Editorial Desk :
Agitating Buet students on Thursday said they would not return to classes until the authorities met their three-point demand including expulsion of the charge-sheeted accused in Abrar Fahad murder case. The protesters made the announcement at a press conference in front of the Buet Shaheed Minar. The other two demands are: punishing the students involved in previous incidents of ragging at Buet halls, and formulating specific rules for prohibiting ragging and organisation-based politics. They demanded the rules and the penalties for violations be added to the university ordinance.
Although the authorities assured the students of probing the earlier incidents of ragging and taking actions, no tangible development was seen since the meeting,
Agitating Buet students on Thursday said they would not return to classes until the authorities met their three-point demand including expulsion of the charge-sheeted accused in Abrar Fahad murder case. The protesters made the announcement at a press conference in front of the Buet Shaheed Minar. The other two demands are: punishing the students involved in previous incidents of ragging at Buet halls, and formulating specific rules for prohibiting ragging and organisation-based politics. They demanded the rules and the penalties for violations be added to the university ordinance.
Although the authorities assured the students of probing the earlier incidents of ragging and taking actions, no tangible development was seen since the meeting,
the press conference added. The protesters alleged that the university authorities lack the goodwill and did not take enough measures despite being given enough time to restore congenial atmosphere for education.
Despite the charge-sheets being framed against 25 of the Buet students, the students have yet to be expelled formally from the university. We understand the emotional position of the protesters that to be charge-sheeted in a murder case of one of them should be enough to find them unfit to join the highly reputed university of talented students. The accused students are no immediate threat to the students. For the student leaders it will be unreasonable to wait for the result of the trial when it will be proved which ones are guilty. Those who will be guilty they will be finished for education — expelled or not expelled.
Our point is different. Because in the face of clear evidence of tolerating by the university authorities, the criminal activities of the students are now charge-sheeted and who were directly connected with the government scheme. The Vice-Chancellor and others of the university authority cannot deny their own culpability in the crime and should have resigned being unfit for lacking moral courage and institutional responsibility of protecting the students.
For such grave dereliction of duty as the Vice-Chancellor, we expected him to hive the dignity and love for education to resign. The government cannot also evade responsibility for the criminal activities committed by its student activists under its own encouragement. The merciless killing after torture taking long time could not be imaginable without cooperation extended by the government.
It cannot be easily accepted that only the lives of the 25 bright students should be ruined when the others equally if not more were responsible for knowingly using the students for the dangerous criminal activities at Buet go unpunished.
We strongly feel that the others who are responsible as abettors must not remain outside the criminal justice process if the university education is to be safe for the students. There should be supplementary charge-sheet.
Despite the charge-sheets being framed against 25 of the Buet students, the students have yet to be expelled formally from the university. We understand the emotional position of the protesters that to be charge-sheeted in a murder case of one of them should be enough to find them unfit to join the highly reputed university of talented students. The accused students are no immediate threat to the students. For the student leaders it will be unreasonable to wait for the result of the trial when it will be proved which ones are guilty. Those who will be guilty they will be finished for education — expelled or not expelled.
Our point is different. Because in the face of clear evidence of tolerating by the university authorities, the criminal activities of the students are now charge-sheeted and who were directly connected with the government scheme. The Vice-Chancellor and others of the university authority cannot deny their own culpability in the crime and should have resigned being unfit for lacking moral courage and institutional responsibility of protecting the students.
For such grave dereliction of duty as the Vice-Chancellor, we expected him to hive the dignity and love for education to resign. The government cannot also evade responsibility for the criminal activities committed by its student activists under its own encouragement. The merciless killing after torture taking long time could not be imaginable without cooperation extended by the government.
It cannot be easily accepted that only the lives of the 25 bright students should be ruined when the others equally if not more were responsible for knowingly using the students for the dangerous criminal activities at Buet go unpunished.
We strongly feel that the others who are responsible as abettors must not remain outside the criminal justice process if the university education is to be safe for the students. There should be supplementary charge-sheet.
