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Published : 11 Apr 2014, 10:42 PM
After announcing the programmes, Sarker also took out a procession with the activists on Friday afternoon.
The programmes include exchanging views on the Pahela Boishakh, the first day of Bengali New Year, with the inhabitants of Alokdi village in the Dhaka’s Mirpur.
It is the place where war crimes convict Abdul Quader Molla – widely known as the Butcher of Mirpur – had committed genocide during the Liberation War in 1971.
On that day, the Mancha activists will organise a cultural function at Shahbagh at 3pm with its slogan ‘Noboborsher Ongikar, Nipat Jak Rajakar’ (Pledge of the New Year: down with Rajakar), and light candles in the evening.
The anti-war crime platform will also hold rallies and bring out processions across the country on April 18 to press for its six-point demands.
The list includes death penalty for all war criminals and a ban Jamaat-e-Islami and its student affiliate Islami Chhatra Shibir.
It will also stage demonstrations to protest the ‘dealays’ in the war crimes trials.
The Mancha will hold a rally at Shahbagh at 3pm that day.
Sarker told the press conference that they had already sought permission from the Dhaka Metropolitan Police for the events.
He explained the clash between activist of Ganajagaran Mancha and Muktijoddha Santan Sangsad Command last week.
He said simultaneous action of the police and pro-government had surprised and upset the activists the Mancha supporters.
Imran H Sarker claimed they had been attacked for having protested the government’s acceptance of donation from the Jamaat-e-Islami-backed Islami Bank for an event aimed at setting a world record by singing the country’s national anthem in chorus of hundreds of thousands of voices.
“This made the government and their patronised force very angry with us,” he said.
Sarker added that, though the government returned the Islami Bank fund, the conspiracy of those had who ‘trapped’ the it was still on.
He said the government was plotting to ‘destroy’ the Mancha, as they saw it as the only obstacle to ‘conniving’ with the Jamaat and its student front, the Islami Chhatra Shibir.
“That’s why they’re using the force they patronise. They’ve activated the propaganda machines and used the police nakedly.”
There were Jamaat and Shibir ‘agents’ in the government, Imran insisted, urging everyone to protest against them.
He welcomed the Chhatra League’s clarification of its position about the Mancha’s movement and its disowning of responsibility for ‘the attacks on Mancha activists’.
the Mancha spokesperson also urged organisational action against those involved in anti-Mancha conspiracies under guise of the Awami League or its frontal bodies, the Chhatra League and Jubo League.
