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Sheikh Hasina said that Bangabandhu’s killers were leading a lavish life after getting jobs in different foreign missions and government services when the relatives of the martyrs had to stay abroad as refugees after the August 15 carnage.

“The killers were also out to kill remaining members of the famlies of August 15 martyrs,” she said.

The prime minister said Khandaker Moshtaque promoted Ziaur Rahman as the army chief. “If Zia was not involved in the killing of Bangabandhu, why Khandaker Moshtaque made him army chief?” she questioned.

Sheikh Hasina said Ziaur Rahman denied to give visa to British MP Tomas Williams to visit Bangladesh as a representative of the international commission formed to investigate the August 15 carnage.

“The refusal proved Zia’s involvement in the killing of Bangabandhu,” she said.

Sheikh Hasina said the countrymen will have to think that on the soil of Bangladesh, the traitors like Mir Zafar and Khandaker Moshtaque were born and the people like ‘killer Zia’ has come time and again.

“But they couldn’t cling to power for a long time as they grabbed it through conspiracy and illegal ways,” she added.

The premier recalled that the distortion of history of the liberation war started when Zia grabbed state power by violating constitution.

Accusing Ziaur Rahman of his engagement in many killings and conspiracies, Sheikh Hasina said, “Coups took place one after another during Zia’s military rule and thousands of the freedom fighter army officers were killed in these coups and they didn’t know what their offence was.”

The prime minister said Bangabandhu’s name was erased from the history at that time and a false history was created to misguide the people.

“But nobody can erase the truth forever and it has now been proved before the entire world and the people of Bangladesh,” she said.

The premier said Bangabandhu gave an independent Bangladesh and the country is advancing and will continue to move further socioeconomically.

She said her government would do whatever required to bring smiles on the face of distressed people with giving them better life as the Father of the Nation dreamt that the people of Bangladesh will get food, housing, clothes and other basic needs.

“Let’s take a vow together on the martyrdom anniversary of the Father of the Nation and our other family members,” the premier said.

“Father, we are giving you words that we’ll bring smiles on the faces of distressed people of your Bangla. This Bangla will move forward keeping its head high in the world and the people of Bangladesh will get a better life, it’s is our promise and oath (to the Father of the Nation),” added Sheikh Hasina, the elder daughter of Bangabandhu.

The premier said that since his party assuming office has been relentlessly working to change the fortune of the country’s people, saying, “It is the people of Bangladesh for whom he (Bangabandhu) did politics.”

The AL president thanked her party leaders and activists and its associate and front bodies for standing beside the helpless people up to union and ward levels across the country during the Covid-19 crisis.

She stressed the need for publishing a list of AL men who died of and infected with the Covid-19 as they stood by the people going to the fields.

“We don’t see any other political party, organisation or any other helping the people in such a way,” she added.

Reffering to the ongoing flood, Sheikh Hasina said that many people are now being affected by the deluge and reiterated that none will remain homeless in the country.

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