BNP-Jamaat has link with Aug 21 attack: PM
August 21, 2010
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday claimed that the BNP-Jamaat coalition government had a link with the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally.
The prime minister alleged that the members of law enforcement agencies who were on duty on the dreadful day had helped the attackers to escape the scene.
The involvement of the law enforcers proves that the then coalition government had a link with the attack, which was made to destroy the Awami League politics, the prime minister said while addressing a meeting at Bangabandhu Avenue commemorating the 6th anniversary of the grisly grenade attack.
She said, “The culprits will be brought to book in the soil of Bangladesh, it does not matter how powerful they are.”
“The masterminds of the grenade attack must be punished in a bid to eradicate the politics of killing from the country,” she added.
On this day in 2004, 24 were killed and over 200 others maimed in the grenade attack on the AL rally.
Sheikh Hasina paid tributes to the August 21 victims by placing wreaths at a memorial temporarily built at the avenue and also observed one-minute’s silence for the eternal peace of the departed souls.
Rashed Khan Menon, president of Bangladesh Workers Party, Hasanul Haque Inu, president of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, and Chief Whip Abdus Shahid were present on the occasion.
Source: thedailystar.net
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