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"It's beyond our imagination that a government can carry out genocide against its own people. We liberated our motherland in 1971 standing up against such genocide. We cannot accept that any government for any reason would choose the path of genocide in that independent country."
KHALEDA ZIA
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson
terming the death toll that occurred on last Thursday in the country after police resisted the violence unleashed by Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir in protest of the court verdict given to Jamaat leader and war criminal Delawar Hossain Sayedee.
"Khaleda Zia should be put on trial for making war crimes suspects Moitur Rahman Nizami and Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed ministers; for allowing them to visit the Shaheed Minar during the tenure of her government; and also for opposing the ongoing war crimes trial."
FERDOUSI PRIYABHASHINI
Liberation war veteran
about Khaleda Zia's use of the word genocide to describe police action against Jamaat violece.
"We did not expect it. But Khaleda Zia termed the violence ‘genocide’ and compared it to the genocide of 1971."
a leader of Jamaat-e-Islami's Jessore district
about Begum Khaleda Zia's use of the word 'genocide' to describe the casualties due to the clash between law enforcers and Jamaat-Shibir activists.
"In a post it was stated 'I wish to launch mass killing by killing Khaleda'."
RUHUL KABIR RIZVI
BNP Joint Secretary General
protesting comments made on social media sites and blogs about Khaleda Zia's use of the word 'genocide'.
"An anti-Islam blogger like him was doomed to die. I wonder how he lived this long even after writing against Islam and our dear Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)."
SADEQUE HOSSAIN KHOKA
BNP Vice-chairman
about the killing of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider.
"I am attending office to carry out the responsibility delegated to me by the public."
ABDUL KHALEQUE
Upazilla chairman and Panchgar district Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami about attending office during Jamaat called countrywide 48-hour hartal.
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