Hasina urges Khaleda not to save war criminals

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses a public rally on Dhanbari Nawab Institution Ground in Tangail yesterday.Photo: PID

Taking a swipe at the opposition leader for "trying to protect the war criminals," Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged Khaleda Zia to shun her "ill-efforts" to obstruct the war crimes trial.
“You (Khaleda) had tried earlier to save the killers of Bangabandhu, but couldn't, now you're trying to save the war criminals…don't try to do that because the people of Bangladesh won't accept that.”
The prime minister told a public rally at Dhanbari Nawab Institution Ground organised by Awami League.
She alleged that it was Ziaur Rahman who had politically rehabilitated the war criminals after capturing power.
Hasina went on: “Khaleda, despite becoming a former premier, had whitened black money paying fine, even her sons were engaged in corruption and siphoning off money abroad. But, we've brought back that money and those would be spent on curbing corruption as well as in its investigation…we'll bring back more money siphoned off earlier.”
Citing the recent fire incident in a garment factory in Ashulia that killed 111 people, Hasina said conspiracies are being hatched when the country is moving forward. Various ill-attempts are underway to take Bangladesh backward, she alleged.
In a scathing attack on BNP, Hasina said, “Corruption and killing people are two big virtues of BNP.”
Earlier, the prime minister inaugurated Dhanbari upazila complex, laid the foundation stone of Dhanbari Police station as well as a 50-bed upazila health complex.