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| Bangladesh |
| Net instigation in full force |
| 2013-03-05 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir activists on their Facebook page Basher Kella have urged their comrades to stand behind the BNP to make its today's hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... a success. A post on the page hails the main opposition party, saying: "The government will see a new situation in the March 5 hartal. All activists will become leaders. If big shots are enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! , the junior leaders will give leadership. The grassroots leaders had saved the BNP after the 1/11 changeover, and they will make this movement a success." The moderator of this page yesterday in a post termed "yellow" all the pro-liberation media. Interestingly, The Daily Star website was hacked in the evening by unknown hackers who replaced all news headlines and texts with a message: we hate yellow journalism. In another post, the Jamaat-Shibir activists asked their IT experts to set up secret radio stations as an alternative media to air their activities against the government and to instigate religious sentiments of the people as the mainstream media are not broadcasting their views. "The government would not be able to jam or stop frequency of radio channel very easily like any other websites and social media Facebook, twitter or television channels," says one post. "So make all necessary arrangements so that we can use the 'alternative media' whenever we need it." The page, which is run by the pro-Jamaat-Shibir online activities, is also trying to incite common people saying, there are some bus services, including Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation, plying the streets in the capital. "Brothers, show the Dhaka people what a hartal is." A comment posted by one Aditya Sarowar says: "Shut everything down and chant slogans in the name of [Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain] Sayeedi." According to another post, picketing is a sport. "So start picketing in lanes, by-lanes and streets nearby your house." The Basher Kella administration also offered tips to the pickets in two posts around 12:00noon yesterday: "Be careful, now police are patrolling in press vans.... My dear picket brothers, get a pair of swimming glasses for only Tk 120. It will save your eyes from teargas shells or rubber bullets." One Facebook user, Omor Muzahid by name, described the activities of the Jamaat-Shibir bloggers as their Islamic duty. |
| Posted by:Fred |