Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day observed
Bangladesh Chhatra Front, Chhatra Union and Kendrio Sangskritik Jote of Rjashahi University (RU) unit have recently observed the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day in the campus.
To mark the day, Bangladesh Chhatra Front and Chhatra Union organised a daylong photo exhibition separately focusing the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
More than two hundred photographs and cartoons on the devastation were displayed at those exhibitions.
They focused on the brutal atomic bombing by the US in the twin cities during the Second World War.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Kendrio Sangskrtitik Jote and Chhatra Front of the university unit also brought out an anti-war procession that paraded different streets of the campus.
They also held a rally in front of the central library and observed one minute’s silence in memory of the 140,000 killed by the US atomic attack in 1945.
They urged the world leaders to take effective steps against Israil for violation of international Laws.
Indigenous students demand constitutional recognition
Indigenous students of Rajshahi University (RU) at a human chain have demanded their constitutional recognition and ensuring their rights to their mother tongue, culture and land.
They also demanded formation of a separate land commission for them and introduction of primary education in their mother tongue.
They protested the rape and torture to an indigenous women’s leader at Gomostapur upazilla in Chapainawabganj district. Addressing at the human chain, they said that the country’s indigenous community played a vital role in different democratic movements, including the Language Movement and the liberation war.
‘We have also a great contribution on national economics but we are still now deprived of our rights’, they alleged.
They also alleged, while they raised their voice about their constitutional recognition, the government merely give them only assurance adding the government did not take any effective steps.
They demanded exemplary punishment of culprits who tortured and raped of that indigenous women’s leader.
Prof Sujit Sarker, a teacher of RU Bengali department, central president of Adivasi Chhatra Parisad Bivutivushan Mahatma, general secretary Mithun Kumar Oraw, RU unit president Hemonta Chndra Mahato and general secretary Nakul Pahan addressed the human chain.
