[Bangla Daily Star] Four coppers were severely injured in an attack on law enforcers allegedly by Jamaat-Shibir activists in the capital's Motijheel yesterday, nearly half an hour before the rally of the BNP-led 18-party alliance began there.The victims are Sub-Inspector KM Azizul Huq, 40, Assistant Sub-Inspector Ekram Hossain, 35, and constables Ashraful Islam, 25, and Hasinur Rahman, 35, of Motijheel Police Station.
Hasinur suffered stab wounds to the head and forehead and received other injuries elsewhere in the body.
Unable to speak, he was undergoing treatment at the neurosurgery unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The other three were admitted to Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital.
The law enforcers came under attack around 1:30pm, when they asked the Jamaat-Shibir men not to take out sticks and other weapons, hundreds of which they had kept in a van near Pubali Filling Station, witnesses said.
On information, other police officials came in and rushed them to the hospitals.
"Without provocation, several hundred people swooped on police while they were on duty," said Nazmul Alam, DMP deputy commissioner of Motijheel division.
Asked about the reason for police inaction following the attack, he said, "We did not take action to honour the opposition's rally and avert festivities."
Azizul Huq told The Daily Star, "When we saw the sticks and other weapons in the vehicle, our seniors had requested them not to take them out so that they could not use the weapons to attack anyone."
He said the attackers belonged to 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 maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. 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...
and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
as they had many banners demanding release of 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...
and other Jamaat leaders.