The attackers who created terror to obstruct the protesters of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement carrying arms and weapons openly from July to August 5, are still at large.
Many photos of Awami League activists and its cadres holding arms were spread on social media during the movement.
Several pictures also showed the terrorists who were involved in this criminal activity.
Although a couple of cases were filed after August 5, the individuals carrying firearms have not yet been apprehended.
The residents of Barisal demanded exemplary punishment by bringing them under the law.
However, Barisal district Police Superintendent Mohammad Belayet Hossain said that there is no opportunity to give any concession in this regard.
Barisal Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam told reporters that the police are active against those armed terrorists.
Police also appealed to the citizens to cooperate with the law enforcers by providing information about the presence of such persons, so that they can be brought under the law and ensure exemplary punishment.
Students of public and private educational institutions were active in the main roads of Barisal since the beginning of the anti-discrimination student movement as part of the central program.
As a result, even before mid-July, the demand for quota reforms in the divisional towns began to grow stronger.
Later, due to the strong resistance of the agitating students, the Chhatra League, which was newly dubbed as a terrorist group, could no longer hold its position on the campus.
According to several students who led the movement, alleged on the night of July 17, under the leadership of city Awami League General Secretary Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah, the leaders and activists of Awami League, Jubo League, Sramik League and Chhatra League held a motorcycle procession in the city.
Apart from driving the agitators from the streets, they started searching many residences including houses and messes on July 18 and 19.
On the afternoon of July 19, the Metropolitan Awami League attacked the program of the Metropolitan BNP in Chaumatha area of the city.
But the students continued their agitation in the midst of these fears until August 5.
Journalists in the field were harassed and insulted even while taking pictures of the armed men.
Mostafa Harun, a resident of Chaumatha area of Barisal city, said: “Since July 1, I have seen a group of people walking in the city with different sizes of machetes, axes, sticks and shotguns.”
Followers of Awami League leaders Sadiq Abdullah and his uncle Khokon Serniabat practiced weapons in front of the police after the attack on BNP and student movement activists in Chaumatha area of the city on July 19.
Again on August 4, in the Battala area, their followers also conducted weapons drills in the presence of Mahmudul Haque Khan Mamun, one of the close associates of former MP Zahid Farooq Shamim.
In this context, writer and senior journalist Sushanta Gosh said that if those who conducted weapon drills or used weapons to intimidate protesters, including students, are not held accountable, it will be a sign of complacency.
As a result, Sushanta warned that not only this will lead to social degradation in the future, but city dwellers in Barisal may also witness similar scenes again, potentially creating a chaotic situation.