London, 12 February- People-students brought out a procession with the coffin of Abul Kashem demanding a ban on the Awami League on Wednesday night.
The namaz-e-janaza of Abul Kashem was held at around 9:00pm at Central Shaheed Minar in the capital.
Later, a coffin procession was brought out at around 9:15pm demanding a ban on the Awami League.
Abul Kashem, 20, a member of Students Against Discrimination, died at around 3:00pm on Wednesday while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
On February 7, at least 20 people were injured when alleged Awami League activists attacked a group of protesters near the ancestral home of former Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque in Gazipur.
“Even six months after the July uprising, revolutionaries of the movement are being killed at the hands of Awami League. It’s a collective failure of anti-fascist political parties and forces,” said Hasnat Abdullah, convener of the movement.
“With Kashem’s body before us, we take an oath to ban Awami League,” he added.
Addressing the interim government, he said, “How much more time will you take to ban Awami League? Ban Awami League through legal procedures within the shortest possible time.”
Akhter Hossain, member secretary of Jatiya Nagorik Committee, said a UN report explicitly states crimes against humanity were committed on the streets in July under the orders of “killer Hasina”.
“Awami League, which committed a genocide, has no right to do politics in Bangladesh,” said Akhter.
Following the namaz-e-janaza, a coffin procession with the demand to ban AL was brought out from Shaheed Minar that ended near Shahbagh intersection.
