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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

[mukto-mona] Hope Shima Islam will get justice

 
 
Hope Shima Islam will get justice and the perpetrators of this horrendous crime on her will be punished
 
I am well aware of the activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, student front of the Awami League, beat up the university girl student. It was behaviour that was as reprehensible as it was unwarranted, for it smacks of the authoritarian tendencies among certain classes of student leaders and cadres which have regularly undermined efforts to establish a proper democratic order. That these activists could pounce on these young female student, themselves students of the university, without anyone reining them in is unbelievable. I have to register my protest at the way that female student has been subjected to humiliation and assault by the student cadres of Bangladesh Chhatra League. Such behaviour on the part of a section of unruly students goes against the glorious traditions of Dhaka University, which has earned a coveted place in the history of Bangladesh. It is action which militates against the heritage we associate with DU.

Assaults on female students have been a regular occurrence in Bangladesh for the last many years. There have been the many instances when media and civil society watchdogs have noted with deep dissatisfaction the impunity with which female students have been pounced on.

A free exercise of women in student and national politics is a prerequisite to the proper working of a democracy. If it is democratic values we seek to uphold, let that task begin through recognising and upholding their freedom without borders. Meanwhile, I share the sentiments of those who have demanded that the elements responsible for the assault on the young female student at Dhaka University be identified and penalised for their manifestly culpable act.
 
Politics and assault do not go hand in hand!
 
With warmest regards,
 
Gopal Sengupta
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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