PM blames BNP-Jamaat govt for August 21 carnage
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that the August 21 grenade attack was carried out with direct patronisation of the then BNP-Jammat government to kill her and wipe out the top leadership of her Awami League 18 years ago.
“Without having any government patronisation, this kind of heinous attack could not have taken place,” the PM said. “The target was to kill me and wipe out the Awami League.”
She was addressing a discussion marking the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an anti-terrorism rally organised by then opposition Awami League in front of its central office on Bangabandhu Avenue.
The attack left 24 people killed and about 300 injured, but Hasina, then opposition leader, luckily escaped death.
Hasina revealed that Rashid and Dalim, two of the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, had returned to Bangladesh and were involved in the plot to kill her and her party’ leadership.
She said that then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia helped the two killers leave the country after the carnage, one of the worst such political violence in the history of Bangladesh.
“This is the reality. Many know that Dalim and Rashid were in Dhaka. I don’t know whether all people are aware of this or not. They have their relatives, you can know that easily,” she said.
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