The Bangladesh Nationalist Party's chairperson and leader of the opposition, Khaleda Zia, on Saturday said that Bangladesh was suffering from severe misrule.
'The government's thugs were unleashed whenever any protests were raised against its undemocratic, intolerant attitude. Even women and children are not being spared from the oppression of the ruling party-backed criminals.
People do not get justice in the courts. The government is using the courts to implement its own agenda,' said Khaleda in a statement issued on the occasion of the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
She said that journalists were killed and brutally tortured after this government assumed office. 'Several government
agencies are trying to bury the people's freedom of expression, especially
that of the opposition,' she said.
Khaleda said the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture was significant as national, racial, linguistic and religious contention was continuing across the globe, resulting in the death and disability of
millions of people.
'The world's humanitarian civilisation is yet to
catch up with its technological civilisation,' she added.
Khaleda expressed her solidarity with all torture victims and said, 'A united effort by all democracy-loving people will defeat the oppressors and autocrats.'
The United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture is observed on June 26 every year.
Source : New Age
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