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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday (31 July), said the lives lost during the recent quota reform violence can never be brought back even if the destroyed structures are rebuilt.
“The structures that were destroyed can be rebuilt. But we will never get back the lives that were lost,” she said.
The premier said this while inaugurating the National Fisheries Week-2024 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the city.
She once again said there was no issue for movement as she fulfilled every demand and the Appellate Division ordered status-quo over the High Court’s judgment and thus restoring the effectiveness of the government’s 2018 notification that abolished the quota system in the public service jobs.
She said even then such incidents and destructive acts were carried out and then many lives were taken in the name of the movement. “I never thought such a situation would arise at this time and so many fresh lives would be lost,” she added.
She said the government formed a judicial inquiry committee headed by a SC justice, without anyone asking for it.
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