The Dhaka University teachers on Friday observed black day demanding punishment of the perpetrators involved in campus violence in August 2007 during the military-backed caretaker government.
Wearing black-badges, the university teachers and staff held a discussion at Teacher-Student Centre auditorium. DU vice-chancellor AAMS Arfin Siddique, who presided over the discussion, demanded exemplary punishment of those involved in repression and arrest of the teachers and students at that time.
‘The recommendations of the parliamentary standing committee on education that had investigated the incident must be materalised not to take revenge but to build up a society based on justice,’ he said.
DU treasurer Kamal Uddin and Teachers’ Association president Farid Uddin Ahmed, among others, took part in the discussion.
A four-member parliamentary sub-committee to investigate the violence in academic campuses in Dhaka, Rajshahi and other major cities, blamed the then caretaker government of Fakhruddin Ahmed and the then chief of army staff Moeen U Ahmed, along with five military and police officers for the violence and recommended legal action against them.
-With New Age input
