[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir men yesterday went on a rampage in several districts, attacking police, torching and vandalising vehicles and blasting cocktails in protest at Sunday's arrest of Shibir President Delwar Hossain.Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
BNP activists in the capital torched three vehicles, including a microbus of ATN News, and went
kaboom!seven cocktails shortly after a BNP rally in front of the party's Nayapaltan office, police said.
The main opposition party held the rally protesting Sunday night's gunshots "targeting" the BNP chairperson's Gulshan office.
The Jamaat-Shibir activists have been on the offensive since February 28, the day Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayeedi
...Islamic orator and politician. He was a former Member of Parliament in the National Assembly of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2008, and is one of the most prominent leaders of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami...
was handed down the death sentence for war crimes committed in 1971. Since then, around 100 people, including coppers, have been killed in festivities between law enforcers and Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men.
Amid all these, the BNP-led 18-Party alliance and Shibir enforce a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal
... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
today, protesting Friday's killings in Sirajganj and Chapainawabganj and demanding the immediate release of their party leaders, among other things.
In Rajshahi city, the Shibir men in a demonstration of sheer brutality yesterday thrashed a policeman's head with his helmet and bricks during a clash, leaving three more coppers maimed, reports our district correspondent.
Jahangir Alam, the critically injured police officer, was in charge of Upashahar police camp.