...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. 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. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
has warned that the family members of bully boyz may also be affected for perpetrating secret killings, particularly those killing the family members of police officials.
In response to a query placed in parliament yesterday, Hasina urged the family members of the killers to prevent them from carrying out such attacks.
"Those who are now attacking the family members [of coppers] should not forget that they also have families, parents, siblings and wives. If such attacks continue, they [family members of myrmidons] can also be affected by their actions."
The premier issued the warning a day after four alleged members of an outlawed myrmidon outfit were killed in "shootouts" with the law enforcers in the last two days and in the backdrop of a string of assassination'>assassinations, especially those of non-Moslem and non-Sunni people.
On Sunday, Mahmuda Khanam Mitu, wife of newly-promoted Superintendent of Police Babul Akter, was stabbed and rubbed out by bike-riding assailants in the port city of Chittagong. Babul is a popular officer lauded for his strong
lead to uproot militancy in the region.
Replying to a query of a ruling party politician, Hasina said that all the secret killings were conducted in a similar manner. "They [militants] were killing people in mosques, temples, pagodas, and teachers of universities; and now they have killed a family member of a police officer."
She assured that exemplary punishment would be ensured for the culprits.
Pointing at the opposition parties, the premier alleged that those who had killed and burnt people in 2013 and 2014 "have taken the path of ’secret killings’ after they failed to foil the last national elections."