Attacks on Police
AL demands Jamaat-Shibir men's speedy trial
The ruling Awami League yesterday staged demonstrations at 118 wards and unions in Dhaka protesting the recent attacks on police by Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, and demanded the attackers' arrest and punishment under the speedy trial act.
The main opposition BNP and Jamaat-Shibir have been conspiring to foil the war crimes trial by destabilising law and order situation, the AL leaders told the programmes.
Dhaka city AL General Secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya Bir Bikram said they would remain on streets until the war crimes trial was completed. The AL will also build resistance against any evil motive by the anti-liberation war forces, he told The Daily Star.
Throughout December, the AL will intensify its programmes to forge greater unity among the pro-liberation war forces in favour of the war crimes trial, he added.
On November 19, the AL will hold protest rallies at all 24 thanas in Dhaka city, while constituency-wise protest programmes will start on November 22 from Mirpur.
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) and Bangladesh Awami Jubo League also held protest rallies at some places in the capital to condemn the Jamaat-Shibir's recent mayhem.
JSD General Secretary Sharif Nurul Ambia said if BNP did not break off relations with Jamaat and stop patronising them, people would trash them [BNP] like Jamaat.
At a rally in Hazaribagh, Bangladesh Islami Oikkya Jote Chairman Misbaur Rahman Chowhdury said Jamaat-Shibir, by attacking police and vandalising public property, was tarnishing Islam's image. Jamaat has been trying to foil the war crimes trial through creating anarchy, he added.
In a joint statement, Sammilita Ainjibi Shamannay Parishad demanded the government quashes the ill attempt of Jamaat-Shibir in an iron hand.
In protest of the Jammat violence, Khulna district Workers' Party of Bangladesh will hold a rally on November 20.
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