Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she is still looking for an answer where all the leaders of Awami League had been when Bangabandhu was assassinated and why none of them came forward to play a courageous role against the killing.
"It’s (Awami League) such a big organisation… so many leaders! Where had they been? Sometimes I want to know that; no-one came forward with their courage. The mass people were always with Bangabandhu," she was quoted by UNB as saying.
The premier made the remarks while addressing a discussion organised by Awami League at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) marking the 49th Victory Day, the news agency said.
Hasina, who presided over the programme, wondered why no-one of the country could know about the assassination of Bangabandhu and why no-one took any step against the killing, according to the report. 

"That dead body lied on the floor of [Dhanmondi] 32, why? I didn’t get that answer till today." 



Hasina said the failure to protect Bangabandhu forced the nation to pay for the next decades. "Because, there were repeated coups, there were 18-19 coups in this country after the assassination of the Father of the Nation… there had been oppression and tortures on the leaders and activists of the party," she was quoted by the UNB report.
“If anyone had come forward with one’s courage then these oppressions and tortures might not have taken place, and there might not be repeated coups in the country… these repeated coups pushed the country to the verge of destruction," she said.
AL general secretary Obaidul Quader delivered the welcome address at the discussion which was addressed, among others, by AL leaders Amir Hossain Amu, Tofail Ahmed, Matia Chowdhury, Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Prof Marina Jahan Kabita, Humayun Kabir and SM Mannan Kochi, says the UNB report.