The ruling Awami League yesterday launched a photograph album “Bloodstained Bangladesh”, showing the barbaric activities carried out by the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami last year.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina launched the photo album at Osmani Memorial Hall in the capital.
Laila Khatun, wife of police constable Hazrat Ali who was killed in political violence, said, “They [BNP-Jamaat] brutally killed my husband. At first, I could not identify him. Later, I could identify him seeing his name on the badge...... What offence I have committed? I want trial of my husband’s killers.....”
While speaking, she became unconscious and fell down on the dais.
Later, the prime minister made her get up within a short time. Apart from Laila, five other victims shared their experience and demanded justice. At the programme, Sheikh Hasina conveyed her sympathy to the victims, promising that her party would always stand by them.
She urged the countrymen to be aware of BNP-Jamaat plot in carrying out large-scale violence.
Criticising the BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami, the AL president said they were playing with people’s lives. “They are killing people in the name of movement. “
Sheikh Hasina said the nationwide incidents of violence unleashed by the activists of the BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami in 2013 had reminded her of the Pakistani massacre in 1971.
Ramzan Ali, father of Monir who was burnt to death in Gazipur, shared his experience at the programme. “My baby was burning in front of my eyes,”he said.
Cabinet members, MPs were present at the launching ceremony along with the envoys of Russia, India, China, Canada, Palestine, Vietnam, Vatican City, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Myanmar, North Korea, Bhutan, Libya and Egypt.
In the programme, AL also screened a 16-minute documentary on BNP-Jamaat’s mayhem in 2013.