People have recently become victims of extremism, militancy, murders and enforced disappearances as an unaccountable government is running the country, a senior BNP leader said today.

"If BNP comes to power, people will not become the victims of murders and enforced-disappearances," the party's standing committee member Moudud Ahmed said adding, "They will not have to remain in jail without trial".

Moudud was addressing a programme at Engineers Institute in Dhaka, marking the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture today (26 June).

Moudud criticised his party for being unable to form a movement against the government even though the recent killings are upsetting the people.