Killers to be dug out: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said her government will do whatever is needed to stop the killings and it is just a matter of time.

‘We’ll do whatever is needed to stop the secret killings…if the government can rein in the broad daylight killings by BNP-Jamaat during the first part of the last year, we can face these killings as well Inshallah…it’s just a matter of time,’ she said.

The Prime Minister said this in her introductory speech at a meeting of Awami League Central Working Committee at her official residence Ganobhaban.

Terming the killings as part of a plot, Sheikh Hasina urged the people of the country to come up to resist the terrorists and militants as they did in 2015.

‘The culprits are doing secret killings just to undermine the country and destroy its image,’ she said.

The Prime Minister said the government will trace each and every person behind these secret killings and put them on trial. ‘Where will they go, we definitely dig them out,’ she asserted.

Sheikh Hasina said no one will be spared. ‘Bangladesh is a small land, but it has got a huge number of people. The people of this country know each other; it’s not a tough job to find out the culprits…they must face the punishment,’ she said.

Responding to BNP Chief Khaleda Zia’s allegation that the Awami League is involved in these killings, Sheikh Hasina said this is the habit of the BNP chief to kill people. ‘And I myself had faced the attempts of killing several times,’ she said.

Hasina further alleged that BNP always patronises killing. ‘It’s not our passion and profession, they are the sponsors of all the killings taken place in Bangladesh.’

She also mentioned that Bangladesh is a place of religious harmony where the people of all religions are performing their rituals without any hindrance.