'Evil forces' desecrated national flag

Two days after Jamaat-e-Islami and its sympathisers desecrated Shaheed Minars and the national flag, the main opposition BNP yesterday blamed “the anti-democratic evil forces” for the incidents.
In a statement, BNP said, “Police and Rab personnel with cadres of Jubo and Chhatra League attacked the processions of Olama Mashayekhs on Friday, leaving several persons dead and many others, including journalists, injured.”
BNP said the ruling Awami League is trying to stay in power “through a conspiracy” and hurting people's feelings and sentiments in the process.
On Friday, Jamaat and its sympathisers unleashed a wave of terror across the country after the Juma prayers, and attacked law enforcers and journalists, burnt and tore the national flag and vandalised Shaheed Minars to counter the mass protests for capital punishment to the 1971 war criminals.
They defiled the national flag in Chandpur and Bogra, and vandalised Shaheed Minars in Feni and Sylhet.
Talking to The Daily Star on Saturday, a few BNP leaders slated the incidents but refrained from making any comments about the attackers.