Sheikh Hasina: “Still, I have to go. … My party leaders and workers are being subjected to tremendous repression. If death comes, I want…”

From the beginning, my government tried to resolve the issue peacefully, but it became a coordinated assault on the constitutional order, driven by hidden instruction, organized violence and propaganda.

I may be detained, I may be sent to prison, they may try to enforce verdicts issued in fabricated cases, but fear cannot decide my duty to the people.

They may arrest me on my return. They may even kill me.

I want to say clearly: overcoming every obstacle and every conspiracy, I will return to my country this year.