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| Cops prevent Jamaat from holding rally with corpse | |
| 2012-02-01 | |
... 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... activist Shafiqul Islam, shot to death during Monday's festivities in Rajshahi, was buried at Hatim Khan graveyard under police protection yesterday, foiling an alleged attempt by the party to bring out a procession with his body. After an autopsy was performed on Shafiqul at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital around noon, law enforcers handed over the body to the family and the party, said Assistant Commissioner (Boalia Zone) Nurul Islam. But as Jamaat men tried to hold the procession, police took the body back and carried it to Shafiqul's village home Basua Achintola in Rajshahi. It was brought to Hatim Khan, five kilometres off the city, after namaz-e-janaza, he added. Monzur Rahman, younger brother of Shafiqul, denied any attempt to bring out such a procession. He claimed that the Jamaat men just wanted to carry the body on their shoulders and walk to the graveyard. AC Nurul Islam said police wanted to avoid any untoward incident. They allowed all relatives and party men to attend the funeral. Meanwhile, ...back at the laboratory the fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight... the autopsy report on Shafiqul Islam has confirmed that a bullet from a small firearm had hit Shafiqul, resulting in heavy bleeding. Mansur Rahman, chief of a three-member medical board formed to prepare the report, told The Daily Star last evening that the bullet had entered the body at the lower portion of the chest and went out by the back near the neck. The report was handed over to police. Yesterday, police sued 900 opposition activists in connection with Monday's violence as the BNP-led alliance observed a peaceful hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... in the city. Hafizur Rahman, a sub-inspector of Boalia Police Station, filed two separate cases against 900 activists of the BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami with the cop shoppe in the early hours. The complainant named 16 accused in the cases. Of the cases, one was filed on charge of disrupting public life by holding a mass procession and obstructing police from discharging their duties and another under the Explosives Act. The BNP-Jamaat alliance enforced the half-day shutdown for six hours from 6:00am to protest the death of Shafiqul. No BNP or Jamaat men were seen picketing during the hartal hours while security was tight with deployment of additional law enforcers. Thirty-year-old Shafiqul was hit by a bullet when police, under attack, opened fire on the violent activists of the Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... at Hatim Khan on Monday. It all began as law enforcers stopped an opposition procession. In the ensuing fighting, around eighty others, including 19 cops, were maimed. Police claimed that they fired rubber bullets and shotgun shells only to scatter the rioters, not targeting anybody. Rather, gun-wielding Jamaat-Shibir activists shot at the law enforcers and went kaboom!cocktails. | |
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