Bangladesh Launches ‘Operation Satan Hunt’ After Assault On Ex-Minister’s Home
Dhaka:
Bangladesh’s interim authorities launched an operation Saturday after a scholar group gave a 24-hour ultimatum to trace down “culprits” who assaulted their activists throughout a reported assault by protesters on an Awami League chief’s home on the outskirts of Dhaka.
The Anti-Discrimination Scholar Motion leaders declare their activists went to the ex-minister’s home to stop looting however had been attacked by miscreants.
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus’s authorities ordered “Operation Satan Hunt” calling out military troops as a protest by the scholar organisation was underway in Gazipur, the place their activists had been assaulted on Friday.
In an announcement, the House Ministry mentioned the operation started throughout Gazipur and would prolong nationwide to make sure public security. It added that particulars concerning the coordinated safety clampdown comprising military and regulation enforcement companies can be introduced on Sunday.
In line with media experiences and witnesses, individuals within the neighbourhood and Awami League staff assaulted the activists in the course of the assault on the Gazipur house of ex-liberation conflict affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque, injuring a number of of them.
The scholars’ platform leaders, nevertheless, declare their activists went to Haque’s home to cease lootings after receiving info that it was being plundered. They alleged that police didn’t reply to their name when the miscreants attacked them.
Nonetheless, Gazipur police mentioned safety personnel rushed to the scene after receiving info and rescued the scholars, of which 15 had been admitted to an area hospital. Later, a few of them had been shifted to Dhaka Medical School Hospital with essential wounds. House Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury visited the hospital and promised to trace down every attacker and produce them to justice.
Officer-in-charge of Gazipur Sadar Police Station Arifur Rahman mentioned a manhunt has additionally been launched for the culprits who attacked the scholars. He was later suspended on expenses of negligence of responsibility, the Every day Star newspaper reported.
The incident was a part of the widespread violence that erupted throughout the nation on Wednesday night time over a stay on-line handle by Sheikh Hasina.
Mobs focused supporters of the deposed prime minister and vandalised their properties and companies in Dhaka and different cities.
Some media tallied about 70 assaults in no less than 35 districts throughout the nation since Wednesday.
Protesters additionally set hearth to the historic 32 Dhanmondi residence of Bangladesh’s founding chief, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. It was from this residence that Rahman proclaimed the nation’s independence from Pakistan in 1971. Media experiences mentioned police stood by whereas a military troopers staff got here to the scene however left after being booed by the activists.
The residence was the ancestral house of Hasina and her youthful sister, Sheikh Rehana. Hasina, 77, has been dwelling in India since August 5 final 12 months, when she fled Bangladesh following an enormous student-led protest that toppled her Awami League’s 16-year regime.
The Scholar Motion, which led the protests resulting in her ouster, together with the Jatiya Nagorik Committee concurrently laid siege on a significant highway in Gazipur underneath their central leaders Hasnat Abdullah and Sarjis Alam.
The Jatiya Nagorik Committee is one other platform of theirs that’s believed to getting ready to emerge as a political social gathering.
The motion leaders demanded the cancellation of Awami League’s registration as a political social gathering, the trial of Hasina and her associates and the confiscation of their property for his or her position within the brutal crackdown in the course of the July-August rebellion that finally toppled the social gathering’s regime.
Additionally they demanded motion in opposition to the “Awami League cohorts” lurking in Yunus’s advisory council and administration.
In an announcement on Friday, Yunus referred to as for “full regulation and order” and an finish to assaults on the properties of the deposed premier’s household and leaders of her “fascist” Awami League.
Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Occasion (BNP) urged the interim authorities to curb “mob tradition” and restore regulation and order, warning that failure to take action might result in the reemergence of “fascist” forces. In line with the Prothom Alo newspaper, senior BNP leaders suspect the acts of vandalism and dysfunction may very well be a part of a “broader conspiracy”-either to delay the following nationwide election course of or to affect its political consequence.
Unrest has gripped Bangladesh once more, six months after the student-led rebellion ousted the Awami League, which had been in energy for practically 16 years.
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