Anti-discrimination motion college students and Bangladesh Nationalist Get together activists assault an Awami League supporter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, November 10, 2024 | Photograph credit score: AP
Members of an influential Bangladeshi pupil group that performed a key function in overthrowing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s authorities prevented Awami League supporters from organizing a deliberate rally in Dhaka on Sunday (Nov 10, 2024), persecuting and attacking social gathering activists.
The event got here a day after the interim authorities led by senior advisor Muhammad Yunus mentioned on Saturday (Nov 9, 2024) that it’s going to not enable Hasina’s social gathering to carry the deliberate rally.
Eyewitnesses mentioned activists from the Scholar Anti-Discrimination Motion and a number of other different political teams gathered at Noor Hossain Chattar, or Zero Level, close to the Awami League headquarters. The Awami League rally was to be the social gathering’s first such rally for the reason that overthrow of Hasina’s authorities on August 5.
Regardless of a visual police presence, protesters reportedly assaulted no less than seven folks believed to be Awami League activists. Police tried to calm the scenario and detained some suspected supporters of the ousted regime, witnesses mentioned.
Tv footage confirmed members of the Scholar Anti-Discrimination Motion gathering on the website with chants towards the “fascist Hasina” and her social gathering, demanding her trial for alleged mass murders.
The counterprotest at Punto Cero brought about important visitors disruptions within the space.
Senior Advisor Yunus’ Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam in a Fb submit on Saturday (Nov 9, 2024) mentioned the interim authorities won’t tolerate any violence or any try and violate legislation and order within the nation.
“The Awami League in its present type is a fascist social gathering. There isn’t any means this fascist social gathering will probably be allowed to carry protests in Bangladesh,” he mentioned.
Mr. Alam additional warned that “anybody who makes an attempt to prepare demonstrations, gatherings and processions on orders from mass assassin and dictator Sheikh Hasina will face the total drive of legislation enforcement.”
The protest website, Shaheed Noor Hossain Chattar, has historic significance because it was the place Awami League youth chief Noor Hossain was killed on November 10, 1987, throughout an indication towards the then dictator’s autocratic rule. army, Normal HM Ershad.
Printed – Nov 11, 2024 01:40 am IST
