Bangladeshi safety forces have arrested 1,308 individuals as a part of “Operation Satan Hunt” amid incidents of mob assaults and vandalism within the nation, The Every day Star reported on Sunday.
The nation’s interim authorities launched the safety operation on Saturday after pupil activists had been injured throughout vandalism on the residence of an Awami League chief close to Dhaka, PTI reported. The Awami League is led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The joint operation involving the Military, the police and their specialised items had led to the arrest of 274 individuals primarily in Bangladesh’s metropolitan cities, PTI quoted native media as having reported.
The individuals arrested had been principally members of the Awami League and its affiliate organisations, reported The Every day Star.
Eighty-one members of the Awami League had been arrested in Gazipur, 25 km north of the capital Dhaka, PTI reported.
On Friday evening, no less than 14 individuals who had been allegedly a part of mobs out to vandalise properties linked to the Awami League had been injured after being allegedly attacked in Gazipur’s Dakshinkhan space.
The violence befell throughout an assault on the house of former Liberation Warfare Affairs Minister Mozammel Haque. Haque is amongst senior leaders of the Awami League who’re absconding or have fled the nation for the reason that Hasina authorities was toppled in August.
The leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Pupil Motion claimed that their activists had gone to Haque’s residence to cease looting however had been attacked by miscreants.
Hasina fled Dhaka for New Delhi on August 5 after weeks of student-led protests in opposition to her authorities that left 560 folks lifeless. She had been prime minister for 16 years.
On August 8, Nobel laureate economist Muhammad Yunus was sworn in as chief adviser of the nation’s interim authorities.
On Sunday, The Enterprise Commonplace (Bangladesh) quoted Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, the house affairs adviser within the interim authorities, as saying that the safety operation will proceed till all “devils” face justice and that “not a single satan must be overlooked”.
“What does ‘satan’ imply? It refers to evil forces,” PTI quoted Chowdhury, a former navy officer, as saying. “This operation is aimed toward those that attempt to destabilise the nation, break the legislation, have interaction in felony actions, and commit acts of terrorism.”
Those that had attacked the coed activists in Gazipur can be delivered to justice, he added.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Social gathering, the rival of the Awami League, has lauded the interim authorities for launching the safety operation.
Violence in Bangladesh
The assault in Gazipur on Friday was a part of widespread violence that erupted in Bangladesh on Wednesday over a deliberate speech by Hasina on-line. Mobs have focused Hasina’s supporters and members of her Awami League, and vandalised properties belonging to them in Dhaka and different cities.
On Wednesday, a group of protesters vandalised after which demolished the house of Hasina’s father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi neighbourhood, which had been transformed right into a memorial museum. The constructing was demolished utilizing heavy equipment because the police allegedly didn’t intervene.
Rahman was a key determine in Bangladesh’s independence motion and the nation’s founding president.
Hasina, in a speech broadcast by the Awami League on Thursday, accused Yunus of planning to homicide her, The Hindureported. She mentioned that Bangladesh had change into a “land of terrorists and militants”.
On Friday, Yunus known as for “full legislation and order” and an finish to assaults on the properties of Hasina and leaders of her “fascist” Awami League “or in opposition to any citizen on any pretext”.
