Voicebox

“It is clear that Kalu was directed and assisted by police in the arson, which was actually planned by the government.”
Jahangir Kabir Nanok
Jubo League President
on the bus arson on June 4 in which 10 people were killed and 20 others injured.

“We do not want relief of rice and cheera, give us seeds.”
Shahidullah
a poor farmer of a village in Noabad Union, Kishorgonj, to a Prothom Alo correspondent. Farmers in Kishorgonj and other districts are in despair as all their seedlings have been washed away in the floods.

“The thing that makes me cry is that when Unocal went into partnership, the military government was in bad shape. They were desperate. Unocal put blood into the veins of a dictatorship and made them last longer.”
Luisa Benson
two-time Miss Burma and movie star on the American oil giant's US $ 1.2 billion Yadana gas pipeline project that helped bankroll the military government.

“Don't get me wrong: I'll be ecstatic if Bush is defeated; I just won't be ecstatic if Kerry is elected.”
John Whitlow
New York-based legal activist

“We have to unseat the government if we want to see the execution of the verdict.”
Abdus Samad Azad
AL Presidium Member at a rally organised to strengthen public opinion on the execution of the verdict in the Bangabandhu murder case which the AL say the BNP-led alliance is reluctant to do.

“We have sovereignty. We don't go and ask the Americans what to do every time.”
Georges Sada
spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Syed Allawi denying US pressure will influence the amnesty plan intended to help end the 15-month insurgency in Iraq.

QUOTATIONS ARE TAKEN FROM DIFFERENT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS.