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Disband Rab or face movement

Khaleda reiterates demand

Staff Correspondent
Alleging that the Rapid Action Battalion has turned into a political organisation, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia last night threatened to wage a movement if the government did not disband the elite force.
"Disband Rab as the country's people cannot sleep in peace due to its horrific activities, including abduction, killing and forced disappearances. There will be no peace in the country'until Rab is disbanded," she said.
The former premier claimed that Rab was no longer a national force. "It's now a political organisation," she said while exchanging greetings with the members of the Buddhist community at her Gulshan office on the occasion of Buddha Purnima.
The BNP chief for the first time claimed that not seven, 11 people were abducted and killed in the Narayanganj incident and the names of the other four were not being discussed as they were poor. She also alleged that Rab-1 has abducted eight people on December 4 last year.
Meanwhile, accusing the Rapid Action Battalion of "working as hired killers and abductors," BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir too has demanded that the elite force be disbanded immediately.
"The Rab has now become a killer force which is abducting people and making them disappear for money. They can be hired. There is no need to keep the force any more," he said yesterday.
He was speaking at a programme organised by the pro-BNP student body, Chhatra Dal, at the Jatiya Press Glub yesterday.
Terming Khaleda Zia's demand for disbanding the Rab "timely and justified," Fakhrul said not only the Rab but the government and the prime minister also will have to shoulder the responsibility for the Narayanganj seven-murder incident.
Fakhrul also rejected criticisms from different quarters that the BNP had initiated the elite force when it was in power to use it for extrajudicial killings and now is demanding its abolition only for political purposes.
The BNP government formed the Rab to combat militancy and serious crimes only, he argued.
KHALEDA TO VISIT N'GANJ BNP Ghairperson Khaleda Zia will visit Narayanganj today to console the family members of the seven people who were recently abducted and killed.
She is scheduled to leave her Gulshan residence around 11:00am and go straight to the residence of slain panel mayor Nazrul Islam in Siddhirganj upazila.
From there, she will go and meet the families of the other victims, said Taimur Alam Khandaker, president of the BNP's Narayanganj unit.