The street scene of Dhaka during the clash between Jamaat-e-Islami activists and police at Kakrail in the Dhaka 19 September 2011. Jamat-e-Islami activities set fire to at least 28 vehiles including a prison van and a police jeep after the clash erupted when the Jamaat activities tried to bring out a procession as part of its countrywide demonstrations demanding immediate release of their top leaders. Dhaka, September 2011. © Monirul Alam
Dhanka April 2011. During the clash a group of Jamaat-e-Islami activists through brickbats from the Baitul Mukarram mosque to the police and police through water cannon. Activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami locked into a clash with police Tuesday afternoon in the city’s Paltan area after they were barred from holding a rally at Muktangon. Around 1,000 of activists Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir clashed with police. At least 25 people, including 10 police, were injured in the half-an-hour clash witness said.
A clash between pro-hartal activists and police has left a youth dead and at least 25, including five policemen, injured in the Jessore district. A key member of the opposition coalition has called a day-long countrywide shutdown on Apr 4 to protest the cabinet’s endorsement of the amended National Women Development Policy-2011. At a pre-hartal meeting at Muktangon in the city on Sunday, Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) chairmen Mufti Fazlul Haque Amini said, “This hartal is to save Qur’an. We’ll declare non-stop hartals if we’re barred.” He also asked leaders and activists of his party and its allies—under the banner of Islamic Law Implementation Committee (ILIC)—to take to streets with Qur’an and burial sheets in hands.
MONIRUL ALAM 