Desk Report,
Chhatra League attacks Dhaka University, students beaten
Protesting the insulting remarks of the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the agitating students protested under the banner of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in front of the Raju Statue of Dhaka University at 12 noon on July 15. On the other hand, at a press conference at the Awami League (now banned) office in Dhanmondi in the capital at 2 pm, party General Secretary Obaidul Quader said, “The Chhatra League (now a banned organization) is ready to respond to the statements made by some anti-quota leaders.”
Chhatra League attacks Dhaka University, students beaten
Around 2:30 pm that day, a section of the agitating students marched from the Raju Statue towards Halpara. The other section remained at TSC. The agitators went around the two halls and went to Vijay Eka Hall, but after 3 pm, the Chhatra League attacked them there. A chase ensued. At one stage, Chhatra League leaders and activists beat the student girls with sticks in the VC Chattar area. A photo of the beating of the two students with sticks went viral, which was taken by a Prothom Alo photojournalist.
That afternoon, Dr. The Chhatra League-Jube League and the police also attacked the protesting students in the Muhammad Shahidullah Hall and Dhaka Medical College Hospital areas. Later, around 9:45 pm, when the students wanted to gather at the Central Shaheed Minar from in front of Shahidullah Hall to announce their next program, a large number of police stopped them in the Doel Chattar area. Later, the coordinator of the anti-discrimination student movement, Nahid Islam (now the convener of the Jatiya Nagorik Party), announced the program on the sidewalk of the road adjacent to Curzon Hall next to Doel Chattar.
Nahid had said that protest marches and rallies would be held on all campuses across the country at 3 pm on July 16 demanding the withdrawal of Sheikh Hasina’s statement and rational reform of the quota system. He had called for resistance in all the halls so that the attackers on the students could not enter the residential halls of Dhaka University.
