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 2004-08-29,  Politics,  matamat
Police-picket clashes mark hartal;90 injured :10 held


Hartal halts day-to-day life across country
20 AL activists injured in Chittagong
40 injured in Bogra clashes
Sniper attack during hartal in Narsingdi: 31 injured


A dawn-to-dusk shutdown, a third in a week to protest the August 21 Awami League rally bombings, disrupted normal life and business across the country Saturday.

Sporadic police-picket clashes and baton charge in the city and at different places left dozens injured and arrested, reports reaching UNB newsroom said.

Police clubbed a procession of Bangladesh Mohila Awami League, a very active wing of the main opposition party, near a local AL office in the capital’s Mirpur area at about 10:30am.

"Tensions went high in Russel Square-Kolabagan area when AL lawmakers and Mohila Awami League staged picketing from 10:30am to 12noon and police tried to intercept them intermittently," says a spot report.

The cops clubbed a Mohila Awami League procession at Kolabagan and picked up three women activists.

A procession led by Abdus Shahid and Sohel Taj started from Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban area and ended in a rally at the Russel Square at 10:30am.

A procession led by former AL MP Haji Selim locked in a clash with police at about 11am.

Riot police and paramilitary BDR forces were heavily guarding the streets in the capital to maintain order, as the strike was enforced amid a tense and torrid political atmosphere prevailing since the deadly grenade attack on opposition leader Sheikh Hasina’s anti-terrorism rally in the capital.

Schools and colleges, shops and private offices were closed and most cars and buses stopped plying the city streets. A railway official said train service was "normal".

Witnesses said police used batons to disperse an Awami League procession led by Asaduzzaman Noor MP from Dainik Bangla crossing at around 12:20pm. Several people were injured in the beatings.

Police put up barbed-wire fences on the roads to Awami League central office at Bangabandhu Avenue, the site of the August 21 broadside, preventing AL workers from staging any demonstration there.

In Akhaura, the supporters of Awami League and ruling BNP clashed, leaving 12 people injured.

At least 20 activists of Awami League and its front organizations were injured in police action and 12 arrested from different parts of the port city of Chittagong during hartal hours Saturday.

Witnesses said police charged baton on the processions and meetings of AL, Jubo League and Chhatra League at Bahaddarhat, Muradnagar and Nimtala, Pahartali and Patenga in the city. The law-enforcers made the arrest of the pickets from the city areas during the troubles.

Two Chittagong University-bound trains got stranded at Sholoshahor as BCL workers put up barricades in the area.

"Police snatched away a mike from an AL rally at Bahaddarhat at 11am," says a spot report. Later City Corporation Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury resumed the rally after taking back the mike from police.

Addressing the rally, the Mayor of Chittagong warned that they would call hartal here if the arrested party leaders and workers were not released. Local AL held another rally at Darul Fajal near its city office with former MP Ishaq Mia in the chair.

Thirty-one hartal activists were injured, one by bullet, in police beating and sniper attack in Sadar, Palash and Belabo upazilas of Narsingdi district during the opposition-called shutdown.

Witnesses said police charged baton on a procession taken out by Awami League in Madhobdi bus-stand area in Sadar upazila at noon, injuring 20 people, including upazila AL president Safar Ali Bhuiyan and general secretary Ataur Rahman.

The injured were admitted to a local hospital.

In another incident, a Chhatra League worker, Russel, sustained bullet injuries in his leg as "unidentified terrorists fired on a procession" at Char Sindur Bazar in Palash at 11am.

The injured BCL worker was first admitted to upazila health complex and later shifted to Sadar Hospital as his condition deteriorated.

Meanwhile, police clubbed Jubo League activists at Baroicha in Belabo upazila at 2:30pm, leaving 10 wounded. The injured were rushed to upazila health complex.

Awami League, left-leaning 11-party combine, JSD and NAP called the strike simultaneously demanding international inquiry into the grenade attacks seen as an attempt on opposition leader Sheikh Hasina.

20 AL activists injured in Chittagong


At least 20 activists of Awami League and its front organizations were injured in police action and 12 arrested from different parts of the city during hartal hours Saturday.


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