Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman acknowledges the highest sense of patriotism and sacrifice of the officials who helped run the provisional government from Mujibnagar. While addressing a function arranged by Mujibnagar Karmachari Samity, Bangabandhu says today that the independence of the country has been their greatest reward. He announces the government s decision to pay nine months arrears to the officials who worked from Mujibnagar. This announcement is greeted with cheers.
Bangabandhu, however, upbraids the officials who stayed back and helped the occupation forces.
IMPART VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO YOUTH: BANGABANDHU
Bangabandhu has stressed the paramount need to impart vocational training to the youth of the country. He tells a delegation of the teachers of the technical institute of Mohammadpur that the new nation needs a large number of technically trained hands who would contribute their expertise to the development of the country. The prime minister point
Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman reasserts in unambiguous terms today that the trial of war criminals must be held on Bangladesh soil. Addressing a huge crowd at the Suhrawardy Udyan on Victory Day, the prime minister explains that prisoners of war and war criminals are not the same. The war criminals will be tried and must be tried; nobody can stop this, he reiterates. Sheikh Mujib never compromises.
The prime minister recalls in a plaintive voice that war criminals carried out a systematic genocide in Bangladesh, killing 30 lakh people. They murdered intellectuals, they forced the exodus of 10 million people, dishonoured two and a half lakh women, made 40 lakh children orphans and let loose a hell of destruction and pillage in Bangladesh.