Resisting hartal
A few days earlier the DS ran an editorial on government's reported plan to ban hartal. The paper feared promulgation of such a law would be counter-productive. Newspapers in Bangladesh reported that the AL was planning to resist the 27 June hartal.
It is true that the pro-hartal activists have no right to hinder the anti-hartal activists and compel them to observe hartal, but the hartal callers have no other choice but to resort to using some sort of force to make it a success. The AL also used this tool to stop the BNP from holding an engineered election on 22 January 2007.
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