UNB, Dhaka :
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has recalled that it was the grace of Almighty Allah and people’s good wishes that she narrowly escaped the grisly August 21 attack in 2004.
“Grenades were being exploded in all corners at that time. Political leaders and activists had built human walls surrounding me to protect me. I had been able to narrowly escape the death by the grace of Almighty Allah and people’s good wishes,” she said in a message on the eve of the 12th anniversary of the savage attack on Saturday.
Sheikh Hasina, the then opposition leader, described the attack as a ‘stigmatized day’ in Bangladesh history.
“The main target of August 21 grenade attack was to impede the country’s independence, democracy, peace and the wheel of development. The target was to create a leadership vacuum in Bangladesh,” she said.
The main objectives of the attack were to destroy the Liberation War spirit and give the culture of killing, conspiracy, militancy, terrorism,
corruption and misrules a permanent shape, Hasina said. She said the barbaric grenade attack, sponsored by the then BNP-Jamaat alliance government, was launched at Awami League’s an anti-terrorism rally in broad daylight in city’s Bangabandhu Avenue to kill her.
The Prime Minister recalled that 24 leaders and activists including then Mahila Awami League President Ivy Rahman were killed by the killers.
She said many of over 500 injured leaders, activists, journalists and security personnel are still carrying the curse of disabilities. “Many are leading a painful life carrying splinters in their bodies.”
The Prime Minister alleged that the then government had created a scope for the attackers to flee and many evidence were destroyed apart from staging ‘Joj Mia’ drama to fool people.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has recalled that it was the grace of Almighty Allah and people’s good wishes that she narrowly escaped the grisly August 21 attack in 2004.
“Grenades were being exploded in all corners at that time. Political leaders and activists had built human walls surrounding me to protect me. I had been able to narrowly escape the death by the grace of Almighty Allah and people’s good wishes,” she said in a message on the eve of the 12th anniversary of the savage attack on Saturday.
Sheikh Hasina, the then opposition leader, described the attack as a ‘stigmatized day’ in Bangladesh history.
“The main target of August 21 grenade attack was to impede the country’s independence, democracy, peace and the wheel of development. The target was to create a leadership vacuum in Bangladesh,” she said.
The main objectives of the attack were to destroy the Liberation War spirit and give the culture of killing, conspiracy, militancy, terrorism,
corruption and misrules a permanent shape, Hasina said. She said the barbaric grenade attack, sponsored by the then BNP-Jamaat alliance government, was launched at Awami League’s an anti-terrorism rally in broad daylight in city’s Bangabandhu Avenue to kill her.
The Prime Minister recalled that 24 leaders and activists including then Mahila Awami League President Ivy Rahman were killed by the killers.
She said many of over 500 injured leaders, activists, journalists and security personnel are still carrying the curse of disabilities. “Many are leading a painful life carrying splinters in their bodies.”
The Prime Minister alleged that the then government had created a scope for the attackers to flee and many evidence were destroyed apart from staging ‘Joj Mia’ drama to fool people.
