This February 17 photo shows members of Border Guard Bangladesh patrolling Dhanmondi area in the capital after its deployment.
Members
of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) will be deployed in the capital
Saturday evening to maintain law and order amid violence and hate
campaign by Jamaat-e-Islami and its allies.The paramilitary force will be posted at different points in Dhaka around 8:30pm, Bangla daily Prothom Alo reported quoting sources at the BGB headquarters.
The decision to deploy the BGB came a day after four people were killed across the country as Jamaat and its sympathisers attacked police and journalists.
On Friday, nearly 1,000 people including 14 journalists were also injured when the activists of the Jamaat, Shibir and the sympathisers launched attacks with handmade bombs, guns, and sticks on them.
In what appears to be the culmination of a cleverly orchestrated smear campaign, the Jamaat and its adherents branded the Shahbagh protesters as atheists and tried to use Juma prayers to whip up religious sentiments against them.
Gonojagoron Manchas -- from where demands are being made for capital punishment to war criminals -- became their targets of vandalism in Chittagong, Feni, Chandpur, Rajshahi, Bogra, Sirajganj, Joypurhat, Sylhet, Moulvibazar and Pabna.
They chanted slogans against the organisers of the Shahbagh movement, which has been calling for death penalty for all war criminals and a ban on Jamaat-Shibir politics.
Jamaat and some like-minded radical Islamist parties had earlier announced nationwide demonstrations after yesterday's Juma prayers for punishment to the bloggers.
They torched the national flag in Chandpur and Bogra, and vandalised Shaheed Minars in Feni and Sylhet, and the Awami League office in Kurigram. They attacked law enforcers in other districts, including Jhenidah, Patuakhali, Pabna and Joypurhat.
As the protest gained momentum with thousands of people joining the demonstrators at Shahbagh, Jamaat-Shibir men started smear campaign against the frontline activists of the movement.
Days before blogger Ahmed Rajib Haidar’s killing on February 15, anti-Islam blog posts were published in his name, which the Shahbagh protesters rejected as Haidar’s.
As cyber war continued between the two sides, more and more anti-Islam contents were published on different websites targeted at maligning the protesters’ characters, the Shahbagh protesters said.
Some newspapers also published those contents to add further as the debate received more heat.
Earlier, BGB were deployed in the city on February 5 and 17 to avert any subversive activities over the verdict of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Mollah in a war crimes case.
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