A legal notice was served on Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday asking her to offer apology to the people within seven days for her December 21 remarks expressing confusion over the figure of martyrs in war of independence and the role of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in war.
The legal notice sender, Mamtaz Uddin Mehedi, also said that he would file both civil and criminal cases against the former prime minister for her failure to respond the notice in the stipulated period.
According to the legal notice, ‘Khaleda Zia, at a discussion at Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in the capital organised by Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal, said the Awami League is not a party of freedom fighters and there is no freedom fighter in the party. Those who claim to be freedom fighters here, they are all fake.’
‘Without mentioning the name of father of the nation she said that he (Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) did not want independence, rather wanted to become the prime minister of Pakistan. He even did not make Bangladesh independent.’
The remarks of the BNP chief published in all the dailies the next day.
The legal notice quoted reports of two dailies — Dainik Amader Shomoy and Bangladesh Pratidin. It termed Khaleda’s remarks as derogatory, unwarranted and unconstitutional.
Source: New Age
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It is not important whether one thousand people died or 100 million people died to liberate our motherland. What is important is to prepare a list of everyone who sacrificed his/her life to bring us the freedom. If it is not possible to complete the list with every single name, it must be possible to list as many as possible and estimate a number for each Upazilla of Bangladesh. In order to perform this noble duty, government should commission an authority with retired judges, statisticians and members of the civil society to find the true number of people who sacrificed their valuable lives to free our country. If the current government fails to do this, Khaleda Zia should make a commitment to do this. Khaleda was correct that there is controversy about the actual number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Bangladesh_genocide