Hadi, a leader of Bangladesh’s student-led uprising in the year 2024 who was flown to Singapore for treatment after being injured in an assassination attempt, has passed away, according to Singapore officials.
Hadi succumbed to his injuries despite the best efforts of the doctors, according to a statement from Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday.
Hadi, who was reportedly being considered a potential candidate for the Dhaka-8 constituency in the country’s national elections in February, was shot in the head on December 12 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, while riding a battery-powered auto-rickshaw.
Hadi was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment after being shot by the attacker from a motorcycle.
His brain stem had been damaged, according to local doctors, and he was taken from Bangladesh to the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) neurosurgical intensive care unit on December 15 for further treatment.
Hadi, 32, is a senior member of the student protest organization Inqilab Mancha, a former ally of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and a staunch critic of India. He is still imprisoned in self-imposed exile.
Inqilab Mancha, who announced his passing on Thursday night on Facebook, wrote: “Allah has accepted the great revolutionary Osman Hadi as a martyr in the struggle against Indian hegemony.”
Police have released photos of two important suspects and offered a reward of five million taka (roughly $ 42, 000) for information leading to their arrest.
At least 20 people have been detained in connection with the incident so far, according to a report from Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star, but murder investigations are still pending.
Leaders and political parties from all over the nation have condolenced each other.
Muhammad Yunus, the interim head of the nation’s government, expressed his condolences and said his death “is a devastating loss for the country.”
In a televised speech on Thursday, he said, “The country’s march toward democracy cannot be halted by fear, terror, or bloodshed.”
Following Friday prayers and a Saturday half-day of mourning, the government also announced special prayers at mosques.
The acting chairman of the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), Tareq Rahman, posted on Facebook, “We are deeply saddened by the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, the spokesperson of Inqilab Manch and independent candidate for Dhaka-8 constituency.
The National Citizen Party (NCP) expressed condolences to Hadi’s family in a press release to local media outlets.
Bangladesh experiences protests all over the country.
Immediately following the announcement of Hadi’s death, hundreds of enraged protesters reportedly took to the streets of Dhaka and other parts of the nation.
In Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar, a group of protesters gathered outside the head office of the nation’s top Bengali-language newspaper Prothom Alo. According to the websites of various prominent media outlets, they then jumped into the building.
According to footage from the nation’s Kaler Kantha newspaper, a group of protesters reportedly pushed into the Daily Star’s offices and set the building on fire a few hundred yards away.
Soldiers and paramilitary border guards were standing outside the two buildings, but they refused to disperse the protesters.
Without giving a name, Yunus, the 85-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner that led Bangladesh until the February 12 elections, claimed Hadi’s shooting was a planned attack carried out by a powerful network.
Source: Aljazeera
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