DHAKA: Incidents of assaulting people physically, stripping people, and widespread obstructions created by the mobs in front of what was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s residence in Dhaka have drawn widespread criticism from the Bangladesh public.
A number of videos, including that of a senior citizen being stripped by the mob, were widely circulated online.Sarjis Alam, one of the key organisers of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, said Friday that those who carried out such acts in different parts of Dhaka had violated human rights. “In the viral video I saw a man of my father’s age being held by the ear, a man of my father’s age being undressed, many people’s phones being checked, a woman of my mother’s age being assaulted, and journalists attacked,” he said, describing those incidents as illegal.
One Facebook user, indicating the video of a senior citizen being stripped, wrote, “I am ashamed to be born in this country.” Unidentified people armed with sticks were seen attacking and confining people near the historic Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on Thursday.
Police meanwhile arrested a former army officer, Major General Ziaul Ahsan, on Thursday in connection with the murder of a shop employee. He was relieved of his post in the army on August 6. Ahsan, former D-G of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Center, was arrested from Dhaka’s Khilkhet on the basis of secret information, police said on Friday.
A number of videos, including that of a senior citizen being stripped by the mob, were widely circulated online.Sarjis Alam, one of the key organisers of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, said Friday that those who carried out such acts in different parts of Dhaka had violated human rights. “In the viral video I saw a man of my father’s age being held by the ear, a man of my father’s age being undressed, many people’s phones being checked, a woman of my mother’s age being assaulted, and journalists attacked,” he said, describing those incidents as illegal.
One Facebook user, indicating the video of a senior citizen being stripped, wrote, “I am ashamed to be born in this country.” Unidentified people armed with sticks were seen attacking and confining people near the historic Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on Thursday.
Police meanwhile arrested a former army officer, Major General Ziaul Ahsan, on Thursday in connection with the murder of a shop employee. He was relieved of his post in the army on August 6. Ahsan, former D-G of the National Telecommunication Monitoring Center, was arrested from Dhaka’s Khilkhet on the basis of secret information, police said on Friday.
Source : Times of India
