PM vows not to allow terrorism, atrocities

FE Team | Published: March 29, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina vowed on Saturday not to allow terrorism and atrocities in Bangladesh and directed all concerned including the RAB to take proper action to this end to ensure security for the life and property of the people, report agencies.
"We must uphold the spirit of independence at any cost. We won't allow terrorism and atrocities on Bangladesh's soil. So all concerned including the RAB will have to take proper action and discharge their respective duties with utmost sincerity to ensure security for the life and property of the people," the PM stated these while addressing a 'Darbar' on the occasion of 11th founding anniversary of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at its headquarters at Kurmitola in the city.
RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed delivered the welcome address while PM's Security Adviser Maj Gen (Retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, State Minister for Home Asaduzzman Khan Kamal, Home Secretary Dr Mozammel Haque Khan and Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Haque were present on the dais.
On her arrival at the RAB headquarters, the PM was given a guard of honour by a smartly turned out contingent of the elite force.
The PM also reiterated her firm determination to advance the country further by facing manmade disasters side by side with natural calamities.
Coming down heavily on the BNP-Jamaat nexus for unleashing atrocities on the people in the name of their so-called movement, Sheikh Hasina said their movement means burning the people to death and torching property.
The PM accused BNP-Jamaat of unleashing destructive acts to impede the country's development and take revenge on the people. "Those who could burn the people to death do not want advancement of the country and welfare of the people," she said. In this connection, Sheikh Hasina posed a question what crimes the arson victims committed that they will have to die in such a brutal way. "Those arson victims who remain alive will have to live their entire life with the torment of burning," she noted.