The Bangladesh Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that the hands of the people who would come to attack would have to be broken.
‘The hand with which they come to set people on fire will have to be burnt with the same fire. It will have to make them feel about the pain of burn injuries,’ she said.
Sheikh Hasina was addressing a joint meeting of Awami League and its associate bodies at the AL central office in the capital’s Bangabandhu Avenue through a virtual platform from her official residence Ganabhaban.
Sheikh Hasina asked her party members to remain alert so that the BNP and Jamaat could not harm even a single person. The hand with which they come to set vehicles on fire will have to be burnt with the same fire, she said, adding that it is not the time to get tortured anymore.
Noting that Awami League members were tortured for 21 years from 1975 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2008,
She directed the Awami League leaders and activists to depict the pictures of how the BNP-Jamaat had tortured the people.
She asked the people not to allow the arson terrorists and anti-liberation forces to return to power.
‘The arson terrorists should not be allowed to come in power in the country anymore. The anti-liberation elements should not be allowed to come to office,’ she said.
Hasina, also the Awami League president, asked her party leaders to remain alert in every area so that they (BNP-Jamaat) could not torture anyone.
Bitterly criticising BNP, she said that it did not suit BNP to talk about democracy as Ziaur Rahman had given curfew-democracy, while Khaleda Zia gave a system of corruption in the country.
‘We should not forget that Khaleda Zia has two virtues (skills) — corruption and killing people,’ said Hasina.
She said that her government transformed the country into a digital Bangladesh, but they (BNP-Jamaat) were carrying out propaganda against the government using the digital platforms.
Hasina said that they would execute the sentences of convicted Tarique Rahman, bringing him back from the United Kingdom.
