DB identifies at least 313 who used to provide funds to Hefajat-e-Islam
Hefajat-e-Islam activists wreaked havoc during their countrywide hartal on March 28, 2021. a member of Border Guard Bangladesh fires his weapon to quell the violence at Narayanganj’s Shanarpar on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, where Hefajat activists blocked the road and burnt tyres, pieces of wood and other materials from 7:00am on March 28, 2021; Photo: Rashed Shumon/Mashuk Hridoy/Palash Khan
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Detectives have identified at least 313 persons who used to provide funds to Hefajat-e-Islam, which carried out violence and vandalism across the country in March this year.
Wanted to turn Bangladesh into Taliban state: Hefazat leaders
Funded by Islamic forces, militant outfits Hefazat-e-Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami wanted to turn Bangladesh into a Taliban state like Afghanistan if they came to power
| 26 April 2021 2:44 AM GMT
DHAKA: Funded by Islamic forces, militant outfits Hefazat-e-Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami wanted to turn Bangladesh into a Taliban state like Afghanistan if they came to power, top Hefazat leaders, including Mamunul Haque who was arrested recently, have confessed to the police.
A top detective official said that Hefajat leaders had formed an organization called Rabetatul Waizin Bangladesh with leaders from across the country.
They used to control Waz Mahfils (spreading militancy in the name of preaching Islam) by forcing organizers from Pakistan to invite their militant leaders as speakers in them.
Wanted To Topple Government, Turn Bangladesh Into Taliban State: Confess Top Hefazat-e-Islam LeadersÂ
Hardline Hefazat-e-Islam shout slogans
in Dhaka.
Funded by Islamic forces, militant outfits Hefazat-e-Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami wanted to turn Bangladesh into a Taliban state like Afghanistan if they came to power, top Hefazat leaders, including Mamunul Haque who was arrested recently, have confessed to the police.
A top detective official said that Hefajat leaders had formed an organisation called Rabetatul Waizin Bangladesh with leaders from across the country.
They used to control Waz Mahfils (spreading militancy in the name of preaching Islam) by forcing organisers from Pakistan to invite their militant leaders as speakers in them.
Banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) is back, this time in the garb of Hefajat-e-Islam, according to intelligence reports of multiple agencies, including the police.
Huji was found to be involved in the three-day Hefajat mayhem that was carried out across the country from March 26 to March 28 in protest against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi . It [the mayhem] was actually a planned activity of Huji, according to an official of an intelligence agency.
Talking to The Daily Star, several law enforcers investigating the mayhem said leaders of Huji, which was banned in 2005 following the grisly grenade attack on an Awami League rally that killed 22 people, from which Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped, a year earlier, started to gather under the Hefajat umbrella. It managed to gain some control over the Qwami madrasa-based organisation recently.
Funded by Islamic forces, militant outfits Hefazat-e-Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami wanted to turn Bangladesh into a Taliban state like Afghanistan if they came to power, top Hefazat leaders, including Mamunul Haque who was arrested recently, have .