Staff Reporter:
The National Citizen Party (NCP), comprising leaders of last year’s uprising, on Friday called on the interim government to ban Awami League’s (AL) political activities until trials against the party activists for committing multiple massacres are completed.
NCP announced protest programmes from Saturday to press home the demand, and vowed to resist any attempt to rehabilitate Awami League.
The party noted that no visible progress has been made in the trials despite the Prof Yunus-led interim government serving for over seven months, and the UN validating claims of AL-perpetrated massacres.
NCP Convener Nahid Islam read out the party statement at the party’s temporary head office at Bangla Motor in the capital on Friday night.
The statement strongly criticised Prof Yunus’ Thursday rejection of any plan to ban Awami League, and questioned the delays in the trials against the party.
The trials into July massacre last year, BDR massacre in 2009, Shapla Chattar massacre in 2013, crackdown on anti-Indian hegemony demonstrations, abductions-extra-judicial killings and widespread vote riggings must be completed before allowing Awami League back into politics, Nahid said while reading out the statement.
The statement warned that Awami League fascists would return to prominence in the country if the party activists are rehabilitated without completing trials, party acknowledgement of the crimes, atonement and repentance.
It called on all anti-fascist political forces to take a united decision on the future of Awami League through the under-process July Charter.
