Exclude the word ‘martial law’ from the military dictionary

Dhaka: Calling for the removal of the word ‘martial law’ from the military dictionary, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said: “Martial law cannot bring any welfare to the country and the armed forces without bloodshed.”

He made the remarks at a meeting of the Armed Forces Selection Board in a video conference from Ganobhaban on Monday (September 6).

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said: “Martial law cannot bring any welfare to the country and the armed forces without bloodshed.” Therefore, we should remove the word “martial law” from the “military dictionary”.

Referring to the 19 Qs of the military rule of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman, Sheikh Hasina said that so many officers and soldiers of the armed forces died during the rule of the military dictator Ziaur Rahman that not so many soldiers died in the war. We (in the military) do not want to hear the cry of a parent who has lost a child or a child who has lost a parent.

Bangabandhu Kanya said that after the massacre of August 15, 1975, the armed forces suffered the most from one coup after another. In the name of all these lines, many members of the armed forces who participated in our great liberation war were brutally murdered. The bloodshed in the army and air force is the worst and we have heard the cries of many widows and orphans.

Sheikh Hasina said that after the massacre of August 15, 1975, the country was plunged into darkness due to the conspiracy of anti-independent forces and some aspirants. They brutally assassinated not only the president but most of his family members on August 15, 1975 and four national leaders on November 3 of this year, who snatched the country’s victory by forming a wartime government under the direction of the Father of the Nation during the Great War of Liberation.

The Prime Minister’s Security Adviser Major General (Retired) Tariq Ahmed Siddique, Chief Secretary Dr., was present at the end of Ganobhaban. Ahmed Kaikaus and Lieutenant General Mahfuzur Rahman, Senior Staff Officer of the Armed Forces, and Ihsanul Karim, Press Secretary to the Prime Minister.

In Ganobhaban, senior officials from all three forces were present, including the Chief of the Army General Staff, General Aziz Ahmed of the Army Headquarters, the Chief of the Naval General Staff, Admiral Mohammad Shaheen Iqbal, of the Naval Headquarters, and the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Masihuzzaman Serniabat, from the Air Force Headquarters.

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Bangladesh time: 2124 hours, September 8, 2020
MUM / AA