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Disappearance of Ilias

BNP to launch fresh agitation

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet
The BNP will wage a stronger movement to get back missing party leader M Ilias Ali, said Opposition Chief Whip Zainul Abdin Farroque, who led a five-member parliamentary team yesterday to Ilias' s village home.
Former lawmaker and BNP Organising Secretary (Syihet division) Ilias went missing on April 17 along with his driver Ansar Ali.
People from the ruling party had picked up Ilias as he had been vocal in protesting the government's misdeeds and the much-talked about Tipaimukh dam project,
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Farroque said at a press conference at the Sylhet circuit house in the afternoon.
He also talked about the recent report of Human Rights Watch on the BDR mutiny trial. The report says the mass trial of the February 2009 mutineers at the Bangladesh Rifles (now Border Guard Bangladesh) headquarters is fundamentally flawed and the accused are being subjected to gross human rights violations.
The BNP will soon give its reaction to the HRW report, Farroque said.
In response to the HRW's call to disband the Rapid Action Battalion, he said the
ruling Awami League had been using Rab in its interests. The BNP had formed the force, aiming to improve the law and order situation, but now Rab had drifted away from its focus, he added.
The main opposition will soon make its stance clear on the statement of the New York-based rights body about Rab, Farroque said.
"The prime minister and the home minister's personal forces are now ruling the country."
The inefficiency of the government was already clear to the world, the opposition chief whip said. He added that the World Bank's withdrawal of a $1.2 billion
credit for the Padma bridge project had shed light on the government's corruption.
Other members of the parliamentary team — AKM Hafizur Rahman, Nazrul Islam Manzu, Ashraf Uddin Nizan and Shammi Akhtar - -- were present at the press conference. Sylhet City BNP chief MA Haque and former lawmakers Dildar Hossain Selim and Kolim Uddin Milon were also there.
On the instructions of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, the parliamentary team visited Ilias's village home and met his mother there. The lawmakers also visited the house of Ilias's driver Ansar Ali.