Torture of SQC
On December 21, some Bangla newspapers carried a news item which said that BNP would raise the issue of police torture on SQ Chowdhury with the United Nations. The party believes that the present government is violating human rights by arresting and torturing their leader.
The UN is a forum which has been established to protect human rights all over the world. So it will definitely accept the complaint and review whether the government of Bangladesh is violating human rights or not. The man, in whose favour the BNP is planning to draw the attention of the UN, is himself a human rights violator, a person accused of committing crime against humanity during the Liberation War in his own country. There are evidences of his personal involvement in killings and arson. The present government has arrested him to put him on trial.
So, we believe there is nothing the UN can do to support SQC . They may request the present government to be fair to him and conduct an international standard trial.
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