Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina: “Most of the parties of the BNP-led alliance are anti-liberation forces.”
By Mizan Rahman/Dhaka
The Bangladesh prime minister yesterday reiterated that the government is firmly determined to execute the verdicts of the war crimes tribunal.
Sheikh Hasina was addressing a Jubo League, youth front of the ruling Awami League, rally in the capital Dhaka.
“After coming to power illegally, Bangladesh National Party (BNP) founder Ziaur Rahman deported the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four national leaders to the foreign countries,” Hasina said, adding that later, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia made the leaders of anti-liberation forces Jamaat-e-Islami ministers in her cabinet.
The BNP along with Jamaat leaders always tries to create anarchy for destabilising the country’s development and peace, she alleged.
“Most of the parties of the BNP-led alliance are anti-liberation forces. Slogans are raised from the public meetings of the BNP leader for release of the war criminals. If you look at their meetings, you will see whether they are pro-liberation or anti-liberation forces,” she said.
Pointing out the BNP-led orchestrated rampage, destruction and killing of innocent people to foil the January 5, 2014 election, Hasina said the BNP leader must be held responsible for provoking crimes against innocent people.
She called upon the Jubo League members to be alert against any conspiracy made by the anti-liberation forces.
Hasina said: “We are working for the uplift of the countrymen and it is being continued to lead Bangladesh ahead. The BNP does not want country’s development so they work with the Jamaat and demand release of the war crimes convicts.”
Hasina urged Jubo League members to be ready for making any sacrifice in future like the past for the cause of the nation and build the organisation as a strong unit free from all bad names.
“Jubo League was in the forefront in the Liberation War in 1971 and all movements for restoration of democracy after 1975. So, leaders and workers of the organisation should be ready to fight for the nation in future also,” she said.
The country’s democracy could not be foiled in January 2014 as the youths and countrymen were united, she added.
Hasina said Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman founded Jubo League in 1972 aimed at ensuring participation of all youths in the nation-building activities after independence.
She said the country’s youths have a role in all national activities including the Liberation War. So the anti-liberation force was very much annoyed with them.
“They killed founder chairman of Jubo League and popular youth leader Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni on August 15, 1975. The gruesome murder was followed by killing, torture, disappearance of the youth leaders across the country,” she said.
