BD to have no cohort of defeated forces: PM

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UNB, Dhaka :
Hinting that Khaleda Zia will one day face trial for patronising war criminals including the executed ones, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said there will be no existence of the cohorts of the defeated forces in Bangladesh.
“It hurts us that the cohorts of anti-liberation forces still dream of Pakistan despite living in Bangladesh. They couldn’t yet forget their ‘Pyare Pakistan’. But, we’ve to force them to forget it. There’ ll be no existence of the cohorts of the defeated forces in Bangladesh,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League chief, was addressing a discussion meeting marking the 45th Victory Day at Krishibid Institution auditorium.
Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury presided over the discussion meeting organised by the ruling party. AL Advisory Council member Suranjit Sen Gupta, AL Presidium member and Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury, AL Presidium member Sheikh Selim, Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, AL joint general secretaries Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif and Dr Dipu Moni, AL central committee member Enamul Haque Shamim also spoke at the discussion meeting.
Earlier, a one-minute silence was observed commemorating the four martyred national leaders, martyrs of the Liberation War and that of all democratic movements and the August 15 carnage.
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