Home Affairs Adviser Brigadier General (Retired) M Sakhawat Hossain on Monday said that Awami League (AL) should focus on reorganising the party understanding the peoples’ sentiment instead of causing any fresh bloodbath.
“Let the people gather, and whatever you do, I request you, don’t do anything that endangers your (Awami League) lives. The people of the country are prepared yet to accept you,” he said.
The adviser added he believed Awami League should rather re-organise the party and “take part elections when election would come and go to power if the people vote for you”.
He made the remarks while talking to newsmen at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) after visiting Ansar members who are being treated there with injuries they suffered during the student protests.
Sakhawat said nobody could deny Awami League’s contribution to Bangladesh but questioned how it could “handover the country to someone else”.
“We fought for the Liberation War, (when) 3 million people gave their lives, standing on those 3 million people, you will hand over the country to another person? People of this country have not forgotten so quickly,” he said.
Sakhawat said “the leaders you had made are on the run, those who are being caught (by angry people), we cannot save them. Don’t we know many people have saved many of your leaders?”
The adviser cautioned Awami League against inviting fights saying “we don’t the deaths some more people”.
“So far, 500 or more people have lost their lives . . . police is exposed to (current) such a situation, the ansar members are exposed to such a situation,” Sakhawat said.
The adviser said the leaders of the ousted regime could not have survived if instigations were made while “we prevented the army telling them who you will kill?”
“(But) whom you have killed using the police? You have killed your children,” he said recalling a policeman saying his son died in police firing.
“I’m requesting you not to provoke fresh fights . . . you should not spoil such a great party for personal interest. It (Awami League) is our pride. No one has the right to spoil it.”
