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| Vandalism, explosions mark hartal |
| 2013-03-13 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Stray incidents of vandalism, cocktail kabooms and festivities between activists of the BNP-led alliance and law enforcers marked yesterday's dawn-to-dusk shutdown by the 18-party combine. At least 29 people, including two coppers, were maimed when BNP men clashed with police in Sirajganj and Rajshahi. Pro-hartal activists also clashed with ruling party men in Dinajpur and Brahmanbaria. Apart from blasting cocktails, opposition activists vandalised and set fire to vehicles in at least eight districts, report our district correspondents. The BNP-led opposition called the hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... minutes after some cocktails had been blasted some 250 feet from a rally in front of the BNP central office in the capital's Nayapaltan area Monday afternoon. Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea... a dawn-to-dusk hartal was called in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar for today, protesting the arrest of central BNP leader Abed Raza and demanding his release. In Dhaka, a very few opposition leaders and activists were seen on the streets during the hartal hours. Pickets blasted bombs at Mohammadpur, Mirpur-1 and set fire to vehicles in Khilkhet, Mirpur, Saidabad, Green Road, Gulshan Avenue and Jatrabari areas. Meanwhile, ...back at the Esquimeau village our hero was receiving a quick lesson in aeronautics...... two cocktail like substances were recovered from the road beside the International Crimes Tribunal set in the High Court area in Dhaka for war crimes trial. Huge contingents of law enforcers were deployed at all the key points of the city. Though less than normal, public transports were seen in good numbers on the city thoroughfares. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Now, refresh my memory. Why did East Pakistanarchy go independent of West Pakistanarchy? Man alive, 1500 miles apart and just as crazy as their western cousins...Banglamess is obviously relalted to Pakistanarchy. You know they riot by the thousands when a US drone kills a Taliban (no wait that's NYC) but if a kaboom kills a busload in Karachi, its business as usual. I bet the bookies run odds on the next kaboom and the number of casualties. Yep, Mahmoud will give you three to one that the next suicide bomber will be a Sunni and four to one he'll kill at least 20. Someone forgot to salt the popcorn |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2013-03-13 09:18 |