Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and others observing one-minute silence to pay tributes to the August 21 2004 grenade attack victims at the city's Krishibid Institution on Wednesday — Focus Bangla Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wednesday asserted that punishment would be inflicted to those responsible for the heinous attack, reports BSS.
She accused the past BNP-Jamaat government and Begum Khaleda Zia and her elder son Tarique Rahman of perpetrating the August 21, 2004 gruesome grenade attack on an Awami League rally in the capital.
"It was not possible to carry out such attack without patronisation of the BNP-Jamaat government," she said while addressing a memorial discussion marking the 15th anniversary of the August 21 grenade attack at Krishibid Institute of Bangladesh (KIB) here.
The premier went on saying that "It (the patronization of BNP-Jamaat in the grenade attack) has become a truth that was proved by evidences and we have got a verdict upon filing a case."
The prime minister said that incidents of staging Joj Mia drama, destroying evidences of the grenade attack, barring the AL volunteers from going to the rooftops of adjoining buildings around the rally venue, subjecting the party leaders and activists to torture by charging batons and throwing teargas shells to help the attackers to flee from the scene and conducting an judicial inquiry bore testimony to evidences of BNP-Jamaat's patronization in the grenade attack.
"Now, it will go to the higher court as death reference and we hoped to get the justice. Regrettably, the party leaders, workers and supporters who were killed in the attack would not return anymore," she said.
Meanwhile, the 15th anniversary of the grenade attack on Awami League rally on August 21, 2004 was observed across the country Wednesday in a befitting manner.
Awami League and its associate bodies have taken various programmes at different parts across the country to observe the day.
To mark the day, a procession was brought out in Manikganj town. The procession paraded different streets in the town which started from district Awami League office where a discussion was also held.
Advocate Golam Mohiuddin presided over the discussion while Advocate Abdul Majid Photo, AFM Sultanul Azam Khan Apel, Abdur Razzaque Raja and Rafiqul Islam Rana, among others, spoke on the occasion.
In Jhenaidah, a discussion and doa mahfil was held at Johan Dream Valley Park auditorium in the town marking the day.
Harinakunda Islamic Foundation organised the meeting addressed, among others, by Harinakuda Upazila Parishad Chairman Jahangir Hossain, Officer-in-Charge of Sadar Thana Mizanur Rahman Khan, Abdul Latif Sheikh, Samsul Alom, advocate Khoda Boxe and Mahbub Morshed Shahin.
The anniversary of August 21 grenade attack was observed in Sylhet by the district AL and metropolitan city units of Awami League.
To mark the day they organised a discussion at Zila Parishad auditorium this morning. Awami League leader Ashfaq Ahmed chaired the meeting spoken, among others, by general secretary of city unit AL Asad Uddin Ahmed, general secretary of district unit AL Shofiqur Rahman Chowdhury, former Members of Parliament Jebunnesa Haque, Mashuk Uddin Ahmed, Shah Farid Ahmed and Bijit Chowdhury.
The speakers at the meeting said the perpetrators carried out the attack on August 21 in 2004 to destroy Awami League.
The anniversary of August 21 grenade attack was observed in Tangail today by placing wreaths at a makeshift altar set up in front of Awami League office in the town.
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