DHAKA: BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed on Saturday (July 15) alleged that at least 118 people were killed in extra-judicial killings in the last ten months during the current government.

Besides, at least 137 people were killed in crossfire, while 84 people were abducted and 697 women and children became victim of rape in that time. The government’s men are involved in the offenses, he added.  

Barrister Moudud, also a former law minister of the BNP government, placed the figure at a roundtable discussion at the National Press Club in the city.

Ideal Citizen Movement, a social organization, arranged the roundtable on ‘Abduction, Killing and Extra-Judicial Killing: The Citizens Worried’.

President of the organization Muhammad Mahmudul Hasan chaired the program, while convener of Nagorik Oikya Mahmudur Rahman Manna, executive of president of Gono Forum Advocate Subarata Chowdhury, BNP central leader and president of Swadhinata Forum Abu Naser Mohammad Rahmatullah, Bangladesh NAP secretary general M Golam Mustafa Bhuiyan also spoke it, among others.  

BDST: 1522 HRS, JULY 15, 2017
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