Students from different national minority communities and other student bodies on Sunday demanded the state stop torture on minority communities.
They also demanded justice for the custodial death of Lal Tleng Kim Bawm and release of women and children from Bawm communities.
Addressing a protest rally in front of the Anti-Violence Raju Memorial Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus on Sunday afternoon, speakers also demanded justice for the rape and murder of Khiyang girl.
At the rally, Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti central member Dipayan Khisa questioned if the country鈥檚 law was neutral why the listed crime suspects were being released on bail and how innocent Bawm women and children were in jail after arresting them without warrants.
鈥楢s Sheikh Hasina is liable for arresting innocent Bawm without arrest warrants, the interim government has to take the responsibility for deaths in jail custody,鈥� he said.
Bangladesh Adivasi Chatra-Sangram Parishad president Ananta Tanchangya said that although the detained at the Aynaghar were released following the ouster of the fascist government, the Bawm people were not released despite being arrested through conspiracy.
Writer and researcher Pavel Partha, PCJSS student wing Dhaka University chapter general secretary Shantimoy Chakma, writer and journalist Ehsan Mahmud, among others, spoke at the rally organised by the Sammilita Adivasi Chhatra Samaj.
Following the rally, they also brought out a protest procession.聽
Lal Tleng Kim Bawm, 29, a member of the Bawm community, who was in Chattogram Central Jail custody over his alleged involvement in bank looting incidents in Bandarban, died at Chattogram Medical College Hospital鈥檚 One-Stop Emergency Care Unit on May 15.
On April 9, 2024, Lal Tleng was arrested for his alleged involvement in a series of armed robberies and abductions carried out allegedly by the KNF in Ruma and Thanchi upazilas of Bandarban that month.
On Thursday jail officials also said that another detained KNF suspect, Sangmoy Bawm, 55, had been undergoing treatment for critical illness at Chattogram Medical College Hospital for one and a half months.
