Student-Army Men Clash at DU
JS body to probe incident
The parliamentary standing committee on education ministry yesterday formed a four-member sub-committee to carry out the final phase of investigation into the August 2007 violence between army personnel and students at Dhaka University.
The sub-committee was asked to find out the people responsible for the incident and suggest what action should be taken against them, said Rashed Khan Menon, chief of both the parliamentary body and the sub-committee, after a meeting at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban.
The JS body told the sub-committee to submit a probe report within the next two months to it which will then place the report before parliament, he said.
The three other members of the committee are lawmakers of ruling Awami League Mirza Azam, Biren Sikdar and Shah Alam.
Last year, the parliamentary body on August 2 decided to investigate the much-talked violence during the past caretaker government, and on August 29 observed that several government agencies were involved in instigating the unrest on DU campus.
It also said the caretaker government should be blamed for the incident, as several civilian and army officials of the then administration took part in it.
Menon told The Daily Star that the main committee already verified different news clippings, photographs, video footage and news scripts of television and radio broadcasts relating to the incident.
“We also received a few intelligence reports from the home ministry and scrutinised them. But we want to investigate further,” he noted.
If necessary the sub-committee would interview army personnel concerned, members of different intelligence agencies and police. Besides, it would also talk to teachers and students who were subjected to brutality during the incident.
On August 20, the violence began when a few army men beat up three students and insulted a teacher during a football match on the university gymnasium field.
Thousands of DU students on the same day took to the streets protesting the incident and demanding withdrawal of the on-campus army camp and an apology from the troops.
There had been pitched battles between students and police forces for the next two days, which left over 250 people mostly students injured.
As violence spread through educational institutions in the capital and elsewhere, the government imposed a curfew in the divisional headquarters and closed universities and colleges on August 22.
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