I remember when I was a new graduate student in my school in US. One day, a policeman came to the next door. One of my classmates lives there with his wife. Being clueless we rush after the police left. His wife was crying with tears all over her. The poor girl was all alone just listening music. Well, may be little too loud according to one neighbor, that’s all. Apparently all it took is a phone call. Next thing you know, police was banging your door.
WOW, we said. Boy, are these students stupid or coward? In back home, police in our campus?? Ha ha ha. I remember all those “misil” in BUET campus. You know like “campus a police keno, kortipokhkho jobab chai”. Well, that was just the beginning, words gets ugly after a while and campus become kurukhetro.
I got my first lesson that US is no BD, this campus is not even close to buet or DU campus. Here the university have a police camp of it’s own. Can you believe that? What? Like you still ruled by “british benia”, or what? I came to know about the police camp after getting a parking ticket for apparently violating “front end parking only” sign. Well, that’s a long story, let’s not go there.
In Bangladesh however, DU students are some kind of god. And no one touch god, especially police. Because when you touch god, you are cursed. Who in the hell are brave enough to mess with god? A god beaten by a soldier, wow! By the way, gods doesn’t go to soldier's superior to complain. They don’t go to court to sue you. They don’t write in the news paper, saying Houston, we have a problem here. Are you kidding me?? Those are not god kind of work, are they? Instead, god will simply crash you. That’s what gods do.
NB: By the way if you are one those folks who haven’t done his undergrad in BD, you would probably not understand what I am talking about. For a start, just take this. Our 12th grade pass kids don’t go to university to learn business, law, engineering, medical. Aaa aaa, that’s a no no. They go there to become gods and save the nation. As if we are still in those era when anyone out side of the campus is just as good as a cow, dog or cat. As if, a nation of cow, dog and cats (often associated with the word “bloody” by Brits) is trying to be human in the classroom. As if we are still in the era, when parents don’t teach their kids, but kids come home to teach their parents.
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Breaking News
Protests break out across country: 1 killed, hundreds injured
Star Online Report
At least one person was killed and hundreds were injured as violence broke out across the country for the 3rd day today.
Students of different colleges and universities across the country came out on streets and fought pitched battles with police.
A rickshaw-puller was killed and more than 50 students were injured when around 2000 students marched through the Rajshahi University (RU) campus demanding withdrawal of law enforcers from the campus and protesting DU incident.
Several dozens of students of Jagannath University and DU were injured in sporadic clashes with police. A DU student also sustained bullet injuries in front of F Rahman Hall during the clashes.
Dhaka city streets virtually became void as violence spilt over into the third day. Several incidents of vandalism and arson were reported from Airport road, Mohakhali, Gulistan, Kamalapur Railway Station, Mouchak, Noyabazar, North-South road and Nawabpur areas. The protesters also vandalised the windowpanes of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrates’ (CMM) Court, Dhaka.
Reports said students of Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), Eden University College, Jagannath University, Titumir College, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University and Tejgaon Polytechnic Institute also joined the demonstration.
The pitched battles across the country between police and students occurred when police tried to resist the demonstrating students.
UNB reports that students of Jagannath University staged violent protest and burned four vehicles including a Pajero jeep around the District Court in Old Dhaka at about 10:30am.
Students of Titumir College brought out a procession and moved towards Mohakhali crossing chanting anti-government slogans.
In Rajshahi, police lobbed innumerable rubber bullets and hurled around 600 tear gas shells in a bid to disperse the unruly students who were pelting policemen with brickbats, leaving the rickshaw-puller dead and over 50 students injured.
The road communications on the Rajshahi-Dhaka Highway came to a halt as the law enforcers were forced to retreat and took position on the highway. On information, additional contingent of police were deployed in the area and the RU premised virtually became a battleground.
Our RU correspondent reports that among the injured, the condition of one student is critical. Our RU correspondent and Rajshahi staff correspondent were also assaulted by the agitating students.
The angry students also ransacked the administrative building of the university. They set fire to the temporary police camp, three vehicles and residence of Vice-chancellor Prof Altaf Hossain. They also cut off the telephone, power, water and cable TV connections of the VC’s home.
On the other hand, Progotishil Chhatra Jote (PCJ), a combine of left-leaning student organisations, called for an indefinite strike at the university.
The student unrest erupted on Monday afternoon when some army men beat up three students and humiliated a teacher of the DU during a soccer match on the university central playground.
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