Bangladeshi student leader Sharif Osman Hadi, the spokesperson of Inquilab Mancha, who died on Thursday, will be buried next to Kazi Nazrul Islam, the national poet of Bangladesh, the leader of Dhaka Central University Students’ Union (DUCSU) revealed on Friday.
“As per the family’s request, Hadi will be laid to rest next to poet Nazrul. A janaza will be held on Saturday after Zuhr prayers at Manik Mia class. A procession will take the body to the DU Central Mosque instead of today,” the Dhaka Tribune quoted leader Fatima Tasnim Zuma as saying.
On Thursday, Hadi died in Singapore after a six-day battle with death following a shooting in Dhaka in early December, according to a statement from Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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On 12 December, Hadi was shot in the head during an election campaign in the central Dhaka area of Bijoynagar.
Funeral prayer for Hadi at 2 p.m
Funeral prayers for Hadi, who was one of the faces of the country’s July 2024 uprising, will be held at 2pm at the South Plaza of the National Parliament building, according to the press wing of the interim government.
According to a Prothom Alo report, a ban on flying drones has been announced in and around the area during the janaz.
There will also be no public viewing of the body. People going to the funeral were asked not to carry any heavy objects or bags.
Violence in Bangladesh after the arrival of Hadi’s body
Soon after Muhammad Yunus, a senior adviser to Bangladesh’s interim government, broke the news of the youth leader’s death, violence broke out across the country.
The offices of two leading newspapers, Daily Star and Prothom Alo, were vandalized.
Following the attacks on the newspapers, the Board of Editors and the Newspaper Owners Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) criticized the caretaker government in a statement, saying, “From the beginning, the ongoing failure of the current caretaker government to prevent mob violence has been evident and the latest incident is yet another horrific example.”
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Progressive and left-wing organizations also faced the mob’s anger, with the main office of the left-wing Udichi Shilpigoshthi in Dhaka being torched by the mob.
The main building of the progressive cultural group Chhayanat was attacked by a mob that ransacked every floor of the seven-storey building and destroyed numerous musical instruments, artworks and documents.
Protests against India
Stones were pelted at the residence of the Assistant High Commissioner of India in Chattogram. Police had to use batons and tear gas to control the crowd.
The recently formed National Citizen Party (NCP), which is an offshoot of Students Against Discrimination (SAD), raised anti-India slogans, according to a PTI report, which claimed without any evidence that the Hadi assassins had fled to India after the shooting. The group demanded that the Indian High Commission in Dhaka be closed until the suspects are returned to Bangladesh.
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“The caretaker government must close the Indian High Commission in Bangladesh until India returns the killers of Hadi bhai. Now or never. We are at war,” Sarjis Alm, a key NCP leader, was quoted as saying by PTI.
A factory worker, 25-year-old Dipu Chandra Das, who was a Hindu, was lynched to death and his body set on fire in Mymensingh.
