By Mizan Rahman/Dhaka

Demanding an immediate halt to Israeli aggression in Palestine, prime minister Sheikh Hasina has blasted the ‘world conscience’ and Bangladesh’s human rights organisations for their silence.
“I wonder how those who always cry out even at a single murder in the country remain silent on the Israeli atrocities on the Palestinians. Nobody talks about the brutal killing of women, children and common people in Palestine,” she said.
“Doesn’t it violate their human rights and doesn’t their life have any value? ...didn’t have they the right to live?” Sheikh Hasina was delivering her introductory speech at a meeting of the Awami League Central Working Committee (ALCWC) held at her Ganobhaban residence.
The PM said the Israeli genocide must be stopped immediately and urged the ‘world conscience’ to be vocal. “The way our Palestinian brothers and sisters, especially children, are being attacked and killed by Israeli military can never be accepted. We strongly protest and condemn this mass killing,” she said. Hasina also reiterated her government’s solidarity with the Palestinians, saying: “We remain beside them.”
She said it is not possible for any Muslim to accept such “blood letting” during Ramadan. “This is a heinous crime,” she said.
The prime minister said that the Bangladesh government has already condemned the Israeli atrocities on Palestine at a cabinet meeting.
Highlighting the violence of the BNP-Jamaat nexus in the name of resisting January 5 polls, the prime minister said they torched buses, trucks and auto-rickshaws, dug roads, uprooted rail tracks and felled trees.
“They also killed 55 bus drivers and did not hesitate to commit heinous crime,” she said.
Sheikh Hasina said that the government had been able to stabilise the situation and restore peace in the country within a short time. “We want to maintain this peaceful situation to keep up the trend of development ongoing,” she said and sought the people’s help.
The prime minister said that the government took various steps to ensure a peaceful and happy atmosphere in the country so that people could celebrate Eid and go homes without any trouble.
She also said that the law and order in the country during Ramadan was under control and people did their shopping and ran other errands till midnight without any hindrance.
Terming August as the month of mourning, Sheikh Hasina said the country’s independence and advancement were foiled by anti-liberation forces through the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15.
“Through the assassination of Bangabandhu in 1975, General Zia launched the politics of killing and unconstitutional politics,” she said.






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