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Fear reigns all over

It’s more than excesses


Published : 04 Aug 2024 10:31 PM

Fear reigns all over as the miscreants started targeting courts, security personnel, even hospital across the country during the ongoing acts of deadly violence.

Various ready-made garments factories were attacked in RMG hub of different places in the country.

On the other hand, law enforcing agencies are also blamed for excessive use of force in handling the movement which caused around three hundred deaths across the country.

Political observers termed all these acts, both by protesters and the security forces as more than excesses.  

Miscreants attacked the vehicles of the four justices of the apex court when they were returning from the court in the capital Dhaka.

They also attacked the Chief Metropolitan Magistrates (CMM) and Chief Judicial Magistrates (CJM) courts in the old part of the Dhaka city.

In the attack, various windows of the CMM court and CJM court buildings were pelted with bricks. Five police vans in front of the CMM court were vandalized.

As a result, all the court proceedings of the Appellate Division and High Court division of the Supreme Court along with that of lower courts will remain closed for an indefinite period from August 5. 

The situation turned violent when activists of ruling Awami league and its affiliates took to the streets to counter the protesters, said witnesses, our correspondents and photographers from the spots.

Police also fired tear shells, sound grenades to disperse the protesters in many places, resulting in violent clashes that left many including students dead and injured.

At least 13 policemen in Sirajganj  district alone were beaten to death in an attack on the Enayetpur police station. 

Vandalism, arson attacks were reported from various parts of the country including Dhaka, Chattogram, Dinajpur, Sylhet, Khulna, Kushtia.

At least 88 deaths were reported so far till filing the report around 9:10pm. 

The violence involved anti-discrimination student protesters, the police, and Awami League and Chhatra League activists.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that those engaging in sabotage in the name of protest across the country are not students but terrorists.