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3 Killed As Violence Flares up Staff Correspondent 06 BAN 10 – 06-10-27 Dhaka Laboratoiredesfrondeurs.org Segment horizontal du quadrillage ≈ 50 km Note de contexte : Fin de mandat de 1er ministre de Khaleda Zia, qui est le leader du Parti nationaliste du Bangladesh (BNP). Le 1er ministre se retire et son pouvoir doit être transféré à un gouvernement provisoire qui a 90 jours pour organiser de nouvelles élections présidentielles. Le président a 15 jours pour désigner le gouvernement provisoire après le départ du 1 er ministre. Le principal parti d’opposition est la Ligue Awami (AL) (voir le dossier 06 BAN - 06-09-11 Dhaka). Le président de la cour suprême qui doit présider le gouvernement provisoire est considéré comme partial par la Ligue Awami. http://www.newagebd.com/2006/oct/28/front.html#2 3 killed as violence flares up Staff Correspondent At least three, including a BNP leader and a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, were killed and more than 200 injured as violence flared up in the capital city and elsewhere as power is set to be handed over from the four-party ruling coalition to the caretaker government and the BNP-Awami League dialogue on reforms proposals failed. Awami League activists set fire to a public bus at Jatrabari in Dhaka on Friday evening after the prime minister’s address to the nation. — New Age photo A Public Works Department employee, Khode Newaz Chowdhury, died after being hit with a bullet at Khilgaon Friday night. The police claimed there was no procession where he sustained wounds. The offices of the BNP and its front organisations, Awami League offices, and the residences and business establishments of ministers and lawmakers were also attacked during violence that began after some BNP leaders had joined the newly-formed Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday. The Brahmanbaria unit BNP vice-president, Sheikh Mohammad Habibullah, was killed in bomb attack on a procession at about 8:00pm Friday. The district unit Juba Dal president, Emdadul Hassan, and student wing leader, Bidyut, were also injured. A young man, Aslam, who sustained wounds during a clash at Dhamrai in Dhaka on Thursday after BNP lawmaker Ziaur Rahman had joined the new party, died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital Friday afternoon. In Gazipur, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Ruhul Amin, died in an attack allegedly by the Awami League activists on the Jamaat office at Shibbari at about 8:15pm. In Dhaka, the demonstrators vandalised BNP offices at Bangshal of Kotwali and Anandabazar of Shahbagh and set fire to the office of Ward 66 commissioner on Devidas Ghat Lane of Lalbagh. The Awami League activists went on the rampage in other places, including Lalbagh, Kotwali and Sutrapur. The activists damaged shops and business establishments owned by BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu Thursday night. On Friday, the supporters of the BNP and the Awami League began clashing at Imamganj of Lalbagh, in which 15 were injured. Raju and Emon, injured with bullet, were admitted to Mitford Hospital. At Islambagh, the opposition activists set fire to the office of Ward 65 commissioner, Shahdiul Islam, at about 5:15pm. At Shanirakhra of Demra, the opposition activists staged a sit-in demonstration suspending traffic from the south-east to the city. Awami League activists vandalised several BNP offices at Lalbagh, Kotwali, Kamrangirchar, Motijheel and other areas, sources said. In Gazipur, opposition activists brought out a procession with bamboo poles and oars and stopped traffic on the Dhaka–Mymensingh Highway at Joydevpur. In Khulna, some young people vandalised the car of a physician and another vehicle of BNP lawmaker, Ali Asghar Lobby, at Mirzapur at about 5:00pm. More than 70 were injured in clashes between the Awami League and the BNP activists at Debidwar and Burichang in Comilla on Thursday and Friday. In Shariatpur, at least 20 people were injured in a clash between the activists of the BNP and the Awami League at Domsar Bazar on Friday. Minister without portfolio Altaf Hossain Chowdhury was attacked and he took refuge in local police station. The New Age correspondent in Barisal said the situation in the city was tense, but under control till late evening. Law enforcers intensified their vigilance. The Patuakhali correspondent said BNP rival factions, led by lawmaker Altaf Hossain and his opponents BNP secretary Snehangshu Sarkar Kutty and municipal chairman Mostak Hossain Pinu clashed and chased each other in the town Friday evening. In Rangpur, more than 50 were injured in clashes between the opposition combine led by the Awami League and the BNP when the BNP’s youth front leader, Kamal Hossain, was in a vehicle as the opposition procession marched past near the press club in the afternoon. http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/10/28/d6102801022.htm Violence flares up, houses of ministers, MPs attacked 2 alliance leaders, an activist killed, 500 injured Star Report The country plunged into a chaos yesterday as Awami League (AL) and BNP activists were locked in battles over establishing supremacy in the localities of Dhaka and other places just hours before the end of the four-party alliance government's tenure. The clashes left three ruling alliance leaders and activists killed, over 500 injured, and hundreds of houses and vehicles ransacked and torched. Two women also died in a road accident at Jatrabari during the rampage. Even senior ministers and lawmakers of the four-party alliance were also not spared as their houses and offices came under attacks during yesterday's rampage in Dhaka and in many other districts. The dead are Advocate Habib Ullah, vice-president of Brahmanbaria district unit of BNP, Ruhul Amin, a Rokon of Gazipur district unit of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, and Khoda Newaz Chowdhury, whose identity could not be ascertained. Thousands of Awami League and 14-party coalition activists came out on the streets yesterday evening to gain pre-emptive control of their respective localities and to show off muscle immediately after the prime minister's address to the nation at 7:00pm. Different parts of the capital were found literally burning into the chaos as armed activists of both the alliances indiscriminately blasted crackers and bombs, set tires on fire, ransacked vehicles and threw brickbats at rival processions. The capital last night resembled the images of battle-prone streets of Palestine seen on TV screens with armed men prowling on empty streets which were marked with blazes eerily lighting up the night sky. A frightening calm engulfed the city which was punctuated by sounds of gunshots and battle cries of the operatives of two rival parliamentary parties that were engaged in a dialogue just a few days ago. Almost all the stores remained closed and most of the streets were deserted in the capital while its panic-stricken residents were glued to TV screens or hectic on phones trying to find out what their uncertain lives are heading towards. The scene on the streets of Dhaka city last night brought into reality the hitherto fear of political experts even before the handover of power to a caretaker government. At the time of filing this report early today Jatrabari, Shyampur, Gulistan, Purana Paltan, Russel Square and its adjacent area in Dhanmondi, Pallabi, Lalbagh, Kamrangirchar, and Hazaribagh areas of the capital were under the control of AL activists. In the port city of Chittagong a ban on gatherings on Laldighi Maidan was declared by the administration in the wake of a tense situation that arose after the local chapters of both BNP and AL had announced rallies there at the same time. Yesterday, as BNP tried to hold a rally on the maidan, AL activists chased the BNP activists out of the area and held an AL rally there presided over by City Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, who is also an AL leader. CAPITAL Thousands of activists of AL and BNP and of their different front organisations came out on the streets in the capital during the prime minister's address to the nation and demonstrated violently leaving its residents in panic and anxiety. Activists of both the parties threw bombs on rival party's processions, offices and other establishments and were locked in clashes, almost all over the city. Small battles were continuing in different areas of the capital at the time of filing this report. The worst was seen in the area spanning from Motijheel to Demra, forcing hundreds of commuters to walk to their destinations in complete darkness as the clashing political operatives damaged the street lights and barred vehicular traffic on Dhaka-Chittagong highway. Activists of both the parties were seen patrolling the streets with sticks and stones in hands in search of rival party men. They were chanting slogans against each other. At least two men from Pallabi area were admitted to hospitals last night with critical bullet wounds. The two -- Bachchhu and Shahin -- were wounded at Duaripara in Pallabi. Several crackers were blasted at the residence of Housing and Public Works Minister Mirza Abbas at Shajahanpur in Khilgoan during the clashes. The house of Communications Minister Nazmul Huda at Dhanmondi also came under attack. The opposition activists hurled bricks at his residence leaving its windowpanes shattered. Several crackers were blasted at the residence of Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, parliamentary adviser to the prime minister, last night for the second time in the last seven days. State Minister Amanullah also came under attack at his residence at Imamganj in Lalbagh. The attack left four including Aman injured as AL and BNP exchanged bullets there yesterday afternoon for half an hour. AL workers also attacked the house of minister without portfolio Harun-ur-Rashid Munnu and the BEPZA office at Dhanmondi.
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