Unite against plot to foil war crimes trial
Prime minister tells meeting with lawyers
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged all to be united against evil design of the anti-liberation forces to foil the ongoing war crimes trial.
"Conspiracies are being hatched to halt the ongoing trial of the 1971 culprits and install the anti- liberation forces in power again. So, you have to remain alert and to be united against this plot as no achievement is possible without any unity," she said while exchanging views with lawyers at her official residence Gono Bhaban.
It is unsual that the defeated forces who ruled the country for long 21 years after the assassination of Bangabandhu would hatch plot to foil the trial, she said.
"To hinder the trial of war criminals, they have appointed lobbyists spending a huge amount of money they earned through corruption," she added.
Hasina urged the lawyers to create mass awareness about the ill efforts of the defeated forces.
Stressing the need for continuation of democracy, she said no country can achieve its desired goal without democratic process.
The prime minister said all the elections in the last four years of the present government were held in a free, fair and neutral manner and no one could raise any question about the polls.
While, all the elections held in the BNP-Jamaat four-party alliance government were rigged, and most of the candidates were elected through vote rigging and media coup, she said.
Post and Telecommunications Minister Sahara Khatun, State Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Qamrul Islam, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury also spoke at the event.
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