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Khaleda besieged in Gulshan office, Rizvi picked up; BNP office locked
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Bangladesh opposition supporters shot dead
Two people killed in clashes with ruling party supporters on one-year anniversary of controversial polls.
Last updated: 05 Jan 2015 07:22
Two activists from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have been shot dead in clashes with ruling party supporters after their leader called for protests on the first anniversary of elections her party boycotted, police said.
Monday's clashes came as BNP's leader Khaleda Zia remains confined to her office in the capital Dhaka in what is seen as attempts by the authorities to prevent her from staging protests.
The two activists were killed in the northern town of Natore on Monday morning in what police said were clashes with Awami League supporters.
It happened as authorities stepped up their siege of Zia's upmarket Gulshan office, parking trucks laden with sand and bricks outside the gates of the office.
Riot police, flanked by armoured vehicles equipped with water cannon, prevented anyone from entering or leaving the premises, said an AFP journalist at the scene.
"The trucks have been parked in an effort to step up her security," Gulshan police chief Rafiqul Islam told AFP amid heightened tensions in the capital.
Zia has urged activists to take to the streets in their thousands as part of a campaign to force Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to hold fresh multi-party polls, describing Monday as "Democracy Killing Day".
"She has urged people to join a mass rally today. She would also try to join the protest," Zia's spokesman Maruf Kamal Khan told reporters.
Disputed election
Hasina, who has been in power since 2009, was re-elected on January 5, 2014, in what was effectively a one-horse race after the BNP and around 20 other opposition parties boycotted the polls over rigging fears.
Zia's boycott was sparked by her arch rival's refusal to step down ahead of the election and allow the contest to be organised by a neutral caretaker administration which has organised previous polls.
The boycott by the BNP and its allies meant a majority of members in the 300-seat parliament were returned unopposed, ensuring Hasina's Awami League party another five years in power.
The opposition has since maintained that the poll was s sham.
"It has several times tried to start up some agitation since but each time government has suppressed it by rounding up and jailing their activists," Al Jazeera's Maher Sattar reported from Dhaka.
"This time has not been too different except it's more tense than it has been since the election, as evidenced by the two killed [in Natore]. Clashes are still sporadic though, nothing like 2013 yet."
Voting was overshadowed by firebomb attacks on polling booths and clashes between police and opposition activists on and before election day.
Many of the BNP's top leaders have since either been detained or charged in connection with the election violence, hampering efforts to press their case for new polls.
Bangladesh opposition supporters shot dead - Asia - Al Jazeera English
Update: Police open fired and injured 12 in Dhaka's Sajahanpur area.
India installed Awami League regime imposed ban on media covering opposition protest in the country.
Two people killed in clashes with ruling party supporters on one-year anniversary of controversial polls.
Last updated: 05 Jan 2015 07:22
Two activists from the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have been shot dead in clashes with ruling party supporters after their leader called for protests on the first anniversary of elections her party boycotted, police said.
Monday's clashes came as BNP's leader Khaleda Zia remains confined to her office in the capital Dhaka in what is seen as attempts by the authorities to prevent her from staging protests.
The two activists were killed in the northern town of Natore on Monday morning in what police said were clashes with Awami League supporters.
It happened as authorities stepped up their siege of Zia's upmarket Gulshan office, parking trucks laden with sand and bricks outside the gates of the office.
Riot police, flanked by armoured vehicles equipped with water cannon, prevented anyone from entering or leaving the premises, said an AFP journalist at the scene.
"The trucks have been parked in an effort to step up her security," Gulshan police chief Rafiqul Islam told AFP amid heightened tensions in the capital.
Zia has urged activists to take to the streets in their thousands as part of a campaign to force Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to hold fresh multi-party polls, describing Monday as "Democracy Killing Day".
"She has urged people to join a mass rally today. She would also try to join the protest," Zia's spokesman Maruf Kamal Khan told reporters.
Disputed election
Hasina, who has been in power since 2009, was re-elected on January 5, 2014, in what was effectively a one-horse race after the BNP and around 20 other opposition parties boycotted the polls over rigging fears.
Zia's boycott was sparked by her arch rival's refusal to step down ahead of the election and allow the contest to be organised by a neutral caretaker administration which has organised previous polls.
The boycott by the BNP and its allies meant a majority of members in the 300-seat parliament were returned unopposed, ensuring Hasina's Awami League party another five years in power.
The opposition has since maintained that the poll was s sham.
"It has several times tried to start up some agitation since but each time government has suppressed it by rounding up and jailing their activists," Al Jazeera's Maher Sattar reported from Dhaka.
"This time has not been too different except it's more tense than it has been since the election, as evidenced by the two killed [in Natore]. Clashes are still sporadic though, nothing like 2013 yet."
Voting was overshadowed by firebomb attacks on polling booths and clashes between police and opposition activists on and before election day.
Many of the BNP's top leaders have since either been detained or charged in connection with the election violence, hampering efforts to press their case for new polls.
Bangladesh opposition supporters shot dead - Asia - Al Jazeera English
Update: Police open fired and injured 12 in Dhaka's Sajahanpur area.
India installed Awami League regime imposed ban on media covering opposition protest in the country.
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The idea of confining a political leader with truck load of sand bags is really ingenious IMO. Where does Hasina get all these ideas from? 
Any way Hasina and BAL is very confident since they have both the bureaucracy and military under their control. In such a police state u need more rigorous movement to oust an autocratic foreign backed regime .....something like a revolution ......... something i don't think BNP is capable off.
Meanwhile BNP's secretary general have been arrested today:
Police takes Fakhrul to DB office | New Age
Police have detained Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir from National Press Club compound on Tuesday immediate after he came out of the club building after staying overnight there. Before leaving the club building, he told reporters that he was staying in the club on security grounds after the party chief Khaleda Zia was kept confined in her office since Saturday. As Fakhrul got into his car, police also got into it and forced the car to drive towards the Detective and Criminal Investigation Division at Minto Road.
Any way Hasina and BAL is very confident since they have both the bureaucracy and military under their control. In such a police state u need more rigorous movement to oust an autocratic foreign backed regime .....something like a revolution ......... something i don't think BNP is capable off.
Meanwhile BNP's secretary general have been arrested today:
Police takes Fakhrul to DB office | New Age
Police have detained Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir from National Press Club compound on Tuesday immediate after he came out of the club building after staying overnight there. Before leaving the club building, he told reporters that he was staying in the club on security grounds after the party chief Khaleda Zia was kept confined in her office since Saturday. As Fakhrul got into his car, police also got into it and forced the car to drive towards the Detective and Criminal Investigation Division at Minto Road.
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