Aug 15 massacre aimed at making BD Pak province again: PM
Saturday, 16 August 2014
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the massacre on August 15 in 1975 was carried out in a bid to make independent Bangladesh a province of Pakistan again through eliminating all the achievements of the country’s independence. “It was not just killing…the killers’ aim was to destroy the republic and independence, soil the spirit of independence and eliminate all the achievements of our independence,” she said. Sheikh Hasina was addressing a discussion organised by Awami League at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) on the occasion of 39th martyrdom of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, according to a news agency.