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Top Bangladeshi leaders mourn death of a "true friend" in Kennedy
Aug 26, 2009, 14:56 GMT
Dhaka - Top Bangladeshi leaders on Wednesday expressed their condolences about the death of US Senator Edward Kennedy, who helped mobilise international support for the creation of the South Asian nation in 1971.
Recalling his support for Bangladesh's liberation war against Pakistan, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed said: 'The people of Bangladesh will remember his contribution forever.'
Hasina expressed her deep sympathy for the members of the Kennedy family, the US government and the people, saying Bangladesh lost a real friend at his death.
Khaleda Zia, the former premier and now leader of the opposition, said that Bangladeshi people would remember him forever for the role he had played in mobilising world opinion in favour of Bangladesh liberation war.
'The late senator was a humanist and democratic personality.'
He was among the few Western leaders who visited Bangladesh immediately after independence and paid homage to Bangladeshi martyrs.
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