Our students are dying in throngs. They are either killing each other or being killed by law enforcement agencies. Recent spate of killings in different educational institutes in neither a new thing nor new dimension in violent bloody history of student politics in Bangladesh. I have seen worse in early 90s and late 80s.
These students who are dying now are unfortunate. They are unfortunate because of many factors, one being their life being terminated prematurely and because are even not dying for any great reason and definitely they are being forgotten by all. Well, except the parents and the family. They are more unfortunate because our society our nation and our state have shown, again and again that, these lives are not valued. It is so easy to kill a student, the way you want. Hack him to death, slaughter him, shot him to death or chop him to death. Nothing will happen to the killer. Anybody in Bangladesh can go by killing a student. There will be no justice to these killings. In history of Bangladesh, not a single student violence death was tried and justice was served to the killers.
A dead student is a big business and political capital for those dealing with student politics in Bangladesh. Immediately after a student murder, it becomes so easy to occupy an institute or a dorm. The opposition students are all hiding out of campus with murder case lodged against them. So the campus comes under one party rule. Tenders become piece of cake, with competition vanishing and monopoly in the business, –extortion rates go up.
Student Politics: Lets stop this nuisance
You know things are bad …
when Shomokal, an awami aligned newspaper, says, Chatro League, AL’s student front, is out of control.
Also read:
জননেত্রী, আল্লার ওয়াস্তে ছাত্রলীগ সামলান
And Jyoti’s piece from beginning of January:
