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Opposition Activists: Two Bangladeshi opposition activists killed in anti-government protests
NEW DELHI: Two Bangladeshi opposition activists have been killed on Tuesday after police clashed with a whole lot of anti-government protesters launching a three-day strike blocking roads and railways after their prime leaders have been charged with homicide, reported information company AFP.
Protests in Bangladesh escalated into violence in a number of cities and cities, because the opposition events, Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration (BNP), and Jamaat-e-Islami, the nation’s largest Islamist get together, name for the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina forward of the upcoming elections, scheduled for the tip of January.
The turmoil started when police intervened to disperse a rally on Saturday, attended by over 100,000 supporters of the most important opposition events.
The demonstrators demanded that Prime Minister Hasina ensures a free and neutral election beneath a impartial authorities. In response, the BNP initiated a transport blockade to additional their trigger.
On Sunday, legislation enforcement charged BNP chief Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and greater than 150 high-ranking get together members with the homicide of a police officer throughout the protests.
The violent flip of occasions has raised worldwide issues, prompting seven international locations, together with the USA, Australia, Britain, Canada, and Japan, to subject a joint assertion. Within the assertion, they known as on each side to train restraint, chorus from violence, and collaborate to make sure a free and honest election course of.
Al Amin, deputy police chief within the city of Kuliarchar, north of the capital Dhaka, advised AFP that two BNP members have been killed, however that particulars weren’t clear on how they died.
BNP official Shariful Alam stated, “The 2 have been shot useless by the police throughout a rally with greater than 2,000 protesters”.
“Police got here and opened fireplace — one BNP activist died on the spot and one other at a hospital. Greater than 100 have been injured”, he added.
In the meantime, United States Ambassador Peter Haas has known as on all sides to carry talks to make sure “free, honest and peaceable elections”, the Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported. Nonetheless, PM Hasina rejected the decision.
“The best way they killed an harmless policeman, are they people?” Hasina advised reporters in Dhaka, referring to the dying of an officer throughout Saturday’s clashes with BNP supporters.
“Why ought to we maintain a gathering with the killers?” she added. “Why maintain dialogue? The individuals of Bangladesh don’t need it. Does (US President Joe) Biden maintain dialogue with (Donald) Trump?”
“Protesters set fireplace to buses and clashed with safety forces, hurling petrol bombs and pelting officers with rocks”, police stated.
“They hurled Molotov cocktails and attacked and vandalised transport automobiles,” police officer Mominul Islam advised AFP, including no less than 15 officers have been injured.
“Police fired rubber bullets and tear fuel to disperse the protesters,” he stated.
Within the industrial metropolis of Narayanganj, three cops have been “critically injured” by opposition protesters, Amir Khasru, deputy district police chief advised the company.
“They have been hacked with sharp weapons”, he added.
Dhaka Police has stated that they’ve arrested no less than 1,727 opposition activists and supporters over the past week. At the least 1,544 opposition activists and leaders have been additionally charged with violence on Saturday, police stated.
(With AFP inputs)
Protests in Bangladesh escalated into violence in a number of cities and cities, because the opposition events, Bangladesh Nationalist Celebration (BNP), and Jamaat-e-Islami, the nation’s largest Islamist get together, name for the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina forward of the upcoming elections, scheduled for the tip of January.
The turmoil started when police intervened to disperse a rally on Saturday, attended by over 100,000 supporters of the most important opposition events.
The demonstrators demanded that Prime Minister Hasina ensures a free and neutral election beneath a impartial authorities. In response, the BNP initiated a transport blockade to additional their trigger.
On Sunday, legislation enforcement charged BNP chief Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and greater than 150 high-ranking get together members with the homicide of a police officer throughout the protests.
The violent flip of occasions has raised worldwide issues, prompting seven international locations, together with the USA, Australia, Britain, Canada, and Japan, to subject a joint assertion. Within the assertion, they known as on each side to train restraint, chorus from violence, and collaborate to make sure a free and honest election course of.
Al Amin, deputy police chief within the city of Kuliarchar, north of the capital Dhaka, advised AFP that two BNP members have been killed, however that particulars weren’t clear on how they died.
BNP official Shariful Alam stated, “The 2 have been shot useless by the police throughout a rally with greater than 2,000 protesters”.
“Police got here and opened fireplace — one BNP activist died on the spot and one other at a hospital. Greater than 100 have been injured”, he added.
In the meantime, United States Ambassador Peter Haas has known as on all sides to carry talks to make sure “free, honest and peaceable elections”, the Dhaka Tribune newspaper reported. Nonetheless, PM Hasina rejected the decision.
“The best way they killed an harmless policeman, are they people?” Hasina advised reporters in Dhaka, referring to the dying of an officer throughout Saturday’s clashes with BNP supporters.
“Why ought to we maintain a gathering with the killers?” she added. “Why maintain dialogue? The individuals of Bangladesh don’t need it. Does (US President Joe) Biden maintain dialogue with (Donald) Trump?”
“Protesters set fireplace to buses and clashed with safety forces, hurling petrol bombs and pelting officers with rocks”, police stated.
“They hurled Molotov cocktails and attacked and vandalised transport automobiles,” police officer Mominul Islam advised AFP, including no less than 15 officers have been injured.
“Police fired rubber bullets and tear fuel to disperse the protesters,” he stated.
Within the industrial metropolis of Narayanganj, three cops have been “critically injured” by opposition protesters, Amir Khasru, deputy district police chief advised the company.
“They have been hacked with sharp weapons”, he added.
Dhaka Police has stated that they’ve arrested no less than 1,727 opposition activists and supporters over the past week. At the least 1,544 opposition activists and leaders have been additionally charged with violence on Saturday, police stated.
(With AFP inputs)
