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After receiving the news from Bangladesh, angry protesters attacked the offices of two major newspapers of Bangladesh late on Thursday night. Singapore A prominent activist died in last year’s political uprising in Bangladesh.
Sharif Osman Hadi, spokesman for the Inquilab Monchow culture group, died in a Singapore hospital in the evening after losing a week-long battle for life.
They were shot on the streets of DhakaRiding a rickshaw in the capital of Bangladesh, last Friday. Two men on a motorcycle chased Hadi and one shot him before he fled the scene. After treatment for several days in Dhaka, he was taken to Singapore in a critical condition.
Authorities have said they have identified the suspects and that the attacker may have fled to India.
Hadi was a harsh critic of both neighboring country India and the former Prime Minister Sheikh HasinaWhose 15-year rule over Bangladesh ended in last year’s rebellion.
Hadi had planned to run as an independent candidate in a key constituency in Dhaka in the next national elections, which the country’s interim government has announced in February.
Since Hasina’s ouster, the Inquilab Moncho group has promoted anti-India sentiment in the Muslim-majority country. Hasina is now living a self-exiled life in India.
Eyewitnesses and media reports said that immediately after the news of Hadi’s death, hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Dhaka and rallied at Shahbagh intersection near the Dhaka University campus. Similar protests took place elsewhere in the country.
Later, a group of protesters gathered outside the head office of the country’s leading Bengali-language daily Prothom Alo in Dhaka’s Caravan Bazaar area. According to online portals of various major media outlets, they then entered the building.
A few hundred yards away, another group of protesters broke into the premises of the country’s leading English-language Daily Star and set the building on fire, according to footage from Kaler Kantha newspaper, another mainstream newspaper.
Soldiers and paramilitary border guards were deployed outside both buildings, but took no action to disperse the protesters. Security officials tried to persuade them to leave peacefully.
The attack on Hadi is still being investigated, but the shooting has added tension to an already delicate political situation.
Interim leader of Bangladesh, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad YunusHasina, who takes power three days after she steps down from power in August 2024, promised to punish Hadi’s killers in a televised address to the nation late Thursday.
He announced that Saturday would be a day of mourning throughout the country and urged Thursday’s protesters to remain peaceful.