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Voicebox

“We witness the emergence of a Hindu militant who also died in the blast.”
LUTFOZZAMAN BABAR
state minister for home affairs
after Netrakona bomb blasts.
Quoting the alleged bomber's friends and relatives, a Daily Star report said that Yadav Das was in fact an innocent bystander who died in the blasts that killed eight people..

“People cannot betray the blood of those who were killed by Islamist militants. The 14-party coalition cannot sit with a government comprising anti-liberation forces who are providing funds for killing democratic forces by forming suicide squads.”
SHEIKH HASINA
leader of the opposition and Awami League chief

“People may not like the same old record again and again.”
An Unnamed BNP leader
about the BNP's insistence on keeping an alliance with Jamaat.

"How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to be described as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundred thousand? More than enough, I would have thought.”
HAROLD PINTER
in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
"But Bush has been clever. He has not ratified the international criminal court of justice ...
"But Tony Blair has ratified the court and is therefore available for prosecution. We can let the court have his address if they're interested: it is Number 10, Downing Street, London," he said.

“Actually you people watch the American version of wrestling which is entertaining but not real. If you want to see the real thing come to Japan.”
ANTONIO INOKI
Japanese wrestler
who came to Dhaka on a four-day visit.

 


QUOTATIONS ARE TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS. .
Compiled by: AHMEDE HUSSAIN. Quotes can be sent to <[email protected]>
Cartoon : MUSTAFA ZAMAN

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