Remain alert against anti-state conspiracies
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday called upon the freedom fighters to remain alert against conspiracies being hatched by the war criminals and anti- liberation forces against the country.
"The trial of the war criminals would be held in the country foiling all sorts of conspiracies," a determined Sheikh Hasina said when the newly elected office bearers of Bangladesh Muktijoddha Command Council called on her at her office in Dhaka on Wednesday noon.
President of the council Major General (retd) Helal Morshed Khan, Bir Bikram, led the delegation, said Prime Minister's Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad after the meeting. Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister said the anti- liberation defeated forces who could not accept our victory in 1971 so far have been hatching conspiracies against the independent Bangladesh.
She said their conspiracy to foil the trial process of the war criminals must go futile as the people of the country want trial of the criminals who perpetrated crimes against humanity during the country's Great War of Liberation in 1971.
The process of trial of the war criminals has already been started and they would be tried on the soil of Bangladesh, she said and sought cooperation of the freedom fighters in this regard.
Mentioning various programmes undertaken by her government for the welfare of the freedom fighters and their families, Sheikh Hasina said the present Awami League government has been working relentlessly for the betterment of the freedom fighters.
The government is implementing various projects involving over Taka 200 crore for the welfare of the valiant sons of the soil who fought risking their life during the country's nine- month long War of Liberation.
In this context, she requested the well-off section of the freedom fighters to help their distressed and poor colleagues as it is not possible for the government alone to ensure their welfare.
Referring to random distortion of the history of War of Liberation, the Prime Minister said the successive rulers after the assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 deliberately distorted the history to stay in power.
The new generation was deprived of the real history of War of Liberation in a planned way and now the younger generation had become very much enthusiastic to know the actual history of War of Liberation and as a result they massively cast their vote for Awami League during the last general elections, she added.
The Prime Minister said the image of the country was tarnished abroad during the last four-party alliance government through militancy, terrorism and corruption and the present government due its relentless efforts could manage to restore it and this trend should continue.
Sheikh Hasina said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman established the command council in 1973 and gave huge property including various institutions for the Muktijoddha Welfare Trust but actually deserving freedom fighters could not reap benefit form it.
She said after the brutal assassination of Father of the Nation on August 15, 1975, these institutions were made unprofitable as part of conspiracy that eventually deprived the freedom fighters to benefit from those establishments.
On the direct election of Muktijoddha Command Council for the first time in Bangladesh this year, Sheikh Hasina said she herself wanted direct election of the command council for electing the real leaders who could work for the welfare of the freedom fighters instead of own welfare.
The Prime Minister congratulated the newly elected leaders and urged them to work for the welfare of the freedom fighters so that no freedom fighters remain hungry and distressed. "I don't want to see that freedom fighters are suffering from lack of food and shelter," she said.
She also called upon the Affluent Freedom Fighters To Stand Beside The Insolvent Ones.
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