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In Bangladesh, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s party Awami League was scheduled to hold a program on Sunday. This program was to be organized to mark the martyrdom day of Noor Hussain, a party worker who was killed in 1990. However, before the start of the program, protests against it have started.
The protesters surrounded the Awami League headquarters and Zero Point in Dhaka. Awami League had organized a program on the death anniversary of Noor Hussain at Zero Point. The protesters include leaders and workers of the student movement, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Jamaat-e-Islami and other political parties. The protesters took to the streets at midnight on Saturday.
To maintain law and order, the administration has deployed Bangladesh Border Guard in different parts of the country.
Yunus government called Awami League a fascist party
Shafiqul Alam, Press Secretary of the Chief Advisor of the Interim Government Mohammad Yunus, has made a post on Facebook regarding the protest. In this post Alam wrote that Awami League is a fascist (fundamentalist) party.
Alam wrote that this fascist party will not be allowed to protest. Whoever joins Hasina’s party’s protests will have to face government agencies. Alam said that the interim government will not allow any violence or breakdown of law and order in the country.
Awami League had asked to bring posters of Trump
Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party announced programs to observe the death anniversary of activist Noor Hussain, who was killed in the 1990 movement against General Ershad. The party had said that it would gather at the zero point of Dhaka.
During the program, Awami League had asked everyone to bring a picture of the newly elected US President Donald Trump. In fact, Awami League believes that the Biden administration also had a role in removing Sheikh Hasina from the post.
Awami League had said in a statement issued from its Facebook page that a protest march would be held to uproot the dictatorial forces and to restore democracy.
Protestors gathered at zero point.
Party’s first program after Hasina left the country
After the student movement, Sheikh Hasina left the country on August 5 and came to India. Since then she has been living in India. This is the first program of Awami League after Hasina left the country, in which people were asked to take to the streets.
There were two months of violent protests and clashes in Bangladesh against Sheikh Hasina. More than 700 people were killed during this period. After Hasina left the country, Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus was made the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh.
Complaint filed against Yunus in International Criminal Court
A complaint has been filed against Mohammad Yunus in the International Criminal Court (ICC). This complaint has been filed in the Netherlands-based ICC by Awami League leader and former Sylhet mayor Anwaruzzaman Chaudhary. Apart from Yunus, names of 61 other people are also included in it.
Former Mayor Chaudhary released a video on Facebook saying that between August 5 and 8, a massacre took place against Awami League workers and minorities in the name of student movement in Bangladesh. The evidence related to the massacre has been handed over to the ICC. Chaudhary said that he will soon file 15 thousand more such complaints.
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