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DHAKA, Jan 4, 2025 (BSS) - Bangla Academy President Professor Abul Quasem 
Fazlul Huq today 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.