Blockade in 3 hill dists passes off
A half-day roads and waterways blockade in Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban districts passed off peacefully yesterday, report our correspondents.
The leaders of women organisations, including Durbar Nari Network, Bangladesh Adibashi Nari Network, Stop Violence against Women, Bangladesh Mohila Parishad, CHT Women Network, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trusts (BLAST), and Nari Paskha enforced the blockade demanding arrest and punishment of the culprits, who raped and killed a schoolgirl in Rangamati on December 21 last year.
Dawnai Prue Neli, joint secretary of Stop Violence against Women, alleged that police charged baton on the women activists when they were picketing in the bus stand area of Bandarban town at around 9:45am.
In Khagrachari, roads and waterways blockade in the district was by and large peaceful.
The activists blocked the roads by burning tyres. Movements of long-distance and inter-district bues remained halted during the programme.
Addressing rallies in Rangamati and Khagrachhari towns, the women leaders condemned the police failure to nab the rapists. They also threatened to go for a tougher programme if the culprits were not arrested immediately.
Tumaching, a 13-year-old girl of Borodalupara village under Kawkhali upazila in Rangamati, was killed after rape allegedly by a gang when she was returning home from a nearby jungle with their cattle.
Police arrested an accused out of four--Md Alauddin, 25, of Uttar Nalyachhari village, on January 4 following a murder case filed by the deceased's mother with Kawkhali police station.
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