মঙ্গলবার, ৫ ফেব্রুয়ারী, ২০১৩

Protectors of war criminals committing same crime: PM

 
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday warned of stern action against the persons creating anarchy in the name of movement to protect the war criminals.
"The persons who are unleashing destructive activities in the name of movement to protect the figures involved in crimes against humanity in 1971, are equally committing the same crimes," she said.
The prime minister said this while addressing a function on the occasion of swearing ceremony of newly elected mayor of Rangpur and councilors at her office.

Sheikh Hasina said her government would act seriously to bring that section of people to book.
She urged the mentors of the war criminals to stop such vandalism. Otherwise, serious consequences are waiting for them, she said.
About the judgment in the cases of crimes against humanity, she said, "We have got verdict in a case and we will get another one today. Inshallah all verdicts would be executed in its own course," she said.
Minister of LGRD and Cooperatives Syed Ashraful Islam administered oath of mayor Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu and 44 councilors of newly constituted Rangpur City Corporation. Ministers, PM's advisors and senior officials were present.
The prime minister urged the pro-liberation people to resist the evil forces responsible for attacking police, burning people alive and destroying properties.
She said the leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student front of Jamaat-e-Islami, are from new generation. They don't know what atrocities had happened in the country during the country's Liberation War in 1971. So, she urged them to know real history of the Liberation War.
Mayor Jhantu, a candidate of Awami League-backed Citizens Committee, was elected first mayor of Rangpur in the poll held on December 20, 2012. Thirty-three councilors were also elected in general seats while 11 female councilors were elected in the reserved seats.
The prime minister said, "The war criminals perpetrated genocide in 1971 and they put forth our mothers and sisters to the hand of Pakistani occupation forces. But, some people now stood beside those people," she said.
"Is anywhere in our religion supported such homicide or incidents of burning people alive?" she asked.
She said, the youths who are now on the street and taking part in the movement for war criminals, didn't born in 1971. Most of them don't know what heinous crimes the persons, for whom they are supporting, had committed in 1971.
"If they see those incidents of 1971, I think, they will surely feel shame," she said.
The prime minister said the movement for war criminals would not get any public support, and without support of the masses it's not to raise any political movement.
Sheikh Hasina said Bangabandhu initiated trial of the war criminals immediately after independence. It's Ziaur Rahman who suspended the process through military order following seizure of state power in 1975.
She said the war criminals who took refuge in Pakistan after independence, returned Bangladesh during Zia's regime. "Zia and his wife rehabilitated the war criminals in the country's politics making them room in the cabinet to destroy the spirit of the Liberation War," she said.
The prime minister assured the newly elected mayor of Rangpur of extending all support for development of the city asking them to prepare long term development plan to build it as a planned one.
About the gas supply in the northern part of the country, she said, the government is making relentless efforts to discover new gas fields to increase its production to fulfill the long cherished dream of the people of the region.

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