Teachers of Dhaka University formed a human chain on the foot of the Aparajeyea Bangla yesterday, protesting the ongoing Israeli offensive on Gaza civilians.
The DU teachers demanded they immediately stop the killing of innocent civillians in Gaza and urged the international community’s aid for permanent settlement of the issue.
Speaking at the protest rally, President of Dhaka University Teachers Association Dr Farid Uddin said, “Not only the western world but also Muslim world is responsible for the Israeli attack on Gaza as both worlds are not playing their due role in stopping this genocide.”
He alleged that the western world was not taking proper initiatives to resolve the Gaza crisis. They say a lot about humanity when anti-humanity terrorist is given death penalty in Bangladesh. He urged the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to build up a strong protest against the Israeli brutality.
DU former Pro-Vice Chancellor AFM Yousuf Haider said the peace-loving people of the world and international Human Rights Organisation should compel Israel to give compensation to the war victims in the Gaza.
Jahangirnagor University (JU) former vice-chancellor professor Dr Anwar Hossen said the western world was silent when the Paksitani occupation had killed innocent Bengali people in 1971 and now they were silent when Israel is conducting dreadful offensive in Gaza.
Among others, DU professor Akhter Hossen Khan, DU treasurer Professor Dr Kamal Uddin, Professor Fakhrul Alam, Professor Dr Golam Rabbani, Professor Dr AJM Shafiul Alam Bhuyan, Professor Asim Kumar Sarker and the Palestine Ambassador to Dhaka Saher Muhammad were present at the human chain.
