Brutal police action
We condemn the brutal police action on the people who were marching towards the Petrobangla office at Karwan Bazaar to protest the government's decision to award three offshore blocks to international oil companies. The members of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports were present at the protest rally. We learned that more than 50 people were injured by the police assault and both legs of Anu Muhammad, a Professor of Economics of Jahangirnagar University, were badly fractured.
These people love their country and want to protect its natural resources, their actions are laudable and the citizens of Bangladesh should support them.
We are surprised by the words of an Awami League Leader. He said that those policemen acted from the mindset of the past BNP-Jamaat led government. I don't know how anything like this could be uttered!
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