DHAKA: Leaders and activists of Bangladesh Road Transport Workers' League (BRTWL) on Thursday organized protest programs featuring human chain, procession and effigy burning of British journalist David Bergman for his controversial remarks on Liberation War.

They organized the protest programs in front of the National Press Club.

BRTWL also demanded the deportation of this award-winning British journalist from Bangladesh.

The agitated people started to stage a demonstration at 11:00am against his divisive remarks regarding the official death toll of three million during the war in 1971.

The spokespersons of the human chain said that the people of Bangladesh can’t tolerate any abusive statement over the liberation war. People are shocked about his impudence, they added.

They also demanded the government to expel him from the country.

The 49-year-old Bergman works as an editor of English daily New Age and also writes for Britain’s the Daily Telegraph. He has been living in Bangladesh for more than a decade.

Bergman, who got married to a top Bangladeshi human rights lawyer, won a British television award in 1995 for a documentary exposing alleged war criminals those had taken refuge in the United Kingdom.

Bangladesh Road Transport Workers' League (BRTWL) chairman Mohammad Wahiduzzaman presided over the programs.

BDST: 1705 HRS, NOV 04, 2014