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Bangladesh

Hefazat hartal: 2 hurt, 2 held as Chhatra Dal activists clash with cops

2021-03-29

[Dhaka Tribune] At least two cops were maimed in a clash involving Chhatra Dal, police, and Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... activists in Bogra during the nationwide hartal ... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ... enforced by Hefajat-e-Islam ...a madrassa-based false nose and mustache of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, formed in 2010 to protest against secular education. In 2011 demonstrated violentyly against women's rights and in 2013 held large rallies demanding capital punishment of Shahbag Square protesters and banning women working outside the home... .Police arrested two Chhatra Dal leaders — Nandigram upazila’s Jewel Hossain, 26, and Rabiul Islam, 27 — following the incident that took place at the district’s Majgram area on Sunday afternoon. Confirming the matter to Dhaka Tribune, Nandigram cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge (OC) Kamrul Islam, said: "A case will be filed soon over the attack on law enforcers." According to police and witnesses, local leaders, activists of Jubo Dal, Swechchashebak Dal, and Chhatra Dal, brought out a procession in support of the hartal in Nandigram at around 4pm on Sunday. They then gathered in front of the Majgram BNP party office and continued to demonstrate. A clash erupted when Chhatra League men brought out a procession against the Hefezat hartal and chased those who were supporting it. Nandigram police, after being informed, rushed to the spot, charged batons and dispersed the two sides, and brought the situation under control. Nandigram cop shoppe OC Kamrul said: "Leaders and activists of Jubo Dal, Swachchasebak Dal, and Chhatra Dal wanted to continue demonstrating in support of the hartal after the Chhatra League men left the spot. "They then attacked us when we refused to allow them to bring out a rally." "Sub-Inspector (SI) Reza and Constable Faruq were maimed in the attack. They were taken to the local health complex for treatment," the police OC added. Nandigram upazila Jubo Dal Convener Shafiul Alam Sumon, claimed: "Chhatra League leaders and activists attacked us during our rally. The police also did the same. "We did not attack anyone." Meanwhile, ...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head... upazila Chhatra League President Tuhin Ahmed claimed that it was the Jubo Dal leaders and activists who had attacked them first. "We did not attack their [Chhatra dal] rally. It is them who attacked us," he added.

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Bangladesh

Lalmonirhat mob lynching: 5 more arrested

2020-11-05

[Dhaka Tribune] Police arrested five more people for their involvement with the brutal murder of Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel in Lalmonirhat. Including them, a total of 21 people have so far been arrested in the three cases filed over the mob lynching incident in Burimari union of Lalmonirhat's Patgram, where the poor man was lynched and immolated over rumours of Koran desecration. The arrestees are identified as Motahar Hossain, 19, Rabiul Islam, 40, Hasem Ali, 52, Ariful Islam, 17 and Lazu, 35, confirmed Suman Kumar Mahanta, officer-in-charge of Patgram cop shoppe. They were arrested from different areas of the district after conducting drives, the OC said. "They were sent to jail after being produced before the court," said OC Suman. Of the arrestees, two are accused in the murder case while three were arrested after scrutinising the video footage, OC Suman added. On October 29, Abu Yunus Md Shahidunnabi Jewel, 50, was beaten to death by an angry mob at the Burimari Union Gay Pareehad premises in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat. The mob then took his body some 300 metres away to the Prothom Bashkol area on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway and set it on fire, fuelled with dried materials, tyres, and petrol. Over a thousand people were present during the incident, including people from outside Lalmonirhat, as rumours of Koran desecration spread, according to Patgram Upazila Nirbahi Officer Kamrun Nahar. On October 31, the dear departed’s cousin Saiful Alam filed a case naming 43 persons and hundreds unknown, Burimari Union Gay Pareehad Chairman Abu Syed Newaz Nishat filed another case naming 22 persons and hundreds unknown while Patgram cop shoppe Sub Inspector (SI) Md Shahjahan filed yet another case. Two probe committees - one by the district administration and another by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) - were formed to investigate the incident. During the ongoing investigation by the NHRC, its director of investigation Al Mahmud Faizul Kabir, on Sunday said they have not yet found any proof of Koran desecration.

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Bangladesh

Teenagers rescued from sexual slavery in Barisal

2020-08-04

[Dhaka Tribune] Police, during a raid at a Barisal hotel on Monday, rescued two teenage girls reportedly from sexual slavery, as the girls were brought there with the promise of jobs about a month ago.Selim Chowkidar, Anwar Hossain and Belal Gazi-- all of whom are staffs of Hotel Payel in Barisal’s Chawkbazar-- were arrested in connection with the incident. Acting on a tip-off, [RING!] Cop shoppe! Sergeant Shafiq speaking! Lissen! Dis is Mahmoud da Weasel! I got a tip for youse... police conducted a raid at the hotel in the early hours of Monday and arrested the trio, said Rabiul Islam Shamim, assistant commissioner of the detective branch of Barishal Metropolitan Police. However, the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach... the owner of the hotel managed to flee. The teenagers hailing from Jhalakathi and Barguna came to Barisal more than a month ago as the hotel staff assured them handsome salaries and a job in a private company, said Rabiul, quoting the girls. The girls tried to escape after they were put into sexual slavery, but the hotel owner and staff confined them and kept them under round the clock surveillance. Police filed a case against four people including the hotel owner and sent the girls for forensic tests.

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Bangladesh

Minor girl allegedly raped and killed after abduction

2019-06-04

[Dhaka Tribune] A ninth grader was allegedly kidnapped, raped and killed in Poddarpara, of the district’s Lohagara upazila. The dear departed, Nupur, 14, was a ninth grader of the area’s RKK Janata High School. Police recovered her body from Lohagara Health Complex on Sunday evening. The girl’s family alleged she was kidnapped on May 26 and later killed in June 2 after almost a week of confinement inside a rented house in that area. Nupur’s uncles Bacchu Mia and Abdul Karim said: "We found Nupur’s dead body seven days after her abduction. She was kidnapped by miscreants after she left home for tuition on May 26." They accused Rabiul Islam Rubel, 25 of Brakkhandanga and Azad Sarder, 35 of Jalalsi village, of abducting their niece on her way home from tuition. They suspect the two of taking her to a rented house, raping her repeatedly and killing her, while also suspecting the house owner, Mini, of being involved in the crimes. Officer-in-charge of Lohagora cop shoppe Mokarrom Hossain said: "On primary investigation it looks like a suicide. We suggested Nupur’s family to file for a pre-meditated murder case against the accused. We will work on the incident after her family files a case." Vice Chairman of Lohagora Upazila Gay Pareehad Farhana Yasmin Eti said Mini has a notorious reputation in the area, and her involvement may not be surprising. The house owner Mini denied all accusations and said Nupur rented her house a week ago, and that she had taken her to the health complex after she got sick on Sunday evening.

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Bangladesh

RAB arrests suspected militants planning to kill newspaper editor

2019-02-02

[Dhaka Tribune] Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has enjugged Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! four suspected members of the banned Lion of Islam outfit Ansar al-Islam also known as Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), accused of planning to kill a daily newspaper editor. RAB Legal and Media Wing Director Mufti Mahmud Khan disclosed the information at a press briefing at RAB’s Media Centre, in Karwan Bazar, around 11:30am on Friday. The RAB official also said: "The suspects were planning to kill an editor of a national daily newspaper, which published a criticism of a hadith - record of the traditions or sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) on marriage." They were arrested in Uttara area around 2am on Friday. The RAB official also mentioned arresting another ABT member ‐ Abdus Sobhan alias Habib, 28 ‐ in Ashulia area on January 28. Based on information provided by Sobhan, RAB 1 conducted a drive in Uttara and arrested the four. The arrestees are Shahriar Nafis Ammar Hossain, 20, Md Rasel alias Sajedul Islam Gifary, 24, Rabiul Islam alias Nurul Islam, 24, and Abdul Malek, 31. The RAB media director said the suspects were accused of monitoring secular activists on social media platforms, where they were posing as an online activist ‐ all of themusing a single profile. They also had planned to kill those who criticized Islam on social media. Mufti Mahmud said they have foiled the ABT’s mission of killing those who posted negative statements about Islam. ’THEY ARE TRYING TO REVIVE THE ORGANIZATION’ Mufti Mahmud said after initial interrogation, RAB learnt that the suspects were trying, secretly, to revive the organization. Their main objective was to free the organization’s chief, Jasimuddin Rahmani, from jail. They even had plans to break Jasim out of jail if the failed to get him released through legal means. "The RAB officials recovered some krazed killer books, mobile phones and sharp weapons from the suspects’ possession at the time of the arrest. During the initial questioning, they confessed to being active members of ABT," said this RAB official. He said the groups were mainly monitoring online activists. "One of the Lion of Islams, Shahriar, joined a group with atheist members, using a fake name. The holy warriors were planning to kill one of the members [of the atheists’ group], as decided by the Lion of Islam outfit,"headded. During interrogation, one of the suspectssaid he went to Bogra from Dhaka with a sharp weapon last week,while another went to Bogra from Barguna, the RAB official said at the press briefing. "The ABT man, who went to Bogra, called one of the online activists over phone to meet him, but the online activist did not show up at the meeting place," he added. Among the arrestees, Shahriar, from Dhunot upazila in Bogra, studied till Class 7 in a madrasa. He joined the ABT under the influence of an ABT member named Aman whom he met on Facebook. The RAB official added: "Rasel, from Fulgachia in Bhola, passed SSC exams in 2013 and took a job in an RMG factory. Later, he worked as a construction worker. He, too, was influenced by Aman into joining ABT. "Rasel was the point person for communication with different people, collecting money from them and recruiting members, as per the ABT high command’s directive." The RAB media wing director further added: "Nurul, who is from Bogra, passed his Dakhil examination in 2010, later took admission in Bogra Polytechnic Institute in 2015. He was radicalized by Shahriar." Malek, a driver by profession, was influenced by Rasel through social media and joined ABT in 2018, he added. RAB is currently preparing to take legal action against the detainees, the RAB official said.

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Bangladesh

12 AQIS militants placed on 3-day remand

2015-07-04

[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court yesterday granted three days of remand to the recently detained 12 Death Eaters, including the Bangladesh chief of the al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), in a case filed under Anti-Terrorism Act. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Molla Saiful Islam passed the order when Md Jalal Uddin, sub-inspector of Darussalam cop shoppe and also the investigation officer of the case, produced them before his court seeking a seven-day remand for interrogation. SI Wahidur Rahman, general recording officer of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, confirmed the news to the Dhaka Tribune. No bail petitions were filed with the court for the 12 suspected Death Eaters as there was no defence counsel for them. The remanded accused include Maulana Mainul Islam alias Mahim, 35, chief coordinator of the Bangladesh wing of AQIS, and Mufti Jafor Amin alias Salman, 34, an adviser to the AQIS Bangladesh. The others are AQIS active members -- Saidul Islam alias Sayeed Tamim, 20, Mosharraf Hossain, 19, Abdur Rahman, 25, Al-Amin alias Ibrahim, 28, Mozahidul Islam alias Nakib, 31, Ashraful Islam, 20, Rabiul Islam alias Hasan, 28, Habib Ullah, 26, Shahidul Islam Sagor, 29 and Altaf Hossain alias Mamun, 26. In simultaneous drives between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the Rapid Action Battalion placed in durance vile ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... the 12 Death Eaters and recovered huge amount of explosives and bomb-making materials from different areas of the capital.

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Arrested IS suspects in Bangladesh claim training in Pakistan

2015-01-20

[DAWN] Bangladeshi police tossed in the clink Please don't kill me! four suspected members of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... in the capital, Dhaka, on Monday, including a regional coordinator for the holy warrior group who told police they had been trained in Pakistain. Reports of the growing influence of Islamic State, which controls territory in Syria and Iraq, have raised alarm bells across South Asia, though it remains unclear whether holy warriors organising under the Islamic State name in the region are acting on their own or as part of a centralised initiative coming out of the Middle East. "We arrested them in the city early on Monday, carrying a huge number of leaflets related to militancy for training, a laptop and other materials," Sheikh Nazmul Alam, deputy police commissioner with Dhaka's detective and criminal intelligence division, told news hounds. The suspected coordinator, whom police identified as Mohammad Sakhawatul Kabir, told police that he and the other three men had received training in Pakistain, Alam said. The Pak authorities were not immediately available for comment. Alam said Kabir told police while under interrogation that the cell he ran from Dhaka was planning to collect funds and weapons for attacks on Bangladesh government targets. "The aim of the attacks was to establish a caliphate state in Bangladesh," Alam said. Police in Bangladesh, which has been in the throes of a political crisis since controversial elections last January, have arrested eight people for suspected involvement with Islamic State in the past year. "Of course this is a growing concern, particularly at a time when the country has been experiencing a politically unstable situation," said Sakhawat Hussain, a retired army brigadier and a security analyst in Dhaka. Bangladesh's leading daily newspaper The Daily Star released a photo of the arrested holy warriors, stating that the group leaders have been put on a five-day remand after being arrested last night. The report further mentioned that the suspects were identified before the media as Sakhawatul Kabir, regional commander of IS Bangladesh chapter, Nazrul Alam, a financier, Anwar Hossain, a convict of an kabooms case, and Rabiul Islam.

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Bangladesh IS chief, 3 others on five-day remand

2015-01-20

[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court has granted five-day remand to each of four members of bad boy group Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... including its Bangladesh coordinator. The court also denied the bail petition filed by the defence lawyer. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mustafizur Rahman passed the order on Monday. Earlier, Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Md Zafar Ali Biswas produced them before the court seeking 10-day remand plea. Police on Monday locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! four members of bad boy group Islamic State including its Bangladesh coordinator from Jatrabari and Khilkhet areas in Dhaka. The arrestees are Shakhawatul Kabir, the regional commander in Bangladesh, Md Anwar Hossain, Md Rabiul Islam, and Md Nazrul Alam. Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner of DMP, said the arrestees have confessed that they are members of Islamic State. A case was filed under Anti Terrorism Act against the four, he added. Police also seized laptops and jihadi leaflets from their possessions.

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Chhatra League men vandalise MBSTU over Facebook status

2014-02-02

[Dhaka Tribune] Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... activists of Tangail's Maulana Bhashani Science and Technology University (MBSTU) locked the administrative building and all the classrooms yesterday, demanding the removal of a teacher of criminology and police science (CPS) department. Md Rabiul Islam, security in-charge of the university, said the BCL activists, led by CPS students Suman Fakir, Soton and Zahir, locked the administrative building and the classrooms before vandalising the academic building and setting some classrooms on fire. Assisted by outsiders, the BCL men then forced out all teachers and staffs from the campus, he added. The agitated BCL members carried out the violence, reportedly protesting a Facebook post by CPS Assistant Professor Jahirul Islam who allegedly spoke ill about the university. When contacted, Jahirul said he had repeatedly voiced protests against a group of students and outsiders who dominated and collected extortions from the campus by identifying themselves as BCL men. "Finally I wrote on my Facebook that 'the dream campus of the MBSTU was in the grasps of devils, thugs and hooligans,'" the teacher added. Tangail Sadar Model cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Nazrul Islam said the situation has been contained, while additional police personnel have been deployed on the campus to prevent further violence. No case has been lodged in this connection so far. Sumon Fakir, Soton and Zahir could not be reached for comments. Nazmul Huda, president of the BCL's Tangail district unit, said no BCL activists had engaged in the violence, as there was no committee of the Chhatra League on the campus. The university proctor, Khadimul Islam, said authorities were holding an emergency meeting over the matter. Pro-VC of the university Prof Dr Muniruzzaman, however, said he was not concerned about the matter. Earlier on July 2013, BCL activists led by Sumon Fakir allegedly attacked a human chain of MBSTU employees, injuring at least 10 people.

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Two more killed in 'shootouts'

2014-01-29

[Bangla Daily Star] Two suspected criminals, including a leader of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party ...the Proletarian Party of East Bengal, a Maoist party that has seen better days. It supported independence in 1971 and has periodic shootouts and fisticuffs with the Bangla Jamaat-e-Islami, but has fallen on hard times, with many of its leaders rubbed out by the RAB or indignant citizenry. It is also subject to factionalism, to the extent that it may have more factions than it has actual members... (PBCP), were killed in "shootouts" between their cohorts and law enforcers in Khulna and Jessore yesterday. Including them the number of extrajudicial killings comes to 17 in this month. At least eight were killed while they were in jug of law enforcers. Police versions of the "shootouts" were found more or less similar. Extrajudicial killings should be stopped immediately, said Sultana Kamal, executive director of Ain o Salish Kendra, a rights body that provides legal aid. "If they are really accused [of crimes], they should be punished through a proper judicial process," she said, adding such extrajudicial killings should not be allowed in any democratic country. Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe. The window was looking better all the time.... expressing concern over the recent spate of extrajudicial killings, Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... called for an independent investigation into the incidents. Yesterday, Touhidul Islam Sabuj, 28, the second-in-command of PBCP, was killed in an exchange of shots between his party members and police in Phultala upazila of Khulna, according to police. Sabuj and his associates were holding a meeting at Chatiantola in the upazila around 3:30am. On a tip-off, "Hello? Is dis da cops? Lissen, dis is Mahmoud the Weasel..." a police team led by the officer-in-charge of Phultala Police Station went to raid the area. A "shootout" ensued as they fired at the law enforcers, said the OC, Mohammad Elias Fakir. "You may [BANG!] fire when ready, [BANG!] Sergeant Shafiq! [BANGETY BANG!]" After the firing that lasted for nearly an hour, police found Sabuj lying in a pool of blood while his associates managed to flee. "Cheaply made flip-flops, don't fail me now!" He was taken to Phultala Upazila Health Complex where he departed this vale of tears nearly eight hours after the incident, the OC added. "Dr. Quincy to the white courtesy phone! Dr. Quincy!" However, death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate... Monjur Morshed, upazila health and family planning officer, said he had heard from the doctor, who was on duty at the hospital at the time, that Sabuj was brought in dead. "He's dead, Jim!" Sabuj was accused in nine murder cases and three others filed under the Arms Act. He had the death sentence on twelve systems! Police said they had recovered two firearms, 19 bullets, six handmade bombs and two machetes from the spot. In Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore, Rabiul Islam, 28, a member of a local gang, Mesbah Bahini, was killed in a "shootout" with the joint force, police sources said. "It is the joint force! Open fire, men!" This is the gang that had hacked and then burnt alive Chaitanya Kumar Mondol, 48, the youth and sports secretary of Magura ward Awami League, on Sunday night. Police tossed in the slammer You have the right to remain silent... Rabiul yesterday in connection with a mugging case. "Stick 'em up!" Acting on the information extracted from him, "Ow! O-w-w-w-w! Make him stop! I confess! I killed Jon Benet!" a team of the joint force conducted a drive at Ziadanga village in the upazila around 2:00am to recover arms, Syed Mostafa Kamal, assistant superintendent of police in Jessore, told The Daily Star. "Yessir, that's what they done!" As the law enforcers reached near a bamboo cluster of the village, cohorts of Mesbah-ur-Rahman, leader of the gang, opened fire on them, the ASP said. "You'll never take me alive, coppers!" The join force members fired back. [BANG!] We knew that! [BANG!] During the "shootout" Rabiul tried to run away "I'm outta here!" and got injured in the firing. "Aaaaiiiieee! I am undone!" He was rushed "Is the ambulance here yet?" "Patience! It's on its way! See the blinky light?" "Ummm... That's a rickshaw!" to Abhaynagar Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared him dead. He's dead, Jim! Rabiul was accused in several cases, including murder and mugging charges. "Aye, sir. He wuz a bad un!" Three police personnel also sustained minor injuries during the firing. "Whoa! Rafiqul! That's gotta hurt!" "You betcha it does. Loan me your nail clipper!" A pistol and two bullets were recovered from the scene. "No, wait a minute! Three bullets! I found another one!" "That's not a bullet! It's a... a... musket ball?" "A musket ball's a bullet." "No, it ain't." [Bicker] [Bicker] [Bicker]

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3 held over Banglamotor arson attack

2014-01-12

[PRIMENEWS.BD] Dhaka: Detectives in overnight raids picked up three people in connection with the arson arrack on a bus at Banglamotor area in the city that left a police potted in late last month. The three were identified as Rabiul Islam Nayan, Jibon and Anup Chandra. Assistant Commissioner of Information and Public Relation Department of Detective Police Shatki Kabiraj Jhulan said the three were held on Friday night and early Saturday. On December 24, a traffic police constable was burnt to death in the arson attack by person or persons unknown on a bus near Banglamotor police box in the city. Another police member and the driver of the bus sustained burn injuries in the arson attack. Three coppers were inside the bus parked at the spot when unidentified miscreants on a motor bike hurled petrol bomb on the requisitioned bus and fled away at about 11:20pm, few hours after the opposition's countrywide blockade had ended. The following day a case was filed against top BNP leaders including BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in connection with the attack.

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Jamaat, BNP pounce on AL's election rally

2013-12-20

[Bangla Daily Star] Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men allegedly attacked Awami League activists, who gathered for an election campaign, in Lalmonirhat yesterday afternoon injuring 30 people. The injured -- 10 stabbed and the rest beaten up -- were admitted to Hatibandha and Patgram upazila health complexes. The condition of the stab injured was critical, doctors said. The attackers also set fire to the stage, which had been erected at the Bawra High School playground in Lalmonirhat for the campaign, and at least 40 cycle of violences of the campaigners. Local Awami League organised a programme at the high school as part of the campaign for former state minister for primary and mass education Motahar Hossain, who is going to contest the 10th parliamentary election from Lalmonirhat-1 constituency (Hatibandha and Patgram upazila). Some 150 people, including Awami League supporters, gathered at the venue where Motahar was supposed to deliver a speech at 5:00pm. But minutes before his arrival, a group of 200 Jamaat-Shibir and BNP men carrying sharp weapons swooped on the crowd at the venue, witnesses said. Local people ran frantically towards safety. When Awami League men rushed to their cycle of violences they found at least 40 of those burnt, said Bawra union AL president Rabiul Islam Miron. Tension brewed in the area after the incident. Bawra union BNP president Shamsul Alam and 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 independent branch 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... president Mawlana Zakir Hossain denied the allegation that their party activists or supporters were involved in the attack. Local sources, however, said they could identify many of the attackers who used to participate in BNP-Jamaat rallies. Motahar told The Daily Star that he had asked police to deploy more law enforcers in the area and demanded arrest of the attackers immediately. Additional police and joint forces were deployed on the spot soon after the attack, said Officer-in-Charge of Patgram Police Station Sohrab Hossain. Police were also trying to arrest the attackers, OC added. Many Hindu families and Awami League men fled from Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat facing repeated threats by Jamaat-Shibir men. On Monday, unidentified myrmidons vandalised a temple in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat, known as a den of Jamaat-Shibir activists. On the night of the day, Jamaat-Shibir activists also removed 100 fishplates at two points of Lalmonirhat-Burimari route in Patgram upazila to disrupt rail communications.

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