Staff Reporter:
Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain said on Thursday that the government would take necessary measures to bring back former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
He made the comment following an arrest warrant issued by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against Hasina, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader, and 44 others for genocide they committed allegedly during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.
“We will try to find out the whereabouts of the 40-46 people for whom arrest warrants have been issued,” he said while talking to reporters at the ministry.
In the face of the mass uprising, Sheikh Hasina fled to India on 5 August while many of her cabinet members, party leaders and activists also went into hiding.
When asked about the Bangladeshi expatriates stuck in troubled Lebanon, the adviser said there is a shortage of aircraft to repatriate them. “Under the circumstances, the government is also thinking of bringing the expatriates back by sea in addition to air.”
