The cadres of the BNP-Jamaat clique have crossed all limits of brutality by unveiling their diabolical faces in the name of supporting a recent quota reform movement that has left over 200 dead and several thousand injured across the country.
Their barbarity surpasses even the brutality of the Pakistani occupying forces in 1971 as the highly trained BNP-Jamaat cadres kept the bodies of a Jubo League leader and a police constable hung for public view after confirming their deaths.
Jubo League leader named Jewel Mollah was brutally murdered on July 19 at Uttara while the cop was killed at Jatrabari in the capital.
Jamaat-Shibir cadres attacked Jewel with sharp weapons. After killing, they left the body in a half-naked condition on the street, witnesses said.
At one stage, the BNP-Jamaat goons hung his body on a tree. The picture showing the dead body hanging on the tree has gone viral on social sites.
Jewel, who was hailed from Chandua village of Gacha police station in Gazipur, was involved with the politics of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, while he was studying at Tongi Government College.
In another incident, another group of cabal killed Nayek Md Gias Uddin of the Protection Division of DMP at Jatrabari area on July 19.
Two others police men -- Inspector (Unarmed) Md Masud Parvez Bhuiyan of PBI and ASI (Unarmed) Md Moktadir of Tourist Police---were also beaten to death in the capital on that day.
After killing, the cadres also hung the body under the flyover in Jatrabari area. The picture also went viral on social sites.
Describing the killing of constable Gias, Detective Branch (DB) of DMP chief Harunor Rashid claimed that the JCD cadres gathered at Rayerbagh area in Jatrabari.
They (JCD cadres) were involved in setting fire, spreading rumours via microphones of religious institutions, attacking the police station and murdering police personnel.
Around 11:30pm, JCD cadres chased a motorcyclist. Being failed to flee the scene, the motorcyclist fell down the roadside.
Over 100-teams of JCD-Shibir
involved in mayhem identified
The JCD armed cadres found the uniform of the police force and ID card in the bag of Gias. Seeing those, the goons started shouting as ‘police’ and beat the constable to death by sticks. After the death of policeman, they started rejoicing and set the motorcycle on fire.
The DB boss further alleged that a similar incident took place on July 20. When the miscreants saw a man in plain clothes on a motorcycle coming to the area, they chased and caught him. Recognising him as a police officer, they beat him with hockey sticks, bamboo, and other local weapons until his death on the spot. They also set fire to his motorcycle.
The deceased policeman was identified as Mohammad Muqtadir.
Harunor, also additional commissioner, said that the BNP-Jamaat cadres not only beat and killed police officers, they also searched various houses to find out police personnel.
The BNP-Jamaat goons targeted many other police officers at Jatrabari, Shonir Akhra, and Rayerbagh areas. They even announced a bounty of Tk 10,000 for killing a policeman, he said.
Meanwhile, law enforcement agencies claimed that they identified around one hundred highly trained teams of BNP- Jamaat-Shibir, which were actively involved in orchestrating attacks against police and leaders of the Awami League.
The Jammat-Shibir brought their top-armed cadres in the capital from different districts, where Jamaat has a strong hold, to carry out the killing mission. Dhaka College unit BCL leader Sobuj was killed by one of the trained teams of the Shibir.
Intelligence sources said Shibir leaders directed their field-level workers using mobile apps Telegram, which indicates a well-organized and deep-rooted conspiracy behind the violence.
Shibir activists also spread out rumours through numerous Facebook groups and social media platforms to divert the quota reform movement into an anti-government movement aiming at toppling the government.
In a recent raid at a secret Shibir hideout in Hasnabad, Keraniganj, four Shibir leaders were arrested. The law enforcement agencies also unearthed the evidence on their mobile devices.
Intelligence sources said that trained groups of Jamaat-e-Islami led the mayhem, creating havoc at various neighborhoods in Dhaka, including Rampura, Badda and Uttara.
Various important establishments, including public and private property, were destroyed during the mayhem and the cadres of Shibir were the mastermind of the massacre, they said.
