Editorial
Initiating enquiry into RU incident
Government should act fast to form probe body as directed by HC
The Thursday's High Court (HC) rule on the government asking it why it should not form a high-powered enquiry body within eight days to probe the shocking incident of murder and mayhem on the Rajshahi University (RU) campus on Tuesday last is a timely and hands-on move on the part of the judiciary.
While commending and supporting the move, we hope the government will not waste any time to form the enquiry commission in order to get to the root of the chilling incident that left one talented student of the university dead, four maimed in a most barbaric manner and inflicted injuries to 100 others.
The last few days' media reports on the RU incident, its circumstances and genesis are not just revealing. They also imply something very sinister brewing for long, all unbeknown to the public and the government.
Going by the reports, the Tuesday's incident was far from just another sporadic clash between students of two rival groups. To all appearances, it was part of a heinous scheme to occupy the student dormitories using premeditated methods of terrorisation and liquidation by a particular student group notorious for its anti-people role during the War of Liberation. The reports went further to show that the particular student front behind the RU violence has been growing under the care and indulgence of a section of the university administration itself. The cadres of the student group and its political patron, the party that opposed the Liberation War, has meanwhile been able to make deep inroads into the teachers' community and the university administration. To cap it all, the role of the topmost administration of RU, including that of its Vice-Chancellor and his close colleagues in the Tuesday's incident has come under serious scrutiny. Worse still, a particular intelligence wing of the government is reported to have a questionable role in recruiting members of the top university administration suspected of shady political connections.
The gravity of the issue, therefore, calls for a thoroughgoing and dispassionate enquiry into the history and circumstances of the gruesome incident. For if immediate steps are not taken to identify the kingpins behind the occasional outbursts of violence and chaos on the campus, effective measures to bring about order and peace there would not be possible.
It is, therefore, imperative that the government needs to strike at the root cause of campus violence. On this score, it should take immediate steps to form a high-powered enquiry commission in earnest in the spirit of the HC directive.
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