BANGLADESH NEWS
In utter inhumanity, Jamaat-Shibir men
yesterday gauged out one eye of a policeman and hacked him
indiscriminately to death at Sanatanpur police camp under Harinakundo
upazila in Jhinaidah.
With the murder of constable Omar Faruque,
the death toll of law enforcers rose to six in a countrywide reign of
terror that Jamaat-e-Islami and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir
unleashed on Thursday in protest at the death sentence of war criminal
Delawar Hossain Sayedee.
Earlier, four policemen were killed in
Gaibandha and one in Chittagong, Additional Inspector General of Police
AKM Shahidul Haque told last night.
Another four
policemen had been critically injured and were now fighting for life
while 300 others had sustained injuries in clashed between Jamaat-Shibir
men and law enforcers, he said.
“They [Jamaat-Shibir] want to weaken police's morale by attacking and killing them."
The
policemen were either beaten or hacked to death by Jamaat-Shibir men.
In some incidents, marauding Jamaat-Shibir activists gauged out eyes of
law enforcers and even jabbed a sharp weapon in their heads to confirm
the deaths.
The law enforcers fell victim when they tried to
resist unruly protesters to save lives and public property. In many
cases, they came under attacks all of a sudden.
Attacking law
enforcers is not new for Jamaat-Shibir but such attacks has been
intensified after the International Crimes Tribunal-1 sentenced Sayedee
to death on charges of murder, rape and forced conversion during the
1971 Liberation War.
According to the country's law, any kind of
attack on policemen is punitive offence. It is said in the law that the
offender will be awarded three years' imprisonment or fine or both if
charges of "assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant
from discharging his duty" is proved.
But Jamaat-Shibir men went to the extent that they killed so many law enforcers in the last four days.
One
of the most brutal killings took place yesterday at Sanatanpur police
camp under Harinakundo upazila where eight policemen had just been
deployed to contain law and order situation there.
Over 3,000
Jamaat�"Shibir men came rushing to the police post from all direction,
taking the law enforcers off guard. They hacked the policemen.
Injured
all over his body, Omar Faruque was groaning with pain but the unruly
mob continued hacking him. At one point one of his eyes was gauged out.
By the time the Jamaat-Shibir men left the scene, Faruque was dead. Four
of his colleagues with severe injuries somehow managed their way into
hospital.
On Thursday, Jamaat-Shibir men locked at least 19
policemen up in a community centre in Lohagara, Chittagong and set the
place on fire after the law enforcers had taken shelter there to escape
attacks.
Another group of police then rushed there and rescued
them. But one policeman was snatched by Jamaat-Shibir men and hacked to
death before he could enter the community centre. To confirm the death
of Tarakul Islam, the attackers jabbed a sharp weapon in his head.
Hundreds
of Jamaat-Shibir men attacked a police outpost at Banondanga railway
station in Sunderganj of Gaibandha on the same day and beaten to death
three policemen, who were unarmed at that time.
Injured in the same attack, another policeman died on Friday.
At
least 66 people were killed, including the law-enforcers, and scores
others injured in the last four days in attacks by Jamaat-Shibir men.
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