Prime Minister’s ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy blasted BNP chief Khaleda Zia for questioning the number of martyrs in Liberation War and asked people to stage protests in front of her house.
“I urge everyone to protest in front of Khaleda’s house. Show her and the BNP that the memories of our brothers and sisters slaughtered by her Paki masters and Jamaat henchmen cannot be wiped out by their propaganda,” he wrote on his Facebook page on Saturday.
“Join me in demanding Khaleda go back to Pakistan,” he said.
At a Victory Day discussion at the Institution of Engineers on December 21, the BNP chairperson said there were doubts regarding the number of people killed during the 1971 Liberation War.
The controversial remark sparked protests from Freedom Fighters, researchers, martyrs’ family members, and pro-liberation organisations.
“Khaleda has taken the Pakistani line minimising the slaughter of our innocent civilians by the brutal Pak Army and their murderous collaborators Jamaat-e-Islami.”
“She has claimed only a few hundred thousand were killed. Today the BNP even called for an opinion poll on the number of deaths! Facts are facts. They cannot be determined by an opinion poll,” he said.
The PM’s ICT adviser said three million men, women and children were slaughtered in cold blood and the Hindus were tortured and shot on sight. “Entire villages were wiped out. Even when they had agreed to surrender they rounded up our best intellectuals and slaughtered them all. These weren’t casualties of war. This was genocide,” he added.