AL`s politics became contaminated: Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq 

Bangla Academy President Professor Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq has said the politics of Awami League (AL) became contaminated due to their attitude of suppressing the dissent.

“The Awami League believed that their criticism meant an attempt to overthrow the government.

Therefore, their politics became contaminated due to their attitude of eliminating those with different opinions,” he said.

The Bangla Academy President said this while speaking as the chief guest at a programme titled “Shadow Parliament on the Political and Social Defeat of the Awami League due to the July-August Killings” organised by Debate for Democracy at Bangladesh Film Development Corporation (BFDC) in the capital.

He said those who expressed dissent or did not support the Awami League were arrested, tortured, killed and disappeared during their tenure.

All these wrongdoings had happened with the consent of Sheikh Hasina according to various media, he said, adding, “Due to all these negative activities, the Awami League had deviated far from its political objectives.”

Therefore, in the face of resistance from young students and the public, Sheikh Hasina was forced to resign and flee the country at one stage, Prof Fazlul Huq said.

Debate for Democracy Chairman Hassan Ahamed Chowdhury Kiron presided over the shadow parliament programme.

He said the fallen Awami government has carried out massive killings through disappearances, murders and extrajudicial killings in the last 15 years. 

Not only the leaders and activists of the Awami League, people want to see the party on trial also for committing massacre in the July Revolution, he added.

Source: BSS