Students protest at DU over death of three students
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Students protest at DU over death of three students
A group of Dhaka University students have staged a demonstration to protest and demand justice over the murder of former East West University student Tajbir Hossain Shihan and American International University Bangladesh (AIUB) student Md. Wazed Simanto and the recovery of the body of an unidentified young woman from a lake in Badda.
The march began on Tuesday (December 17) night in front of the university's Raju Sculpture under the banner of 'Dhaka University Students'.
The banner of the students' march read 'Protest march at the foot of Raju Sculpture to protest and demand justice for the assassination of three comrades of the July Uprising and the anti-Indian aggression movement.'
The march passed through VC Chattar and Halpara and ended at Raju Sculpture. Dhaka University students and leaders of the anti-discrimination student movement delivered brief speeches during the march.
Former coordinator of the anti-discrimination student movement, Abdul Quader, said, in Bangladesh, the bodies of revolutionaries on whose shoulders Bangladesh gained independence lie on the streets. The interim government, which came to power by trampling on the blood of revolutionaries, is playing a passive and indifferent role in this matter. This is a bad sign. You have forgotten our dreams and expectations. We have to do politics in this country with the mandate of the students and the people.
He also said, we have seen in the past - ministers of the Awami League government used to say where are the corrupt, today we have also seen the Home Affairs Adviser said - where did Obaidul Quader stay, we will arrest them. In the past, if a dissident person whispers somewhere, it is known in a minute. Now, what are the police administration ministers and bureaucrats doing, we want answers. Chhatra League is still roaming around in different places of Dhaka at 32, carrying out attacks, meetings, processions, conspiracies. Yet the administration is playing a passive role, we condemn it.
After the rally, Abu Baker Majumdar, former coordinator of the anti-discrimination student movement, said in a message sent to journalists, the current law and order situation in the country is gradually becoming dire. The brutal deaths of two university students and an unidentified person in just six days have painted a terrible picture of the security system in our society. Dreamy young people like Wazed Simanto and Tajbir Hossain Shihan are losing their lives at the hands of miscreants, which is destroying the future of the nation on the one hand, and showing the failure of the law enforcement agencies on the other. Incidentally, miscreants hacked Tajbir Hossain Shihan, a student of East West University, to death in Kaliakoir, Gazipur, in the early hours of last Thursday (December 12). On the same day, Mohammad Simanto, a student of American International University, was stabbed to death by a robber in Narayanganj. Two days later, on Saturday, he died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. The body of Sujana, a class 12 student of Bhashantek Government College, was recovered from Rupganj Lake in Narayanganj on Tuesday (December 17) morning.
