BANGLADESH NEWS
Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir on Wednesday said the government
has information that opposition BNP was involved with the recent
countrywide violence and attacks on police by Jamaat-Shibir activists.
"The
state will resist such anarchic movement by Jamaat-Shibir activists
with utmost strength," the minister told newsmen emerging from a meeting
of the cabinet committee on law and order at the home ministry in the
afternoon.
He claimed that the opposition BNP is instigating such violence instead of condemning it.
Such
pre-planned violence and attacks have been taking place day after day
to foil the ongoing war criminals trial, the minister said.
Mohiuddin
informed that the law enforcers have so far arrested around 2,000
persons following the recent violence across the country.
Asked whether police are acting in self-defence only or trying to
resist the Jamaat-Shibir men, the minister said as part of democratic
attitude, it the first duty of police to defend him or herself.
The
home minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir presided over the meeting where
senior officials of different ministries, police, Rapid Action Battalion
and intelligence were present.
The leaders and activists
of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir
went on rampage and assaulted police personnel across the country
including the capital for the last few days.
On November 4,
the Jamaat announced a nine-day agitation programme beginning from
November 5 to press home its demand for the immediate release of the
party's top leaders, including those facing war crimes trial.
Till
Monday, more than 200 policemen, at least 300 people and three
journalists were injured during clashes between the police and
Jamaat-Shibir men across the country.
They ended their
protest programme on Tuesday through a pre-planned attack on the law
enforcers in an unprecedented manner, leaving about 20 policemen injured
in Dhaka, Khulna and Cox's Bazar.
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