Khaleda on secret killing mission: Hasina [ Tritiyo Matra News ]

Khaleda on secret killing mission: Hasina

Local November 03, 2015

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Monday alleged that Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia launched a secret killing mission staying abroad to save war criminals from the ongoing trial.
Addressing an Awami League rally at Suhrawardy Udyan in the city, Hasina, also the party president, said, ‘Awami League leaders, writers, publishers and foreigners are amongst the target of secret killings and they are being killed accordingly.’
The Awami League held the rally to mark the Jail Killing Day commemorating the killing of four top Awami LEague leaders at Dhaka Central Jail on November 3, 1975.
Hasina alleged that Khaleda wanted to establish a reign of terror and killing in the country.
Khaleda is in London for medical treatment.
Hasina claimed that the investigations into the secret killings were revealing that the killers were involved in the politics of either the BNP or its student wing Chhatra Dal or Jamaat’s student wing Chhatra Shibir.
‘Some of the killers have already been arrested…We would search for the link of the people who carried
out the secret killings, their masterminds and “big brothers”…Whoever the masterminds are, they would be brought to book,’ she said.
The prime minister said that a reign of terror was established in the country during the tenure of the BNP government in 2001-06 and the Awami League government dealt with the terrorism with iron hands and rooted out terrorism.
‘Some quarters are trying to establish the existence of IS [Islamic militant group] and terrors in Bangladesh…There would be no existence of militants in this country,’ she said.
Accusing the BNP chairperson of trying to hamper the progress of the country by killing people and establishing a reign of terror, Hasina said that Khaleda always started plotting against the country whenever the nation started marching towards progress.
She said that if anybody tried to hamper the development and progress of the country, they must be punished and would face wraths of the people.
Indicating the BNP chairperson, Hasina said that yielding nothing from her so-called movement and blockade sitting at her office, she was now plotting to tarnish the image of the country by killing people staying abroad.
‘She [Khaleda] had promised not to return home without the fall of the government, but she returned as the people did not like killings in the name of movement…She has not withdrawn her indefinite blockade programme that passes 282 days today,’ Hasina said.
She said that the BNP did not join the 10th parliamentary election only to foil the uninterrupted journey of democracy in the country.
Senior Awami League leaders including Amir Hossain Amu, Matia Chowdhury, Mohammad Nasim, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim and Syed Ashraful Islam addressed the rally.
Syed Ashraful Islam said that the defeated force wanted to make Awami League devoid of leaders by killing the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four others top Awami League leaders as they did not like to see Bangladesh as an independent country.
The commuters experienced huge gridlock on different city streets and the major thoroughfares of the capital in the afternoon because of processions brought out by the activists of the ruling party and its associate bodies from different areas for the rally.
The commuters also suffered transport crisis on the day as the party leaders hired a good number of public transports to carry their activists to the rally.
Leaders of the Awami League in the preparatory meetings had asked the party men to mobilize maximum number of people for the rally.
The turnout at the rally was, however, low than other rallies of the party held earlier this year.