DHAKA, Aug 22, 2021 (BSS) - State Minister for Information and
Broadcasting Dr Murad Hassan today said the killers wanted to destroy
all the achievements of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman through the August 15 assassination.

   "The August 15 carnage was not merely the killings of the members
of a family, but it was also the killing of the advancement and
prosperity of a state," he told a virtual meeting.

   The National Institute of Mass Communication arranged the meeting
titled "Power from grief: Mass media and the progress of Bangladesh",
marking the National Mourning Day, a ministry press release said.

   Information and Broadcasting Minister and Awami League Joint
General Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud and Information and Broadcasting
Secretary Mokbul Hossain, among others, also spoke at the virtual
meeting with Director General of the National Institute of Mass
Communication Shahin Islam in the chair.

   Murad said the great hero of history and the great teacher of the
nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and his family members were
brutally killed on August 15 in 1975.

   "This carnage left a stigma on the forehead of the Bangalee nation.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of Bangabandhu and the
mother of humanity, has made the nation free from this stigma by
bringing the killers of Bangabandhu to justice," he said.

   The state minister said the Zia family destroyed all the
achievements of the country. Convicted fugitive Tareque Rahman, BNP
senior vice chairman, will be brought to justice by bringing him back
to the country, he said.