What's new

Bangladesh Revolution News and Updates

Probably the May 5th rally will require a separate thread like this ...... This could turn into a big event that could change the course of Bangladesh history.
 
National-2.jpg

Hefajat ameer Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi came to Bogra by a private helicopter from Hathazari in Chittagong to address a rally of the Islamist group at Eidgah ground in the town yesterday.

More:
Leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh have threatened to unseat the government if their 13-point demand is not met by May 5.

They sounded the warning from rally held at Central Eidgah in Bogra town yesterday.

Chaired by Mufti Abdur Rahman, the rally was addressed, among others, by Ameer of Hefajat-e -Islam Bangladesh Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi, Secretary Junaid Babunagari, central Vice President Noor Hossain Kashimi, Bogra unit member-secretary Engineer Shamsul Islam, Maulana Abdur Rouf and Nazmul Ahsan.

A helicopter, carrying Hefajat Ameer Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi from Hathazari in Chittagong, landed Sultanganj High School field at 3:05pm. Party secretary Junaid Babunagari accompanied the Hefajat ameer.

Asked who had provided the helicopter for the Hefajat ameer, Bogra unit member secretary engineer Shamsul Islam told this correspondent that an imandar (believer) of Islam chartered the helicopter for him (ameer).

He, however, declined to mention the name of the person who hired the helicopter for Hefajat ameer.

Addressing the rally, the Hefajat leaders said Savar tragedy is a gazab (curse) of Allah as the activists of Gonojagoron Mancha are involved in immoral activities at Shahbagh. They demanded immediate arrest of the atheist bloggers.

The Hefajat leaders vowed to shed blood to realise their demands and urged the people to join Dhaka siege programme on May 5.

Allama Shah Ahmad Shafi in his speech urged the people to get ready for sacrificing their lives for the sake of Islam. “We want to make the country free from atheist bloggers as they are illegal sons of the soil,” he said.

District unit BNP leaders led by President VP Saiful Islam and Jagpa Bogra unit President Ameer Mondol also attened the rally.

Source: Hefajat chief lands from chopper, addresses rally | The Daily Star

Oh boy......
 
What will happen on 5th may? Either an Islamic revolution or business as usual.
 
What I heard is that after deaths from public beating, regular 90% Police force is now trying to separate themselves from the around 10% Gopalganj Awami police force and not fire on public. Army is trying to stay neutral and stop any abuse from any side.

I have also heard that after running out of ammunition, Awami League govt. have imported illegal more lethal form of ammunition to use on protesters and activists.

I think both sides are now gearing up for battle. If Dhaka can be cut off from the rest of the country for 10 days, then this govt. will fall. But a lot of people will loose their lives in the process, both protesters, police and Awami goons.

If govt. survives this shutdown, then new movements will be planned.

Can anyone from Bangladesh with more inside information, please confirm the above and provide more info?
 
Is there any connection between bnp jamat gathering today and hefajat islam tmrw?
 
Openly?non whatsoever. But behind the scene who knows? And don't go overboard with speculation. Wait till 6th.let's wait and watch.
 
how are preparations going? what is the plan for tomorrow? anyone can inform?
 
Is there any connection between bnp jamat gathering today and hefajat islam tmrw?

ELECTION-TIME NON-PARTY GOVERNMENT

Meet demand by 48hrs or face ouster: Khaleda

Staff Correspondent

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Saturday issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the government to accept the demand for an election-time non-party government.

Otherwise, Khaleda, also leader of the opposition in parliament, threatened to spell out programmes that would force the government to quit.

She issued the ultimatum at a large rally at Shapla Chattar at Motijheel in the city organised by the BNP-led ‘18-party’ alliance.

Khaleda asked the prime minister to make a specific announcement that the next general election would be held under a non-party neutral government.

Before announcing the ultimatum, Khaleda asked her party activists and allies if they were ready to stay on at Shapla Chattar for 24 hours to realise the demand, the activists at the rally stood up shouting ‘yes’.

The BNP chief assured the activists that she would have stayed on but as Hefajat-e-Islam has a programme for today, she was issuing a 48-hour ultimatum to the government.

She wanted to know from the gathering whether they would turn up in case she asked them to do so after the 48-hour deadline was over. The leaders and activists in the rally replied ‘yes’.

Khaleda warned that if the government did not allow BNP and its allies to hold rally ignoring the ultimatum, they would not wait for permission. They would sit wherever possible, she said. She said the government was staging a drama in the name of dialogue.

The prime minister was offering dialogue when the Ulama had united, she added.

The government was also talking about dialogue to divert the attention of the people who were aggrieved and when workers were carrying out movement.

Khaleda said talking about dialogue was not enough. The government must say clearly that next general election would be held under a non-party neutral government, she said adding that if the announcement was made, there would be no need for much discussion.

She said the prime minister should announce in a televised-address that election would be held under a non-party government.

Khaleda said an atmosphere must be created before discussion by releasing the alliance leaders and activists, withdrawing cases against them, announcing a specific agenda of the proposed dialogue that election would be held under a non-party government.

The BNP chief said they were ready for discussion to keep democracy functioning.
She said the prime minister was asking her to join dialogue, a ‘photo session’ and to join parliament. ‘Maybe, she [Hasina] will one day invite me to tea,’ the BNP chief said.

Khaleda invited Hasina to her residence to discuss over tea about a framework for a non-party neutral government to resolve the crisis.

The BNP chief said she hoped the government would not obstruct Hefajat-e-Islam’s ‘peaceful’ programme today and warned the government of the consequences if it tried to do so.

She said as a Muslim she would extend support to Hefajat’s programme against indecent remarks on the Prophet (SM).

Khaleda accused the government of carrying out propaganda against Hefajat by branding it ‘militant, Al-Qaeda and terrorist’.

She said Ulama had united and they had no politics. She alleged that militants remained in the Awami League and asked the prime minister to recover firearms from the ‘militants’ hiding in the AL to curb terrorism.

The BNP chairperson said the prime minister should not talk about humanity as ‘no acts of brutality could match the killing of people by oars and sticks, gun powder and enforced disappearance, including that of BNP leader Ilias Ali.’

About the prime minister’s request to postpone the day’s rally of the alliance and donate the money meant for the rally to the Savar tragedy victims, Khaleda claimed that the BNP did not need money for holding rallies. ‘Rather it is Awami League which hires people for a rally.’

The BNP chairperson also asked the government to stop the coal-based electricity project in Bagherhat to save Sundarban.

Witnesses said activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir were seen very active in the rally and its surroundings. Many of them were guarding the entrances to the venue with sticks.

They took control of the entrances to Motijheel, at Fakirerpul, Arambagh and Purana Paltan, shouting slogans for the release of their leaders and activists, including war crimes convicts Delwar Hossain Sayedee and Abdul Quader Molla.

Some activists wearing headbands of Shibir at Fakirerpul raised a banner that read ‘Bansher Kella (bamboo fortress)—Help revolution….’

The government has already asked the authorities to block the controversial facebook page ‘Bansher Kella’ run by Shibir for carrying out propaganda against its rivals and over various sensitive issues.

Activists of BNP and its major ally Jamaat mainly filled Matijheel and its surroundings—Fakirerpul, Ittefaq crossing, Arambagh and Baitul Mukarram north gate. They alleged that many BNP-Jamaat activists could not attend the rally as they were stopped at different places on the way.

Wearing headbands and holding placards with portraits of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman, chairperson Khaleda Zia and its senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, the party men poured in the venue in their thousands from different areas of Dhaka and outlying districts. Tight security was in place at the venue and its surroundings.

Presided over by Dhaka city BNP convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka, the rally was also addressed, among others, by party leaders Khandaker Mosharaf Hossain, Moudud Ahmed, Hannan Shah, MK Anwar, Rafiqul Islam Mia, Abdul Moyeen Khan, Zainul Abdin Farroque, Abdus Salam, Jamaat-e-Islami acting Ameer Mokbul Ahmed, Liberal Democratic party chairman Oli Ahmed, Bangladesh Jatiya Party chairman Andalib Rahman, Islami Oikya Jote chairman Abdul Latif Nezami, Khelafat Majlish ameer Mohammad Ishaq, JAGPA president Shafiul Alam Prodhan and Kalyan party chairman Syed M Ibrahim.

Source: Meet demand by 48hrs or face ouster: Khaleda

:hang2:

They should also rally for the plight of our garment workers: The very lifeblood of our economy.

Any word or development from the army regarding this fiasco?
 
Source: Meet demand by 48hrs or face ouster: Khaleda

:hang2:

They should also rally for the plight of our garment workers: The very lifeblood of our economy.

Any word or development from the army regarding this fiasco?

Today's (May 4th) gathering at Shapla Chattar is to protest garments tragedy (among other things). Hefazat already updated their demands to include workers right and compensation. Looks like sushil and elites are either failing to sense gravity of current affairs or conveniently ignoring reality.
 
My condolences go out for the hundreds of Muslim people who lost their lives in the recent building collapse in Bangladesh.

Could the Bangladeshi brothers briefly tell me what's so big about the 5th May? What's it about? Who's gathering against who?
 
Could the Bangladeshi brothers briefly tell me what's so big about the 5th May? What's it about? Who's gathering against who?

Please read the following thread and 5th May is continuation of the silent majority action to thwart anti Islam and anti Muslim genocidal Awami League regime.


Historic uprising of Bangladesh silent majority

April 6, 2013 is momentous day in the history of Bangladesh no matter what outcome waiting in days and weeks ahead. Bangladesh silent majority Muslim population since independence had been repressed by neighbor secular imposition, hostile politics of Awami League, labeling and instigation by its “civil society” class and by Awami secular media. Bangladesh independence had long been hijacked by indian and Awami League political and hegemonic business using 43 years old independence wartime atrocities. In these 43 years Awami League and indian combined political and media muscle labeled Muslim majority population as “fundamentalist”, “anti- Bangladesh” and even ”anti-independence” just because they resented indian branded and Awami League imposed “secular” doctrine.

Awami League had already changed Bangladesh constitution, removed majority Muslim aspiration and pushing to ban any Islamic political party. Muslim woman faced constant attack and abuse from law enforcement, Awami League regime itself and Awami League run judicial system.When stage honchos from Indian and Awami League orchestrated fascist gathering attacked Islam and Islamic faith, Bangladesh Muslim majority population realized that their existence as Muslim and way of living as Muslim and Islamic faith are in grave danger.

In such backdrop, Chittagong based Islamic educational institutions and their leaders called upon Muslim majority for resistance against attack on Islam and Islamic faith. Bangladesh Muslim majority population which already felt their back on the wall and was grasping for leadership, responded with overwhelming support for Hefajat organized April 6th Long March program.
Awami League regime and its communist/atheist partners called on strike and forcefully shutdown Bangladesh transport system to thwart today’s long march. But hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis arrived and arriving Dhaka on foot, on boats and whatever means they can find, facing torture and attack from Awami League party thugs and from genocidal police on the way.

But, Muslims in Bangladesh arrived in this historic April 6th, 2013. All eyes at Allama Ahmad Shafi and his leadership team for their message and direction for next action.


Source: http://www.defence.pk/forums/bangla...bangladesh-silent-majority.html#ixzz2SNqS5eLE

Abdullahpur Tongi, heart of garments industries

 

Pakistan Affairs Latest Posts

Back
Top Bottom