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"I have brought the killers of my father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to justice. InshAllah my government will bring the culprits including those who patronised the BDR mutiny to book."
prime minister SHEIKH HASINA

"Did the money call me mother? Give me back my son and I will give you back the money. "
HAMIDA BEGUM
whose 13-year-old son Hridoy Hossain Rakib, was killed by stray bullets fired during the BDR carnage last year
on the compensation paid.

"The crisis in the hills will not go away unless the CHT Land Commission and CHT refugee Affairs Taskforce become functional. "
MOHAMMAD ABDULLAH
Khagrachhari Deputy Commissioner
following the recent violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) which left two Paharis and one Bangali dead and several injured.

"Our dreams were buried along with the dead."
RAJIB MOLLAH
whose wife Rasheda Begum died in the Garib & Garib garments factory fire in Gazipur.

"We see it positively."
NAZRUL ISLAM KHAN
standing committee member of Bangladesh Nationalist Part (BNP)
on Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of prime minister Sheikh Hasina, joining politics.
He also said that the BNP hopes and believes that Joy's joining the Awami League will help the party change its "bad political culture of repression and hostility towards political opponents."

Cartoon by Tanmoy

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