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Law on cards to protect family of Bangabandhu

Staff Correspondent
The government decided to make a law to ensure security of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's family members in line with a similar law that was scrapped by the previous BNP-led government.
The previous Awami League (AL) government had enacted that law in 2001.
The title of the proposed law is "Father of the Nation's Family Members' Security Act, 2009". The home ministry is preparing the draft and it will be placed before the cabinet soon for approval, officials at the home ministry said.
"Since there have been militants' threats on the lives of Bangabandhu's family members, we will soon enact a law to ensure their security," Home Minister Sahara Khatun told reporters at her BangladeshSecretariat office.
She said the previous AL government formulated a law to provide round-the-clock security to Bangabandhu's family members but the government led by the BNP scrapped it after assuming power.
Sahara said many attempts had been made on the lives of AL chief Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana. "The
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government decided to enact the law as people think that there should be a law to ensure their security," she said.
Hasina survived several assassination attempts. On August 21, 2004, she, then leader of the opposition in parliament, survived a grenade attack while addressing a rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital. The attack left 24 people includingAL leader Ivy Rahman dead.
In 2000, 80kg of RDX was found in Gopalganj, where Hasina's helicopter was supposed to land. She was the prime minister at that time.
Cyclotrimethylenetrinitra mine, also known as RDX. cyclonite, hexogen, and T4, is an explosive nitroamine widely used in military and industrial applications, wikipedia.org says.
Hasina came under intense fire in Chittagong in 1988 that left several people killed.
Sources said as per the fresh law, Hasina and Rehana might get round-the-clock security to be provided by the members of Special Security Force (SSF) and other security personnel. They may even get special homes.
The previous AL government on June 21, 2001 passed a law, providing Hasina and Rehana full-time SSF security. Hasina was then given the Ganabhaban, official residence of the prime minister while Rehana was given a residence in Dhanmondi, stirring huge controversy. The BNP-Jamaal alliance government scrapped the law in December, 2001.
Earlier, the home minister held a meeting with officials of the home ministry, Bangladesh Rifies (BDR) and intelligence agencies on the Myanmar's attempts to erect
barbed-wire fences along the Bangladesh- Myanmar border.
She said Bangladesh would solve all irritant issues with Myanmar through discussion. She, however, added, "They are illegally setting up fences on the border. We will also set up fences in the gaps."
She said they would soon sit with Myanmar and the existing friendly relationship would be further strengthened.