It's working, too...
The party also apprehended that opposition leaders and activists may also become future targets of extrajudicial killings.
"Extrajudicial killings cannot be accepted. We are apprehending that after the deaths of two to four Awami league-Chhatra League
... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ...
activists [in shootouts], opposition leaders will be the [next] victims," said Asaduzzaman Ripon, international affairs secretary of the BNP.
Addressing a press briefing at the party's Nayapaltan headquarters yesterday, Ripon said the government wanted to create terror through incidents of crossfire. "We condemn all sorts of crossfire. Criminal activities have increased across the country. Crossfire is not a solution."
Since it was formed during the tenure of the past BNP government, crime-busting elite force Rapid Action Battalion
has regularly been criticised by human rights...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
activists for carrying out alleged extrajudicial killings in the name of crossfire or shootouts.