Professionals want int’l probe of mass killing of July

Speakers at a meeting organised to express solidarity with the student-movement at the Dhaka Reporters Unity on Thursday said that the government was trying to divert the uprising by giving misleading narration of mass killing of protesters.

The meeting organized under the banner of Protesting Citizens’ Community saw the speakers saying that the police was now trying to escape the responsibility for more than 200 killings recorded by the mass media. Cases filed at different police stations state ‘miscreants’ were responsible for the killings.

They also said that only an international probe would unearth the perpetrators of the killings and fix responsibilities. The scope of the enquity commission constituted by the government was limited in scope and would not lead to concrete findings because it would be biased towards the government.    

Presided over by Prof. Anwarullah Chowdhury, former Vice-Chancellor of Dhaka University, the meeting was addressed by professionals including Prof. Dilara Chowdhury, Prof. Tasmeri Islam, Prof. Lutfur Rahman, Leader of white Panel, Dhaka, University, Ruhul Amin Gazi, president BFUJ, Prof. Abdul Latif Masum, Motahar Hossain, former secretary to the government, Mostafa Kamal Majumder, editor, Greenwatch Dhaka,  Journalist leaders, MA Aziz, Abdul Hye Sikdar, Shahidul Islam and Khorshed Alam among others.

The speakers demanded resignation of the government by accepting the demands of the anti-discrimination students’movement which, they said, now turned into a mass movement to restore democracy and people’s rights and protect the country from colonial exploitation.

In his presidential address Prof. Anwarullah Chowdhury said that the movement of students and the people would soon be crowned with victory because all sections of the people have expressed solidarity with it. 

Prof. Dilara Chowdhiry cautioned against ‘agent provocateurs’who might try to mislead the movement by joining the same. She said that the student-killing in the current movement is the second highest in the world after the Tienanman Square killings in the late 1980’s. 

Prof. Tasmeri Hossain said that the people were behind the movement and were determoined to lead it to a successful conclusion. Killing of hundreds of students in just three days has broken all records and the perpetrators must go, she said.  

- GreenWatch News Desk