The Jatayatibadi Chattra Dal(JCD) and the Anti-
Discrimination Student Movement today strongly condemned and protested the
incidents of mob killings on Dhaka University and Jahangirnagar University
campuses, which left two people dead.
The BNP’s student wing JCD also demanded exemplary punishment of those
involved in the incidents at a press conference today at the office of Dhaka
University Journalist Association (DUJA) while the Anti-Discrimination
Student Movement condemned the incidents through a statement.
“Some terrorists who were involved in BCL’s politics have now taken up the
control of university’s halls in the name of general students. They sometimes
form mobs and take the law into their own hands,” JCD president Rakibul Islam
Rakib told the press conference.
“Tofazzal was beaten by a group of students led by Jalal Ahmed, a student of
the Physics Department who resigned from the post of deputy secretary of
science and technology affairs of Chhatra League recently,” he added.
The JCD
leaders also requested the university administration to take
necessary measures so that no one can do this in the coming days through
‘Mob’ in the guise of common students.
Rakib said, “The main objective of the students’ mass movement and our 16-
year long anti-fascist struggle were to eliminate all injustice, corruption,
mismanagement and the culture of injustice from this country. Even if a
person is a criminal, there is no way to kill him.”
“These two incidents of yesterday proved that student politics is not the
main problem of the campus. But the system created during the last few years
of fascist regimes has created a murderous mentality here. So the whole
system needs to be reformed,” he added.
JCD central general secretary Nasir uddin Nasir, DU unit president Gonesh
Chandra Roy Shahos and general secretary Nahiduzzaman Shipon also addressed
the conference.
Meanwhile, the Anti-discrimination student movement in a statement said, “The
incidents are very miserable and unfortunate that dem
onstrate a severe
disregard for fundamental human rights and principles.”
The student movement also called for immediate prosecution of those
responsible and urged the interim government, students and country people to
be vigilant against extrajudicial killings, torture, and mob justice.
“The alarming incidents of extrajudicial killings and torture over the past
15 years reflect a significant deficiency in the country’s judicial system
and the rule of law,” added the statement.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha