Chittagong Bureau :
The dawn to dusk hartal called by Jamaat Islami protesting the verdict of the Appellate Division upholding the death sentence of Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for his war crimes was observed on Wednesday.
The daylong shut down call was not responded from all spheres of life and the strike call passed off peacefully without any untoward incidents.
Chittagong was, however, largely peaceful in the early hours of the strike. No processions were taken out to support it . Traffic is a bit less than usual for a weekday, but public transport seemed available.
All sorts of public transports including rickshaws, auto-rickshaws, tempos, passenger buses seen plying randomly in the port city during hartal hours yesterday.
Any activities by pro-shutdown elements are yet to be reported from the city during the first five hours, said police. Jamaat activists even did not take out any procession in support of the strike.
Security was beefed up in the city as elsewhere in the district since Wednesday over the top court’s delivery of the verdict in the appeal filed by the Jamaat chief challenging the war crimes tribunal’s sentence Law enforcers were seen deployed at almost every major street of Chittagong since early on Thursday.
Departure of long-haul buses from the inter-district terminals were less than usual due to dearth of passengers But short-route buses, plying between the districts , are operating as usual.The operational activities of chittagong port, Ctg Export procesing zone was normal without any obstructions. The trains from Chittagong departs in schedule time and the domestic, international flights operated in schedule time, a beneficiary sources said.
Nizami is the second war criminal to be sentenced to death for the killing of intellectuals during the 1971 Liberation War.During the War, Nizami was the chief of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the affiliated student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami .
He was also the chief of the Al-Badr force that was formed by some members of Chhatra Sangha.The Al-Badr was formed to actively collaborate with the Pakistani occupation forces The International Crimes Tribunal found that Al-Badr committed crimes against humanity ‘at random’.
The dawn to dusk hartal called by Jamaat Islami protesting the verdict of the Appellate Division upholding the death sentence of Jamaat chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for his war crimes was observed on Wednesday.
The daylong shut down call was not responded from all spheres of life and the strike call passed off peacefully without any untoward incidents.
Chittagong was, however, largely peaceful in the early hours of the strike. No processions were taken out to support it . Traffic is a bit less than usual for a weekday, but public transport seemed available.
All sorts of public transports including rickshaws, auto-rickshaws, tempos, passenger buses seen plying randomly in the port city during hartal hours yesterday.
Any activities by pro-shutdown elements are yet to be reported from the city during the first five hours, said police. Jamaat activists even did not take out any procession in support of the strike.
Security was beefed up in the city as elsewhere in the district since Wednesday over the top court’s delivery of the verdict in the appeal filed by the Jamaat chief challenging the war crimes tribunal’s sentence Law enforcers were seen deployed at almost every major street of Chittagong since early on Thursday.
Departure of long-haul buses from the inter-district terminals were less than usual due to dearth of passengers But short-route buses, plying between the districts , are operating as usual.The operational activities of chittagong port, Ctg Export procesing zone was normal without any obstructions. The trains from Chittagong departs in schedule time and the domestic, international flights operated in schedule time, a beneficiary sources said.
Nizami is the second war criminal to be sentenced to death for the killing of intellectuals during the 1971 Liberation War.During the War, Nizami was the chief of Islami Chhatra Sangha, the affiliated student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami .
He was also the chief of the Al-Badr force that was formed by some members of Chhatra Sangha.The Al-Badr was formed to actively collaborate with the Pakistani occupation forces The International Crimes Tribunal found that Al-Badr committed crimes against humanity ‘at random’.
