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"There may be more loss of lives. We might face more losses, but we'll have to take to the streets to save the country and its people."
KHALEDA ZIA
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)chairman and leader of the opposition
about the deaths during the last two months caused by clashes between the 18-party alliance and the law enforcement agencies.
"She [Khaleda] returned home from Singapore mentally sick and started raising her voice in support of Jamaat… She wants to sacrifice lives to save war criminals."
SHEIKH HASINA
prime minister
about the opposition leader Khaleda Zia's remark at a rally at Singair upazila in Manikganj.
"The young generation doesn't expect the language she used today (Monday). We didn't forget when in the opposition she (Hasina) had said in Chittagong, that she wanted ten bodies against one…we didn't forget several people were killed by setting fire to a bus with gunpowder on her orders."
MIRZA FAKHRUL ISLAM ALAMGIR
BNP acting secretary general
about Sheikh Hasina's comment regarding Khaleda Zia.
"She (Khaleda Zia) said she will try true war criminals if elected to power. We are trying marked war criminals. Then who will she try if she comes to power? Does she (Khaleda Zia) have the true list of war criminals with her? Don't you know, Jamaat-e-Islami reportedly supported war crimes in 1971?"
HASANUL HAQ INU
information minister
about Khaleda Zia's remark of trying 'true' perpetrators of crimes against humanity.
"During the war of independence, my president was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, but the home minister's president was Pakistani president Yahihya Khan, and so he was a Razakar."
KADER SIDDIQUI
Bangladesh Krishak Shramik Janata League president
about home minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir
"Bosco Ntaganda is not called ‘The Terminator’ for nothing. If he is at the US embassy, the US should immediately hand him over to the International Criminal Court for trial."
SASHA LEZHNEV
senior analyst for the Enough Project in Washington
about Ntaganda, war crime suspect of Democratic Republic of Congo, wanted by the International Criminal Court, which is not recognised by the United States.
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