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Unite to resist JMJB

Speakers urge from Bhabaniganj rally

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
'I10 Bhabaniganj rally
I ri 's * terrorism and commuhaliMn in Bagmara yesterday called upon people to build united resistance against the Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (JMJB).
They also asked (he masses to immediately take revenge for any further killing by fanatic Islamist followers of Bangla Bhai who they said were continuing terrorist activities withslalcsupporl.
The speakers alleged the dreaded JMJB operations commander, Bangla Bhai, was none but a communal terrorist created by the coalition government to do away with its political opponents.
The rally, called by Awami League (AL) and 11-Party Alliance to protest JMJB atrocities in the northwestern region since April 1, was held amid tight security, as the JMJB had announced Tuesday a counter meeting al Goalkandi, 12km from
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Bhabaniganj, at the same time, prompting the authorities to deploy a large contingent of police in the area to defuse tension. The JMJB however cancelled its meeting at the eleventh hour.
AL Presidium Member Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Workers Party Polit Bureau Member Fazle Hossain Badsha, AL Central Committee (CC) Member Prof Zinnatun Nesa Talukhdar, district AL General Secretary Tajul Islam, Communist Party of Bangladesh CC Member Enamul Haque and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal leader Abdullah Al Masood Shibli addressed the meeting, among others.
Bagmara upazila AL Acting President Motiur Rahman chaired the public gathering, the venue of which was shifted to Bakultala from Bagmara Upazila Council premises following JMJB threats.
"Four masked JMJB terrorists asked us to pack up and get out of the upazila council premises when we were constructing the meeting's podium. Police and upazila administration also advised us to change
the meeting site," said Bagmara Upazila AL General Secretary Zakirul Islam Santu.
Local speakers, including some family members of JMJB torture victims, at the meeting narrated tales of horror and oppression. They termed Bangla Bhai a bandit, and said his men targeted people who oppose the politics of the ruling coalition partners. The Islamist zealots tortured their victims to death or maimed in such a way that made their lives meaningless, the speakers said, adding, all these they did in order to establish dominance of a particular political party.
Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir said, "This government has broken the backbone of neutrality of police and magistracy by forcing 971 police officers and 476 magistrates out of job, and so police and magistrates are supporting Bangla Bhai."
"If police and magistrates do not help people to get rid of a terrorist like Bangla Bhai, people by themselves should launch an antiterrorism drive and take law in hand to resist Bangla Bhai and his follower," the frontline AL leader told the gathering.