College student Sufi Ahmed crawled to escape the police firing in front of Dhaka’s Jatrabari police station on August 5, the day the government fell in Bangladesh. The student is guarding the affected police station with his friends after the uprising.
Showing a viral video on social media, Sufi identified himself as the crawling young man wearing a white T-shirt and black pants. He was shot in the leg.
“The police were firing in unison there. It was a very terrible situation. I was dying. Many people think that I am dead. One dies beside me.”
There is no police in Jatrabari police station yet. On the afternoon of 5th August, Jatrabari police station was set on fire by angry students. At least six policemen were killed that day. After the student movement turned violent, information is available that most protesters and police died in Jatrabari in Dhaka.
“The police want to conduct operations with us. We are like 30-35 people together with juniors and seniors forming a team. We are basically running police activities”.
This Sufi story of the student movement Jatrabari brings to the fore two contrasting police situations in Bangladesh before and after the coup.
More than 650 unarmed people died in the indiscriminate firing by the law and order forces during the student movement. The complete number has not been given by the government yet. On the other hand, after the fall of the previous government, about 450 police stations were attacked, set on fire and vandalized in Bangladesh
source:bbc.com