Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina distributed cheques this Saturday amongst the victims of the “atrocities” committed by Jamaat-Shibir over the last year in different parts of Rajshahi.
A total of 98 people were given financial assistance from the Prime Minister's fund for rehabilitation and treatment of victims and for the rebuilding of houses torched by the fanatic forces.
At a function at the Bangladesh Police Academy in Sardah, the prime minister distributed the cheques amongst the families of five dead and 93 injured people, reports BSS.
Speaking on the occasion, the prime minister urged the countrymen to forge unity against the evil force involved in the incidents of killing, arson and bomb hurling.
She said: “BNP and Jamaat are counting dead bodies to show their success in movement, which is their perverted mentality. It's a misfortune for the nation that BNP, one of the country's main political parties, is indulging terrorism in the name of a movement.”
Pointing out the grenade attack against her on August 21, 2004,Sheikh Hasina said: ”BNP-Jamaat patronised militant and terrorist forces when they were in power. They had created Bangla Bhai in Rajshahi area.”
She said: “The BNP-Jamaat clique engaged in the killing of innocent people, police, political leaders and elected local representatives including female members.” She later added: " Their behaviour is not of a human being, but an animal.”
The Prime Minister then said: “BNP must pursue politics through the mobilisation of people. No movement can be successful without public support.”
One of the victims, Shahidul Islam was injured critically with his younger brother and four other Awami League workers as "Shibir hooligans" attacked his house in the dead of night on March 17, 2013.
The criminals hurled bombs at their house, severed their tendons, and chopped them indiscriminately leaving all in the pool of blood. Shahid is now recovering after intensive care at the National Orthopedic Hospital in Dhaka.
Another injured person Enamul Haque of Binodpur Bazar lost her right eye in the bomb attack of Jamaat-shibir. Enamul sustained injuries with nine others when Shibir activists attacked an Awami league office on February 17, 2013.
Jamaat-Shibir men gutted the house of Pervin Begum at the Shibir dominated Budpara area in the middle of the night on December 12, 2013 after the execution of war criminal and Jamaat leader Abul Quader Mollah.
Shibir activists stormed into the house of Moinul Haque, a teacher at Mirzapur High School and College, and chopped at his body in several places. He had to take 17 stitches for his hands, legs and his head.
Jamaat-Shibir set fire to the house of Abdul Khaleq, president of kotakhali unit of Awami League under Paba thana, in retaliation for the killing of the Shibir leader and accused Ziarul of a number of murder cases on March 3, 2013.
