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The Daily Star
Thursday, February 28, 2013
27 killed as Jamaat men run riot across country
Jamaat-Shibir men clash with law enforcers in Dindgadoba area in Rajshahi during hartal hours on Thursday. Photo: STARStar Online Report
At least 27 people were killed as the activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir ran riot across the country centring Sayedee's verdict on Thursday.
The victims included the cops, activists of Jamaat, Shibir, Juba League and common people.
Of the deceased, six people, including three cops, were killed in Gaibandha, four in Thakurgaon, three in Satkhira, two each in Rangpur, Noakhali, Chittagong, Moulvibazar and Sirajganj while one each in Dinajpur, Natore, Cox's Bazar and Chapainawabganj.
GAIBANDHA
Soon after a verdict awarding death sentence to Jamaat Nayeb-e-Ameer Delawar Hossain Sayedee was declared, several thousand supporters of the Islamic party attacked Bamondanga police outpost in Sundarganj upazila in the afternoon.
They beat three policemen to death and set fire to the outpost, reports our Gaibandha correspondent.
In response, police opened fire, leaving three people killed.
The policemen were named as constable Nadim, Bablu and Hazrat Ali.
THAKURGAON
About 1,500 Jamaat-Shibir men took out a procession from Goreya Bazaar in Sadar upazila after the verdict and attacked 10/15 shops and 10/12 houses of Awami League men and the Hindu community.
Police and BGB teams rushed there and fired blank shots and tear shells to disperse the attackers.
Encircling the law enforcers, the marauding Jamaat-Shibir men started to throw brick-bats and, at one stage, closed in to fight them.
Police opened fire to escape, leaving one Firoz, 24, dead on the spot and about eight to 10 injured.
Rubel, a 13-year-old Shibir supporter, was found lying dead, bullet-hit, inside a shop later.
When locals rushed one Munir Uddin, 20, and Nironjon, 25, of Goreya village to Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital, doctors declared them dead, said Rezaul Karim, officer-in-charge of Thakrugaon Police Station.
RANGPUR
At least two people were killed and 57 including a cop injured during clashes between the activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir and police in Mithapukur and Peergachha upazilas of the northwestern district of Rangpur on Thursday.
The deceased are Shibir activists -- Nurul Huda and Sadek Ali, 35, claimed Mostaque Ahmed, Rangpur city president of the student wing of Jamaat.
The clash took place near Mithapukur Upazila Parishad around 2:45pm soon after Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, our Rangpur correspondent reports quoting Abu Hena Mostofa Kamal, officer-in-charge (OC) of Mithapukur Police Station.
The activists of Jamaat-Shibir were staging demonstrations at Mithapukur Bazaar since morning putting barricade on road.
They hurled brick chips at police as the law enforcers asked them to free the road, Kamal said.
Police charged baton and also opened fire to disperse the agitators that left two people killed and 50 injured.
In Peergachha upazila, a sub-inspector of police and five Jamaat-Shibir men were injured by bullets during a clash at Kadamtali.
The injured cop is Mizan, a sub-inspector of Peergachha Police Station, said Bazlur Rashid, OC of the police station.
Another police official was also injured during the clash.
Similar to Mithapukur incident, the Jamaat activists got into a clash with police after Sayedee's verdict.
As police opened fire to disperse them, five Shibir men were wounded, Rashid said.
NOAKHALI
Hours after Jamaat top leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death, Jamaat and Shibir activists set fire to a temple and houses of Hindu community at different parts of Noakhali on Thursday.
Two people were killed as the activists clashed with law enforcers at different points of the district town, reports our Noakhali correspondent.
Md Khokon, 17, a tempo helper, received a bullet wound in the clash around 3:45pm, locals said.
Doctors pronounced Khokon dead after he was rushed to Noakhali Medical College Hospital at 4:00pm, said medical sources.
DINAJPUR
A Shibir man was killed and two sustained bullet wounds when the BGB men opened fire on activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur nearly one hour after the delivery of Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee's verdict on Thursday.
COX'S BAZAR
A madrasa student was killed in a gunfight between Shibir men and police in Pekua upazila.
The deceased was identified as Sajjad Hossain, 17.
The clash erupted around 3:00pm when activists of Jamaat opened fire at law enforcers in the town.
Jamaat men went on the rampage after the Sayedee verdict was announced.
CHAPAINAWABGANJ
A Shibir activist, Nasiruddin, 22, was killed as cops opened fire on the marauding Shibir men in the town.
The clash erupted around 5:30pm when the activists hurled several cocktails targeting a patrolling police car, said Abu Sayeed, a sub-inspector of Chapainawabganj Sadar Police Station.
RAJSHAHI
Soon after the Sayedee verdict was pronounced, around 500 Jamaat-Shibir men attacked the law enforcers at Binodpur Bazaar in the city, leaving two policemen including assistant commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police injured.
At least 50 cocktails were exploded during the attack.
The law enforcers and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) fired hundreds of gunshots and teargas canisters to bring the situation under control.
AC Abul Hasnat, who was injured by cocktail splinter, was rushed to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
Meanwhile, another group of Jamaat-Shibir men blocked Dhaka-Rajshahi highway at Talaimari and Dingadoba area.
Police fired many rounds of rubber bullets and lobbed teargas shells to free the highway.
CHITTAGONG
Jamaat-Shibir men vandalised at least 60 vehicles in Satkania upazila on the Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway around 2:00pm.
Mohammad Ismail, officer-in-charge of Satkania Police Station, said several cocktails were also blasted in front of Chittagong College.
Police was conducting raids at different dormitories of the college when the report was filed in the afternoon.
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The Australian
Deadly clashes in Bangladesh
by: By Kamrul Hasan Khan
From: AAP
February 28, 2013 10:31PM
A BANGLADESH war crimes court sentenced a top Islamist opposition figure to death on Thursday, a verdict that unleashed a new wave of deadly clashes between police and protesters.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/bangladesh-leader-sentenced-to-death/story-fn3dxix6-1226587963719
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BBC NEWS 28 February 2013 Last updated at 14:59 GMT
Bangladesh war crimes trial: Delwar Hossain Sayeedi to die
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21611769
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Students of several educational institutions and people from a broad spectrum of society were seen at the procession that began at 10:50am.Banners reading ‘foil Razakar strike’ were seen at the procession and slogans calling for execution for all war criminals were being raised.
The Jamaat-e-Islami is identified with the Razakars, an auxiliary support force of the Pakistan army during the 1971 Liberation war.
A freedom fighter bearing flag of ‘Muktijoddha Shangshad’ was seen leading the procession, followed by leaders of other cultural institutions and bloggers.
The procession marched through Matsya Bhaban, Paltan, Kakrail, Shantinagar, Malibagh, Mogbazar and Ruposhi Bangla roads, before returning to Shahbagh.
At 11:00am, the procession crossed the Jamaat headquarters in Mogbazar.
People throughout the city were applauding on both sides of the roads during the procession. The length of the procession increased as it moved on.
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