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| Shahbagh youths call for defying Jamaat |
| 2013-03-02 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Shahbagh protesters yesterday urged the people to rise up against the countrywide campaign of terror by Jamaat-Shibir men. They called upon the nation to imbue itself with the spirit of March -- the month the Liberation War began in 1971 -- and resist "the evil force that Jamaat and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... are". Addressing a huge rally at Shahbagh intersection, the youths said they would be on the streets to foil the hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... s called by Jamaat and its ally BNP. However, Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried... in the same breath, they asked all not to take the law into their own hands. People, they added, should rather turn the troublemakers in to the law enforcers. Yesterday was the 25th day of the demonstration for capital punishment to all war criminals and a ban on Jamaat-Shibir. Imran H Sarker, spokesperson and one of the organisers, said, "Our enemy today are the same collaborators who joined forces with the Pakistain occupation army to kill the Bangalees. But we are awake. We will not let an inch of our soil be blooded by the evil force." He said Jamaat had been unleashing violence like it did 42 years back. The war criminals and their cohorts had brainwashed a section of youths into shedding blood on the streets, he observed. "We urge them to shun the company of war criminals and get back on the right track." The crowds let out a deafening roar, as he asked, "Our forefathers defeated the Pak force in 1971. Now can we not defeat and eliminate the collaborators in 2013?" |
| Posted by:Fred |