DHAKA: A mob attacked these looking for to go to on Thursday a memorial to Bangladesh‘s first president and father of ousted PM Sheikh Hasina – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – and prevented them from continuing in direction of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum, which was Mujibur Rahman’s residence and the place he and most of his household have been murdered on Aug 15, 1975 by a cabal of military officers.
The assailants, armed with sticks, had taken up positions on roads close to the residence because the morning and have been additionally seen stopping media personnel from taking photographs and movies. The mob apparently comprised college students who have been seen checking the ID playing cards of passersby and detaining these they thought of suspicious. Even heroes of the 1971 Liberation Conflict, together with the legendary Abdul Kader Siddique who was celebrated because the “Tiger of Tangail and Bangabir” for his daring strikes towards the Pakistan military, weren’t spared. “I went to pay tribute with flowers at round 7 am however couldn’t achieve this… I used to be contained in the automotive. Some threw stones. The automotive was struck with sticks. Then I left,” stated Siddique.
Sheikh Hasina’s son, Sajeeb Wazed Pleasure, had appealed to individuals by way of Fb to return to pay their respects to the nation’s founding father by visiting the museum. He urged individuals to return to Highway No. 32 and place flowers. “This isn’t a political matter. That is to point out our respect for our Independence and the person who gave it to us. With out #Bangabandhu there could be no #Bangladesh. Pleasure Bangla, Pleasure Bangabandhu,” he stated. Pleasure later stated it was a shame that individuals have been overwhelmed and stopped from paying their respects to Mujibur Rahman. “My condolences to all these injured within the beatings, together with Kader Siddique,” he stated on Fb, including that he “wish to thank the massive crowds that got here out to look at the black day”.
A sit-in and candlelight vigil held on Wednesday in entrance of Mujibur Rahman’s home to demand justice for all killings associated to the Anti-Discrimination Scholar Motion turned ugly and the organisers, together with nationwide award-winning actress Rokeya Prachi, have been bodily assaulted.
In the meantime, former PM Khaleda Zia’s BNP get together Thursday held sit-in programmes throughout the nation, demanding the arrest and trial of Hasina and her accomplices for the latest violence within the nation.
Additionally, former cupboard secretary Ali Imam Majumder, former energy secretary Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan and economist Wahiduddin Muhammad have been invited to take the oath of workplace on Friday as members of the interim govt.
The assailants, armed with sticks, had taken up positions on roads close to the residence because the morning and have been additionally seen stopping media personnel from taking photographs and movies. The mob apparently comprised college students who have been seen checking the ID playing cards of passersby and detaining these they thought of suspicious. Even heroes of the 1971 Liberation Conflict, together with the legendary Abdul Kader Siddique who was celebrated because the “Tiger of Tangail and Bangabir” for his daring strikes towards the Pakistan military, weren’t spared. “I went to pay tribute with flowers at round 7 am however couldn’t achieve this… I used to be contained in the automotive. Some threw stones. The automotive was struck with sticks. Then I left,” stated Siddique.
Sheikh Hasina’s son, Sajeeb Wazed Pleasure, had appealed to individuals by way of Fb to return to pay their respects to the nation’s founding father by visiting the museum. He urged individuals to return to Highway No. 32 and place flowers. “This isn’t a political matter. That is to point out our respect for our Independence and the person who gave it to us. With out #Bangabandhu there could be no #Bangladesh. Pleasure Bangla, Pleasure Bangabandhu,” he stated. Pleasure later stated it was a shame that individuals have been overwhelmed and stopped from paying their respects to Mujibur Rahman. “My condolences to all these injured within the beatings, together with Kader Siddique,” he stated on Fb, including that he “wish to thank the massive crowds that got here out to look at the black day”.
A sit-in and candlelight vigil held on Wednesday in entrance of Mujibur Rahman’s home to demand justice for all killings associated to the Anti-Discrimination Scholar Motion turned ugly and the organisers, together with nationwide award-winning actress Rokeya Prachi, have been bodily assaulted.
In the meantime, former PM Khaleda Zia’s BNP get together Thursday held sit-in programmes throughout the nation, demanding the arrest and trial of Hasina and her accomplices for the latest violence within the nation.
Additionally, former cupboard secretary Ali Imam Majumder, former energy secretary Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan and economist Wahiduddin Muhammad have been invited to take the oath of workplace on Friday as members of the interim govt.
