Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she had returned to the country braving hundreds of obstacles only to help people reap benefits of the independence.
Published : 02 Aug 2015, 12:45 AM
She only thought about the people of Bangladesh after losing all the family members in 1975, Hasina said at a programme in Dhaka on Saturday.
She inaugurated a blood donation programme, organised by Krishak League, in front of the Bangabandhu Bhaban.
Hasina’s father, the country’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, along with most of his family members, was killed by a group of rogue army officials on Aug 15, 1975 in a military coup.
Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana survived the attack as they were abroad at that time.
At the programme, the prime minister said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed to avenge the 1971 defeat.
That was not an attack on a family but actually on the whole nation, she said.
“They wanted to ensure that the Bengali nation could never hold its head high.”
The killing of four national leaders on Nov 3 that year proved this truth, she said.
She said those leaders who fought the war and brought about the independence upon the order and direction of Bangabandhu had been killed.
Sheikh Hasina also recalled the incidents of 1975.
“I had reached Germany on July 31. I could not think about such a big attack,” she said.
“Just after 15 days, I lost everything in that ill-fated day.”