People
take oath in the capital's Shahbagh intersection on Friday afternoon to
demand death penalty to all war criminals of 1971. The
demonstrators at Shahbagh intersection continued their sit-in for the
fifth straight day on Saturday demanding capital punishment of Jamaat
leader Abdul Quader Mollah and all other war criminals.
Hundreds
of outraged students, activists and ordinary citizens under the banner
of 'Bloggers and Online Activist Network' started the day's proceedings
in the morning.Meanwhile, miscreants exploded three cocktails targeting a group of journalists who staged a demonstration near Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital demanding scrapping of Jatiya Press Club membership of Mollah and war crimes suspect Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.
People from different parts of the city were seen converging towards the Shahbagh intersection with national flags and placard to join the ongoing non-stop protest since the morning.
A team from Chhayanat also joined the demonstration and is expected to perform patriotic songs to gear up the protest.
Like the previous days, police put barricades in front of Ruposhi Bangla Hotel, Aziz Super Market and Institute of Fine Arts to divert the traffic, creating heavy jam on the roads that lead to Shahbagh.
Several hundred protesters have been staging sit-in, blocking the Shahbagh intersection since Tuesday afternoon after the International Crimes Tribunal-2 sentenced Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah to life term imprisonment for his war crimes.
On Friday, the nation saw the biggest gathering in recent memory as tens of thousands thronged Shahbagh intersection to call for death penalty for the war criminals, including Mollah.
Tens of thousands of people took oath to boycott Jamaat and Shibir and also vowed to continue the movement from Teknaf to Tetulia until capital punishment is handed down on those Razakar and Al-Badr members who committed crimes against humanity like mass killing and rape in 1971.
In Chittagong, hundreds of people under the banners of Progotishil Chhatra Jote and Bloggers and Online Activist Network brought out a procession from Chittagong Press Club around 9:00am.
The procession ended in front of the press club after parading Jamalkhan and Anderkilla in the city.
The protesters also torched several copies of Amar Desh, a Bangla daily, claiming that the newspaper did not uphold the real picture of the movement.
Terming the report as biased, Ali Kaderi Joy, organiser of the Chhatra Jote and also president of Samajtantrik Chhatra Front city of Chittagong city unit, said the newspaper portrayed the agitation wrongly.
Meanwhile, the teachers, students and officials of Rajshahi University continued their demonstration on the campus for the third successive day on Saturday on the same demand.
Today’s agitation started in the morning through a grand procession on the campus with the participation of over two thousand people under the banner of ‘Ganamancha’, reports a correspondent form the university.
The agitators also hung the portraits of war criminals naming them as Razakars at Tukitaki Chattar on the campus around 12:30pm. Later, the outraged students set fire to the portraits.
Addressing the rally, the agitating students and teachers chanted, “Hang the war criminals or we will hang ourselves.”
Vowing to continue the movement, they also said, “We freed the country in 1971 and now we will free it from Razakars and Jamaat-Shibir. None can push us back.”
Meanwhile, the students of fine arts department declared to boycott classes until the announcement of death sentence of Quader Mollah.
In Khulna, the people announced to continue their demonstration until capital punishment to all Razakars was not implemented.
Besides, people of different districts including Comilla, Jhenidah, Magura, Narsingdi and Joypurhat are also continuing their demonstration.
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