Bangladesh
August 21 Grenade Attack August 21 grenade attack verdict should be implemented quickly: PM Hasina
Own Correspondent, Dhaka, 22 August 2023: Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that the verdict in the August 21 grenade attack case should be implemented quickly. She said this at a discussion and commemoration meeting at the party's central office on Bangabandhu Avenue on the 19th anniversary of the grenade attack on Monday.
Sheikh Hasina said, "The grenade that is used in the battlefield, that is used in the war, was thrown on the Awami League. That day, her husband wanted to take an injured woman worker in a van, but a policeman kicked her away. The police are for the citizens. . But seeing their behavior, I immediately suspected. All the evidence of that day was destroyed. No evidence was allowed to be kept. An army officer tried to keep the evidence, but he was fired."
Hasina said, "Then Khaleda Zia was the Prime Minister, what was her role? She also prevented the treatment of the injured. What is the proof? Khaleda-Tareq is involved in it. The investigation has also proved. Ziaur Rahman is involved in the killing of Bangabandhu on August 15. It has emerged in the statement of the killers. And On August 21, Khaleda-Tareq was involved, this has also been proved."
The Prime Minister said, "BNP-Jamaat came to power in 2001 and only made money. They hired FBI officers to kidnap Joy. We did not understand. Later, the US government filed a case against that FBI officer, and the names of Shafiq Rehman and Mahmudur Rahman came out in the investigation."
Prime Minister Hasina said, "The politics of murder is done by BNP and Khaleda Zia, it is clear to the people. The party that has emerged is for the politics of murder and conspiracy. Blood is on their hands. I have written a book, I have written everything. People need to know this. What happened on August 15. ? Killed my parents, siblings all. Hit me repeatedly to kill me too."
Showing the pictures of 2013-14, Sheikh Hasina said, "They killed people with fire. These pictures should be shown to people."
Showing a picture from an album, he said, "How horrible the pictures are! We have to show them to people."
Questioning domestic and international human rights organizations, the Awami League president said, "My question to those who talk about human rights today is that there have been repeated human rights violations in this country. Its founders are Ziaur Rahman, Khaleda Zia, Tariq Rahman and Jamaat. It has taken 33 years for the trial of our father's murder. To get. What crime did we commit? Our right to seek justice for our father's murder is also taken away."
