Gono Odhikar Parishad in a statement yesterday expressed its shock and concern over the 6-month imprisonment of Prof Muhammad Yunus in a labour law violation case.
Awami League candidates in Netrakona-1 and 5 are set to face challenges from their independent party colleagues, while the AL ticket holder in Netrakona-4 is likely to have a smooth sailing for lack of a strong opponent in the upcoming national polls.
Bangladesh has just celebrated fifty years of independence; this year also marks fifty years since its Ganoparishad ratified the Constitution of Bangladesh. Anniversaries are as worthy occasions as any to recall why certain ideological principles were chosen to guide the new nation.
Gono Odhikar Parishad Convener Reza Kibria blamed the government for laundering massive sums of money and claimed the country is on the brink of facing the same fate as Sri Lanka. "The economy will shatter.
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman reasserts in unambiguous terms today that the trial of war criminals must be held on Bangladesh soil. Addressing a huge crowd at the Suhrawardy Udyan on Victory Day, the prime minister explains that prisoners of war and war criminals are not the same. The war criminals will be tried and must be tried; nobody can stop this, he reiterates. Sheikh Mujib never compromises.
The prime minister recalls in a plaintive voice that war criminals carried out a systematic genocide in Bangladesh, killing 30 lakh people. They murdered intellectuals, they forced the exodus of 10 million people, dishonoured two and a half lakh women, made 40 lakh children orphans and let loose a hell of destruction and pillage in Bangladesh.