The killing prompted the protesters to go back to their

24-hour movement instead of seven-hour programme which they had declared hours before the death. Haidar's death came hours after violence at southeastern Cox's Bazar district that left three people dead. The violence broke out after JI activists turned violent following Friday prayers to protest their top leaders' trial for war crimes. JI and their student affiliate Islamic Chhatra Shibir were trying to wage counter protest attacking or torching vehicles and attacking policemen under a hit and run strategy to halt their leaders' ongoing trial. The violence saw deaths of at least 14 people, including Haidar, who apparently incurred the wrath of the Islamists for his internet blog campaign demanding ban on the JI politics and boycott of the health, banking and other services as part of the youngsters "non-political and non-partisan" movement. "We announce from here, we will not go back home until the war criminals are hanged, his (Haidar's) assailants are exposed to justice and politics of Jamaat and Shibir is banned," said a leading organiser of the Shahbagh protest. Meanwhile, JI has called a nationwide general strike on Monday and enforced a localised one in Cox's Bazar today to protest deaths of three of the party's activists yesterday. Thousands of people in Bangladesh have held candlelight vigils in last two days, at the call of the Shahbagh protesters seeking national solidarity for their campaign. Parliament members have also joined the vigil in memory of the 1971 war martyrs killed by Pakistani troops. Ten high-profile accused were tried by courts for war crimes and on February 5, a special tribunal convicted JI leader Abdul Quader Mollah for "crimes against humanity" and sentenced him to life imprisonment. The verdict angered the youngsters and 1971 war veterans and surprised many who believed he deserved death penalty as the tribunal had found charges like mass killings, rapes and arson, valid against Mollah.