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Khaleda's office gets barbed wire fencing

BNP hands HR bodies, foreign missions a list of party activists killed in one month

Staff Correspondent
In a bid to beef up security for Khaleda Zia, barbed wires have been installed on the boundary wall of the BNP chairperson's Gulshan office yesterday.
The additional security measures were taken on the recommendation of the BNP chiefs security team following different progovernment organisation's agitation in front of Khaleda’s office on Road-86 of Gulshan-2 against the 20-party alliance's countrywide blockade.
"Two men had attempted to enter madam's office scaling the wall in last three days. Therefore, barbed wires were installed
considering the BNP chiefs security,” a staff of BNP media wing said, adding that detectives in plain clothes have been stationed at the main gate of the office
Since January 22, different organisations, mostly pro-government ones, have been staging protests near Khaleda's office where she has been staying since January 3, urging Khaleda to call off the blockade.
The ongoing blockade enforced by the BNP-led alliance enters its 35th day today.
Land and mobile phone networks, cable and internet connections to Khaleda's office have remained snapped since February 1.
BNP'S LETTER TO FOREIGN MISSIONS
The BNP yesterday sent letters to international human rights organisations and foreign missions in Dhaka about the "killing of BNP-Jamaat men in the hands of law enforcement agencies and ruling party cadres" during the ongoing movement.
The party made the move ahead of the scheduled visit of a European Union delegation to Dhaka on February 17 to evaluate the country's human rights situation.
The letters claimed that as many as 78 people, including 43 BNP-Jamaat men, were killed since January 6, Shimul Biswas, special assistant to the BNP chief, told The Daily Star.
Names and brief identities of the 43 people were also mentioned in the letter, Shimul said.
However, Khaleda's adviser
Sabihuddin Ahmed, a key man in the party who maintains international correspondence, said he was not aware ofany such list.
In the letter, the BNP has urged the human rights organisations to carry out investigations into the reckless killing of alliance men in the name of “crossfire, gunfight and crushed under wheels”.
Apart from the killing, some 18,000 BNP-Jamaat men were arrested while cases were filed against over 7 lakh leaders and activists of the alliance, Shimul said, citing the letter.
There is no trace of 42 opposition men according to their family members, claimed Shimul.