Jamaat-e-Islami : émeute à হরতাল Dhaka – 19 septembre 2011

Bangladesh Islamists protest war crimes trial

AFP

19 09 2011

DHAKA — Police on Monday fired rubber bullets and tear gas at a protest by Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party demanding the release from jail of its top leaders, who are being investigated for 1971 war crimes.

At least 70 people were injured when 5,000 Jamaat-e-Islami activists went on the rampage in Dhaka, fighting street battles with baton-wielding riot police and torching more than a dozen vehicles including a police van, police said.

« At least 50 policemen and a lot of passers-by were injured during the clashes, » deputy police commissioner Nurul Islam told AFP, adding that police had fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the crowd.

« Several officers were injured seriously including one whose eye was hit by a brick. »

More than 50 Jamaat activists had been arrested, he added. Read more…