The identities of several individuals who wreaked havoc in Savar, including Jahangirnagar, have been revealed! Among them are the terrorists of the Savar Upazila Chairman Rajib's group, including Savar Upazila Chhatra League President Atiqur Rahman Atiq.
#BanBSL #SaveBangladeshiStudents #StepDownHasina
A key #bangladesh civil society member speaks. “I’m Badiul Alam Majumdar, the Secretary of SHUJAN (Citizens for Good Governance). Our stance on today's dire situation is that the incumbent government, Awami League, has repeatedly stolen the people's rights in the last three elections, and established a government without public consent, lacking legitimacy.
To unfairly maintain power, this illegitimate government has stripped citizens of their political and civic rights.
The government has murdered more than 250 students instead of addressing their rightful demands.
Through mass arrests and by restricting the right to protest, they have turned the entire country into a prison.
Due to the government's irresponsible governance, Bangladesh has become a safe haven of corruption, lawlessness and human rights abuses.
Because of the syndicates, patronised by the ruling party, inflation went beyond the limits, leaving people struggling to survive.
In this situation, we support the students' demands. We seek justice for all murders. We want the restoration of our voting rights and peaceful solutions to all problems.
We call for an end to converting the state forces into party thugs to oppress people. Otherwise, this government will lose its right to remain in power.”
This is Rajshai university today where students sought to hold a peaceful rally. However the #Bangladesh law enforcement authorities were having none of that. At one point, armed and plain clothes police tried to disrupt the protests, arrest five students and drag them to their vehicles. But what this extraordinary video shows is how the police have lost their authority, and how the teachers and students are not now willing to put up with these arbitrary arrests and, quite fearlessly manage to grab their fellow student back from the police. ... As I have mentioned in earlier tweets, it feels like something has changed in the country, but what is not so clear is how widespread that change is.
"Who came? Who has come? The police have come, the police have come. What are they doing? They are here to lick the dictator's feet." There are the slogans of the female students yesterday filimed at Thakurgaon in this remarkable video.
If, following the killing of over 200 people by #bangladesh law enforcement, one imagined Bangladesh students were inevitably cowering under continuing government intimidation. Think again.
Bangladeshi authorities have ARRESTED OVER 10,000 people and investigated over 200,000.
It looks like AUTHORITARIAN PM Sheikh Hasina is conducting a WITCH HUNT.
BANGLADESH 🇧🇩: @amnesty’s Secretary General @AgnesCallamard urges Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to end the ongoing crackdown on protesters and cooperate with the UN to conduct a thorough, effective, independent, and impartial investigation into the deaths and injuries that have resulted from crackdown.
She reiterates that Amnesty’s findings findings point to unlawful use of birdshot against student protesters, dangerous use of tear gas in enclosed student spaces and unrestrained use of lethal firearms, such as AK-pattern assault rifles, by security forces. They also point to violence unleashed by Bangladesh Chatra League (BCL), the student wing of your the ruling party, first against unarmed and peaceful student protesters in the University of Dhaka and then against students receiving medical treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Additionally, the mass arrest and arbitrary detention of student protesters has further perpetuated a climate of fear. All the people detained or arrested solely for exercising their right to protest peacefully must be unconditionally released. #ProtectTheProtest #SaveBangladeshiStudents
Read the open letter with the full list of demands here: https://t.co/KGDrLwELOa