Bangaldesh agitation: Punish these liable for dying, destruction within the identify of agitation, says Sheikh Hasina

Ousted Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina, in her first public outreach after fleeing her nation on August 5, has mentioned that these linked with rioting, killings and destruction in Bangladesh have to be investigated, recognized and suitably punished. 

In a written handle to the individuals of Bangladesh posted on social media platform X by her son Sajeeb Wazed on Tuesday, Hasina mourned the “college students, lecturers, policewomen, journalists, social staff, frequent individuals, leaders and staff of the Awami League, pedestrians and workplace staff” who had been killed by protesters since final month within the identify of agitation.

In her message, written in Bangla, Hasina sought justice for the disrespect proven to her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, whose statue was vandalised by protesters. 

She urged individuals to proceed to watch August 15, the day Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was assassinated in 1975, as Nationwide Mourning Day. There are stories that the interim authorities in Bangladesh, headed by Muhammad Yunus, might cancel the nationwide vacation on August 15 this 12 months.

The previous Prime Minister, who has taken shelter in the intervening time in India and is reportedly in talks with international locations in Europe and the Center East for asylum, paid respect to her members of the family she misplaced when her father was assassinated. These killed within the coup in 1975 included Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s sons and their wives, his brother’s household, shut colleagues and associates.