Teachers of different universities, including Jahangirnagar and Rajshahi University, staged demonstrations protesting at police killings, arrests, oppression and harassment for the second consecutive day on Tuesday.
They also slammed block raids linking it with the Pakistani occupation forces鈥� arrest and torture during the tumultuous days of the War of Independence.聽
On Tuesday, JU teachers brought out a silent procession on the campus protesting against 鈥榢illing鈥� of students during the recent unrest centring the quota reform movement that sparked a violent police crackdown across the country, JU correspondent reported.
Under the banner of 鈥楾eachers鈥� Community Against Oppression鈥�, a total of 38 JU teachers brought out the procession from the university鈥檚 central Shaheed Minar with their mouths tied with red ribbons at about 12:45pm on the day.
The teachers observed a one-minute silence to mourn deaths of the quota reform protesters when the procession reached 鈥楥hhatra Janata Shaheed Smriti Stambha鈥欌�攁 monument built on the campus to mark sacrifices of the protesters killed during the protests.
The procession again, marched towards the Shaheed Minar, where the teachers held a protest rally.
Addressing the rally, JU anthropology professor Saed Ferdous said that the quota reform protest was nothing but a voice raised against the government鈥檚 failure to ensure human rights, democracy, and a hunger-free state.
Terming the country as an 鈥榦pen jail鈥�, chairperson of JU philosophy department ASM Anwarullah Bhuiyan said, 鈥榃hen students took to the streets with their logical demands, law enforcers and the government-backed organisations injured ordinary students to resist them.鈥�
Professor Raihan Rhyne of the philosophy department said, 鈥楧uring the War of Independence, the Pakistanis used to arrest and torture freedom fighters through block raids. This government is also detaining and torturing the protesting students through block raids at midnight.鈥�
Students Movement Against Discrimination JU unit expressed its solidarity with the teachers鈥� demonstration.
Teachers of RU on Tuesday also held demonstrations on the university campus protesting against the countrywide student killings, oppression and harassment, 抖阴精品 Staff Correspondent in Rajshahi reported.
Over two hundred of them under the banner of 鈥楻U Teachers Against Oppression鈥� brought out a protest procession from in front of Shaheed Intellectual Memorial at 11:30am and later held a rally in front of the university main gate after parading main roads on the campus.
Addressing the rally, physics department professor Saleh Hasan Naqib said that the government had turned the students鈥� peaceful and logical movement into violent one.
鈥楾he government has failed to deal with the student movement. Students are still being harassed and tortured. The government has resorted to all kinds of dirty methods, including taking the student leaders into DB custody and forcing them to give statements,鈥� he said, adding that they seek an end to this kind of torture and harassment.
He said that they demanded a proper investigation into indiscriminate killings and justice for those killed.
Economics professor Farid Uddin Khan said that the students took to the streets with their logical demands.
鈥楤ut, what we saw is that the government first directed its student wing Chhatra League to attack the students who had been demonstrating peacefully. And then, the state used law enforcement agencies to suppress the students鈥� movement, shooting the students to deaths in the streets,鈥� he said, adding that they took to the streets driven by conscience.
Urging the law enforcers not to open any more fire on the protesting students, veterinary and animal science professor Ismat Ara Begum said that the students did nothing wrong.
The government imposed curfew and deployed the army midnight past July 19 amid student protests in Dhaka as elsewhere across the country that left at least 213 dead and several thousand injured.