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Bangladesh's paper Editors Council has accused a “section of the interim government” of allowing the caller spate of unit successful the state aft the death of Inqilab Mancha person Sharif Osman Hadi.
Osman Hadi was changeable successful the caput connected December 12 during an predetermination run successful Dhaka. He was airlifted to Singapore for precocious attraction but died of his injuries connected December 18.
The aforesaid evening, a mob acceptable connected occurrence the offices of 2 wide circulation newspapers, Daily Star and Prothom Alo. Over fractional a century-old progressive taste groups, Chayanat and Udichi Shilpi Goshthi, successful the superior were besides destroyed. They besides lynched a Hindu mill worker successful cardinal Mymensingh.
“We intelligibly cognize an announcement came to demolish the Prothom Alo, Daily Star, and the Chhyanat 1 oregon 2 days earlier the attacks. The radical of the state know, and the authorities arsenic good knows who gave the announcement,” Editors Council President Nurul Kabir said astatine an lawsuit of the Broadcast Journalists Centre (BJC) connected Saturday (December 27, 2025).
Mr. Kabir, who is the exertion of the New Age newspaper, said nether the country's law, specified announcements are a “criminal offence”. He stated, “Yet the authorities did not apprehension them to forestall the mayhem, that is wherefore we said so a conception of the authorities allowed the rampage to spell on,” Mr. Kabir said.
He alleged an organised unit carried retired the attacks, and those who were arrested truthful acold successful transportation with the incidents, “the governmental individuality of theirs was revealed clearly”.
However, the interim government’s Information and Broadcast Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan, who was besides contiguous astatine the event, said those who staged the arson attacks were “our communal adversaries” arsenic they besides tried to “intimidate maine by hurling bombs successful beforehand of my house”.
Mr. Hasan said, “The media and the authorities were needed to combat backmost the communal adversary, and “it volition not output immoderate effect if 1 thinks the different arsenic rivals”.
Mr. Kabir’s comments came 3 days aft Osman Hadi’s member Omar Hadi alleged that a conception wrong the interim authorities plotted the sidesplitting to derail the upcoming wide predetermination slated for February 12.
“It is you who got Osman Hadi killed, and present you are trying to foil the predetermination by utilizing this arsenic an issue. Those who are successful powerfulness erstwhile Osman Hadi was killed, you won't beryllium capable to evade responsibility," Mr Omar Hadi told a protestation rally successful Dhaka staged by Inqilab Mancha connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025).
Hours aft his claim, Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus’s Special Assistant connected Home Affairs, Muhammad Khuda Baksh Chowdhury, resigned from the position.
Mr. Omar Hadi said the authorities indispensable "immediately exposure the full radical involved" successful his brother's sidesplitting to the federation oregon "otherwise, you volition beryllium forced to fly the country,” referencing the destiny of deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League government.
Meanwhile, the state continued to witnesser incidents of violence. In a latest incident, a mob vandalised the shrine of a Sufi saint successful northwestern Thakurgaon successful predawn hours connected Saturday (December 27, 2025), with constabulary saying they could not yet observe the attackers.
A almighty detonation connected Friday (December 26, 2025) blew disconnected the walls of an Islamic spiritual seminary connected the outskirts of the capital, leaving 4 radical wounded, with constabulary saying they seized weaponry making materials and crude bombs from the country astatine Keraniganj country connected the outskirts of the capital.
A nonmigratory said determination were nary students wrong the seminary astatine the clip of the explosion. Osman Hadi, a staunch professional of India and the Awami League, was 1 of the leaders of past year's convulsive student-led thoroughfare protestation dubbed the July Uprising that toppled the Hasina-led government. He aboriginal floated the Inqilab Mancha.
