The Sheikh Hasina Sangram Parishad has announced a remittance shutdown program in support of Sundayโs hartal to protest the massacre in Gopalganj last Wednesday.
Parishad President Tofazzel Hossain Ronu and General Secretary Mohammad Salauddin called for the remittance shutdown in a press release on Friday.
On Thursday, Bangladesh Awami Jubo League, Bangladesh Awami Swechchhasebak League, Jatiya Sramik League, and Bangladesh Chhatra League jointly called for a nationwide morning-evening hartal.
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Later, the Bangladesh Krishak League and Awami League issued statements in support of the hartal on Friday and called on all leaders, activists, and freedom-loving people to observe the hartal.
On Wednesday, Bangladesh saw horrific killings of four people and injuries to at least 25 others from gunshots as the army and the police opened fire, centring a rally of fascist Yunusโ National Citizen Party (NCP). Another bullet-hit injured person died in Dhaka on Friday.
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Since the killings, the government declared an indefinite curfew, and joint forces started raiding homes at night, creating a reign of terror.
The people of different areas of Gopalganj built resistance since Wednesday morning, as the NCP leaders had been threatening to demolish the mausoleum of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at Tungipara, around 19km from the town.
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