Advisorty: With Photo
Dhaka, Sept 9 (BDNEWS) – The capital walls including the Dhaka University have been covered with the red posters of the extremist Sharbahara Party inscribed with a call for waging a peoples' war.
The posters were pasted in the walls amidst strict vigilance of different security agencies against the extremists and militants especially after August 17 countrywide series of bomb blasts.
The poster that contains the portrait of the socialist China's founder Mao Zedong was published in the name of 'Committee to observe Comrade Mao Zedong's 29th Death Anniversary.'
Eyeing on September 9, the 29th death anniversary of Mao, the committee called upon people to wage a mass war in Bangladesh, taking the lessons from the experiences of peoples' war in Peru, Nepal and India.
This is one of the five points that the poster urged to the people.
Considering the e-mail address mentioned at the bottom of the poster, political observers detected that the Anwar Kabir group of the Sharbahara Party was behind the poster.
The e-mail address mentioned in the poster is
[email protected]. The extremist outfit has a tabloid publication named 'Andolon' (Movement) apart from 'Sphulingo' (Spark).
In 1970, Siraj Sikdar founded the 'Mao Zedong Research Centre', which later turned into the Purbo Banglar Sharbahara Party.
It took part in the 1971 liberation war, but being inspired by the Mao's guerrilla war strategy, the party launched an armed struggle against the post-independence Bangabandhu government.
Siraj Sikdar was killed by the then Rakkhi Bahini in 1974 and since then the party got split in a number of factions.
Many of the factions are now involved in anarchic and terrorist activities in different names like Lal Pataka (Red Flag), Janajuddha (People's War) etc.
Among the factions, Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party, the group led by Siraj Sikdar's close ally Anwar Kabir represents the mainstream.
BDNEWS/1950 hrs
