal called by the party and its allies.
Fakhrul alleged the government's only objective in using the mobile court was to prosecute the political rivals.
He said, 'Ziaur Rahman was killed as part of a conspiracy to make Bangladesh a failed state and a certain political party is engaged in the conspiracy.'
'The conspiracy is still on to make Bangladesh a vassal state,' he said, 'The constitution of the republic is being dissected while judiciary has been made controversial through wholesale politicisation. Economy has been crippled and administration is limping.'
Chaired by BNP chairperson's adviser MA Mannan, the roundtable was addressed, among others, by Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, Jatiya Ganatantrik Party chief Shafiul Alam Pradhan and columnist Abdul Awal Thakur.
Source: New Age
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