“Strikes and burning people to death with petrol won’t stop the trial
of the war criminals,” Hasina told an Awami League rally at Panchagarh
on Thursday.
Jamaat-e-Islami, the party that backed the Pakistani
forces during the Liberation War, enforced a nationwide general strike
demanding release of its top leaders detained on charges of crimes like
murder, arson, rape and loot in collaboration with the Pakistani Army in
1971.
“We’ll liberate the nation from the stigma by trying the war criminals one by one,” the Awami League President said.
Hasina’s
government took the initiative to try those who allegedly committed
crimes during the 1971 Liberation War. One of the cases has seen judged
and two others are in the queue.
The BNP, which has taken Jamaat as an ally, endorsed Thursday’s strike.
“The BNP doesn’t want the war crimes trial, their leader Khaleda Zia never speaks on the issue,” Hasina said.
She
urged the people of Panchagarh to vote for her party in the next
general elections to continue with the government’s development
activities, to ‘finish the work of building a hunger-free digital
Bangladesh’, and to make it a middle-income country.
She said Awami League is determined to protect everyone’s constitutional rights.
“There was no interference in the more than 5,500 free, fair and impartial polls held in the past four years,” she said.
She
also spoke about government programmes to promote social safety net.
“The country is self-sufficient in the food sector. Monga ( near-famine)
in the northern districts is gone.”
Her audience of thousands of
people, who defied the strike to attend the rally, applauded her
announcement to launch Master’s course at Makbular Rahman Government
College and Bachelor’s with Honours course at the Government Women’s
College there.
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