Tackling BDR Mutiny
All except BNP, Jamaat extended support: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that all but BNP and Jamaat had lent their support to efficiently tackle the BDR mutiny.
“All except BNP and Jamaat had extended their support to the government in tackling the BDR mutiny on February 25-26, 2009,” she told a meeting with her party leaders from Comilla (South) district at her official residence Gono Bhaban.
The meeting was arranged as part of her ongoing view exchange meetings with Awami League's grassroots leaders.
Members of the Awami League Central Working Committee and Comilla (South) district AL, presidents and general secretaries of AL associate bodies of the area, local party MPs, party-backed upazila chairmen and vice-chairmen in the district, and presidents and general secretaries of upazilas, municipality and union units attended the meeting.
The prime minister mentioned that two hours before the BDR mutiny the opposition leader had gone out of her cantonment residence for an unknown location. “Why did she go under ground, what was on her mind?” Hasina questioned adding that the opposition leader has not yet come up with any answer.
Claiming that the government tackled the situation efficiently, Hasina said had it failed to tackle the mutiny tactfully more dead bodies would have littered across the city. “If we had failed to tackle the situation delicately the city would have seen more dead bodies.”
Hasina said the trial of the BDR mutiny accused at 45 places of the country has been completed and those found guilty have been punished. “The trial of mutiny has been completed and now the trial for the killings is going on.”
She said, “Seventy-four people, including 57 army officers, were killed during the BDR mutiny at the Pilkhana on February 25-26, 2009.”
The prime minister said Khaleda Zia like her husband always tries to come to state power by banking on the army.
She also mentioned that BNP and Khaleda Zia are now siding with the anti-liberation forces and trying hard to save them. “The intention of BNP and Jamaat is crystal clear… they want the nation to bow down to others.
We're the nation of heroes, we've pride. But the BNP and Jamaat did not like that,” she said.
About the anti-government movement by BNP and its allies, she said the opposition leader has launched the anti-government campaign as her illegally earned money is running out. “They (BNP) want to create anarchy in the country.”
Hasina again took a swipe at the journalists saying that nowadays the media people are writing according to their whims.
“After the 2001 national election, the journalists did not enjoy freedom. They used to receive invisible advice before writing,” she said.
At that time, she said, 16 journalists were killed across the country, but the media people failed to write about those deaths.
“But now the reporters are writing whatever they like. Sometimes they exaggerate the matter. Such kind of freedom they did not enjoye in the country in the past, not even during the caretaker regime,” she said.
Hasina also said all the elections under the present government were held in a free and fair manner and no complaint was raised about any election.
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