The Bangladesh Awami League has condemned and protested the indiscriminate arrests and custodial killings of party leaders and activists across the country.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the party said that Bangladesh today stands as a nation in peril, where the call of life is overshadowed by the shadow of death. Instead of protecting human rights, all rights are being stripped away.
โThe anti-national and anti-people killer-fascist Yunus clique, having seized power illegally, has turned Bangladesh into a haven for militancy and terror. The people live in an unimaginable state of confinement.โ
The statement said that to restore the rights of these oppressed citizens, leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Awami League are fighting with all their strength. In retaliation, the state apparatus is being used to inflict brutal torture, carry out indiscriminate mass arrests, and suppress dissent. Anyone who dares to speak out faces mob violence and attempts to silence them.
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โThe entire country has become a prison, and the terrified people have been rendered voiceless.
โUnder the direct patronage of the illegal occupying government, certain groups are abusing state power to amass vast wealth, while the people are deprived of their rightful share. The nation lives in fear of unjust arrests and mob terror. Whenever Awami League leaders and activists try to reassure the public and dispel this fear, the illegal occupying regime responds with mass arrests and even killings through state terror. From Members of Parliament to college teachers and rickshaw pullers โ no one is spared.โ
Mentioning the death of Joynal Abedin Jony, leader of Ward No. 27 of Khulna Metropolitan Jubo League, in prison custody, the party said that such planned killings are being carried out one after another through misuse of the state machinery, and there seems to be no end in sight.
โThe current illegal government is directly and indirectly aiding the perpetrators, while also blocking the path to justice for the victimsโ families. Therefore, the responsibility for these murders lies squarely with the present government.
โPerhaps justice is being denied today, and the mass arrests continue unchecked โ but in the near future, justice will surely be served on the soil of Bengal, Inshallah.โ
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