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Hartal won't stop war crimes trial

Says PM at reception

UNB, New York
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it was the Almighty Allah who helped the country by keeping a terrorist militant outfit and corrupt party like BNP away from power.
"It was Almighty Allah's blessings that they | BNP] couldn't return to power; Bangladesh was saved," she told a grand civic reception organised by Universal Civic Reception Committee at a hotel in New York on Saturday.
Hasina said BNP now has realised that they have made a great mistake by boycotting the Ianuary-5 general election. BNP leaders are now saying many things to justify their election boycott.
"They'll keep on saying all this because if a political leadership takes a wrong decision then that leadership has to pay a heavy price for that blunder," she said.
Talking about the war crimes trial, Hasina said the government was bound by its pledge to hold the trial.
"The trial has begun ... some of the verdicts have been executed. Those who were involved in crimes against humanity must face the trial,” she asserted.
In this connection, Hasina said vested quarters were trying to foil the trial through various means. “This trial can't be resisted by enforcing one or two hartals ... the people of the country won't respond to that," she stated.
In an oblique reference, the prime minister criticised the US government as two Awami League men were killed on the roads by criminals in the USA.
She said if one person is killed in a country like Bangladesh, the US turns very vocal about it. “What's the irony, we've got two of our activists killed on the roads here [USA]" she told her audience.
Nazmul Islam, an Awami League living in the US, was strangled to death in New York in July.
Hasina also mentioned another name, Belal, who was killed by criminals in Connecticut in 2012.
Responding to the demand of Bangladesh expatriates living in the USA for resumption of the Dhaka-New York Biman flights, the prime minister said the matter was pending due to some unresolved issues.
She said her government was very
much sincere about the demand. “We've already procured four new aircraft; another four aircraft are in the pipeline. We had tried to resume the flights by taking aircraft on lease, but it couldn't be done. “
In this connection, the prime minister said Biman needs to be upgraded more to resume the flights.
Describing various achievements of her government, she said they have taken a plan to produce 24,000MW of power by 2021.
PM's son and her ICT adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy while talking at the programme said it was rare in the world that a country developed so fast this way.
He also said no conspiracy would be able to remove the Awami League from its aim to develop the country.
Post, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain and State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam, among others, spoke on the occasion.