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Police obstructs ethnic minority groups march to Secretariat, several hurt

Published : Friday, 17 January, 2025 at 12:00 AM  Count : 17
Staff Correspondent
Police have dispersed protesters, composed of several ethnic minority groups in Bangladesh, when they tried to march towards the Home Ministry demanding the arrest of those involved in Wednesday's attack on ethnic minority students. Several students and a policeman have been injured in the incident.

The protesters under the banner of Aggrieved Student-Public gathered at Raju Sculpture of Dhaka University on Thursday.  

During the rally, the protesters carried banners condemning the attack carried out by a group named Students for Sovereignty, and demanding justice for the ethnic minority students.

Police obstructed them near Shikkha Bhaban at around 12:30pm when the protest rally was advancing towards the Secretariat, said witnesses.

The law enforcers used water cannons, teargas shells, sound grenades and charged batons to disperse the protesters when they tried to break a police barricade.

"Members of a Bengali  organisation named Students for Sovereignty attacked us yesterday, injuring us cruelly," said one of the students. "Our demonstration today is to protest that incident. The police have attacked our peaceful protest and injured many of us."

"The students were marching towards the Secretariat and the police dispersed them," said Md Rezaul Hossain, chief of Shahbagh Police Station. "The students have now left."

Several ethnic minority organisations under the banner of Agitated Adivasi Students marched from the Raju Memorial Sculpture at Dhaka University to protest the attack by the Students for Sovereignty on Wednesday.

The two sides confronted each other in front of the NCTB Building on Wednesday. Though police tried to separate the two sides, witnesses say the Adivasi student group was attacked by protesters from the other side. Several people were reported injured.

Alik Mro, an organiser for the Agitated Adivasi Students, told a local news agency, "Students under the banner Students for Sovereignty attacked us. Eleven people were injured."



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