People to try Khaleda
Says Hanif
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has earned the tag of war criminal by favouring war criminals and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami that opposed the country's Liberation War in 1971, said Awami League acting General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif yesterday.
For this, people would try Khaleda one day, he said at a rally at the city's Bangabandhu Avenue.
The AL leader called on all pro-liberation war forces and freedom fighters of the main opposition BNP to leave the party and join the ruling Awami League-led grand alliance.
"Khaleda has mocked at freedom fighters by according a reception to them and at the same time demanding release of the war criminals," said Hanif, also a special assistant to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Awami Jubo League organised the rally as part of a four-day protest programme against what it said was the anarchy created by BNP-Jamaat on Sunday to foil war crimes trial.
"We have remained silent in the last three years. But we will not spare them [BNP-Jamaat] anymore as they have resorted to violence taking the advantage of our patience," Hanif said.
AL Organising Secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak said Khaleda Zia had secretly held a meeting with Jamaat leaders before Sunday's chaos. "At that meeting, it was decided that 50 dead bodies including police personnel were needed. To implement the plan, Tk 1 crore was spent," he added.
Acting chairman of Jubo League Omar Faruk Chowdhury and general secretary Mirza Azam also spoke at the rally.
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