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Crisis in JCD
In a decisive move Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia dissolved the central committee of her powerful student wing the Jattyatabadi Chatra Dal UCD). Wt welcome this move which became necessary when factionalism within JCD resulted in the killing of two young activists in the early hours of last Saturday The killing was a severe blow to the prestige of the Prime Minister Only a few weeks back she personally supervised the reconciliation between these very groups and instructed them to work jointly. The limited impact of her mediation efforts made it tragically clear that the root of the conflict went deeper than the BNP chief has imagined. The sure sign of JCD factionalism coming out in the open occurred on August 30 when a gun battle caused the death of a bystander and injured many others. The brutalities of Saturday morning caught the BNP highuDS by surprise and nobody seems to know exactly what can be done to extricate the party and its student front from the • present mess
To start with Prime Minister Khaleda Zia must take the sternest of measures against the killers of Mamun and Mahmud. The dissolution of the JCD central committee is a good first step but not a sufficient one. She. with the help of her intelligence service and advisers, must expel all armed cadres from her party. Following this she must give a free hand to the police to go to the bottom of the affair. The police should be given clear instructions and complete power to arrest and interrogate anybody — regardless of their political connections — and get to the truth. How severely the Prime Minister handles the culprits from her own party will determine, to a large extent, how effective her call will be to the others to help her weed out terrorism from the campus. *
Tnose who are in the know of the nature of student politics say that the root of the problem lies in the politics of "Hall capture" — meaning allowing this or that group to take physical possession of student halls. Student parties fight regular gun battles to control or take possession of these dorms, which then are used to house the supporters of the group that captures them. BNP hlghups should have known that both the Ullas group and Sohrab group, who control five of the residential halls, did so with the help of illegal arms. Yet they did nothing to force them to surrender arm to the police. It is in the policy of "looking the other way as long as the guns are in the hands of our boys" that has led to the present deplorable state of affairs.
Factional fights are not unusual In student politics. But waging It with modern automatic weapons is. The development should trigger new thinking among the political leaders. Both the BNP and the AL and other parties that have powerful students front — like the Jamaat and the JSD (Inu group) — should now put their heads together and rethink about students being used in politics. While it is not realistic to expect that a politically conscious group such as our student community can be made to stay away from politics altogether. But definitely some measures can be taken to ensure a more constructive role for them. But that is for the future. As for the immediate. what needs to be done is to take serious and effective measures to weed out all fire arms from the student bodies. This the government, must do in earnest, and in a total non-partisan manner. Learning from experience the government must act in a way which will leave no doubt in the public mind that It will tredt its own members as harshly for breaking the law as it would anybody else. Such an approach will give the government the type of political cooperation and public support that it needs to solve the problem of campus violence.