Terming the BNP chairperson ‘a leader of militants’, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said Khaleda Zia must face trial for harbouring militancy and violence.
“We have to put up resistance against those extremists who are killing innocent people”, the Prime Minister said while addressing a big rally organised here on Saturday marking the historic March 7, when in 1971 the country’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman directed the people to resist the Pakistan occupation forces. Mujib, in the 7th March historic speech, a few weeks before Bangladesh waged the national war, also called on his people to wage a decisive struggle against the Pakistan junta.
Referring to the two months-long violent agitation that left over 100 dead, mostly in fire bomb attacks, Ms. Hasina, also the president of the ruling Awami League party, deplored that the “defeated force of 1971” has been carrying out attacks on innocent people and killing them.
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As the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami led coalition extended its 61-day long blockade and
One police official was injured in the blasts, which were triggered only 10 minutes after the Prime Minister’s convoy passed by that road.
Attackers have recently turned their attention to local government offices, targeting offices and installations in Rajshahi, Feni, Lakshmipur and Noakhali, the four major trouble spots.
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