Khaleda Zia was threatening anti-government agitation to save the war criminals and Islamist militants.
Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the opposition leader Khaleda Zia was threatening anti-government agitation to save the war criminals and Islamist militants.
She also said the BNP chief is throwing program’s to protect ill-gotten assets and the corrupt.
BNP is the unparalleled champion when it comes to backing corruption, terrorism and militancy, Hasina said at a program on Monday in the capital’s Osmani Memorial Auditorium organized by Awami League to observe the historical ‘Six-Point Day’.”When we have started procedures of war crimes trial and launching drives against the militants, she (Khaleda) has also started declaring movement programs,” the prime minister said.
She criticized Khaleda’s husband and former president General Ziaur Rhaman for siding with the collaborators of the Pakistan army.
“The war crimes trial process had started, 10,000 criminals were being tried, (former Jamaat-e-Islmai chief) Ghulam Azam was stripped of his Bangladesh citizenship. Ziaur Rahman, however, stopped everything after assuming power.
“He had freed those who were behind bars and reinstated them into politics by creating a new political party,” said Hasina, alluding to BNP’s formation.
Zia had betrayed three million martyrs, she said.
The ruling party chief also slated Zia for killing hundreds of army officials, starting with the very people who had helped him to hold onto power.
Awami League advisory council member Suranjit Sengupta, also present on the occasion, urged the opposition chief to join the budget session of the parliament.
Not on the street, they need to join parliament if they want to talk on the budget.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused the BNP-led opposition of plotting to protect the 1971 war criminals. “BNP has been trying its best to scuttle the trial of war criminals to save them. But our government is committed to holding the trial at any cost,” the premier said. They are campaigning at home and abroad to save the war criminals, she said. The premier was speaking to a delegation of human rights activists, journalists and academicians from home and abroad at her office yesterday. The delegates on Sunday participated in the International Conference on Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism in the capital. The MSSK Trust, Forum for Secular Bangladesh and Trial of War Criminals of 1971 and South Asian People’s Union against Fundamentalism and
Communalism jointly organised the conference. The international personalities assured the prime minister of all-out support for trying the war criminals. They told Sheikh Hasina that if the violators of human rights in 1971 are not brought to justice, similar incidents might happen again in the country. The premier said her government started the process of war crimes trial as it wants to establish the rule of law in the country. The previous governments had destroyed many proofs of war crimes. But the evidence available now is enough to hold the trial maintaining international standards. Her government draws the strength to hold the trial from the people, especially the youths, she said.
The delegates include William Sloan and Eleitha Haynes from Canada; Nurun Nabi, USA; Charis Blackburn and BB Chowdhury from UK; Cecilia Wikstrom, Sweden; Peterus Joseph Noannes Maria Custers, the Netherlands, Mazim Dubaev, Russia, Parvin Najafgholi Ardalan, Iran; Zafar Malik, Naeema Zafar, and Ahmad Salim from Pakistan; former speaker Daman Dhungana, and journalist Yuba Nath Lamsal and poet Bhuban Dhungana from Nepal. Former speaker and minister PA Sangma, Jayanta Kumar Roy, journalist Manas Ghosh, BB Dutta, and Bidyut Debnath from India, and Shahriar Kabir, Muntasir Mamun, Mahfuza Khanam and Ferdousi Priyobhasini were also present.
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