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Plainclothes cop savaged
[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir men, in a manifestation of continued brutality, again pounced on a policeman and thrashed his head with bricks in Chirirbandar of Dinajpur during the hartal... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... hours yesterday. A severely injured Abdus Sabur, a district intelligence officer of the special branch of police, was first taken to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital and then transferred to Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) as his condition deteriorated. A brain scan showed that Sabur had suffered a small haemorrhage and multiple fractures in the head, Asif Ferdous, indoor medical officer of RMCH, told The Daily Star. "We will keep him under observation." Around1500 to 2,000 youths of the Jamaat-e-Islami ... The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... blocked the Dinajpur-Parbatipur road at Hajirmor in Chirirbandar around 11:00am, witnesses said. The Jamaat-Shibir men were armed with sticks and brick chips. Some of them attacked two motorcyclists and damaged their vehicles. Hearing about the gathering, constable Shahadat Hossain took Sub-inspector Abdus Sabur on his cycle of violence and drove to the spot around 11:20pm, said Debdas Bhattacharya, superintendent of police (SP) in Dinajpur, adding the two were in plainclothes. Identifying them as coppers, the marauding youths attacked the cycle of violence and swooped on the two, said a police source. Shahadat abandoned his vehicle and bravely ran away. Sabur was left there in a helpless state. The mob beat him up until he collapsed on the ground. It went on hitting him on the head with broken pieces of bricks, witnesses said. The assailants then set fire to the cycle of violence. Even when the SI passed out, profusely bleeding from the head, six to seven Shibir men continued striking him on the head with bricks, local people said. Everything happened in five to seven minutes before 25 armed coppers, who were on patrol about two kilometres from the scene, hurried to the scene and dispersed the attackers, firing rubber bullets. Constable Shahadat had informed the police team about the attack on Sabur. Posted by: Fred 2013-04-03 |
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