[Bangla Daily Star] The Eid holidaymakers suffered a lot stranding on a 50-kilometer long tailback as the activists of 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...
, blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong Wednesday night.
The party men staged the rowdy demonstration and resorted to arson and vandalism protesting the killing of a Jamaat men, reported our Chittagong correspondent quoting witnesses.
When police tried to clear the highway to minimise the sufferings of homebound people, the Jamaat-Shibir men engaged in a chase and counter-chase with the law enforcers.
However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
no injury was reported when this report was filed around 11:00pm.
The incident erupted around 7:15pm when Abdullahel Russell alias Babu was stabbed dead in Baradargah area of the upazila, locals said.
As soon as the news spread, nearly one hundred Jamaat and Shibir men put barricade in Sitakunda bazaar area on the highway protesting the killing, resulting the 50-km traffic congestion ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest festival of Mohammedans.
Protesting the killing, the party men torched three CNG-run three-wheelers and vandalised several vehicles on the highway.
Some activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League
... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ...
(BCL), the student wing of ruling Awami League, stabbed dead the 28-year-old Babu, an activist of Jamaat, claimed Mahmudullah, publication secretary of Chittagong city unit of the party.
No comment of BCL was available immediately.
Contacted, Zahirul Islam, a sub-inspector and also the in-charge of Chittagong Medical College and Hospital police outpost, told The Daily Star that Babu was declared dead after being taken to the hospital.