...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
yesterday said opposition leader
Khaleda ZiaThree-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
would not be spared from legal action and the BNP-Jamaat will have to take the responsibility for violence.
"People have already tolerated so much. If you think that you would be spared [from legal action] after killing innocent people, coppers, rickshaw pullers and drivers, it is not correct. You [Khaleda] and your ally Jamaat-e-Islami
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The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
will have to shoulder the responsibility for these violent acts," she noted.
The prime minister was addressing a mammoth rally at Comilla Zilla School ground in the afternoon.
"For what offence you [Khaleda] are killing the innocent people, coppers, rickshaw pullers and drivers by pouring petrol on them or hitting them with brickbats," questioned Hasina, also the president of Awami League.
She called upon all to put up a strong resistance against the destructive activities of the opposition.
Urging the opposition leader to stop terrorist activities, she said BNP had tried to save the killers of Bangabandhu, but could not succeed. And this time also it will not be successful to save war criminals.
Reiterating her commitment to hold the trial of war criminals, she said there is no room on this soil for the war criminals who had committed crimes against humanity. "They must be tried to free the nation from stigma," she added.
Mentioning that the opposition has been enforcing hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
s to protect the war criminals, the premier urged people to remain alert so that BNP-Jamaat cannot make light of the lives of people.
Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, Railway Minister Mujibul Haque, Cultural Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad, AL advisory council member Fakhrul Islam Munshi, its law affairs secretary Abdul Matin Khasru, Nasimul Alam Chowdhury, MP, AKM Bahauddin Bahar, MP, also spoke at the rally, chaired by AHM Mostafa Kamal, MP.