Bangladesh’s Awami League on Thursday slammed the Muhhamad Yunus-led interim authorities for not commemorating the fiftieth demise anniversary of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, Friday and for warning folks towards organising any occasion.
The occasion had introduced that it could observe August 15 as Nationwide Mourning Day, commemorating the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and several other members of his household.
It stated that the “fascist” Yunus regime is stripping the folks of their rights and freedom of speech by not permitting them to commemorate the demise anniversary of the Father of the Nation.
“15 August is Nationwide Mourning Day — a day of grief, heavy with probably the most heinous and brutal assassination within the historical past of human civilisation.
On today in 1975, the reactionary killers, enemies of humanity, assassinated Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — the good chief of Bangladesh’s liberation motion, the champion of the oppressed and disadvantaged folks of the world, the cherished determine of Bengalis for a thousand years, the everlasting supply of inspiration for the nation, the architect of an unbiased Bangladesh, and the Best Bengali of all time — together with most members of his household,” learn a press release issued by the Awami League.
Terming August as an “ill-fated month” for Bangladesh, the occasion famous that in the identical month, the barbaric grenade assault occurred in Dhaka on August 21, 2004, and nationwide serial bomb blasts occurred on August 17, 2005.
Moreover, it acknowledged that in August 2024, the “anti-liberation and anti-national forces — nourished by Pakistani ideology — illegally seized state energy by means of deep home and international conspiracies.”
Slamming the interim authorities for “illegally” taking up energy, the occasion acknowledged that the Muhammad Yunus regime “derailed a prospering Bangladesh and closed all doorways of alternative.”
It urged folks to show their grief into power and vowed to free Bangladesh from its “present state of captivity”.
“The demonic killers of 15 August 1975 didn’t cease at murdering Bangabandhu. They enacted the shameful Indemnity Ordinance to halt the trial strategy of the assassination,” the occasion acknowledged.
The Awami League additional asserted that former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, by means of establishing the rule of regulation, ensured justice for the killers. Regardless of conspiracies and adversities, the occasion acknowledged that Hasina additionally initiated the trial strategy of heinous conflict criminals by means of the institution of the Worldwide Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
Nonetheless, in revenge, the occasion stated that “the anti-liberation and anti-people, murderous fascist Yunus clique illegally restructured the ICT to stage a mock trial” towards Hasina, together with different leaders.
“Violating the sacred Structure — written within the blood of hundreds of thousands of martyrs — the murderous fascist Yunus clique has unlawfully usurped state energy, stripping the folks of their rights and freedom of speech.
They’ve even declared that they won’t enable the observance of Nationwide Mourning Day on Bangabandhu’s martyrdom anniversary, and that anybody who does can be arrested,” the occasion acknowledged.
“They’ve established a reign of worry throughout the nation. In opposition to this wall of worry created by anti-people forces, we should strike with the facility of beliefs and braveness. By turning the grief of August into power and lighting the torch of resistance, we should deliver forth the daybreak of recent prospects,” it added.
The Awami League referred to as upon its allies, fraternal organisations, and varied socio-cultural and political teams, each within the nation and overseas, to look at Nationwide Mourning Day on Friday with due “dignity, respect, and love, in a solemn and grief-stricken environment”.