Continued from page 18 gepeated the next day The last hartal of May was held in ^essore town on the 29th at the call of Chhatra Moitri. A leader of the organisation was $hot and stabbed the previous day. allegedly by Chhatra League activists.

; JUNE

.j June began with a half-day jiartal on the 1st at Ne-trakona in protest of a rise in Municipal, taxes. And on the same day a faction of the ruling party itself, along with its •youth front Jubo Dal and stu-ident front Chhatra. called a half-day hartal demanding the release of BNP leader Tamizuddin. The next day a Jull-day hartal was called in blranganj following Chhatra league leader Najmul Haq being shot dead. On June 6 a half day hartal was observed in Narayanganj following the (Killing of Chhatra League Worker Murad and Jubo ‘League worker Afzal there. And in Sunamganj an anti-corruption committee ob-’served hartal on June 8 .protesting against the district administration. And iMunshiganj saw a half-day hartal on June 9 following a headmaster of a local school ipeing killed in a road acci-,dent. And on June 16 a full-Bay hartal was observed in Rangpur by Projonmo Ekattor (find other pro-liberation [groups protesting the visit of (Jamaat leader Golam Azam. A half-day hartal was called on (June 24 by the All Party Anti-Terrorism Committee in Ipomilla. On the same day a Ihalf-day hartal was called in ,Rajshahi by Jamaat-Shibir Remanding the release of 32 leaders and workers of their party. A six to two hartal was nailed on June 27 in Dhaka by JP protesting against (ormer President Ershad be-■ig entangled in the Manzur filling case.

|l JULY

•| On July 1 a half-day hartal Was observed in Kalapara and Mirzaganj of Patuakhali protesting an attack upon Municipal commissioner Maksud Ahmed. Four or five persons were injured during She hartal. A full-day hartal Was observed the following pay in Kulaura protesting an Assault upon a local businessman. And the day after Jhat a rickshaw strike was tarried out in Sylhet protest-hig the killing of a rickshaw-buller. Forty were injured puring clashes and lathi ^harge. And on the same day C hartal was observed in Bo gra in demand of a division to

be declared. Workers Party called a hartal on July 9 in Chuadanga following seven persons being hacked to death. And on July 12 a six to noon hartal was called by the Chhatra-Janata Sangram Parishad in Naogaon protesting an assault on teachers and students by transport workers. Rickshawpullers observed a 36-hour strike in Pirojpur protesting a rickshawpuller being killed by a minibus. And transport workers called a strike in Sherpur on July 16 protesting toll collection at the local bus terminal.

AUGUST

Hartals began later in August with a half-day hartal held on the -23rd in Fatlkch-hari at the calbof the Chittagong Unit Awami League demanding release of a local leader of the party. And. in demand of announcing Bogra as a separate division, a hartal was held there again on August 30.

SEPTEMBER

In September activities stepped up and from the second day of the month the three major opposition parties observed a continuous 32-hour hartal demanding that the government resign, the parliament be dissolved and elections be held under a caretaker government. Six were arrested ori the first day and bricks were hurled at ministers’ cars. A couple of police constables were injured. On the last lap of the 32-hour hartal, during six till two on September 3, a rickshawpuller was killed, police arrested 13 and 50 were injured. The following day a half-day hartal was held in Mlrpur protesting the killing of the rickshawpuller.

OCTOBER

The 32-hour hartal of the major Opposition began on October 7 in the five divisional towns including Dhaka. On October 16 the three parties called for a 96-hour hartal for the caretaker and related demands. Ten were Injured during iathlcharges on the very first day. Police arrested 47. Two were shot dead in Brahmanbaria and Kushtia. Five were arrested on the second day. Sixty eight injured on the third-day. A six to noon hartal was , observed at the call of AL in Noakhali protesting the damage done to the party office there. A dawn to dusk hartal was called in Feni demanding the release of a former AL MP and also the dismissal of the DC there.

NOVEMBER

A half-day hartal was ob: served in Jessore on November 2 at the call 'of Jamaat -backed Shibir protesting the killing of a Shibir leader there. Fighting fire with fire, on November 8 a fifteenminute token work stoppage was observed all over Dhaka City from noon till 12:15 at the call of FBCCI in protest of regular disruption of work due to political unrest. The Opposition began a six'day hartal on November 11 demanding a caretaker government. the resignation of the present government, dissolution of the parliament and stability in price of commodities. This has been an all-time record in duration of hartal.

.Flood-affected Rajshahi was exempt from hartal. On the first day over 50 were injured and 31 arrested. On the second day hartal was observed from six id the morning till three in the afternoon in Dhaka City and from six till noon outside Dhaka.

Nineteen persons were arrested on the second day. On the third day hartal was from six till two in the capital and six to noon elsewhere In the country. On this day 28 were arrested. Police used batons apd hot water to control the picketers. From the fourth day the hartal nationwide was from six till noon. Jatiya Party organised a dawn to dusk hartal at Rang-pur on November 19 for proper treatment of its imprisoned leader former President Ershad. The party held a six to two hartal in the capital city on November 25 for the same cause. Nineteen were arrested.

DECEMBER

The first hartal of December was held in Lakshmlpur at the call of Shibir. A leader of the organisation had been killed there. On December 9 AL, JP, JanMat and JSD (Rab) called a 72-hour hartal in Dhaka for the caretaker and other demands. Fifty were injured on the first day. On the second and last day of the , hartal, eighty were injured. Clashes and bomb explosions continued throughout the , hartal. Fojlowtng clashes 4lth the AH Party Students Unity IAPSU) In Mymensingh Agri cultural University which resulted in the killing of three Shibir activists. Chhatra Shibir called an eight-hour hartal in Dhaka on December 20.