Campus violence
Since the incident at Dhaka University on 20 August 2007, many people are thinking how a trifling matter can lead to a volcanic-eruption like situation that compelled the CTG to impose curfew in the divisional cities to bring it under control. Expressing deep regret from the government, withdrawal of army camp from the varsity campus and the beginning of the process of judicial enquiry failed to satisfy the students. So thousands of them came out of the dormitories with sticks and stones and fought with police injuring over 150 people and damaging at least 100 vehicles. Even the girl students came out in large numbers with bamboo sticks on their hands.
We should think how our children who are studying at the highest level become so furious and go for such violent acts that bring disgrace to all of us. No doubt, the incident that triggered the violence was the act of some individuals. But what our students, the future of the nation, did cannot be accepted. We, the guardians of the students, should regularly monitor their activities and behaviour even if they are grown up and studying in varsities where they are supposedly being taken care of by their teachers. But ultimately they are our children and what they are learning & what character they are building there is very important for the families they belong to.
So, let us open our eyes and try to find out what is going wrong that encourages them to be so hostile that just out of anger they are indiscriminately damaging government & private properties, including private vehicles that some one might have purchased with his hard earned savings or against loans from the banks.
Let us also take into account the statement of the army chief that an evil force poured in crores of taka to instigate this vandalism.
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