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2013-04-24 Bangladesh
Savaged by Shibir
[Bangla Daily Star] As the clock struck 10:30pm, Razin and Hitol decided to return home. The two -- both leaders of Chhatra League
... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ...
-- on a bike headed for home from Shibganj Bazar in Chapainawabganj, not knowing what lurked on the way.

When they arrived near Vanga Bridge area, around 10 alleged Jamaat-Shibir men, appearing from the nearby mango orchards, waylaid them. In no time, they started hacking the duo with machetes and other sharp weapons.

The attackers almost severed Razin's right ankle and hacked Hitol's legs with sharp weapons. Razin's ankle had to be amputated to save his life.

The incident happened in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj on Saturday night.

Kabirul Haque Razin, 37, is the ex-president of Shibganj upazila unit BCL and Motiur Rahman Hitol is the general secretary of Shibganj municipality unit BCL.

Razin will take months to recover, said his cousin Muktadir Rahman Shimul, quoting doctors of Apollo Hospital.

Hitol, who is undergoing treatment at Pongu hospital, said: "My fault is that I am a Chhatra League leader and an activist of Gonojagoron Mancha."

The 30-year-old looked frightened as he described the attack to this correspondent yesterday, lying on his hospital bed.

"Some of them said, 'Kill him'. Others said, 'Cut him into pieces' while yet others screamed, 'Beat him in a way that he can walk never again,'" he recalled.

The attackers hacked away at both his legs and his head indiscriminately.

Police jugged
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
seven people in this connection but were yet to file a case, said Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Shibganj Police Station.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase...
on Sunday, the day after the incident, BCL activists demonstrated at Shibganj Bazar in protest at the attack on Razin and Hitol.

BCL activist AK Fosiul Alam Jumma was one of the demonstrators. On his way home around 5:30pm, he came under attacks by 10-12 masked criminals who cut off the tendons of his left hand.

"They tried to sever my hand but failed as locals rushed to my rescue," he told The Daily Star at the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in the capital yesterday.

He blamed Jamaat-Shibir and BNP activists for the attack.

Earlier on April 2, Jamaat-Shibir men allegedly swooped on Kansat union councillor Ariful Islam at Academy intersection of Shibganj upazila.

The criminals hacked Ariful, also the JSD general secretary of its Shibganj upazila unit, at least 20 times and cut off the tendons of his left leg and the thumb of his left hand, said doctors at the Pongu hospital where he was undergoing treatment in a critical condition.

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, Jamaat-Shibir men have critically maimed at least 10 Chhatra League and Juba League activists in the upazila, said a local BCL leader.
Posted by Fred 2013-04-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top
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