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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the perpetrators behind the conspiracy in assassinating Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman would be unmasked one day.
Addressing a programme virtually from Ganabhaban, Sheikh Hasina also renewed her vow to materialise Bangabandhu’s unfinished dream of building a hunger- and-poverty-free 'Sonar Bangla' (Golden Bengal) by presenting a better and beautiful life to the countrymen.
“We've held trial of the August 15, 1975 carnage. But the perpetrators behind the plot are yet to be unmasked ... It'll definitely come to the light one day,” she said while inaugurating the voluntary blood and plasma donation programme.
Bangladesh Krishak League, the peasants’ wing of the AL, organised the function in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the morning as part of Bangladesh Awami League and its associate bodies' month-long programme marking the 46th martyrdom anniversary of Bangabandhu and the National Mourning Day.
Recalling the August 15, 1975 carnage, Sheikh Hasina, also the AL president, said, “I have lost everything — father, mother and brothers. Now I'm working with an ideology which is my power."
She continued, saying on, "I've to materialise the dream of my father which I heard from my childhood. I've nothing to want beyond it.”
The prime minister said that she wanted to see as a victorious nation, Bangladesh moves around the world with keeping its head high and due dignity.
“The elements, who didn’t want the Bangladesh's independence and victory, killed him (Bangabandhu) as he had liberated the country.”
After the Liberation War, many Pakistanis and their Bangladeshi collaborators used to say that the then East Pakistan was a burden for Pakistan and it would never stand keeping its head high, the prime minister said, adding that Bangabandhu was killed as part of the plan.
"We've to repay the debt of the blood of the Father of the Nation by standing beside the distressed and needy people at the time of any disaster as the aim of establishing Awami League is to serve the people.
Accusing again Ziaur Rahman of his involvement in the killing of Bangabandhu, she said the August 15 massacre was aimed to foil independence and the ideology for which Bangladesh was born.
Noting that the carnage that happened in Karbala was repeated in Bangladesh in this month (August) in 1975, the prime minister said, “The aim of the assassination of Bangabandhu was not only to kill the President of Bangladesh, but also to destroy an ideology and the victory (against the Pakistani occupation forces in the Liberation War in 1971).”
Referring to the interviews of two self-proclaimed murderers of Bangagandhu – Faruk and Rashid —to BBC, she said there is no doubt that Ziaur Rahman was involved in the killing of Bangabandhu.
Ziaur Rahman later rewarded them by giving postings to different Bangladesh missions abroad and scopes of doing business, while passed the indemnity bill to stop trial of the Bangabandhu killing case, she said, adding that HM Ershad and Zia’s wife Khaleda Zia followed the footsteps of Zia to patronize the killers of Bangabandhu.
Pointing out that her government is working relentlessly to implement Bangabandhu’s ideology since assuming office in 2009, Sheikh Hasina said the aim of her government is to present a beautiful life to the people by ensuring their basic needs.
AL Presidium members Matia Chowdhury and Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Joint General Secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim, Agriculture and Cooperatives Affairs Secretary Faridunnahar Laily and Office Secretary Biplab Barua also addressed the function, among others.
Krishak League President Samir Chanda chaired the function and its General Secretary Advocate Umme Kulsum Smiriti spoke.
