report in The daily star, July 2, 2018
Five students demanding civil service quota reforms were injured as attack on quota reformists allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) members continued for the third consecutive day today.
Witnesses claimed that the BCL men also forcibly picked up Faruk Hosen, joint convener of Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Adhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad, on a motorcycle during the incident, our correspondent reports.
Witnesses claim that BCL men forcibly pick up Faruk Hosen, joint convener of Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Adhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad, on a motorcycle on July 2, 2018. Photo: Collected
BI Badhon and Al Amin, BCL president and general secretary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall unit, picked up Faruk, they alleged.
Earlier, some 10 to 15 BCL activists allegedly swooped on the students when they gathered on the Central Shaheed Minar premises to form a human chain around 10:50am demanding quota reforms in the civil service.
The BCL members beat up many of the students, leaving at least five injured.
The leaders of the movement alleged that general secretary of Haji Muhammad Mohsin Hall BCL unit Mehedi Hasan Sunny, central BCL secretary of school and students’ affair Joynal Abedin, publicity secretary of central BCL Sayed Babu, Al Amin and BI Badhon were among the attackers.
Later, BCL leaders and activists were seen staging showdown at different points of the campus.
The alleged attacks on the quota reform movements have been continued from Saturday. Members of quota reform movement could not hold their scheduled press briefing as they were attacked allegedly by BCL men on the Dhaka University campus. The attacks injured at least seven activists including platform joint convener Nurul Haque Nur.
Later on Sunday, at least 10 Rajshahi University students suffered injuries in attacks when they were trying to form human chains on the campus protesting Saturday’s assault on quota demonstrators at DU campus.
On the same day, at least four protesters were beaten up by BCL men led by Al Mamun, deputy secretary of the organisation’s central committee, in front National Museum of the capital around 4:30pm in presence of law enforcers, according witnesses and DU students.
The identities of the four could not be known and they were later handed over to Shahbagh Police Station.
BCL men also assaulted Mir Lokman, founding president of DU Mime Action, who has staged more than four hundred mime shows in the country and overseas.
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