Dhaka:
The interim government of Bangladesh started an operation on Saturday, when a student group gave a 24 -hour ultimatum to track “criminal”, which reported by protesters at the house of a Awami League leader on the outskirts of Dhaka. Attacked his workers during the attack.
Leaders of the anti-discrimination student movement claim that their workers went to the former minister’s house to stop the looting, but were attacked by miscreants.
The government of Chief Advisor Professor Muhammad Yunus ordered the “Operation Devil Hunt” to call the army soldiers, as a protest was going on by the student organization in Ghazipur, where their workers were attacked on Friday.
In a statement, the Ministry of Home Affairs said that Operation started in Gazipur and would expand nationwide to ensure public safety. It states that the details about the integrated security clampdown incorporating the army and law enforcement agencies will be declared on Sunday.
According to media reports and witnesses, workers in the neighborhood and Awami League attacked the workers during the attack at Gazipur house of pre-liverity War Affairs Minister AKM Mozamel Haq, injuring several of them.
However, the leaders of the students’ platform claimed that their workers had gone to Haq’s house to stop the robbery after receiving the information that it was being looted. He alleged that the police did not respond to his call when the miscreants attacked him.
However, the Gazipur police said that after receiving the security personnel, they reached the spot and rescued the students, 15 of whom were admitted to a local hospital. Later, some of them were transferred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with important wounds. Home Affairs Advisor Lieutenant General (Rit) MD Jahangir Alam Chaudhary visited the hospital and promised to track each attacker and get justice to them.
Gazipur Sadar Police Station Arifur Rahman official-Bhari said that a manhint has also been started for the culprits who attacked the students. He was later suspended on charges of negligence of duty, reported by the Daily Star Newspaper.
The incident was part of the broader violence which was spread across the country at a live online address by Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday night.
Mobs targeted the supporters of former Prime Minister and brutally vandalized their homes and businesses in Dhaka and other cities.
Some media made about 70 attacks in at least 35 districts across the country from Wednesday.
The protesters also set fire to the historic 32 Dhanmandi residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder leader of Bangladesh. It was from this residence that Rahman announced the independence of the country from Pakistan in 1971. Media reports said that the police said that an army military team came to the spot, but left after the workers were sown.
The residence Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh were an ancestral home. 77 -year -old Hasina has been living in India since August 5 last year, when she fled from Bangladesh after a large -scale student -led protest, declining her 16 -year rule of her Awami League.
The student movement, which inspired the protests to be taken out of it, as well as under the Jiti Nagorik Committee as well as a siege under its central leaders Hasanat Abdullah and Sarjis Alam on a major road in Gazipur.
Jiti Nagorik Committee is another platform for him, which is believed to have prepared to emerge as a political party.
The leaders of the agitation demanded the cancellation of the registration of Awami League as a political party, the test of Hasina and her colleagues and her property demanded to confiscate her property for her role in cruel action during the July-August rebellion. , Which eventually ended the party’s rule.
He also demanded action against Yunus’ Advisory Council and Administration against “Awami League Cororts”.
In a statement on Friday, Younus ended attacks on attacks on the “complete law and order” and the up -premiere family and his “fascist” Awami League leaders.
Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) urged the interim government to curb “mob culture” and restore law and order, warning that failure to do so could lead to revaluation of “fascist” forces. Is. According to Prothom Alo -newspaper, BNP leaders suspect that the work of vandalism and disorder may be part of the “broad conspiracy”, either to delay the next national election process or affect its political outcome.
Unrest took Bangladesh again, six months later, the student -led rebellion dropped the Awami League, which had been in power for nearly 16 years.
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