This resulted in the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, the youth leader of Bangladesh, and this has sparked new protests in the country. Hadis own supporters protested in numbers in the capital city square and vandalised offices of the Bangladeshi newspapers, the prothom Alo, and the Daily Star.
It has started by attacking the Bengali-language daily newspaper Prothom Alo in which the crowd had been chanting slogans before burning down that building around midnight.
According to a witness, several hundred protesters have surrounded the office of the Prothom Alo around 11 pm and surrounded the building later after the office of the Daily Star was burnt down after a building of Prothom Alo had been vandalized.
One outside phone call had warned the staff that a crowd was coming towards the Daily Star premises which is a newspaper providing information to the audience. Mob had already started vandalising the ground and first floors of the office building and when the newsroom staff attempted to go down the staircase they found themselves engulfed by flames.
Zyma Islam, The Daily Star reporter posted on Facebook, “I can not breathe anymore. “There’s too much smoke. I’m inside. You are killing me,” she added.
The staff working at the night shift allegedly rushed to the terrace in order to save their lives. Reported bdnews24, at least 25 Daily Star correspondents were freed more than four hours after they were mobbed in the office building of the Kawran Bazar of the Dhaka district.
The fire was being tamed at about 2 am but it will still take several hours to evacuate the journalists out of the building as the people rushed towards the building.
To provide rescuing operation, Mahmud Hasan, a staff of the Daily Star wrote on social media: “All The Daily Star staff evacuated successfully to a safe location, courtesy of the Bangladesh Army and the Fire Service,” and then thanked the army. And he added, among other comments, “Thanks, in particular, to an army major whose gallantry to-day rivaled that of “Major Rana,” the legendary fictitious warrior of the series of magazines initiated by the pen-name Masud Rana, as devised by Kazi Anwar Hossain.
The Daily Star building has been covered with the Army on standby before bdnews24.
President of the editors council and New Age Editor Nurul Kabir was heckled. Ground videos depict a violent crowd of people pulling off the hair of Kabir and beating him.
It is not reported why these two newspapers that were passive supporters of Yunus and his interim government were attacked.
Hindu Man Lynched, Set On Fire In Bangladesh Amid Anti-India Protests
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During the anti-India movement in Bangladesh, a young Hindu man was lynched by mob in mob in the Bhaluka Upazila of Mymensingh district because of assaults on the religion of Islam. As per the reports in Bangladesh media, the body of Dipu Chandra Das, 30 was then burnt by angry protestors.
The event occurred due to the mass demonstrations that took place in Bangladesh after a leader of the July Uprising, Sharif Osman Hadi, was killed. Interim government headed by the Muhammad Yunus has heavily criticized the lynching of the Hindu man citing that there is no room in a new Bangladesh to develop such violence. It promised that the perpetrators of the heinous crime would not go scot free.
The government hailed in a statement, the Shaheed (martyr) Hadi by rejecting and resisting violence, incitement and hatred, which was the call of the government to all citizens at this critical hour.
In another shocking piece of violence against the minorities in Bangladesh, a mob lynched to death a Hindu man Dipu Chandra Das in Mymensingh last Thursday. The Bangladesh local and eye-witness reports stated that Dipu is accused of making derogatory remarks about Islam and Prophet Muhammad in an event held in the factory to celebrate the World Arabic Language Day. Bangladeshi Bengali newspaper Barta Bazar reported that Dipu said this.
The accusations quickly went round the Pioneer Knit Composite Factory in the Square Masterbari locality where Das worked and the localities, creating tension. He was then beaten by a furious crowd, and supposedly killed in their presence.
They say that the scenario became gruesome when he died and the crowd dragged his body to the Square Masterbari bus stand space, tied it with a rope to a tree, beat it up chanting all sorts of slogans and later burnt it.
The people then took the corpse to the highway of Dhaka-Mymensingh and place it on the fire once again disrupting the traffic and causing panic among the locals. The accident led to the increase in the tension in the region, and the traffic on the highway that linked Dhaka and Mymensingh was blocked temporarily.
To substantiate the fact, Bhaluka Upazila Executive Officer, Md Firoz Hossain, alleged that someone had been killed on charges of defaming the Prophet, and that the body of Das was in the hands of police.
Bangladesh was put on edge when Sharif Osman Hadi a radical Islamist who has appeared to be an outspoken critic of India died on Friday leading to protests, violence and vandalism in several regions of the country. The demonstrators attacked the main media outlets in Bangladesh such as Daily Star and Prothom Alo, and the already destroyed building of 32 Dhanmandi, the birthplace of Bangladesh founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Most recently within the last few months protests outside the offices of the dailies under the banner of the Islamists were held against the newspapers due to the allegation that they were somehow related to India. To them, it was also a curse of Rahman and her daughter, the oust premier Sheikh Hasina, being subservient to India in their regime.
Hadi was a strong critic of the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who ruled Bangladesh and had 15 years and whose rule ended in the uprising last year. Its formation, the Inqilab Moncho group, which was formed due to the removal of Hasina in the years before has been holding street demonstrations and campaigns denouncing Hasina and India.
The Inqilab Moncho faction has been propagating anti-Indian feeling in the country that is predominantly occupied by Muslims by the virtue of the removal of Hasina. Hasina has been reduced to self-exile in India.
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