[Bangla Daily Star] Police juggedDon't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
five Shibir men after they clashed with the former in Rajshahi city yesterday.
Around 100 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir
... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh...
, student body of 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...
, were taking preparation for bringing out a procession in New Market area in the afternoon to protest at the arrest of their Rajshahi University unit general secretary.
As police tried to stop them, the Shibir men hurled brick chips at the law enforcers and went kaboom!around five crude bombs, triggering the clash, said Ziaur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Boalia Police Station.
Police then shot around 100 rounds of rubber bullets and lobbed several tear gas canisters to disperse the protesters, he added.
Police later nabbed the five Shibir men from the spot.
However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
identities of the arrestees could not be known.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion-5 on Thursday arrested General Secretary of RU unit Shibir Saifuddin Yahia, who is wanted for several criminal charges, along with seven accomplices at a Shibir-run university admission coaching centre in the city.
They also seized firearms and explosives from the coaching centre.