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DHAKA, July 24, 2024 (BSS) - Prime Minister's ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb 
Wazed Joy has said the BNP-Jamaat clique used an essentially non-political 
and non-violent movement to wage a violent movement of their own. 

"How did such a peaceful movement turn into a campaign of arson, vandalism, 
violence, and looting? Because, as usual, the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami clique 
used an essentially non-political and non-violent movement to wage a violent 
movement of their own," he wrote in a recent post in X Handle.

Joy wrote sensing the involvement of the vested quarter, the protestors 
themselves issued several statements disowning the violence and confirming 
that a third party is behind these acts with no relations to the protestors 
whatsoever.

"In the last few days, these cowards (using the protests as a cover) carried 
out widespread violence terrorizing the people," he said, adding that they 
targeted law enforcement officials, journalists, public and private 
transports and properties, important government establishments, and KPIs.

Joy said there has also been widespread looting of public and private 
properties, wherever such opportunities arose. A jail was attacked, freeing 
all prisoners, and its arms looted, he added.

It was only due to these unprecedented levels of violence that the government 
took the drastic decision of deploying armed forces and imposing curfew on 
movement (temporarily only), he said. 

This is because the government is under a positive duty to prevent any 
further violence, safeguard public and private properties, and uphold the 
national security of the country, he added.

Mentioning the country's students are not terrorists at all, the PM's ICT 
Adviser said BNP-Jamaat clique used general students as a cover for their 
partisan agenda of breaking Bangladesh. 

"How BNP-Jamaat used general students as a cover for their partisan agenda of 
breaking Bangladesh. The people of Bangladesh will not forgive these enemies 
of the state," he wrote in a post on Tuesday.

In another post, Joy shared a video footage and noted that when the Awami 
League government and the student protestors were on the same page on 
reforming or abolishing quotas in government jobs, then how did the peaceful 
and non-political quota movement turn violent? 

On July 18, in a post, he shared another video and said three things become 
clear from this video.

No student could have shown such utter disregard for public and private 
properties, these are the events which led to curfew imposition and the 
government was under a positive duty to act, he added.