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| Khaleda siding with war criminals: PM | |
| 2010-12-15 | |
| BNP was perfectly happy to partner with Jamaat-e-Islami and to support its campaigns of intolerance against anybody but them. [Bangla Daily Star] Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that BNP chief Khaleda Zia Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ... has sided with the war criminals and their collaborators through extending support for the December 26 hartal. ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
The premier was speaking at a discussion at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital with AL Presidium Member Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury in the chair. The ruling AL organised the discussion marking the Martyred Intellectuals' Day. The main opposition BNP on December 9 extended support to the countrywide hartal called by Sammilita Olama Mashayekh Parishad president Muhiuddin Khan in protest against the National Education Policy that has been passed recently. Hasina said the countrymen witnessed the evidence of BNP-Jamaat's looting when they were in power. "The looted items were shifted in boxes in last few days.... Her broken suitcase has turned into a magic box. "BNP doesn't love the country and its people. It only knows to loot. Their main job is to patronise killers and Islamic exemplars," she noted. Hasina urged the countrymen to compare the 23 months of her government with that of the BNP-Jamaat coalition government. "Liars will resort to lies. Don't be misled by those lies," she said. She also directed party leaders to work for the common people who voted them to power. Urging BNP to withdraw its support for the hartal, AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said an identified razakar and war criminal has called the hartal, and BNP has unveiled its actual face by supporting it. Earlier in the morning, Ashraf, also the LGRD and cooperatives minister, said the anti-liberation force killed hundreds of intellectuals on 14 December in 1971 to intellectually cripple the country. The current government will try the war criminals and the killers of martyred intellectuals at any cost, he added. AL leaders Suranjit Sengupta, Matia Chowdhury, AK Azad Chowdhury, Mohammad Nasim, among others, spoke on the occasion. | |
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