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

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 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.

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.