5-4-2011
Bangladesh Today (daily)
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Police use tear gas, rubber bullets to disperse hartal supporters
Dhaka: Police used tear gas and rubber bullets ...on Monday that left at least 60 people injured while 17 people were arrested from the spot. ..
At Kakrail and Malibagh, police charged batons on pro-hartal pickets and dispersed them.
Meanwhile, At least 75 people, including a thana officer, were injured in Brahmanbaria, Laxmipur, Rangpur, Khulna and Gazipur during country-wide day-long hartal called by a fraction of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) on Monday.
In Brahmanbaria, Sadar thana Officer-in-Charge (OC) Gazi Mohammad Shakhawat Hossain was seriously injured and two vehicles including a private car of MP Obaildul Moktadir Chowdhury of Brahmanbaria-3 constituency were damaged by the picketers as they pelted brickbats at Kawtuli in the town in the morning.
In Gazipur, police charged batons on pro-hartal procession when leaders and activists of Islami Ayin Bastobayon Committee (IABC) took to the street ..leaving five injured at Bhogra in Sadar upazila in the morning.
In Tongi, police charged batons on pro-hartal pickets .. in front of Cherag Ali Market and Modhumita area in the morning.
In Rangpur, at least 10 madrasa students were injured as police used sticks on them near Pirganj Bus Stand on Rangpur-Bogra highway Monday morning.
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The New Age (daily)
The Islamic Law Implementation Committee claimed that over 200 of their activists were injured in police action and 325 arrested during the hartal hours while five others allegedly went missing.
Inter-district road communications remained at halt during the hartal hours, while pickets blocked the rail tracks in Brahmanbaria.
Traffic was thin while rickshaws dominated the roads in Dhaka. All educational institutions and business establishments remained closed in the city during the hartal hours. Many shops were, however, found open in the city.
Offices at the secretariat functioned normally with the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, chairing a meeting of her cabinet.
No pro-hartal pickets were seen on the streets in Dhaka except a few at Mohammadpur, Shantinagar and Mirpur for a short while.
Police picked up about ten pro-hartal activists, including Islami Oikya Jote secretary general Abdul Latif Nejami, from Paltan when they were trying to bring out a procession. Nejami, however, was released later.
Police charged into a pro-hartal procession in Ramna area and dispersed the marchers.
Several hundred pro-hartal activists brought out a procession from Mirpur section 14 area. They sat down on the street at Mirpur 10 intersection after the police intercepted them.
Minutes later, a group of people, allegedly activists of Awami League, armed with sticks chased the pro-hartal marchers, witnesses said.
No processions or rallies were seen in Lalbagh area where ILIC chief Fazlul Haq Amini lives.
A group of pickets were seen shouting slogans from inside the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque as police did not allow them to bring out processions.
The police said they had picked up 129 ‘pro-hartal activists’ from Ramna area while the total number of arrests in the city would be around 150.
About 12,000 law enforcers were deployed at different points in the capital to maintain law and order during the hartal hours.
Ruling Awami League’ student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League brought out anti-hartal processions in Ramna area, Bangabandhu Avenue and on the Dhaka University campus.
At least 60 people, including 10 lawmen, were injured in clashes between police and pickets in Signboard area on Dhaka–Chttagong highway in Narayanganj.
Police arrested 10 Islamist activists, used tear gas and fired rubber bullets to break up the march.
New Age correspondent in Faridpur reported that 20 policemen were injured seriously in clashes with pro-hartal activists and a police pickup was set on fire by pickets in Nagarkanda upazila.
.. Police fired around 50 rounds of rubber bullet to disperse the crowds of agitators...
New Age correspondent in Chandpur reported that pro-hartal pickets had attacked the motorcade of Awami League lawmaker MK Alamgir at Kachua in Chandpur at around midday. The lawmaker escaped the attack unhurt, while activists of Chhatra League tackled the pickets. The incident left five pickets injured.
..New Age correspondent in Moulvibazar reported that three lawmen, including an assistant police super, were injured in a clash with hartal supporters at Bhairabganj under Srimangal upazila...
New Age correspondent in Habiganj reports: At least 10 people, including five police men, were injured in a clash with pickets at Madhabpur. Madhabpur police officer-in-charge Moin Uddin Ahmed was among the injured.
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Financial Express (daily)
Violent clashes mark day-long hartal
Scores injured, dozens held
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Violent clashes in Dhaka city and elsewhere in the country marked countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal (strike) enforced by Islamic Law Implementation Committee Monday.
The call for hartal was given earlier by Mufti Fazlul Haq Amini, chairman of a faction of the Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) and also chief of the committee on March 08 protesting the proposed National Women Development Policy giving women equal rights to paternal property.
The organisers of shutdown termed the policy anti-Islamic.
Dozens of people were detained and scores others injured in the city during the hartal.
In Narayanganj, over 100 people including policemen, were injured in clashes between hartal supporters and the law enforcers.
In Dhaka city, 10,000 police personnel wearing bullet-proof vests and helmets charged batons to disperse the protesters who tried to bring out processions at several points.
Control room of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said they arrested 125 people from various city areas during the hartal hours ..
"The strike was mostly peaceful in the capital as they stepped up security to avoid any trouble," a senior DMP official said, adding that they charged batons on the violent picketers only to maintain law and order in the overpopulated city.
Police also used tear gas shells and water cannons at Signboard area to disperse hundreds of pro-strikers ..
At least ten protesters were injured during the chase and counter chase, which had turned the area into a veritable battlefield. The injured were given first aid.
The strikers alleged that police fired rubber bullets on them and arrested at least 30 people when they were staging the demonstration peacefully.
Clashes were reported from the city's Shantinagar, Paltan, Lalbagh, Kamrangirchar, Kakrail, Mohammadpur, Mirpur and Ramna areas.
Most of the shops, schools and colleges were shut during the hartal hours while inter-district transport came to a halt and most of the launches and ferries remained moored at the terminals.
Banks kept their doors open but transaction was thin. Trading at the country's two bourses took place. But transaction there was also thin.
A senior officer of the Motijheel branch of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd told the FE that they opened the shutter of the bank but the number of clients were thin.
A number of buses, minibuses and a few private cars were seen plying the roads at noon. Rickshaws in the city plied as usual.
Meanwhile, activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, a student wing of the ruling party, also brought out anti-strike procession in the capital.
Our Correspondent from Chittagong adds: Traffic movement, which was thin due to general strike, remained suspended in the afternoon following clashes. ...
Hathazari police said they dispersed the pickets with blank fires and using teargas shells ..
UNB adds: In Mirpur, about 1,000 Islamist activists took to the street from Mirpur section 14 and marched towards section 10 when pro-government transport workers attacked the procession .. Police nabbed 2-3 pro-hartal elements from the spot.
At Kakrail and Malibagh, police charged batons on pro-hartal pickets..
Police used tear gas and rubber bullets .. at Narayanganj Ring Road on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway on Monday that left at least 60 people injured while 17 people were arrested from the spot.
..As the pro-hartal pickets put up resistance, law enforcers charged batons, used around 50 tear gas canisters and several rounds of rubber bullets. ..
In Narayanganj, students of different madrasas including Deobhog madrasa brought out processions in the morning in support of the hartal. ..
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Bangladesh Today (daily)
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Police use tear gas, rubber bullets to disperse hartal supporters
Dhaka: Police used tear gas and rubber bullets ...on Monday that left at least 60 people injured while 17 people were arrested from the spot. ..
At Kakrail and Malibagh, police charged batons on pro-hartal pickets and dispersed them.
Meanwhile, At least 75 people, including a thana officer, were injured in Brahmanbaria, Laxmipur, Rangpur, Khulna and Gazipur during country-wide day-long hartal called by a fraction of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) on Monday.
In Brahmanbaria, Sadar thana Officer-in-Charge (OC) Gazi Mohammad Shakhawat Hossain was seriously injured and two vehicles including a private car of MP Obaildul Moktadir Chowdhury of Brahmanbaria-3 constituency were damaged by the picketers as they pelted brickbats at Kawtuli in the town in the morning.
In Gazipur, police charged batons on pro-hartal procession when leaders and activists of Islami Ayin Bastobayon Committee (IABC) took to the street ..leaving five injured at Bhogra in Sadar upazila in the morning.
In Tongi, police charged batons on pro-hartal pickets .. in front of Cherag Ali Market and Modhumita area in the morning.
In Rangpur, at least 10 madrasa students were injured as police used sticks on them near Pirganj Bus Stand on Rangpur-Bogra highway Monday morning.
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The New Age (daily)
Clashes mark ILIC hartal
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The law enforcers opened fire, charged batons and used tear gas to disperse pickets at different places..and picked up over 300 people from across the country during the general strike called by Islamic Law Implementation Committee, a combine of religion-based parties, including Islami Oikya Jote, an ally of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
The cars carrying ruling Awami League lawmakers Mahiuddin Khan Alamgir and RAM Obaidul Muktadir Chowdhury came under attack from pickets in Chandpur and Brahmanbaria respectively. The lawmakers, however, escaped unhurt.The Islamic Law Implementation Committee claimed that over 200 of their activists were injured in police action and 325 arrested during the hartal hours while five others allegedly went missing.
Inter-district road communications remained at halt during the hartal hours, while pickets blocked the rail tracks in Brahmanbaria.
Traffic was thin while rickshaws dominated the roads in Dhaka. All educational institutions and business establishments remained closed in the city during the hartal hours. Many shops were, however, found open in the city.
Offices at the secretariat functioned normally with the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, chairing a meeting of her cabinet.
No pro-hartal pickets were seen on the streets in Dhaka except a few at Mohammadpur, Shantinagar and Mirpur for a short while.
Police picked up about ten pro-hartal activists, including Islami Oikya Jote secretary general Abdul Latif Nejami, from Paltan when they were trying to bring out a procession. Nejami, however, was released later.
Police charged into a pro-hartal procession in Ramna area and dispersed the marchers.
Several hundred pro-hartal activists brought out a procession from Mirpur section 14 area. They sat down on the street at Mirpur 10 intersection after the police intercepted them.
Minutes later, a group of people, allegedly activists of Awami League, armed with sticks chased the pro-hartal marchers, witnesses said.
No processions or rallies were seen in Lalbagh area where ILIC chief Fazlul Haq Amini lives.
A group of pickets were seen shouting slogans from inside the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque as police did not allow them to bring out processions.
The police said they had picked up 129 ‘pro-hartal activists’ from Ramna area while the total number of arrests in the city would be around 150.
About 12,000 law enforcers were deployed at different points in the capital to maintain law and order during the hartal hours.
Ruling Awami League’ student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League brought out anti-hartal processions in Ramna area, Bangabandhu Avenue and on the Dhaka University campus.
At least 60 people, including 10 lawmen, were injured in clashes between police and pickets in Signboard area on Dhaka–Chttagong highway in Narayanganj.
Police arrested 10 Islamist activists, used tear gas and fired rubber bullets to break up the march.
New Age correspondent in Faridpur reported that 20 policemen were injured seriously in clashes with pro-hartal activists and a police pickup was set on fire by pickets in Nagarkanda upazila.
.. Police fired around 50 rounds of rubber bullet to disperse the crowds of agitators...
New Age correspondent in Chandpur reported that pro-hartal pickets had attacked the motorcade of Awami League lawmaker MK Alamgir at Kachua in Chandpur at around midday. The lawmaker escaped the attack unhurt, while activists of Chhatra League tackled the pickets. The incident left five pickets injured.
..New Age correspondent in Moulvibazar reported that three lawmen, including an assistant police super, were injured in a clash with hartal supporters at Bhairabganj under Srimangal upazila...
New Age correspondent in Habiganj reports: At least 10 people, including five police men, were injured in a clash with pickets at Madhabpur. Madhabpur police officer-in-charge Moin Uddin Ahmed was among the injured.
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Financial Express (daily)
Violent clashes mark day-long hartal
Scores injured, dozens held
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Violent clashes in Dhaka city and elsewhere in the country marked countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal (strike) enforced by Islamic Law Implementation Committee Monday.
The call for hartal was given earlier by Mufti Fazlul Haq Amini, chairman of a faction of the Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) and also chief of the committee on March 08 protesting the proposed National Women Development Policy giving women equal rights to paternal property.
The organisers of shutdown termed the policy anti-Islamic.
Dozens of people were detained and scores others injured in the city during the hartal.
In Narayanganj, over 100 people including policemen, were injured in clashes between hartal supporters and the law enforcers.
In Dhaka city, 10,000 police personnel wearing bullet-proof vests and helmets charged batons to disperse the protesters who tried to bring out processions at several points.
Control room of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said they arrested 125 people from various city areas during the hartal hours ..
"The strike was mostly peaceful in the capital as they stepped up security to avoid any trouble," a senior DMP official said, adding that they charged batons on the violent picketers only to maintain law and order in the overpopulated city.
Police also used tear gas shells and water cannons at Signboard area to disperse hundreds of pro-strikers ..
At least ten protesters were injured during the chase and counter chase, which had turned the area into a veritable battlefield. The injured were given first aid.
The strikers alleged that police fired rubber bullets on them and arrested at least 30 people when they were staging the demonstration peacefully.
Clashes were reported from the city's Shantinagar, Paltan, Lalbagh, Kamrangirchar, Kakrail, Mohammadpur, Mirpur and Ramna areas.
Most of the shops, schools and colleges were shut during the hartal hours while inter-district transport came to a halt and most of the launches and ferries remained moored at the terminals.
Banks kept their doors open but transaction was thin. Trading at the country's two bourses took place. But transaction there was also thin.
A senior officer of the Motijheel branch of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd told the FE that they opened the shutter of the bank but the number of clients were thin.
A number of buses, minibuses and a few private cars were seen plying the roads at noon. Rickshaws in the city plied as usual.
Meanwhile, activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, a student wing of the ruling party, also brought out anti-strike procession in the capital.
Our Correspondent from Chittagong adds: Traffic movement, which was thin due to general strike, remained suspended in the afternoon following clashes. ...
Hathazari police said they dispersed the pickets with blank fires and using teargas shells ..
UNB adds: In Mirpur, about 1,000 Islamist activists took to the street from Mirpur section 14 and marched towards section 10 when pro-government transport workers attacked the procession .. Police nabbed 2-3 pro-hartal elements from the spot.
At Kakrail and Malibagh, police charged batons on pro-hartal pickets..
Police used tear gas and rubber bullets .. at Narayanganj Ring Road on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway on Monday that left at least 60 people injured while 17 people were arrested from the spot.
..As the pro-hartal pickets put up resistance, law enforcers charged batons, used around 50 tear gas canisters and several rounds of rubber bullets. ..
In Narayanganj, students of different madrasas including Deobhog madrasa brought out processions in the morning in support of the hartal. ..
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