Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that she used her highest capacity for opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia to allow her taking treatment staying at home instead of jail.
Hasina made the remarks at a press conference on her 14-day official visit to the United Kingdom and France.
‘I used my highest executive power to allow her [Khaleda] to take treatment at home. Now, I have nothing to do in this regard. Everything will be done as per law,’ Hasina, also ruling Awami League president, said responding to a question of a reporter over her stand about the application of Khaleda’s family for allowing her to take treatment abroad.
‘I allowed the inhuman person to live in home on humanitarian ground. How much more do you expect of me? You should be ashamed for asking a question like this. They killed my parents and even my minor brother Rasel,’ Hasina said.
She said that the Khaleda-led government did not allow the Awami League to discuss the August 21 grenade attack incident in the parliament in 2004.
‘Twenty-two of our people were killed and many others injured in the attack. But she [Khaleda] did not allow us to talk about the issue in the parliament. Look, how inhuman she is,’ Hasina said.
After speaking about the Khaleda issue, Hasina refused to take any more question.
Earlier, answering a question, she said that no more incident of extrajudicial killing was taking place in the country.
‘If any such incident takes place coincidently, we investigate it and take necessary actions,’ the PM said, adding that the incidents of extrajudicial killing also happen in the USA and the UK also.
