After the bloody birth of Bangladesh, most of those butchers were arrested and some fled away from the country. However ...
by Swadesh Roy
(April 27, 2018, Dhaka, Sri Lanka Guardian) Dhaka University of Bangladesh is a historical University. Even though it is not a top ranking University in the world, it is the only University which was the center of the language movement and freedom movement for a nation. Thousands of students of this University had sacrificed their lives for freedom struggle of Bangladesh. Their holy blood was mingled with the soil of the campus of this historical University. Not only the students’ blood, the blood of the teachers was also mixed with dust and mud of this campus. So, this University is the icon of the country, even in the world; and it is not only the place of learning academic contents, it is the place for learning patriotism, it is the place of learning how to uphold the spirit of the nationality.
Given this context, every student of Dhaka University has a pride that they were the soldiers of the language movement, freedom movement, and restoring democratic movement. As the present students of this university think themselves as the vanguard of the freedom struggle’s spirit of Bangladesh, they always try to uphold the circumstances of the University in a way that the Islamic fundamentalists cannot enter into this campus because the Islamic fundamentalists were the collaborator of Pakistani army, and they fought against the freedom fighters of Bangladesh in 1971 when huge numbers of Dhaka University students were fighting for freedom. Besides that, the very night when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the nation of Bangladesh and the leader of the freedom struggle, declared the independence of Bangladesh, Pakistani Army along with their collaborators, the Islamic fundamentalist group, committed a genocide at Dhaka University. On that time, Jamat-E- Islam and their the then student organization Islamic Chatra Shangho (Islamic student organization) played the main role of killing the teachers of Dhaka University. Moreover, at the end of the freedom fight, when Pakistani army was going to surrender, the members of this student organization killed the intellectuals all over the country including the teachers of Dhaka University.
After the bloody birth of Bangladesh, most of those butchers were arrested and some fled away from the country. However, it is a matter of misfortune for Bangladesh that within three and a half years with the help of some military officers the fundamentalists succeeded to do a counterrevolution by assassinating Mujib and his entire family including most of the national leaders of the country. Although they killed Sheikh Mujib and succeeded to do a counterrevolution, the Jammat- E- Islami did not dare to start their student organization under their previous name as Islami Chatra Sangho. At first, they started their student organization in the name of Islami Chatra Sena, but now their name is Islami Chatra Shibir.
At the age of counterrevolution, Dhaka University passed much worst time, but the students of Dhaka University never forgot that they are the vanguard of the freedom’s spirit, even they never forgot the fact that the campus of Dhaka University is a holy place for the nation, for the teachers, and for the students of the University because the blood of martyr’s- students and teachers- is mingled with the soil of the campus. After the counterrevolution in Bangladesh, fundamentalists have become very much powerful, and they occupied many educational institutions, even they tried several times to enter in the Dhaka University, but the majority of the students resisted them and drove them away from this holy campus.
Since the progressive media was always with the progressive students, they played a vital role for driving the terrorist Chatra Shibir away from the holy campus of that University.
On a contrary, now a part of the media of Bangladesh is in dilemma about that terrorist Chatra Shibir, even they are supporting those terrorists. In Bangladesh, there is a reservation system in the government job for the successors of the freedom fighters. The successors of Pakistani collaborators, Islami Chatra Shibir, are against it from 1996, but in the second week of this month, they succeeded to bring a huge number of common students with them by using fake information and rumors through social media. However, the government has tackled that movement, and common students are now happy with the government and most of them now understand that they were fallen into a trap of Shibir. In this situation, by misguiding the common students, four Chtara Sibir leaders have entered into Dhaka University from the beginning of the movement. The progressive students and teachers could not understand first that they are Islamic terrorists, but in the meantime, they got their real identity that they are the members of terrorist Shibir though they could not drive them away from the holy campus. Because, if they went for driving them away on that time, the larger part of the media would portray the matter in a way that the government supporter’s students are attacking the boys who are in the anti-reservation movement. That would give a wrong message to the common people. So, the patriot students have no other way but to keep patience, and they are tolerating an unbearable pain as the inheritors of the killer of their elder brothers and respected teachers are now showing their bloody teeth in this historical University campus. Basically, every day those notorious terrorists are moving at the holy and historical campus of Dhaka University. It is not only a matter of shame for the freedom fighter’s spirit of Bangladesh, it is dangerous for the country. If terrorists are able to fix their roots in Dhaka University, it may be a cause of big debacle for Bangladesh.
Swadesh Roy, Executive Editor. The Daily Janakantha, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is a highest state award winning journalist and can be reached at swadeshroy@gmail.com
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