Demo staged protesting load shedding in Geneva Camp

The residents of the Geneva Camp, also known as Bihari camp, in Mohammadpur area of Dhaka staged a demonstration tonight protesting “frequent load shedding” in their camp every day.

Nearly 1000 non-Bengalis went out of their houses around 7:00pm and blocked a road in front Dhaka Residential Model School and College for two hours, our staff correspondent reports quoting witnesseses.

They also staged demonstration protesting load shedding in the Geneva Camp.

Roksana Begum, a resident of the Geneva Camp, told The Daily Star that they usually suffer over seven hours of load shedding every day.

GG Bishwas, officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station, told The Daily Star that a group of Geneva Camp residents blocked the road and staged demonstration when the electricity went away in the camp this evening.

The demonstrators left the road around 9:00pm when the electricity return in the camp, the OC added.

Geneva Camp in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur is a colony of the stranded Pakistanis who migrated to the then East Pakistan from the Indian state of Bihar during the partition of 1947. The Urdu-speaking Muslims have been living there since the end of the 1971 War of Liberation.