Staff Reporter :Leaders and workers of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir on Wednesday clashed with the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and police in Chittagong and Rajshahi over holding Gayebana Janaza for executed war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami.However, no untoward incident took place in the capital Dhaka during Nizami’s Gayebana Janaza at Baitul Mukarram mosque. Leaders and activists of Jamaat and Chhatra Shibir took part in the Gayebana Janaza amid tight security. After the janaja the Jamaat-Shibir leaders and activists flashed V-sign and left the mosque chanting slogan ‘Narae Takbeer’ and ‘Allah Hu Akbar.’ In Chittagong, police fired several rounds of blank gunshots when the Jamaat-Shibir activists pelted stones and brick chunks to the BCL men on Chittagong College campus at about 1:45pm. When the BCL men took position there to prevent the Jamaat-Shibir men from holding Gayebana Janaza, Jamaat-Shibir activists chased them and started pelting stones in presence of police. Our Chittagong Bureau adds: The Gayebana Janeza of Nizami was held at Chittagong Parade Ground on Wednesday afternoon. During the janaza, a number of Chatra Shibir activists entered the Parade Ground firing blank shots and left the venue soon after janaza prayers. Following the incident, the traffic movement in the area came to a halt and all the roadside shops remained shut. As Jamaat yesterday morning declared that they would hold Gayebana Janaza of Nizami after Zohr prayer at parade ground the BCL activists took position outside the ground in a bid to foil it.In Rajshahi, police opened fire on activists of Jamaat-Shibir when they pelted stones and brick chunks to the law enforcers near Hetemkha graveyard in the city.The Jamaat-Shibir men locked into a clash with police near Hetemkha graveyard in the city after holding a gayebana janaza, said Iftekhair Alam, Assistant Commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police.The law enforcers opened fire when the activists attacked them hurling brick chunks, the Assistant Commissioner said.Police picked up five activists from the scene.Meanwhile, protesting the execution of its ameer and war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami, Jamaat-e-Islami has called a 24-hour countrywide hartal for today (Thursday) to protest what it called ‘planned killing’ of Nizami by the government.In a statement which was published in Jamaat’s website within one hour after the hanging of 73-year-old Jamaat leader in Dhaka Central Jail at 12:10am.After long six years of trial, country’s top war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged in the early hours of Wednesday for the horrendous crimes he had committed against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971 to thwart Bangladesh’s independence.Escorted by law enforcers, a hearse carrying the body of executed war criminal started for his village home at Manmathpur in Santhia Upazila of Pabna around 1:31 am. He was later buried at his village graveyard.With the latest execution, five war criminals have so far been executed, while two others – Jamaat leader Ghulam Azam and BNP leader Abdul Alim who had been sentenced to imprisonment unto death – died in jail.
