Leaders of Chittagong University Teachers’ Association (CUTA) have urged the government to bring the culprits under trial who made bomb attack on CU teachers’ buses.
They came up with the demand in a human chain programme formed on the premises of Chittagong Press Club on Tuesday.
The CUTA leaders said it was a matter of regret that the education minister Nurul Islam Nahid has yet to make any comment or express sorrow over the bomb attack on CU teachers’ buses.
“Why the education minister is not expressing sorrow or making any comment over the bomb attack on teachers? Are we nothing?”, CUTA President Professor Benu Kumar Dey raised question at the programme.
Some 80 teachers of CU were present at the human chain programme.
They protested the bomb attack on teachers’ buses.
Different organisations of Chittagong expressed solidarity with CUTA and demanded exemplary punishment of the attackers.
CUTA will enforce another one hour work abstention programme from Wednesday to September 30 and stage a sit-in programme before the syndicate meeting of CU on October 1 to realise its demand, said Prof Dey.
Speakers at the human chain said anti-liberation forces carried out bomb attack on the teachers to annihilate liberation spirit creating intellectual vacuum in the country like December 14, 1971.
They said student’s wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, Chhatra Shibir, established terror on the campus in 1980 to grab the holy educational institute and they are still hatching conspiracy to destroy the future of the country through attacking on the teachers.
The speakers urged the government to ensure exemplary punishment for the attackers and sought expulsion of the students from the university who was involved with the attack.
Professor Sukanto Bhattyachargya of English department, Prof Dr Moinul Islam Miazi of Physics department, Prof Dr Jino Bodhi Bhikkhu of Pali department, Prof Dr Hasan Mohammed of Political Science department, Prof Dr Sankar Lal Shaha, dean of Engineering Faculty, Prof Sikander, dean of Arts Faculty, were present, among others, at the human chain.
Bangladesh College Teachers’ Association Chittagong Chapter’s General Secretary Sayed Abu Taher, Peshajibi Sommannay Parishad General Secretary Riaz Haider, Faruk Taher, SM Abdus Samad of Ahle Sunna Wal Jamaat, human right worker Jesmin Akter Paru expressed solidarity with CUTA protest programme.
At least 14 persons including 10 teachers were injured in a crude bomb attack on two teachers’ buses allegedly carried out by Shibir men during enforcing an indefinite strike at Chararkul area of Fateyabad area under Hathazari upazila on September 10.
Later, police arrested 11 Shibir men in different drives in connection with bomb attack on teachers’ bus.
