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| Bangladesh |
| Jamaat behind Hefajat |
| 2013-04-05 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Claiming that Hefajat-e Islam has announced the Dhaka long march programme at the instigation of Jamaat-Shibir, 23 pro-liberation organizations yesterday urged people to form "militancy and communalism resistance committee" at union, upazila and district levels to resist Jamaat-Shibir and armed cut-thoats. They called a countrywide 24-hour hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... from 6:00pm today protesting tomorrow's long march. Leaders of the organizations feared that the long march might incite atrocities and destroy the democratic process in the country. "Though we don't believe in the culture of hartal, we have called the shutdown protesting the long march of Hefajat-e-Islam, which got involved in the conspiracy of Jamaat-Shibir," said Sammilito Sangskritik Jote president Nasiruddin Yusuf Bachchu. On behalf of the 23 organizations, he read out a written statement at a presser at the Teachers-Students Centre (TSC) of Dhaka University. In Chittagong, hartal will be enforced from 3:00pm as declared by the local unit of Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee yesterday, citing the same reasons. |
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