Bangladesh opposition announces new blockades - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English

Bangladesh opposition announces new blockades - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English

Bangladesh opposition announces new blockades

Hundreds arrested as police launch offensive against opposition protesters demonstrating against the ruling party. Last updated: 19 Dec 2013 14:41 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/12/bangladesh-opposition-announces-new-blockades-20131219133854926494.html

A Bangladesh opposition group has called for a four-day national blockade in a bid to force Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down ahead of a general election on January 5. During a press conference on Thursday, Bangladesh National Party (BNP) committee member, Nazrul Islam Khan, announced the blockade, the fifth since protests began in October, which will take effect at 6am on Saturday. Previous blockades have targeted transport across the country, leading to an estimated $40b loss of revenue for Bangladesh after rail and road shipments were halted and industries like the garment business losing western custom. Also on Thursday, Bangladesh security forces arrested more than 100 protesters as they launched an offensive on the opposition ahead of the controversial general election. Officials said the protesters were detained in joint operations by the police, the elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and paramilitary border guards. The "joint forces" arrested 118 people, mostly activists from the main opposition BNP and its key ally Jamaat-e-Islami, in five districts where police had earlier clashed with demonstrators. Election boycott Both groups have said they will boycott the polls if the election goes ahead while Hasina is still in office. The BNP, Jamaat and their smaller allies have been staging protests since late October to try to force Hasina to step down so that a neutral caretaker government can oversee the election. She refuses to accept the arrangement, which was in place during previous national polls. The BNP has refused to field candidates for the January election, saying the vote under Hasina will be rigged, an accusation the premier rejects. Jamaat, the country's largest Islamist party which has been barred from contesting the polls, is also furious with the government after one of its leaders, Abdul Quader Mollah, was executed last week for crimes during the 1971 independence war.

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IT IS NOW CLEAR TO THE WORLD COMMUNITY OF NATIONS AS TO WHICH FILTHY GENOCIDE COMMITTAL COUNTRY IS, THAT HAS PLANNED AND IS DIRECTING THE KILLING THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT IN POWER AND BLAMING THE OPPONENT. IT IS NOW A OPEN SECRET THAT INDIA IS DEEPLY AND OPENLY INVOLVED IN THE COMMITTAL OF GENOCIDE WITH THE HELP OF THE PARTY IN POWER.

THE HUMAN RIGHTS AUTHORITY MUST NOT OVERLOOK TO SAVE INDIA FROM ITS DIRECT INVOLVEMENT IN THE EXECUTION OF COMMITTAL OF GENOCIDE IN BANGLADESH. AND IF THIS IS OVERLOOKED AND HUMAN RIGHTS AUTHORITIES THEN WOULD HAVE TO BEAR THE FULL RESPONSIBILITY OF ABATEMENT OF THIS GENOCIDE BY POLITICAL POWER IN POWER WITH THE OPEN SUPPORT AND INVOLVEMENT OF INDIA.

IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION BE CONDUCTED BY MEMBERS DRAWN FROM THE WORLD COMMUNITY OF NATIONS INCLUDING SUPER POWERS AND NOT BY ABATTOIRS  INDIA AND , HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER OF BANGLADESH A KNOWN ACTIVISTS OF THE PARTY IN POWER. NO VETO POWER WOULD BE ALLOWED TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FINDINGS.
UN CANNOT AVOID BRINGING THE OFFENDERS TO JUSTICE HOWEVER BIG THE CRIMINAL COUNTRY AND THE PARTY IN POWER MAY BE.-- EXTRACT.