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| Bangladesh |
| Attacks on Buddhists: Key 'instigator' detained |
| 2012-10-11 |
[Bangla Daily Star] Police on Tuesday night cooled for a few yearsYou have the right to remain silent... Abdul Moktadir, a key player in displaying and distributing among locals some Facebook images insulting the Koran on the evening of September 29 in Ramu. It was the spreading of those images by Moktadir and his friend Omar Faruk that apparently provoked Mohammedans to torch a dozen Buddhist temples and pagodas and damage six others in Ramu that night. The mayhem begun soon after the two showed those images, tagged in a Buddhist youth Uttam Kumar Barua's Facebook account, to locals at Faruk's mobile servicing shop at Fakirabazar in Ramu. Eighteen-year-old Moktadir, also known as Alif, is a student of Shyamoli Ideal Polytechnic in Chittagong. His friend Faruk, also 18, was cooled for a few years You have the right to remain silent... on October 6, and is now being interrogated by law enforcers over the duo's role in distributing the photos, police said. Three days before his detention, Faruk described to this correspondent at the shop how he and Moktadir showed and distributed among people a number of images derogatory to Islam. They also supplied soft copies of the picture to some local journalists, which soon got spread in and around Ramu within a few hours, Faruk had said. This paper on October 4 published a report headlined "It all started form a tiny phone repair shop" based on Faruk's account. However, some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them... Moktadir's mother Sajeda Begum Shimul said on Sunday that her son came across the photo when he went to the shop for having a mobile phone fixed. This correspondent wanted from her Moktadir's contact address and phone number, but she refused to give either. She also would not show any photo of her son, saying there was none. Plainclothes law enforcers picked up Moktadir from the institute's hostel at Nasirabad in the port city late on Tuesday night, said the principal and the superintendent of the Polytechnic institute. The law enforcers came within half an hour of Moktadir's arrival in the hostel from outside, said Imam Hossain, the hostel superintendent. |
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