Politicians, rights activists and professionals on Thursday at a seminar called on the ruling Awami League government to stop enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing in the country.
The Nagarik Oikya orgainsed the seminar on enforced disappearance at the National Press Club.
Presiding over the event, Mahmudur Rahman Manna said that although the incidents of extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearance decreased in the country due to international pressure, people did not want to see such crimes against humanity.
Human rights activist Nur Khan Liton said that the incidents of extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearance during the Awami League regime had tarnished the image of the country abroad.
Ganosamhati Andolan chief coordinator Zonayed Saki said that the ruling government was responsible for extrajudicial killing to stop the voices of the opposition.
He said that there was no alternative to the resignation of the AL government for holding a free and fair general election.
Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh general secretary Saiful Huq said that without the resignation of the AL government, it would not be possible to restore democratic rule in the country.
Bhashani Onusari Parishad secretary general Sheikh Rafiqul Islam Bablu, human rights activist Nasiruddin Elen, Nagarik Oikya central leader Shahidullah Kaisar and family members of two disappeared persons spoke at the seminar.
