Families of deceased in movement place 11 demands, want jobs

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Dhaka, Aug 6 - Families of the deceased in the movement of Anti-Discrimination Students Movement (ADSM) have placed 11-point demands, including rehabilitation by providing jobs.

In a statement, signed by Harunur Rashid, convener of a proposed “Committee on Families of Injured and Killed in Anti-Discrimination Student Movement”, said an initiative has been taken to collect accurate data on the families of the students, children, youth, elderly, men and women who were injured and killed in the anti-discrimination movement.

The demands of the committee include providing Tk 2,000-3,000 per month as grant for all students from pre-primary to Masters based on age under a “Food-Card” programme, providing unemployment allowance of Tk 3,000 to job aspirants, formation of an inquiry committee consisting of armed forces and students for the treatment of the injured in the anti-discrimination student movement and the speedy rehabilitation of the affected families.

Direct government scholarship to students in private universities, changing the name of the educational institution established after various individuals of the Sheikh Hasina family and naming those after the martyrs Pilkhana Shaheed army officer, and also in memory of the martyrs killed in various movements and anti-discrimination student movement are in the demands.

Inclusion of the neutral ex-army and police force members of the peacekeeping mission in the United Nations on an urgent basis to improve the ongoing law and order situation and also inclusion of BNCC and Bangladesh Scouts as their partners are demanded by the committee.

Taking quick initiative to recover all the illegal weapons used in the movement in the past days, consideration of redeployment of all categories of honest and efficient officers-employees who were deprived of promotion/compulsory retirement due to oppression and discrimination during the previous government are among the demands.

Speedy recovery of money of big defaulters and money smuggled abroad and speedy trial of big defaulters and money smugglers in military courts, and inclusion of at least 1 person in the interim government from the active student families of the anti-quota movement, the injured families and the deceased families.

The committee offered its deepest condolences to the bereaved families of those killed and injured in the said movement and congratulated the army officers and soldiers at all levels of the armed forces, including the Chief of the Bangladesh Army. - UNB