2007 Student Unrest
Execute JS body suggestions
Student leaders urge govt
A section of former and current student leaders yesterday urged the government to execute the recommendations made in parliamentary standing committee on the education ministry's report regarding the student unrest in August 2007.
On August 20 that year, Dhaka University students resorted to demonstration after some army personnel beat up a student during a football match on DU central playground. The demonstrations continued for three days, triggering nationwide protests.
Hundreds of Dhaka University students and several teachers were tortured by the law-enforcers during and after the unrest.
The standing committee's report has proved that leaders of the then caretaker government and the army were responsible for the torture and repression against the students during the unrest.
Welcoming the report, the student leaders, in a joint statement, said the student community took to the streets back then protesting injustice and repression.
Manabendra Dev, Aparna Pal, Sheikh Sohel Rana Tipu, Sazzad Sakib Badsha, Siddique Nazmul Alam, Hasan Mamun, Saiful Islam Feroz, Rafiqul Islam Sujan Samsul Alam Sazzan, were among the signatories in the statement.
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