Hasina recalls trying hrs after her father\\\'s death

Denouncing the inactive role of the then foreign minister, Dr Kamal Hossain, in protecting Bangabandhu's two daughters after his assassination in 1975, Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina said Saturday that neither she nor her sister got any help from him during their miserable days in the then West Germany, reports UNB.

"When father of the nation was assassinated, his foreign minister was also in West Germany but he neither helped me nor my sister Sheikh Rehana after August 15, 1975," the Prime Minister recalled without naming Dr Kamal Hossain.

Sheikh Hasina, also the president of ruling Awami League, said this while addressing a programme at her official residence Ganobhaban in the city Saturday, marking her 33rd Homecoming Day.

Dr Kamal Hossain, now the president of Ganoforum, was the foreign minister of the then Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman government.

"Even he (Dr Kamal) didn't respond to Rehana's repeated requests to arrange a press conference and condemn the activities of the then government," she said.

Sheikh Hasina mentioned that no minister of the Bangabandhu government was there to help them after August 15 (1975).

At that time, Bangladesh Ambassador to the erstwhile West Germany Humayun Rashid Chowdhury had helped the family members of the father of the nation, she added.