DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Competitors of former Top Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday thwarted a plan by means of her Awami League birthday party to carry a rally in Bangladesh’s capital, observed as a possible first effort to make a comeback at the streets since she fled the rustic in August amid a mass rebellion.The rally in Dhaka by means of Hasina’s birthday party was once to commemorate the dying of a birthday party activist on Nov. 10, 1987, which had sparked a mass protest towards former army dictator H.M. Ershad. He was once sooner or later ousted from administrative center, finishing his nine-year rule in 1990. The day is venerated as “democracy day.” In 1991, Bangladesh switched to a parliamentary democracy from a presidential type of govt, and because then Hasina and her rival, former Top Minister Khaleda Zia from the Bangladesh Nationalist Birthday party, become probably the most tough political figures within the nation.
A torn poster of Bangladesh’s former Top Minister Sheikh Hasina and her father, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, hangs in an deserted Awami League administrative center in Dhaka. in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024. (AP Photograph/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
On Sunday, activists of the birthday party headed by means of Zia, Hasina’s primary rival, and in addition individuals of the conservative Jamaat-e-Islami birthday party took to the streets of Dhaka, filling up a lot of the world the place the rally was once scheduled to happen. Others, together with loads of pupil protesters, additionally introduced that they wouldn’t permit Hasina’s supporters to face at the streets and dangle the rally. The protesters stated that they believe Hasina’s birthday party was once seeking to make a comeback by means of preserving a rally at the streets on Sunday. The protesters from the Anti-discrimination Scholar Motion, a bunch that led the mass rebellion in July-August, aggressively sought for supporters of Hasina.
Teams of other people surrounded the Awami League birthday party’s headquarters close to the Noor Hossain Sq. in Dhaka the place Hasina’s supporters had been intended to collect to carry the rally.
CORRECTS NAME AND DESIGNATION- Bangladesh Nationalist Birthday party activists shout slogans close to former high minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League birthday party administrative center in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024. (AP Photograph/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
A police officer shields an Awami League lady supporter from scholars from anti-discrimination actions in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024. (AP Photograph/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
CORRECTS NAME- Bangladesh Nationalist Birthday party activists shout slogans all the way through a protest to counter former high minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League birthday party rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024. (AP Photograph/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
Safety was once tight within the house, however witnesses and native media stated that the protesters attacked a number of supporters of Hasina after they tried to achieve there and chanted slogans in choose of the fallen chief.
The Awami League birthday party stated that many in their activists had been detained by means of police as they got here underneath assaults. Tensions ran top during Sunday with the anti-Hasina protesters announcing that they wouldn’t permit the birthday party to carry any public rally underneath any instances. The Awami League birthday party wondered the perception, announcing it’s towards the spirit of democracy and the constitutional proper to meeting.The Awami League birthday party posted quite a lot of movies on Fb on Sunday appearing its supporters being manhandled. Its birthday party headquarters had previous been vandalized following Hasina’s fall on Aug. 5, and on Sunday it was once empty and there have been indicators of destruction. Outdoor, regulate was once within the palms of Hasina’s fighters.
Scholars from anti-discrimination actions and Bangladesh Nationalist Birthday party activists assault an Awami League supporter in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024. (AP Photograph/Mahmud Hossain Opu)
The political chaos within the South Asian country went on as Zia’s birthday party was once searching for fast reforms and a brand new election from an meantime govt headed by means of Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus. The birthday party believes it’ll be capable of shape the brand new govt within the absence of Hasina’s birthday party, whilst its different allies also are suffering.Because the meantime govt ends its 3 months in administrative center, other people stay involved over top commodity costs, regulation and order, mob justice and the upward push of Islamist forces as soon as suppressed by means of Hasina’s regime. The world group additionally stays cautious about alleged assaults on minority teams, particularly Hindus that make up about 8% of the rustic’s 170 million other people.
The Yunus-led govt stated it will search extradition of Hasina and her shut friends as they face fees of crimes towards humanity involving deaths of loads of protesters all the way through the rebellion.On Sunday, Bangladesh’s Legislation Adviser Asif Nazrul stated the meantime govt would ask Interpol to factor crimson notices searching for the arrest and repatriation of fugitives allegedly liable for the deaths of other people all the way through the mass rebellion.“We will be able to … prioritize bringing them again from anywhere they’re hiding,” he instructed journalists in Dhaka.
