Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
...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 said the opposition had unleashed a reign of terror across the country in the name of movement.
"On the pretext of waging a movement, they (opposition) have been carrying out killings, arson and attacks on the minority communities and Awami League leaders and workers," she said.
"The opposition leader will have to shoulder the responsibility for these destructive activities."
The prime minister, who is also the president of the ruling Awami League, made the remarks at the AL Advisory Council meeting at the Gono Bhaban in the evening.
She alleged that the BNP had joined forces with Jamaat-e-Islami
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The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
to commit atrocities on the minority communities and assault the police.
"The BNP's character is like that. They set fire to even mosques if they feel it necessary. What type of Islam do they follow? They start chanting slogans before completing prayers," Hasina said referring to recent processions brought out from the Baitul Mukarram national mosque after Juma prayers.
She said Khaleda Zia had all along been against the country's independence.
"Today, they (BNP) are going against the spirit of the Liberation War by siding with the war criminals," the AL president told the meeting.