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Impasse at Chittagong
While the nation'S political establishment, including the Jatiya Sangsad. and the media have been busy pouring moral outrage at the recent murderous events on the Dhaka University campus. something equally horrendous and unacceptable has been taking place at Chittagong University. In recent days, gangs of youths, believed to be cadres of the Islaml Chattra Shibtr. student front of the Jamaat-i-Islami. twice attacked and ransacked the residence of the Vice Chancellor, with the police playing out a bafflingly indifferent and ineffectual role.
The recent events are the latest in a long aeries of terrorist activities perpetrated by the same student group at Chittagong which have effectively kept the university closed since Dec. 22 last year, when one student belonging to the All Party Students Unity or APSU was murdered. Activists of Chattra Shibtr. who demand the resignation or removal of the incumbent Vice Chancellor, have foiled every attempt to open the university or hold elections to the university's governing bodies, as part of their pressure tactics to force the VC out ’of office. In the process, armed clashes with rival student groups have flared up too easily, leading to Injuries and further deterioration of an already poor law and order situation. Chittagong University has not had anything resembling an academic atmosphere for the past 11 months.
Without going into the rights and wrongs of Shlblr's demand for the VC’s removal, we may still ask by what logic or mandate such destructive campaign is being conducted" by what is really a minority section of the student community. Furthermore, the leaders of the Jamaat-i-Islami. who never shy away from lecturing other political parties on the merits of democratic behaviour, continue to provide political backing to their student front, at a time when public opinion is firmly on the side of curbing use of muscle power by student groups of whatever political affiliation. As far as the public Is concerned, no issue can be more important to the students than education. Unfortunately, politics of destruction'conducted on the basis of fringe issues which are of no consequences to the general students, have now become the order of the day. and the past 11 months at Chittagong have amply demonstrated, what could happen to a boy or girl's education prospects once politics of muscle takes over from that of reason. It is doubtful If another example could be found anywhere else In the world where a major university remained out of action for a year due to flagranUy illegal actions of a handful of hoodlums posing as students.
Two months have already elapsed since Zamlruddln Sircar took over the ministry of education. yet. like his predecessor, he too has displayed an alarming tendepcy to allow events at Chittagong to drift. No attempt has been made in the past 11 months to bring the law and order situation under control and allow normal functions of the university to resume. The question of the moment is simple enough: will the concerned ministries shoulder their responsibilities in relation to events at Chittagong University? If so, then positive actions would be much more welcome than fine words at seminars or even in parliament. On the one hand, we cannot allow the future of thousands of ordinary students to be destroyed by the ambitions of a select group of student politicians, and on,the other, the state cannot allow a handful of hoodlums to make a mockery of the law.