New Delhi:
Ousted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in first feedback after leaving Dhaka, has sought that rioters within the nation be punished. She has additionally sought justice for the vandalism to the statue of her father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was additionally the Founding Father of Bangladesh.
In a three-page emotive assertion posted on X by her son, Sheikh Hasina reminisced concerning the relations she misplaced when her father was assassinated on August 15, 1975. Mujibur Rahman’s sons and their wives, his brother’s household, shut colleagues and associates, have been worn out the identical night time by the military as a part of a coup.
After paying her respects to them, she turned to the current day, saying the dance of destruction throughout the nation within the identify of protest, has additionally led to many deaths — of “college students lecturers, police, journalists, social employees, widespread folks, leaders and employees of the Awami League, pedestrians and workplace employees”.
“For individuals who have misplaced their family members like me, i prolong my deepest sympathy. And for these concerned on this slaughter, this destruction, I demand that investigations be held they usually be caught and given acceptable punishment,” learn a tough translation of her assertion in Bengali.
The protesters had not solely focused her, that they had additionally focused the home she grew up in, one which was changed into a museum and was visited by many nice and highly effective from international shores.
“That’s now mud,,, And the recollections we had — which were diminished to ashes… with the disrespect proven to Mujibur Rahman, beneath whose management we acquired our freedom, recognition, self-respect… the blood shed by hundreds of freedom fighters has been desecrated… I demand justice for this from my countrymen,” she added.
She added that the approaching August 15 be marked as a day of mourning, handed in displaying respects and praying for martyrs at “Bangabandhu Bhavan”.
Sheikh Hasina, solely 28 when Mujibur Rahman was assassinated, remained in exile from 1975 to late Nineteen Eighties. Whereas in exile, she rose by the ranks to move the occasion her father based and dived into politics. In 1996, she steered Awami League to victory within the nationwide election, changing into the primary girl Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
The wave of scholar protests that noticed her out of workplace had began weeks in the past over quota in authorities jobs for the households of freedom fighters. However the authorities’s resistance had turned it into calls for for Sheikh Hasina’s resignation.
Because the violence spiked, the military took motion, and Sheikh Hasina needed to hand in her resignation beneath a 45-minute ultimatum.
She is presently in India, the following a part of her journey nonetheless un-announced. However the 76-year-old intends to return to Bangladesh at any time when the elections are held, her son has mentioned.
