e-News® | The NEWS Company…DHAKA, November 02, 2015 : Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today sought cooperation of the people who want peace and development and have faith in the spirit of War of Liberation, to trace out the persons and their masterminds behind the recent clandestine killings saying it’s time to forge unity again to resist the evil forces. She said perpetrators of bomb attacks and arsonists could not be successful in 2013 and 2015 as common people came forward in their resistance. Similarly common people have to come forward to find out the perpetrators of the secret killings, she said.
Sheikh Hasina was addressing a huge public meeting at city’s Suhrawardy Uddayan organized by Bangladesh Awami League marking the Jail Killing Day in commemoration of the brutal killing of the country’s four national leaders inside Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975. The prime minister said some of the assailants of the recent secret murders were caught and the rest of the killers would be traced out along with their masterminds and ‘big brothers’, to ensure their punishment.
Sheikh Hasina, also the president of Bangladesh Awami League presided over the meeting while central leaders Amir Hossain Amu, Begum Matia Chowdhury, Mohammad Nasim, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Syed Ashraful Islam and Jahangir Kabir Nanak and acting president of Dhaka City unit of the party M A Aziz and general secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, addressed, among others.
Holding the BNP and its cohorts responsible for the recent incidents and secret killings she said BNP leader Khaleda Zia always pursued politics with the killers like her husband former military dictator Ziaur Rahman did. Still she is out to establish a reign of killings in the country, she said.
All the recent secret killings are linked to the conspiracy of BNP and Jamaat to foil the trial of the war criminals. They want to create disorder in the country to protect the war criminals and killers of 1971, the prime minister said.
Sheikh Hasina said BNP and Jamaat don’t believe in country’s independence and prosperous future of the nation. They want to destroy the country and tarnish the image of Bangladesh and want to keep the people of Bangladesh under poverty, illiterate, uneducated and out of access to their basic rights. The prime minister said Bangladesh was liberated at the costs of huge sacrifice. Pakistani forces could not suppress them in 1971. So, no conspiracy and secret killings could deter the economic progress of Bangladesh, she said.
Sheikh Hasina warned the people hatching conspiracy with the fate of Bangladesh and said “people of Bangladesh are indomitable and they would not bow down to any conspiracy. I only seek cooperation of the people to foil their design.”
Paying her rich tributes to Bangabandhu and the four national leaders, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said they led the War of Liberation on the ground and secured the nation’s independence.
“As if it was their offense for which the anti-liberation forces brutally killed the leaders following the assassination of Bangabandhu as part of execution of their conspiracy to destroy the spirit of the Liberation War.”
Politics of killings and conspiracy gained ground in Bangladesh through the killing of Bangabandhu on August 15, 1975, Sheikh Hasina said and added that Mustaque and Zia usurped power making Bangladesh a country of killers.
Zia didn’t try the killers, rather he rewarded them in various forms including giving service to foreign missions, she said, adding that Ziaur Rahman also freed thousands of war criminals from prison against whom Bangabandhu government had launched trial proceedings.
Ziaur Rahman annulled the trial proceedings against the war criminals through promulgating martial law ordinance, scrapped Section 12 of the constitution to allow them in politics and returned their voting rights amending Section 38 partially, she said.
Sheikh Hasina said Bangabandhu and four national leaders were killed at a time when the people of Bangladesh started dreaming of a prosperous future after independence. The dream and aspirations of the people were shattered through the killing of Bangabandhu and the people of Bangladesh had to suffer for 21 years, she added.
The premier said Bangladesh goes ahead when Awami League remains in power. Bangladesh achieved remarkable progress during 1996-2001 period when Awami League was in power, she added.
She said: “The country’s economic and social progress suffered a blow when BNP and Jamaat came to power in 2001. Militancy and terrorism sprouted in the country during the five-year rule of BNP-Jamaat, plunging the country into a complete disorder.”
Highlighting the success of her government to take forward the country’s socioeconomic development to a praiseworthy stage, the prime minister said BNP and Jamaat are now out to derail the country from its current development pace. In view of this, she said, BNP, Jamaat and anti-liberation forces are moving with their orchestrated plan.
The premier said Bangladesh is now a self-reliant country on the economic point of view and Bangladesh is one of the countries which has achieved high economic growth over the years. It was possible as the country could make its democracy sustainable in 2014 amidst multifarious conspiracies, she added.
Sheikh Hasina said the people of Bangladesh want to continue their successes on various fronts and they don’t want to earn any bad name or be reprimanded by global community. “Our government is striving to build Bangladesh in this order.”
