(1 Nov 2024)
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Dhaka, Bangladesh – 31 October 2024
1. Various of fires at Jatiyo Party’s headquarters
2. Various of signboard and mural at Jatiyo Party’s headquarters being vandalised
3. Fire truck approaching scene
4. Firefighters putting out fire
5. Mid of people chanting in front of Jatiyo Party’s headquarters
STORYLINE:
The headquarters of a Bangladesh party that supported the country’s ousted leader Sheikh Hasina was set on fire on Thursday night, media reports said.
There was no information if anyone was injured.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on the Jatiya Party offices in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka.
TV stations and other media said people stormed the party headquarters in Dhaka’s Bijoy Nagar area, clashing with party members who were there and eventually setting the premises on fire.
The extend of the damage was not immediately known. Firefighters rushed to the scene, according to Rashed bin Khaled, an official of the Fire Service and Civil Defense.
The party is Bangladesh’s third largest and was founded by former military dictator H.M. Ershad in the 1980s.
As the attack was underway, a prominent leader of a student protest movement that led to Hasina’s ouster in August said the Jatiya Party should be “destroyed” for its support of her government.
Hasnat Abdullah, the student leader, claimed in a Facebook post that the Jatiya party was “a national betrayer.”
Hasina’s Bangladesh Awami League party ruled the country for 15 years, since 2009. Her critics said the Jatiya Party had acted to give Hasina’s rule a veneer or democracy as other major political parties did not take part in the elections.
Hasina fled the country to India on August 5, after the student-led demonstration morphed into an anti-government protest movement.
Hundreds of students, security officials and others were killed during the turmoil.
Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi Nobel laurate, took over as head of an interim government backed by the student group and the country’s influential military in August.
However, his administration has struggled to restore order.
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