Members of the Awami League and its affiliated organisations started holding processions and demonstrations on the highways and streets in several districts Saturday midnight, in protest against the governmentโs brutality in Gopalganj.
They chanted slogans to demand the resignation and punishment of murderous Muhammad Yunus and his gang, urging the people to raise their voices against injustice.
They also burned effigies and portraits of Yunus.
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According to party sources, the Dhaka metropolitan south unit Awami League brought out a procession at Jatrabari.
In Narayanganj, a torch procession was held on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway by Chhatra Leagueโs district and metropolitan units.
The Gazipur metropolitan unit of Chhatra League staged a demonstration on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway after midnight.
In Narsingdi, the Awami League activists blocked a road by burning tires.
On the other hand, the Sylhet district unit of Chhatra League blocked the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway and chanted slogans against the fascist regime.
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.
Later, the Bangladesh Awami League and the Bangladesh Krishak League issued statements in support of the hartal and called on all leaders, activists, and freedom-loving people to observe the hartal.
In support of Sunday’s hartal, the Sheikh Hasina Sangram Parishad has declared a remittance shutdown. Parishad President Tofazzel Hossain Ronu and General Secretary Mohammad Salauddin called for the shutdown in a press release on Friday.
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 on a rally of fascist Yunusโ National Citizen Party (NCP). Another bullet-hit injured person died in Dhaka on Friday.
The Gopalganj General Hospital authorities did not conduct autopsies of the four victims.
Moreover, the Awami League and human rights organisations put the number of deaths between 11 and 21, alleging that the security forces have concealed dead bodies.
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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