Awami League digital terrorism

[mil-avia]

Zafar Iqbal Wakes Up

Written by : Rumi Ahmed

March 1, 2011

The Ganges flew quite far, the people in Arial Bil resisted and won, Mashrefa Mishu remains in jail after torture, an elected local government leader Sanaullah Nur Babu got chopped to death in front of public TV, ruling party MP Shaon walks around head high after yet another killing, student cadres of ruling party continues their mastaani, poor peoples’ life keep getting more and more intolerable due to spiraling of prices.

Our ever awake national conscience Muhammad Zafar Iqbal seemed to be sleeping all along. Nothing probably was exciting enough to wake him up from his hibernation.

But good news is that Mr. Zafar Iqbal finally woke up. In his latest piece he expresses his grave concern as people he saw could not memorize the lyrics of national anthem and the exact size of national flag.

Long live our national conscience.

 

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Another link : Crackdown on activists of National Committee on Protection of Minerals

More photos of the crackdown against National Committee on Protection of Minerals

 

[mil-avia]

Chittagong medical college shut after student's death by Bangladesh Chhatra League

 

[neolithic]

BNP organised the reception programme for freedom fighters at the capital's Engineers Institution, Bangladesh (IEB) which is going on around 3:45pm when the report was filed.

Witnesses said police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the opposition activists. The law enforcers also charged batons on the opposition activists and drove them out from the IEB who gathered there in the morning.

IEB photo 18 December 2011 :


Awami League perpetrated terrorist attacks against valiant FF (Freedom Fighter) of 1971 Sadeq Hossain Khoka and FF Col (retd) Wali Ahmed few weeks ago. Another attack was perpetrated against FF Kader Siddiqi's political party meeting even earlier.

 

[idune]

Buet erupts in protests

Students lay siege to administrative building after BCL men beat up student; 3 expelled from university; academic activities suspended

Buet students stage sit-in at the administrative building of the university yesterday demanding expulsion of three Chhatra League activists for beating up a senior student. Inset, Tousif Ahmed Eshan.Staff Correspondent

Three Buet students and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League were suspended from the institute yesterday for beating up a senior student on Saturday.

The assault on Tousif Ahmed Eshan, student of the computer science and technology department, prompted several hundred students to take to the streets and stage sit-ins.

The authorities of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) yesterday suspended all academic activities until further notice, as the students continued to stage sit-ins inside the administrative building, demanding expulsion of the attackers.

The agitating students were still on the premises till 1:30am. They closed off all the gates except the main entrance to the university campus.

Sujit Saha and Saifullah Shikdar, students of the material and metallurgical department, and Arif Raihan, student of the mechanical engineering department, beat up Tousif Ahmed after they got involved in a scuffle, said agitated students.

His left hand broken, Tousif has been receiving treatment in the capital's Square Hospital. He also received injures on his leg and other parts of the body, said his classmate Sunayan.

Tousif underwent surgery on his broken hand, he added.

Sunayan said the attackers entered his room at Nazrul Islam Hall and beat him up with sticks at about 1:30pm on Saturday.

On Wednesday, Tousif and several senior students got into a fight with some junior students, including the three, who were trying to occupy some chairs reserved for seniors at a concert at the university auditorium, said sources.

The concert was organised as part of a farewell for the university's 2006 batch to which Tousif belongs.

The scuffle was the reason behind the assault on Tousif, said the sources.

On Saturday, the protesters confined Buet Pro-Vice Chancellor Prof Habibur Rahman and director of the Student Welfare Council Aminul Islam to their offices for hours.

Following the incident, Aminul Islam tendered his resignation to the pro-vice chancellor yesterday evening citing health reasons, said the sources.

Meanwhile, the Buet administration formed a four-member committee to probe the incident. The committee has been asked to submit its report today.

Tanmoy Ahmed, general secretary of Buet unit of the Chhatra League, admitted that the three were Chhatra League activists and often participated in the organisation's programmes.

Arif claimed that Raihan, one of the three alleged attackers, was not involved in the incident.

Tanmoy said the question of expelling them did not arise, as they were not members of the organisation. They, however, have been asked not to attend any Chhatra League programmes in the future.

Buet VC Prof Nazrul said politics had nothing to do with the incident.

The VC said the university would bear the costs of the victim's treatment.

The teachers will not take any classes in line with yesterday's decision, he added.

Buet erupts in protests

 

[scholseys]

Bangladesh student politics is disgusting, this idea and notion came from Mao influenced communist iedeology which Sheikh Mujib brought to this country.

 

[Zabaniyah]

Bangladesh student politics is disgusting, this idea and notion came from Mao influenced communist iedeology which Sheikh Mujib brought to this country.

And this is what happened:

 

[idune]

15 teachers, others hurt as BCL men throw acid
Begum Rokeya University closed for indefinite period

Our Correspondent . Rangpur

At least 15, including six teachers of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, were injured on Thursday as a Chhatra League faction loyal to the vice-chancellor threw acid at and beat teachers and students rallying for the removal of the vice-chancellor.

The authorities at night closed the university for an indefinite period.

Chhatra League activists loyal to the vice-chancellor Abdul Zalil Miah attacked the teachers and students who had been on strike, and were rallying on the campus, for an indefinite period since Sunday demanding an immediate resignation of the vice-chancellor.
At least 15, including the six teachers, were injured in the attack that took place on the campus about 10:30am.

Two of the teachers who sustained acid burns associate professor of management Matiur Rahman and lecturer in Bengali Tuhin Wadud, were sent to Rangpur Medical College Hospital. The hospital’s director in-charge Golam Mostafa said that portions of faces of the two teachers had been burnt with acid. But there is, however, no fears for the eyes being damaged. ‘We have moved them to cabins for better treatment.’

Other teachers who were injured are associate professor M Hafizur Rhaman and associate professor Apel Mahamood, professor Golam Rabbani and professor Sonowar Siraj Hafizur Rhaman said that teachers along with students teamed up as Sachetan Shikkhak Samaj went on strike for an indefinite period on Sunday demanding the removal of the vice-chancellor for ‘corruption and irregularities.’

‘We set up a stage in front of the administrative building and sat in there to push for our demands. A faction of the Chhatra League, loyal to the vice-chancellor, attacked us and damaged the PA system about 10:30am,’ he said.‘They splashed battery acid on the teachers and students who were on the stage. They also beat up the teachers and students, who ran for shelter. But 15 of them, including six teachers, were injured in the attack,’ he added.

Soon after the attack, the teachers and students began a fast-unto-death at the main entrance to the campus demanding an immediate removal of the vice-chancellor. They shouted slogans against the vice-chancellor and demanded arrest of the attackers.
The district unit Chhatra League president, Dhanajit Ghosh Taposh brushed aside the allegations against activists of his organisation being involved in the attack.

He said that the Chhatra League was not responsible for the attack as there is no unit of the organisation in the university
The university treasurer, Mozzammel Hoque, said, ‘It is very unfortunate that the teachers became to be attacked and that too with acid.’ The Kotwali police officer-in-charge (investigation), Abdul Latif Miah, said that the situation was under control and no case was filed till evening.He said that police deployment was reinforced in and around the campus.

15 teachers, others hurt as BCL men throw acid

 

[Anubis]

Neither me.. But I like pulling some of the members leg specially idune and zakir and see how they react.. Good entertainment... and ofcourse they are free...

Sometimes it gets scary!

Bangladesh student politics is disgusting, this idea and notion came from Mao influenced communist iedeology which Sheikh Mujib brought to this country.

I thought Sheikh Mujib was Moscow centric.....But you can't deny the role of students involvement in politics actually helped us gain independence!

 

[Hammer-fist]

Sometimes it gets scary!



I thought Sheikh Mujib was Moscow centric.....But you can't deny the role of students involvement in politics actually helped us gain independence!

Bhashani was China-centric and the National Awami Party of Pakistan of which he was one of the senior leaders fell apart due to some leaders such as Wali Khan being pro-Russia and others such as Bhashani being pro-China (Maoist).

 

[idune]

BCL rowdies on the loose again

Mohiuddin Alamgir

Activists of the ruling party-backed Bangladesh Chhatra League have unleashed terror in educational institutions again vitiating the atmosphere and putting students’ academic life in jeopardy.Chhatra League activists have continued atrocities in educational institutions and seemed to have made teachers their latest targets. At least 50 teachers of Islamic University in Kushtia, six teachers and some students of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, and three teachers and scores of students of Tejgaon Polytechnic Institute were injured in a series of attacks by BCL activists recently.

All three educational institutions have been closed for an indefinite period following the BCL violence

After the present government assumed office on January 6, 2009, the BCL started taking over the campuses, occupying halls and attacking activists of rival student organisations. Chhatra League activists also indulged in vandalism, extortion and tender snatching in different parts of the country..

When asked by New Age, Chhatra League general secretary Siddique Nazmul Alam, however, flatly denied that BCL activists had been involved in the violence in Rangpur, Kushtia and Dhaka.

At least 50 teachers were injured when Chhatra League activists attacked the Islamic University teachers, kept them confined and forced them to withdraw their agitation against the university treasurer on January 12.

The teachers went to meet the vice-chancellor, Abdul Hakim Sarkar, demanding removal of treasurer M Shahjahan Ali, AHM Aktarul Islam (Zillu) and student adviser Lokman Hakim.Hearing the news, BCL activists, led by its university unit secretary Shamsuzzaman Tuhin and joint secretary Mahmud Hassan Lenin, and backed by outsiders, drove the teachers out of the teachers’ association office and locked its door. They also vandalised classrooms.

As the teachers took shelter at the teachers’ lounge, the Chhatra League men, brandishing firearms, pounced on them breaking open the door and beat them up injuring 50 teachers, witnesses said. IU unit Chhatra Legaue president Jahangir Hossain, however, denied the allegation of BCL activists’ involvement in the attack on the teachers and said that the teachers who were not taking classes were beaten up by general students.

Earlier on November19, 2012, at least 30 teachers were injured in an attack by Chhatra League activists at the university.
On January 10, 2013, the authorities closed Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur after 15 people, including six teachers had been injured as a Chhatra League faction loyal to the vice-chancellor threw acid at and beat up teachers and students rallying for the removal of the vice-chancellor Abdul Zalil Miah.

District unit BCL president Dhanajit Ghosh Taposh brushed aside the allegations that activists of his organisation had been involved in the attack. He said that the Chhatra League was not responsible for the attack as there was no unit of the organisation in the university.

On January 6, authorities closed Tejgaon Polytechnic Institute in the capital after 10 people, including three teachers, had been injured as Chhatra League men ran riots on the campus to put pressure on the principal to declare successful the students who had failed the exams. Chhatra League Tejgaon Polytechnic Institute unit president Zakir Haossian denied the allegation.

Their ‘rages on teachers’ are not new as on August 13, 2011 Chhatra League activists foiled the examinations for teachers’ recruitment at the SD Degree College at Kotchandpur in Jhenaidah. The activists beat up the college principal, Amal Kumar Ghosh.
At least 20 teachers of the Bangladesh Agricultural University were injured when Chhatra League activists pounced on them on August 8, 2011. The university proctor, Abu Hadi Noor Ali, came under attack after he handed over to the police two students held on suspicion of being involved in mugging in the botanical garden of the university.

On May 22, 2011, a teacher of chemistry at the Government Bangla College at Mirpur in Dhaka was attacked by BCL activists during the HSC admission test. Rubel Hawlader, a BCL leader pushed the teacher down the staircase from the first floor in a college building as he refused to have students of their choice admitted.

The Chittagong University proctor, Mohammad Akhtar Hossain, and three assistant proctors submitted to authorities their resignation on August 1, 2011, over ‘misconduct’ by groups of Chhatra League activists. BCL activists on February 18, 2011 ransacked the office of Hossain Kabir, the provost of the Alaol Hall in Chittagong Univeristy, and damaged furniture over the distribution of seats in the hall.

On August 13, Chhatra League activists foiled the examinations for teachers’ recruitment at the SD Degree College at Kotchandpur in Jhenaidah. The activists beat up the college principal, Amal Kumar Ghosh. According to newspaper reports, since the present government assumed office in January 2009, Chhatra League activists have been responsible for the killing of at least 20 student activists in factional feuds or fighting with rival student organisations.

With official motto of ‘Education, Peace and Progress’, Chhatra League activists also hit headlines for driving out the rival BNP-backed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal from campuses, trying to foil students’ movements over various issues and sexually harassing and raping women on different occasions.

Against this backdrop, communications minister Obaidul Quader, also former president of Chhatra League, on January 4 slammed its activists for their misdeeds which, he warned, were tarnishing the image of the ruling Awami League. ‘The unhealthy activities of Chhatra League are tarnishing the image of Awami League,’ he said.Chhatra League general secretary Siddique Nazmul Alam denying the allegations said that their organisation had not tolerated campus violence in the past. ‘We will not tolerate violence in the future, too.’

‘If anyone is found guilty of violence, he will be expelled from the organisation and handed over to the law enforcers,’ Nazmul said.

Against the backdrop of Chhatra League’s terror, the Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, also the prime minister, quit as the Chhatra League’s organisational chief on April 4, 2009.

Later AL general secretary, Syed Ashraful Islam, came up with the revelation that Islami Chhatra Shibir activists had infiltrated into the BCL with a plot for acts of sabotage.

BCL rowdies on the loose again

 

[idune]

BAU closed after boy killed in BCL infighting

Authorities closed the Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh on Saturday for an indefinite period after a 12-year-old boy was killed in crossfire during Chhatra League factional clashes, which prompted villagers to set fire to three halls and attack two more halls of the university.

The clashes between two factions of the university unit Chhatra League loyal to the unit’s president Shamsuddin Al Azad and the general secretary Rafiquzzaman Iman over establishing supremacy broke out in the Jabbar crossing on the campus about 1:00pmon Saturday. The factions had clashed with breaks between them over the issue since Thursday.Villagers set fire three of the five halls and vandalised others as the report of the boy, Rabbi, being killed in the crossfire during the infighting spread. At least 30 rooms of the halls were attacked, witnesses said.

A tin-shed portion of the Ishakha Hall building was burnt down, students said.The central committee of the Chhatra League later in the evening dissolved the university unit committee of the organisation, the Chhatra League’s general secretary Siddiqui Nazmul Alam said.After the authorities had closed the university, they asked male students to vacate the halls by 6:00pm on Saturday and female students by 8:00am on Sunday.

Witnesses said that the Chhatra League factions fired guns during the clash that continued for about an hour. They also used sharp weapons.As the clashes began, Rabbi, a madrassah student of Baira near the campus, went to the campus to bring back his grandmother who were tending her cattle in the place.

Rabbi got shot in the forehead during the gunfight. He was sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where he died about 3:45pm, Professor Shah Alam of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital said.The Kotwali police officer-in-charge, Fazlul Karim, told New Age that a minor boy was killed in the clash on the campus. No case was filed in connection with the killing till 7:30pm.
At least 25 Chhatra League activists were injured in the clash. Three of them were injured with bullets.

As the news of Rabbi’s death spread, about 500 villagers attacked five halls of the university — Ishakha Hall, Shaheed Jamal Hossain Hall, Fazlul Haque Hall, Hossein Shahid Suhrawardy Hall and Shahjalal Hall, the proctor Sazzad Hossain said.General students said that the villagers had set fire to three halls and vandalised at least 30 hall rooms. A tin-shed portion of the Ishakha Hall was burnt. Fire fighters later controlled the fire.

Local people also rallied on the campus in protest at the boy being killed during the gunfight.The university unit Chhatra League’s president and general secretary blamed each other for the clashes.A large number of police and Rapid Action Battalion personnel have been deployed on the campus to fend off further troubles, the police officer-in-charge said.

In view of the campus situation, the authorities sat at an emergency meeting of dean’s council and closed the university for an indefinite period, the registrar Najibur Rahman told New Age. The Chhatra League president Badiuzzaman Sohag and the general secretary Siqqiqui Nazmul Alam in a press statement in Dhaka said that they had dissolved the organisation’s unit at the university.They also expelled the unit’s president Shamsuddin Al Azad and general Secretary Rafiquzzaman Iman from the organisation after the incident.

Chhatra League activists are frequently engaged in clashes and attacking opponents on the campus. Chhatra League activists attacked Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal in which at least 15 were injured on November 10, 2012.

At least 50 students were injured on the campus when Chhatra League attacked activists of the Progressive Students Alliance, a combine of leftist student organisations, on October 9, 2012.

Left-leaning students were holding protests at an increase in admission fee to Tk 6,214 from Tk 1,825 for the 2012–13 session.
At least 20 teachers of the Bangladesh Agricultural University were injured when Chhatra League activists attacked them on August 8, 2011. The then proctor, Abu Hadi Noor Ali, came under attack after he had handed over to the police two students held on suspicion of being involved in mugging in the botanical garden of the university.

Chhatra League activists have a chaos in educational institutions again putting students’ academic life in jeopardy. The atrocities left at least 50 injured at the Islamic University when Chhatra League activists fired into Chhatra Dal activists ‘snatching a police weapon’ on Friday.

At least 50 teachers of the Islamic University in Kushtia, six teachers and some students of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, and three teachers and scores of students of the Tejgaon Polytechnic Institute were injured in a series of attacks by BCL activists, in the first half of January.

BAU closed after boy killed in BCL infighting

 

[idune]

More BCL infighting, and more death and destruction

YET again, leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, engaged in internecine conflict over the control of the Bangladesh Agricultural University campus in Mymensingh on Saturday. According to a New Age report on Sunday, the rival groups led by the unit president and general secretary of the organisation pounced on each other at about 1:00pm with firearms and sharp weapons leaving a 12-year boy dead and at least 25 BCL activists injured.

A local madrassah student, the deceased, reportedly went to the campus to bring back his grandmother tending cattle there and was caught in crossfire. Meanwhile, angry at the killing, hundreds of people from the surrounding villages rallied on the campus and subsequently set fire to three student dormitories and vandalised two others, prompting the university authorities to close the institution for an indefinite period. Overall, other than causing loss of life and limb alongside damage to public property, the clashes eventually cast uncertainty over the academic life of several thousand students although they had nothing to do with the factional feud.

What is more unfortunate is that all this occurred when there was ample time and scope for the university authorities to take steps, including deployment of additional law enforcement personnel on the campus, to prevent at least the clashes that took place on Saturday. Reportedly, the two groups had been engaged in clashes at regular intervals since Thursday. Undoubtedly, such inability, if not unwillingness, on the part of the top brass of the university to take appropriate and timely actions against the Chhatra League troublemakers is attributable to the politicisation of the administration of the university on partisan line — a malpractice regrettably rampant in almost all sectors.

It is important to note that the Chhatra League people unleashed repeated attacks on, especially, leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal in Agricultural University like all other institutions that provide higher education across the country to drive the latter out of campus soon after the incumbents assumed office.

Needless to say, those attacks intended to establish absolute BCL control over the campus soon got followed by repeated infighting within the Chhatra League, essentially over the booty gained through extortion, admission trade, rent seeking, tender manipulation, etc in and outside campus — some of the criminal acts perpetrated by the ruling party men in a pervasive manner over the last four years or so.

Already, dozens of people, including BCL activists, have lost their lives and limbs in those clashes. It is also important to recall that apparently in the face of huge public criticism against such atrocities by the Chhatra League men in particular, the high-ups in the government and the ruling party, including the prime minister, pledged on several occasions that they would not spare anyone involved in any wrongdoing, of course, only to forget later.

Either way, the government will be well advised to immediately make those pledges a reality and take decisive and demonstrative actions — organisational and legal — against the troublemakers in the Chhatra League.

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