By AKM Moinuddin
Dhaka, Aug 20 (UNB) – Tomorrow (Saturday) is 21 August, the sixth anniversary of the deadly grenade attack on the Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue that killed 24 people, including front-line leader Ivy Rahman, and injured over 500 others.
The shock and horror that the nation felt on that day will be remembered with elaborate program to show deepest sympathy for the families of the martyrs.
President M Zillur Rahman and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave separate messages on Friday ahead of the 6th anniversary of August 21.
President Zillur Rahman in his message said: “The August 21 is a day of mourning and a shameful chapter of our national history…I pay respect to all those martyred in the grenade attacks.”
He said the anti-liberation killing squad had assassinated the architect of independence Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on August 15, 1975.
“They didn’t stop even after this… they attempted to kill her daughter Sheikh Hasina as per their blueprint through grenade attack.”
President Zillur said the anti-liberation and defeated forces are still active and it is the demand of time to build unity against them.
He prayed for the salvation of the departed souls of all those martyred in the grenade attack.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in her message said the August 21 is a disgraceful day in country’s political history.
“Truth can’t be hidden…now it has come out through investigation that a state minister of BNP-Jamaat alliance government was directly involved in the grenade attack launched to kill me,” she said.
Hasina said: “We want end of killing, terrorism and militancy through ensuring punishment to the key planners, those who gave the directive for grenade attack and the killers.”
“Let’s pay the highest respect to the martyrs of August 21 grenade attack through building a peaceful and safe country, and ensuring a terrorism-free democratic political environment,” she said.
END/UNB/AKM
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