BSS, Dhaka :
Demanding an immediate halt to the Israeli aggression in Palestine, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has blasted the “world conscience” and the country’s human rights organizations for their silent role in this regard.
“I wonder how those who always cry for a single murder in the country remain silent in the Israeli atrocities on the Palestinians. Nobody talks anything about the brutal killing of women, children and common people in Palestine,” she said with deep resentment.
“Doesn’t it violate their human rights and doesn’t their life have any value? …didn’t have they the right to live?” she posed a question.
Sheikh Hasina said this while delivering her introductory speech at a meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) held at her official Ganobhaban residence on Monday.
The Prime Minister said the Israeli genocide on innocent Palestinians must be stopped immediately and urged the “world conscience” and Muslim Ummah to be vocal against it.
“The way the Palestinian brothers and sisters, especially the children, are attacked and killed by Israeli military can never be accepted. We strongly protest and condemn this mass killing,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina also reiterated her government’s solidarity with the Palestinians, saying, “We remain beside them and would remain in future.”
She said it is not possible for any Muslim to accept such “holi khela” in the holy month of Ramadan. “This is just a heinous crime,” she said.
In this connection, the Prime Minister said that the Bangladesh government has already condemned the Israeli atrocities on Palestine from the cabinet meeting.
Highlighting the violent and destructive acts of BNP Jamaat nexus in the name of resisting January 5 polls, the Prime Minister said they torched buses, trucks and auto-rickshaws, dug roads, uprooted rail tracks and felled trees.
“They also killed 55 bus drivers and did not hesitate to commit heinous crime like burning of the copies of the holy Quran,” she said, adding the movement of BNP-Jamaat means destruction and killing.
She said many people, who were victims of BNP-Jamaat atrocities before January 5 polls, are still bearing the brunt of their (BNP-Jamaat) mayhem.
Sheikh Hasina said that the government by its time-befitting steps had been able to stabilize the situation and restore peace in the country within a short time.
“We want to maintain this peaceful situation to keep up the trend of development ongoing,” she said and sought cooperation of the people to this end.
The Prime Minister said that the government took various steps to ensure a peaceful and happy atmosphere in the country so that people could celebrate Eid and go to their homes without any trouble.
She also said that the law and order in the country during the Ramadan was under control and people irrespective of males and females did their shopping and other activities till midnight without any hindrance.
Terming August as the month of mourning, Sheikh Hasina said that country’s independence and advancement were foiled by the anti-liberation forces through the killing of Bangabandhu on August 15.
“Through the assassination of Bangabandhu in 1975, General Zia had launched the politics of killing and unconstitutional politics,” she said.
Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, AL Presidium Members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Kazi Zafarullah, Abdul Latif Siddiqui, Nooh-ul-Alam Lenin and Advocate Sahara Khatun and AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam, among others, were present at the meeting.
