11/02/2013
The protest against the verdict of war criminal in Dhaka has crawled into its third consecutive day with thousands of people's participation.
Bloggers and Online Activists' Network first gathered at Shahbag square demanding capital punishment of Jamaat-e-Islami Assistant Secretary General Abdul Quader Mollah shortly after the International Tribunal-2 sentenced him to lifetime imprisonment for crimes against humanity in Liberation War 1971. The activists, along with many more people from blogs and social networking sites, have rejected the verdict and started protesting it since Tuesday afternoon at one of the city's busiest intersection, Shahbag square.
As the news of this sit-in spread through social media, thousands of more people have joined the protest demanding death sentence for Abdul Quader Mollah and every war
criminal.
The third day of the sit-in protest started with the demonstrators singing national anthem at 8 in the morning. As more and more people were gathering Shahbag square with the same demand, there were slogans, placards and banners at the hands of the protesters.
"For four decades, we have remained quiet with the hope that one day these war criminals will be sentenced to death. We cannot accept their lifetime imprisonment," said Shoaib, a student of Dhaka University, who has been there since the first day of this protest. “We will not leave until Quader Mollah is sentenced to death.”
