Canadian court observation
AL blasts BNP
The party now an internationally
recognised terrorist outfit, it says
STAFF REPORTER
The Ruling Awami League has said that its arch rival BNP has already lost its political character and now the party has become a terrorist organisation, which is internationally recognised.
We have repeatedly been saying that the BNP is a platform of terrorists and now it is internationally recognised that the BNP is, or was or will become a terrorist organisation as per the observation of a Canadian court recently, said AL Publicity and Publications Affairs Secretary Dr. Hasan Mahmud yesterday.
He was addressing a press conference organised over the observation of a Canadian court on the issue, at the party President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasinas Dhanmondi political office in the capital.
Earlier, on January 25 this year, in a judicial review of a BNP activists immigration case, a Canadian court observed that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the BNP is, or was, a terrorist organisation.
The AL leader said BNP and its key ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leaders and workers had unleashed a reign of terror across the country in 2014, in a bid to foil the Jan 5 general elections. The news of its terrorist activities has now spread over the world. BNP had killed people hurling petrol bombs in the name of enforcing political programme which is now internally recognised, he added. Hasan Mahmud also underscored the need for constituting a special tribunal to try such terrorist organisations so that none can carry out such violent activities in the name of political programmes.
Replying to a question over the possibility of arresting BNP chief Khaleda Zia, the AL leader said its up to the members of the law enforcing agencies whether they would arrest her or not. Among others, AL Office Secretary Abdus Sobhan Golap, its leaders Aminul Islam Amin, Iqbal Hossain Apu, Abdus Sattar and Sujit Roy Nandi were present during the press briefing.
