Nabil Iqbal and Yeshim Iqbal, the son and daughter of noted writer-educationist Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and Prof Yasmeen Haque, have strongly condemned the assault on a group of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) teachers.
Nabil, Yeshim posted a statement on their Facebook accounts on Sunday night.
The statement reads: "We, the children of Dr Yasmeen Haque, are writing this statement to express our outrage at the events that were committed against the faculty of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology on August 30th."
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Noting that they grew up on the SUST campus, Nabil, Yeshim wrote: “… our whole lives we have seen firsthand the love and devotion that the faculty has given to the students, far beyond the standard obligations of providing an education.”
"We are thus shocked and appalled that certain students would be persuaded to return this love and devotion with the physical assault of an assembly of the faculty.”
"We find it impossible to reconcile our memories of the campus that we grew up on with the idea that university students would attack the professors -- including our mother -- who teach them."
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On Sunday morning, activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League assaulted a group of SUST teachers who were protesting the vice-chancellor’s corruption and irregularities.
After the attack, Prof Zafar Iqbal, a secular figure and a popular science-fiction writer, sat in the rain in front of the VC office for several hours in protest. His wife Prof Yasmeen Haque was among the teachers who the Chhatra League members assaulted.
Hundreds of people came down hard on the ruling party’s student body as soon as the news and photographs of the attack and Prof Zafar Iqbal’s protest came up in social media.
