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Expressing concern, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said that incidents like the gun attack on Sharif Osman Hadi may occur more as Bangladesh is dreaming for a democratic transition through fair elections.
”The enemies of Bangladesh are once again resorting to targeted killings in an attempt to destabilise the country,” he said while speaking to reporters on Sunday after paying tributes to the martyred intellectuals.
”We have strongly condemned the attack on Hadi. We fear that similar incidents may happen again.”
Recalling the history of December 14, Mirza Fakhrul said when the defeat of the Pakistani occupation forces became inevitable and the Liberation War forces surrounded Dhaka, the occupation army, with the help of their collaborators, abducted and killed the nation’s brightest minds to destroy Bangladesh intellectually.
“University teachers, doctors, researchers, writers, journalists and many others were kidnapped and killed them. It was a planned massacre aimed at making the nation intellectually weak.”
The nation remembers this painful history every year on this day, the BNP leader added.
“The party have taken an oath that, at any cost, they will protect Bangladesh’s independence and sovereignty and move the democratic journey forward.”
