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Gonojagoron Mancha

Three factions clash at Shahbagh

DU Correspondent
Three factions of Gonojagoron Mancha clashed at the capital's Shahbagh yesterday, with the factions blaming each other for picking up the fight.
At least eight people, including the leader of one group Imran H Sarker, were injured.
They all took treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said Haider Ali, assistant sub-inspector of DMCH police camp.
The clash began around 7:00pm when two groups - one led by Imran and the other by pro-Awami League activist Kamal Pasha Chowdhury --were bullying each other from separate rallies, around 15 feetapart, before the National Museum.
Another faction under the banner of Shahbagh Andolon, led by Bangladesh Chhatra Moitree President Bappaditya Basu, held separate demonstrations in close proximity.
All the three programmes began around 4:00pm, and they all were demanding the death penalty of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee, a war crimes convict whose death sentence has been commuted to imprisonment till death by the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Imran and Bappa declared their
programmes on Wednesday, and Pasha announced his the next day.
From the beginning of the rally, speakers from Kamal Pasha's faction verbally attacked Imran's group, saying Imran's movement was politically motivated and that some Jamaat-Shibir men infiltrated in his group, witnesses said.
They also said only the Awami League government could try the war criminals.
Hitting back at his rival, Imran said the government split the Mancha using its associate bodies so that the youth could not speak in favour of the trial.
Members of his faction also said the commuting of Sayedee's sentence was an outcome of the government's compromise with Jamaat.
At least 13 loudspeakers were installed at the venue, making it difficult for people to get what was being said at the rallies.
Police presence was high.
Imran-led faction tried to bring out a procession towards Shahbagh crossing following its rally, but police shoved them back.
Following the incident, as Imran and his supporters retreated to the museum, both groups were locked in a clash, throwing chairs at each other, as the police looked on.
Kamal and Bappa blamed Imran's group for the attack. Bappa said Imran's faction assaulted three of their activists. Denying the allegations, Imran's faction said Bappa and Pasha's supporters attacked them.
The Shahbagh movement began after war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah walked out of a court flashing a V-sign, after being sentenced to life on February 5 last year.
The gathering of youths at Shahbagh soon turned into a never-
seen-before movement.
Following the movement, government amended the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973, to give the state the right to appeal against the tribunal verdict.
Within a few months of the launching of the movement, however, leaders and activists started to split. Initially, the split resulted in two factions - one led by Imran and the other by Pasha. Later, a third faction emerged under Bappa's leadership.