Attacks on Cops
2,400 held till yesterday
Says home minister
Police arrested around 2,400 people till yesterday evening for carrying out violent activities, including attacks on cops, across the country during the last few days, said Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir at a discussion yesterday.
Claiming that communal and fundamentalist forces are committing the violence under the BNP-led 18-party alliance's shelter, he said the crackdown against terrorists and miscreants would continue.
The discussion, “Continuous terrorism by the anti-Liberation War force and constitution of the Liberation War: Duties of the government and civil society”, was organised by Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee in the capital's WVA Auditorium.
"Those who are committing the violence and those encouraging them are equally guilty. All of them will be brought to book," said the minister.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and pro-Jamaat student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir have been attacking police while observing its weeklong programme from November 5 demanding immediate release of top Jamaat leaders detained over war crimes charges.
Speakers at the discussion demanded a ban on politics of Jamaat-Shibir to resist fundamentalism and communalism.
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