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The prime minister said the Bangalee nation will move with dignity on the world stage by upholding the victory of the liberation war. “Our vow is to materialise the Father of the Nation’s dream of establishing a hunger and poverty-free Sonar Bangla,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said there are few collaborators of Pakistan in the country. “But none could suppress us in the past and will not be able to do so in future also … we’ve proved it,” she said.
Referring to the assassination of Bangabandhu in 1975, the premier said the nation had to pay the price for failure to foil the intrigue.
Sheikh Hasina said the Father of the Nation was killed at a time when the country was marching towards economic development.
“Not only Bangabandhu, almost all of our family members were brutally killed on the day. The killers attacked the residences of my ‘baro fufu’, ‘mejo fufu’ and ‘chhota fufu’ (parental aunts),” she said.
The AL president wondered: “Such a big incident happened, nobody could know it and nobody could take any step! And why was his dead body lying at No. 32? I could not get its answer yet.”
Sheikh Hasina said Awami League is such a big organisation and it had so many leaders. “Where were they at that time? Nobody dared to come forward … sometimes I wish to know it,” she said.
The prime minister said the common people were with Bangabandhu. “Maybe the nation had to pay price for the failure,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said after the assassination of the Father of the Nation 18/19 coups took place in the country and atrocities were unleashed on the leaders and workers of our party. “If anybody resisted with courage, such torture and coups might not occur time and again at that time,” she said.
The prime minister said the country was taken towards complete destruction through these coups. “Not only that, the non-communal spirit with which Bangladesh was liberated was destroyed,” she said.
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