Dhaka, July 5 -- BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday said the brutal repression by the deposed leaders of the Awami League was similar to the cruelty shown by Yazid's forces in Karbala.

"Over the last 16 years, the fallen Awami fascist regime established a rule of extreme oppression and injustice through fake elections, snatching away people's voting rights, resorting to enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, violence, unrest and siphoning off public money abroad," he said in a message on the occasion of holy Ashura.

Tarique said the Awami League regime also imprisoned BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia with dictated verdicts in politically motivated cases, and by denying her proper medical treatment, pushed her towa...