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Arrest 2 Hazaris

Khaleda asks govt over Ekram killing; police bar pro-BNP lawyers' rally on SC premises

Staff Correspondent
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has criticised the government for not arresting Jainal Hazari and Nizam Hazari for the gruesome murder of Phulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haq in Feni.
Jainal is a former Awami League MP from Feni Sadar and Nizam Hazari is
the incumbent ruling party lawmaker of the constituency.
"Every thing behind the brutal killing will be revealed if the two Hazaris are arrested and interrogated," Khaleda said at a protest rally at the Jatiya Press Club auditorium yesterday.
The programme, organised by the Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi
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Forum (JAF), was scheduled to be held on the High Court premises but police did not allow it, triggering an hour-long altercation at the HC Mazar Gate. At least 30 lawyers were detained from the venue.
Then the pro-BNP lawyers' body shifted the programme, organised to protest killings, abductions and forced disappearances, to the Jatiya Press Club. Later, the forum announced five-day programmes, including work abstention today, to protest the police action.
In her speech at the programme, Khaleda warned of bringing the people in Hasina government to book for "their involvement in different criminal activities including killings, abductions and forced disappearances".
"Someday you [Hasina] will have to account for all these crimes as you will not stay in power for long. You will surely be placed under trial and the court will question you [about the misdeeds)," she said.
"The Hasina administration wants to retain power by using the arms power of police and with the assistance of the Rab,” she said adding, "This situation will not continue for long".
The former premier said her party was waiting for the right moment to wage a fresh movement against the "rotten" government.
"We are giving the government
some time so that some good sense arises in them. But the situation might take a different direction. In fact, it even may go out of control of everyone," she warned.
Khaleda, who repeatedly demanded the abolition of the Rapid Action Battalion, yesterday said the BNP will try to make sure that no foreign country gives training to the elite force.
"We will campaign so that no one abroad trains the Rab members. It cannot be tolerated that the Rab will kill people after getting the trainings," the BNP chairperson said.
Khaleda also reiterated her demand that law enforcement agencies do not arrest anyone in plainclothes and relatives be informed of the whereabouts of the arrestees.
The BNP chief demanded that all the 15 cases against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina be revived.
"It cannot be accepted that since you are the prime minister, your cases will be withdrawn whereas our cases will be tried,” Khaleda said, pointing to Hasina.
Mentioning that 7000 cases filed against AL men have been withdrawn since 2009, Khaleda said, "Courts do not punish ruling party men even though they commit crimes but the opposition men and general people are punished even if they are innocent".
She also questioned the legitimacy
of the current government and said Sheikh Hasina's government has no right to place budget in parliament as the lawmakers are "unelected'1.
LAWYERS PROTEST COP ACTION
The pro-BNP lawyers' forum will boycott court proceedings across the country for two and a half hours today as part of its five-day programmes in protest against the police obstruction to holding the rally on the HC premises yesterday.
Rafiqul Islam Mia, president of the JAF, made the announcement at the rally at the Jatiya Press Club.
Earlier, the law enforcers put up barbed wire barricades at HC Mazar Gate in the early morning to bar the lawyers from enteringthe court premises.
Police said the BNP lawyers were not allowed to hold the programme as they had not taken permission from the court authorities.
The law enforcers detained around 30 lawyers while they were attempting to defy police barricade to enter the venue.
However, police released all the detainees last night.
In protest, the pro-BNP lawyers have decided to abstain from court proceedings between 10:30am and 1:00pm today, bring out black-flag processions on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday and form human chains on the court premises across the country on Tuesday.