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| AL men ransack Jamaat office in Barisal |
| 2010-07-05 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Activists of ruling Awami League (AL) and its front organisations yesterday ransacked and 'set fire' on inventories of Jamaat-e-Islami's Hizla upazila office, alleged the upazila Jamaat Ameer Maulana Abul Hashem. The ruling party men, who brought out a procession demanding trial of war criminals in the town, went on the rampage around 11:00am, he said. Maulana Hashem, also the chairman of Gobindapur union parishad, said that the AL activists chanted provocative slogans from the procession led by Hizla upazila chairman and AL secretary Sultan Mahmud Tipu before attacking the Jamaat office. The attackers broke the lock to enter the office and looted valuables before they ransacked religious books, furniture and documents and set fire on them, the Jamaat leader alleged adding that all these took place in front of police. Upazila Awami League leader Sultan Mahmud Tipu, however, denied any attack being carried out by any one participating the procession although the admitted leading the procession demanding trial of the war criminals. "We did not even go up to the Jamaat office. We stopped short due to rain," he told The Daily Star. Asked who might have done this, Tipu said Jamaat men themselves or locals might have done this. Hizla police station Office in Charge (OC) Rafikul Hossain acknowledged the account of ransacking the Jamaat office but denied that there was any incident of looting or setting fire on anything. Police controlled the situation, he told The Daily Star. Jamaat-e-Islami used to use it as an office that had a signboard inscribing Bakibullah Smrity Pathagar (library) under an Islamic Foundation project, the OC said. Prof Abdul Jabbar, Jamaat's district Ameer of Barisal (east) condemned the attack and demanded arrest and punishment of those involved although no cases was filed at the time of filing this report at about 10:30 last night. |
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