RU Correspondent :The Teachers and the students of Rajshahi University yesterday (Sunday), ignoring the vacation, continued their demonstration programmes on the campus for the sixteenth consecutive day demanding the trial of the killers of Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee. Although a 20 days long summer vacation began last Saturday, the teachers and the students of the university vowed to continue their protest programme. They also declared that they would continue their demonstrations until the ‘perpetrators’ are brought to light and handed punishment. Over 200 hundred teachers of the university under the banner of “RU Teachers’ Association” staged a human chain in front of the university senate building around 10:00 am, demanding immediate arrest and exemplary punishment to the killers. Addressing the human chain, RUTA former President Prof Ananda Kumar Saha said there was no sign of visible progress into the case though sixteen days have already elapsed. “When we want to know about the progress about the investigation into Professor Siddiquee killing, the law enforcer agencies reply that they cannot disclose anything now for the sake of investigation.” he said. RUTA General Secretary Professor Shah Azam said that they would form a human chain in front of the senate building everyday till May 12, the day Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal is supposed to visit RU campus.Later, the teachers and the students of RU English department brought out a silent procession at 10:30am that paraded the main streets of the campus. They also joined a short rally at Mukul Mancha, a makeshift platform set up after the nickname of the slain professor. Addressing the rally, Professor AFM Masood Ahter, chairman of the department said, they would also continue their programme until the justice to their fellow was ensured. It is notable that, Prof Siddiquee, a teacher of RU English department was brutally murdered in Rajshahi’s Shalbagan area on April 23 by some unidentified miscreants.Following the murder, protests from teachers and students of the university sparked on campus.
