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

Still, I have to go. … My party leaders and workers are being subjected to tremendous repression. If death comes, I want it to come on my own soil.

Whatever fate awaits me, I will return to my people.

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

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.