Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has blamed BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her elder son Tarique Rahman for the grenade attack 10 years ago on an Awami League rally in Dhaka.
The Aug 21, 2004 attack, aimed at eliminating Awami League chief Hasina, killed 24 people and injured over 500 others.
Hasina paid respects to the victims on the attack’s 10th anniversary on Thursday at the Bangabandhu Avenue.
“The way Zia was involved with the 1975 incident, the then BNP-Jamaat coalition government, its prime minister, and her son are directly involved with the Aug 21 incident,” the Awami League chief alleged.
BNP chief Khaleda was the prime minister then.
Her elder son Tarique, along with 51 others, has been accused in a case related to the attack.
The prime minister has alleged Khaleda’s husband BNP founder Ziaur Rahman was involved in the assassination of the nation’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Aug 15, 1975 – claim the BNP refutes.
Hasina claimed the BNP orchestrated one incident after the other to turn Bangladesh into a “terrorist heaven”.
“All they (the BNP-Jamaat alliance) do is kill people.”
The prine minister urged the people to “save Bangladesh from the clutches of this murderous family”.
“There will be no place for killers on this soil,” Hasina said.
Source: Bd news24
