...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide...yesterday asked them to stop destructive activities or face the worst consequences of their acts.
"Stop these destructive activities; otherwise the consequences will be the worst," she told the oath taking ceremony of the newly elected mayor and councillors of Rangpur City Corporation at her office.
Those involved in destructive activities in the name of saving war criminals are also equally guilty, she noted.
About the trial of war criminals, she said the verdicts in the war crime cases will be executed, Inshallah (if Allah wills it).
Mentioning that these anti-liberation forces had killed people, raped girls and helped the Pak occupational forces, the prime minister said Bangabandhu had started the trial of war criminals by promulgating an ordinance in 1972.
"But after 1975, Zia had stopped the trials, set the war criminals free and brought some war criminals back home from Pakistain," she said adding, Zia made them ministers, prime minister and advisers to rehabilitate them politically.
Those who were defeated in 1971 had their Dire Revenge™ in 1975, mentioned Hasina. "After 2001, Khaleda Zia
Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
had made the war criminals ministers to destroy the spirit of the Liberation War."