Curfew In Bangladesh Suppresses Street Violence
Dhaka: Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka seemed largely defected on Thursday, after the army-backed provisional administration levied an indecisive curfew the previous night in a proposition to cease days of aggression.
Streets were clear excepting some rickshaws and troop carriers with mounted guns. The common carriers often enforced the few curious onlookers and walkers into narrow alleyways.
One man was killed and about 300 people injured in conflicts between police and pupils, conjoined by a few public members in Dhaka, and in another place more than the last three days earlier than the curfew was imposed in the capital and five other main cities.
The problem that psychoanalysts stated had shaken up the administration but didn’t emerge to pose a grave immediate threat to it - began on Monday night.
Aggression had accompanied a group assault on pupils after they protested the presence of soldiers at a football competition at Dhaka University’s gym compound.
Troops had been based in the complex since January when a military-backed interim administration took power following months of political violence. The government closed down the army camp on Tuesday night after the clashes.
In a televised speech, interim government Chief Fakhruddin Ahmed addressed the wildness a ‘confederacy and said, measures to put control over it would be withdrawn when the condition betters.
Mr. Ahmed alleged, “The steps taken were temporary measures to protect lives and public and private properties as vested quarters had started acts of anarchy in Dhaka and other places.”
Besides imposing a curfew and putting security forces into the streets, the administration has shut down universities and colleges in six cities comprising Dhaka till the time further notice comes.
According to the country's leading newspaper, “The government for its part could no longer remain a passive bystander to the turmoil. What started off as spontaneous protest by students had regrettably been taken over by politically motivated elements.”