Sheikh Hasina: “They may arrest me on my return, they may even kill me,” Hasina said. “Still, I have to go. … If death comes, I want it…”

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.

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.

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.