Day 21, Shahbag Movement : Protesters successfully led rally at Mirpur
Dhaka 25-Feb, Priyo.com : The protesters demanding death penalty to all war criminals held a rally in Mirpur of the capital to press home their demand as the demonstration stepped into 21st straight day on Monday.
The rally was scheduled to begin at 3:00pm at Section 10 of Mirpur.
Meanwhile, people from all walks of life imbued with the spirit of '71 started to throng the Shahbag intersection, popularly known as Projonmo Chattar, since Monday morning.
The Shahbag youths were seen to chant revolutionary slogans and rendering songs at the Projonmo Chattar.
Earlier, the daylong shutdown called by Islamist parties drew little response yesterday with the people spontaneously joining anti-hartal demonstrations across the country.
Almost all business centres, shopping malls, educational institutions, and offices went on with their routine activities defying the hartal call by eight Islamist parties protesting "Friday's police action" and "anti-Islam campaign".
The hartal day, however, witnessed violence in Manikganj as police, attacked by pickets, opened fire leaving four killed and at least 50 others injured.
The shutdown failed to gain support in any divisional headquarter.
PROJONMO CHATTAR
After the procession, the activists took position at the Shahbag intersection like previous days and stayed there till night.
People from all walks of life gathered at the venue wholeheartedly to express solidarity.
The mass signature campaign, which began on February 22, continued yesterday. At 10:00pm yesterday, when the campaign ended for the night, more 80,000 signatures have already been collected.
Imran H Sarkar, a key organiser of the movement, said if Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman was not arrested immediately, the Shahbagh youths will announce tougher programme from today's Mirpur rally to be started at 3:00pm.
The Shahbagh movement that started on February 5, hours after the Jamaat leader Quader Mollah was sentenced to life in prison, for as passed its 20th consecutive day yesterday.
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