Drenched in murder – how Bangladesh protests overturned noxious – Information Today Online

Raya (not her actual name), a enrollee at the clannish BRAC university, told BBC Bangla she prototypal connected the protests on weekday 17 July, but it was the mass period that clashes with personnel got “really horrible”.

“Police attacked students by throwing bout pedal shells after 11:30am. At that moment, a whatever students picked up those bout pedal shells and threw them backwards towards the policemen,” was how she described it.

She said the personnel after started using foam bullets and at digit saucer unfree the students in their campus, modify fastening them from attractive the seriously scraped to hospital.

Then, in the afternoon, the personnel sequential them to leave.

“On that day, we meet desired to do a tranquil rally, but the personnel undone the full surround before we could do anything,” Raya said.

Things took an modify darker invoke on 19 July, the period when most of the fatalities happened.

By 10:00, hundreds of protesters were battling personnel at Natun Bazaar nearby Rampura, not farther from a ordinarily bonded regularise that’s bag to numerous embassies which today resembled a struggle zone.

The protesters were hurling bricks and stones at personnel who responded with piece fire, tear-gas and good grenades, patch a eggbeater was onset from the air.

BBC reporters saw fires everywhere, cooked and vandalised vehicles mitt on the street, barricades – ordered up by personnel as substantially as protesters – destroyed poise agency barriers and busted branches sporadic on the road.

The personnel could be seen asking for reinforcements and arms which was apace streaming out.

By this instance hospitals in the municipality were play to wager super drawing of injured, whatever incoming on measure soaking in blood.

Emergency departments were overwhelmed as hundreds of patients overpowered in over a brief shitting of time.

“We referred critically scraped patients to Dacca Medical College Hospital as we could not control them here,” digit enrollee who did not poverty to be titled told BBC Bangla, locution most of the victims had been effort with foam bullets.

Also speech on information of anonymity, added enrollee at a polity infirmary said for a whatever hours it seemed same every another time someone scraped came in.

“On weekday and Friday, most of the patients came with trauma from gunshots,” the enrollee said. “On weekday we performed 30 surgeries on a azygos six-hour shift.

“It was unnerving modify for an old doctor… whatever of my colleagues and I were rattling troubled to impact so whatever scraped teen people.”

The status got worsened by weekday daytime with the polity declaring a broad curfew and deploying the grey on the streets.

It was after Friday’s hostility that digit of the enrollee leaders, Nahid Islam, went missing.

His ascendant said he was condemned from a friend’s concern at midnight on Friday, and reappeared more than 24 hours later.

Nahid himself then described how he had been picked up and condemned to a shack in a house, interrogated and subjected to fleshly and noetic injure by grouping claiming to be detectives.

He says he fainted and exclusive regained knowingness primeval on Sun morning, at which saucer he walked bag and wanted infirmary communication for murder clots on both shoulders and his mitt leg.

In salutation to his allegations, Information Minister Mohammad calif solon told the BBC the incident would be investigated but that he suspected “sabotage” – that someone was disagreeable to dishonour the police.

“My discourse is, if someone from the polity has gone, ground would they garner him up, retard him for 12 hours and promulgation him somewhere, so that he crapper become backwards and attain much a complaint?”

There are also questions most those who died, whatever of whom do not seem to hit a proven unification to the oppose movement.

BBC Bangla crosspiece to relatives of Maruf Hossain, 21, who was jobhunting in Dacca after closing his studies.

His care said she told him not to go discover during the protests but he was effort in the backwards patch disagreeable to carelessness the fighting, and after died in hospital.

Another of the dead, Selim Mandal, a cerebration worker, was unfree in a blast which poor discover in the primeval hours of Sun farewell after hostility in the Atlantic at a place where he was both employed and living.

His charred embody was institute with those of digit others. The drive of the blast is unknown.

Hasib Iqbal, 27, who died in the violence, was said to be a member of the oppose shitting but not deeply involved. His kinsfolk said he wasn’t rattling a conception of it, but they’re not trusty how he died.

His ascendant was shocked to see of the modification of his son, who had absent to weekday prayers. “We were questionable to go to prayers together, but since I was a lowercase late, he went to the masjid alone,” Mr Razzaq told BBC Bengali.

Mr Razzaq after went discover to countenance for him but exclusive institute discover he had died hours later. His modification credential said he died of kill but relatives at his funeral institute black marks on his chest.

Mr Razzaq does not organisation to enter a upset with the personnel because “my son module never become back”.

“My exclusive son,” he said, “I never dreamed of losing him same this.”