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Call for fresh probe into DU violence 2007

DU Correspondent
Teachers and students of Dhaka University (DU) yesterday observed University Black Day on the campus with demands for a fresh investigation into the August 20-.V campus unrest in 2007.
In protest at the atrocities committed on teachers and students by law enforcement agencies, DU teachers and students attended classes sporting black badges.
They also held several meetings and a procession. Classes remained suspended for two hours from 11:00 am to 1:00pm for these programmes.
Teachers and students from the meetings urged the government to take necessary steps to identify the "main
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FROM PAGE 16 culprits" behind the torture of DU teachers and students during and after the unrest on August 20. 2007 on the university campus.
Rejecting the investigation report on the unrest submitted by a one-member judicial probe commission, DU teachers, students and other discussants at a meeting in the Teacher-Student Centre auditorium of DU called for a fresh probe into the incident.
DU Vice Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique said. "Teachers and students were tortured as they protested atrocities carried out on them. This Black Day should be observed to avoid recurrence of such incidents."
He called on the government to withdraw all cases filed against students and teachers with an executive order.
Educationalist Prof Serajul Islam Chowdhury said the interference of state and reactionary forces on university is undesirable.
He expressed hope that the "real culprits" behind the incident would be identified.
Other teachers also expressed hope that such an incident would not be repeated again.
Speaking at a rally in front of the arts building, lawmaker and Chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on education ministry Rashed Khan Menon said the committee has recommended that the home ministry withdraw cases pending against teachers and students through an executive order.
He promised that all information regarding the actual culprits behind the atrocities would be made public.
Dhaka University Teachers' Association (DUTA) also held a meeting at its own office in the afternoon.
Thousands of DU students staged protests after army personnel beat up a student during a football match on the DU central playground in August 2007. The then caretaker government latef enforced curfews in all divisional cities to put a halt to the three-day student unrest that also spread to other cities.
Four teachers and eight students were arrested and kept behind bars for around five months while thousands others were allegedly tortured on the campus and also in other places across the country.
The arrested teachers and students were released in the wake of a silent and peaceful student movements in January 2008.