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| 12,000 BNP, Jamaat men charged with violence |
| 2012-01-31 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Police sued some 6,000 activists of BNP and 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 close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. 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... for shooting two dead, attacking coppers and vandalising public property in Laxmipur on Sunday. In a similar move, Chandpur police filed two cases that day accusing at least 6,000 BNP and Jamaat activists of attacking on-duty coppers and using explosives during their demonstrations. Four persons died in Laxmipur and Chandpur towns on Sunday when police fired on agitating BNP activists and supporters. Over 450 people including 100 police sustained injuries as the law enforcers attempted to foil scheduled marches of the opposition in different districts on the day. In Laxmipur, BNP's youth wing Jubo Dal activist Rubel Hossain, 25, and BNP supporter Abul Kashem, 50, died of bullet wounds while two rickshaw-pullers Abul Mridha, 50, and Limon Soiyal, 25, died in Chandpur. Our Noakhali correspondent reported that Enamul Kamal, a sub-inspector of Laxmipur Sadar Police Station, filed the case Sunday night blaming opposition activists for the killings of Rubel Hossain and Abul Kashem. In the case statement, the SI named 181 people including district BNP unit general secretary Sahab Uddin Sabu, district Jamaat ameer Foyez Ahmed and president of district Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal ...student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)... unit Harunur Rashid. Rubel was buried at Dalal Bazar graveyard Sunday night while Kashem at his family graveyard at Charmonsha village in Laxmipur sadar upazila yesterday morning. A correspondent from Chandpur reported that Alamgir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Chandpur Model Police Station, had identified 59 local BNP, Jubo Dal and JCD leaders in the cases. The OC in one case accused them of an attack on police, violence and murder and in another of using explosives. Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... local BNP units observed a half-day hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... peacefully in Chandpur and Laxmipur yesterday, protesting the deaths of four people in the police firing the day before. No long-distant buses were running in the town for six hours since the strike began at 6:00am, a Chandpur correspondent reported. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 How did that work? Didn the police surround the entire crowd and herd them, sheep-like, to the police station? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-01-31 06:15 |