Dhaka, July 8 (Just News): Condemning the attacks on general students demanding quota-reforms, Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, a professor of Dhaka University, today said the incidents that had happened is “unfortunate, shameful and unbelievable”.
This did not happen during the Pakistan or British period, said Sirajul Islam.
The professor made the remarks during a programme arranged by a faction of DU teachers at the Central Shaheed Minar premises this morning, demanding a campus free of repression.
Teachers under the banner of “Nipiron Birodhi Shikkhokbrindo [Teachers Against Repression]” staged a demonstration from 11:00am to 11:45am.
Speakers at the demonstration also demanded the authorities to immediately arrest the attackers on general students, who have been demanding reform of quota system, on campuses across the country, bear the expenses of medical treatment to those injured in the assaults, and release those arrested in “false cases” filed during the movement.
They also urged the authorities to bring an end the string of assaults and repressions on general students and teachers.
Teachers of DU's Journalism and Mass Communication department Gitiara Nasrin and Fahmidul Haq spoke among others.
The demonstration came as a response to an assault on DU teacher Fahmidul Haq by police officials as they foiled a citizens’ demonstration expressing concern over the detention of quota reform leaders on the Jatiya Press Club premises on July 3.
Police also detained a former Jahangirnagar University teacher and a former student leader from the programme and later released them.
Meanwhile, a faction of students under the banner of “Progotishil Chhatra Jote [Progressive Students’ Alliance]” today brought out a procession on the DU campus around 12:15pm protesting brutalities inflicted on general students allegedly by Chhatra League activists across the country.
They also condemned the arrest of several student leaders of the ongoing quota reform movement in different cases and demanded their release.
The students later met DU VC Prof Akhtaruzzaman and submitted a memorandum to him around 1:00pm.
