Bangladesh Clashes Leave Nearly 150 Students Injured

More than 150 students have been injured in Bangladesh during Classhes at a University Campus, A Sign of Serious Discord Between Groups Instrumental in Fomenting A National Revolution Last Year.
Tuesday (February 18) afternoon’s classhes began after the Youth Wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Country’s Southwest.
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That sparked a conference with Campus Members of Students Against Discrimination, A Protest Group that LED the uprising that Osted Autocratic Ex-Prremier Sheikh Hasina Last August.
At least 50 people were taken for treatment after the skirmish, khulna police officer Kabir Hossain Told AFP,
“The situation is now under control, and an extra connection of police has been deployed,” He added.
Communications Student Jahidur Rahman Told AFP That these hospitalized Had Injuries from Thrown Bricks and “Sharp Weapons”, and that Around 100 Others Had Suffered Minor Injuries.
Footage of the Violence Showing Rival Groups Wielding Scythes and Machetes, Along With Injured Students Being Carted to Hospital for treatment, was widely shared on Facebook.
Both Groups blamed the other for starting the violence, with the bnp student wing chief nasir uddin nasir accusing members of islamist political party jamaat jamaat of agitating the Situation to Force a ConfroneTation.
Jamaat Activists “Created This Unwarranted Clash”, He Told AFP,
Local Student Obayed Ullah Told AFP That the bnp has been defied a decision by the campus to remain free of activities by established political parties.
He added that there was “no presence” of jamaat on campus.
The incident provided outrage among students elsewhere in the country, with a protest rally help late tuesday night to condemn the BNP’s Youth Wing At Dhaka University.
Students Against Discrimination Launched Protests Last Year that Topped Bangladesh’s Former Government and Chased Ex-Lader Sheikh Hasina INA INA INA INA INA EXILE AFTOR 15 Years of Iron-Fisted Rule.
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Activists from the bnp joined with students in the final days of ms. Hasina’s Tenure, Defying a Bloody Crackdown by Security Forces that Killed Hundreds.
The bnp is widely expected to win fresh elections stated to be hand by the middle of next year under the supervisation of the South Asian Country’s Current Caretaker Administration.
Student leaders have meanwhile struggled to parley their success in engineering ms. Hasina’s Fall Into a Durable Political Force.
Published – February 19, 2025 01:55 PM IST