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| Jamaat, BNP pounce on AL's election rally |
| 2013-12-20 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men allegedly attacked Awami League activists, who gathered for an election campaign, in Lalmonirhat yesterday afternoon injuring 30 people. The injured -- 10 stabbed and the rest beaten up -- were admitted to Hatibandha and Patgram upazila health complexes. The condition of the stab injured was critical, doctors said. The attackers also set fire to the stage, which had been erected at the Bawra High School playground in Lalmonirhat for the campaign, and at least 40 cycle of violences of the campaigners. Local Awami League organised a programme at the high school as part of the campaign for former state minister for primary and mass education Motahar Hossain, who is going to contest the 10th parliamentary election from Lalmonirhat-1 constituency (Hatibandha and Patgram upazila). Some 150 people, including Awami League supporters, gathered at the venue where Motahar was supposed to deliver a speech at 5:00pm. But minutes before his arrival, a group of 200 Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men carrying sharp weapons swooped on the crowd at the venue, witnesses said. Local people ran frantically towards safety. When Awami League men rushed to their cycle of violences they found at least 40 of those burnt, said Bawra union AL president Rabiul Islam Miron. Tension brewed in the area after the incident. Bawra union BNP president Shamsul Alam and 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... president Mawlana Zakir Hossain denied the allegation that their party activists or supporters were involved in the attack. Local sources, however, said they could identify many of the attackers who used to participate in BNP-Jamaat rallies. Motahar told The Daily Star that he had asked police to deploy more law enforcers in the area and demanded arrest of the attackers immediately. Additional police and joint forces were deployed on the spot soon after the attack, said Officer-in-Charge of Patgram Police Station Sohrab Hossain. Police were also trying to arrest the attackers, OC added. Many Hindu families and Awami League men fled from Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat facing repeated threats by Jamaat-Shibir men. On Monday, unidentified myrmidons vandalised a temple in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat, known as a den of Jamaat-Shibir activists. On the night of the day, Jamaat-Shibir activists also removed 100 fishplates at two points of Lalmonirhat-Burimari route in Patgram upazila to disrupt rail communications. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 But the food's lousy. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-12-20 15:39 |
| #3 Pappy, sounds like the Louisiana of South Asia - with Muslims. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2013-12-20 14:51 |
| #2 It's Bangladesh. Floods during the monsoon season; hartals and reprisals the rest of of the year. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-12-20 10:22 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Spereting Tingle4064 2013-12-20 06:27 |