Police foiled sacked Bangladesh Rifles members’ march towards chief adviser’s official residence Jamuna by charging batons, firing sound grenades and spraying water at Kakrail in Dhaka on Monday afternoon.
Several hundred sacked BDR members and their families brought out a march towards CA’s official residence from Shahbagh crossing with their three-charter of demands, including reinstatement of jobs and release of imprisoned BDR members.
The protestors said that police intercepted them when their march reached near Kakrail crossing at about 12:30pm on Monday.
BDR Kalyan Parishad president Faizul Alam alleged that police charged batons, fired sound grenades and tear gas shells to disperse them like the ousted Sheikh Hasina regime.
‘About 60 protesters were injured in the police attack at Kakrial. We went there to place our demands to the chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus as they had given deadline to home adviser till 11:00am to accept their demands,’ Faizul Alam told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·.
He claimed that police detained 15 protesters, including women, from Kakrial and kept them at Ramna police station.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ramna Division deputy commissioner Masud Alam told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· that they sprayed water and fired sound grenades to disperse the protestors.
‘We did not charge batons, but pushed them for dispersing from the place. We detained 12 people for creating chaos at the spot,’ he added.
Meanwhile, voices for justice over the killings of 74 people, including 57 army officers, in the then BDR headquarters at the capital’s Pilkhana during the 2009 BDR mutiny have been getting louder since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on August 5, 2024 amid a mass uprising.
Besides the families of slain officers, survivors, sacked BDR members and their families and a group of students who led the 2024 July-August mass uprising also took to the streets to raise voices demanding justice.
