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Janajuddha kills 5 BNP men in 2 days Revenge for crossfire?

OUR CORRESPONDENT, Kushtia
Janajuddho faction of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party seems to have started 'avenging the deaths of its operatives in crossfire' by killing the ruling BNP men in the southwestern districts.
According to sources, the outfit has killed five BNP men in Kushtia, Chuadanga, Jhenidah and Narail in a span of eight hours on Wednesday and early Thursday.
The party holding sway over the southwestern region had vowed on a number of occasions to take revenge on the ruling alliance for 'engaging' Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and other law enforcement agencies to 'slay at
least 150 of its cadres in 10 districts since June last year'.
The BNP men who were killed between 8:00pm Wednesday and 4:00am Thursday include Sahin alias Saheb Ali 32, of Kotchandpur upazila in Jhenidah, Afaz Uddin 45, of Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia, Nazrul Islam, 50, and Swapan Bairagi of sadar upazila in Narail and Zamir Ali, 36, of Jibon Nagar upazila in Chuadanga district.
Police said the Narail killing took place at about 8:00pm, Chuadanga 9:00pm, Jhenidah 11:00pm Wednesday while the Kushtia murder was committed at about 4:00am Thursday.
In a statement issued, Janajuddho has claimed responsibility for the killings. Blasting the ruling alliance for crossfire killings it said it would carry on the revenge campaign with even more vengeance. The statement was faxed to some local newspersons in Chuadanga and Kushtia on Wednesday night soon after the killings.
It said the law enforcers have long been killing its men cold-bloodedly and falsely ascribing the deaths to 'crossfire', 'encounter', 'line of fire' or 'shootout'.
Police in Khulna range were put on alert and security in the region was beefed up following the five murders.
“Police are verifying the source from which the statement was issued,” a high police official of Khulna told The Daily Star yesterday.
Replying to another query, he said, “We are always on alert and our drive against lawlessness is on.”
According to the law enforcers, at least 10 outlawed parties with 10,000 cadres have been active in the region for the last 30 years.
They are PBCP (Marxist-Leninist), PBCP-Janajuddho, Biplobi Communist Party (BCP), New Biplobi Communist Party (NBCP), Banglar Communist Party (BCP-Laltu), Gono Mukti Fouj (GMF), Jashod Gono Bahini (JGB), Socialist Party (SP), Biplobi Anuragi, Chhinnamul Communist Party (CCP).
Some 183 outlaws including several top leaders of the outfits were killed in 'encounters' with the law enforcers since June last year while in the year before, some 65 were killed in 'Operation Clean Heart' and 'Operation Spider Web' in the region.
A top leader of Janajuddho yesterday told The Daily Star that now with their back to the wall they have no alternative but to keep on 'cleansing the region of the class enemy'.