Secretary General of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Professor Mia Golam Parwar has alleged that the government is trying to suppress the democratic rights of students with gunfire. He made this complaint in a statement on Tuesday ‘condemning and protesting the incident in which 5 people were killed by the police and the attack by the police and Chhatra League on the agitating students and calling for an immediate solution to the problems that have arisen’.
Mia Golam Parwar said that the police fired indiscriminately on the protesting students across the country including the capital Dhaka. Police, Awami League, Jubo League and Chhatra League workers participated in the attack on the students. The government wants to stifle the democratic rights of students at gunpoint. This is not a solution. We have been saying since the beginning that the demands of the agitating students should be taken into consideration and resolved fairly. But instead of doing so, the government is trying to quell the movement, first through the courts and now by targeting party terrorists and using the state’s law and order forces.
He said that the entire Bangladesh has become bloody today due to the attack of Chhatra League and police on the protesting students. So far 5 people have been killed in the quota reform movement across the country. Among them are students of Chittagong College. Wasim and shop employees. 3 people including Farooq were killed in Chittagong, Abu Saeed, a student of English Department of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur and 1 youth in front of Dhaka College in the capital. Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesting students across the country.
Along with these brutal killings, police and Chhatra League attacks and shootings across the country have left several hundreds of students and general public injured. Such events are rare in the history of the world. These incidents of casualties are nothing but extreme injustice, unwanted and excessive. I am deeply concerned about these casualties and strongly condemn and protest against them.
Secretary General of Jamaat said, I seek forgiveness for the souls of the deceased and express my deepest condolences to their families and the injured. I appeal to the concerned authorities to provide proper treatment to those who have been injured and to compensate the families of the victims. At the same time, I am calling on the government to take strict legal action against the attackers in different parts of the country and to resolve the logical demands of the agitators.