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Mugdho enchanted whole university, KU teachers recount
BSSKhulna
Published: 30 Aug 2024, 16: 25

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Mir Mahfuzur Rahman ‘Mugdho’ during a kite flying festival at Khulna University BSS

Mir Mahfuzur Rahman ‘Mugdho’, a former student of Mathematics Department at Khulna University (KU), is not merely a name. He appeared to be a part of Bangladesh history as he embraced martyrdom joining the student-people mass uprising ousting the Awami League (AL) government.

KU teachers recounted the memory of Mugdho with a heavy heart narrating how he used to enthral the whole campus by his infectious behaviour encouraging others to be a good human soul.

On 18 July, Mugdho, 25, sacrificed his life in the police firing as he was seen distributing water among the students staging demonstration in the Azampur area of Uttara in Dhaka posing no apparent threat.

A bullet hit his forehead and pierced through his right ear when the police opened fire at the students.

Professor Md. Azmol Huda, head of the Mathematics Department under the School of Science, Engineering and Technology of KU, said Mugdho was excellent in analytical ability helping him achieve good results in Mathematics.

‘Mugdho’ graduated from the Mathematics department of KU as a student of the 19-batch.

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Mir Mahfuzur Rahman ‘Mugdho’ on a bike one the Pabna Circuit House premisesBSS

“He (Mugdho) was undoubtedly an extraordinary student. In his freelancing career, he completed around 1,000 orders holding a 5-star rating on Fiverr, one of the best online workplaces in the world,” said Prof. Huda.

The KU teacher said Mugdho possessed by-born leadership qualities as he posed himself the best team player at any event of KU Programmes and helped the first-year students understand any lesson and ready assignment.

“In the early days of 19-Batch, on a tour of Mathematics Department, I asked the students to elect two coordinators to take responsibility and look after the younger ones,” Prof. Huda said in a sombre voice.

“I was astonished seeing it was Mugdho, one of the favourite students of teachers, whom he had seen earlier as a coordinator of many events,” he added with teary eyes.

Professor Munnujahan Ara of the same department said all the teachers and the students loved Mugdho overwhelmingly.

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Mir Mahfujur Rahman Mugdho File photo

“All the teachers of the Mathematics Department loved his smiling face which was a symbol of innocence,” professor Munnujahan said, adding that sometimes when she rebuked him regarding any assignment in the class, he used to smile and that mitigated her temper. Strangely enough, on the very next day, he would submit his assignment with his famous smile.

Sorrow and sadness engulfed Munnujahan while recounting his memory as tears were rolling down her cheeks.

“He (Mugdho) was a brilliant debater of the department. He liked to play guitar. Even he played guitar in many departmental programmes in the KU,” she mentioned.

She also said Mugdho was very interested in riding a bike while she was showing some photos of him.

He intended to visit all over Bangladesh riding a bike and wanted to see how people were suffering in the villages and the remote areas of the country, Munnujahan continued.

“All of our teachers and students burst into tears with grief when we saw that Mugdho was shot dead while he was on the street of Dhaka saying “Pani lagbe, Pani” (does anyone need water)?” she stated.

After completion of his graduation from KU, Mugdho got admitted to Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) to complete his MBA.

Remembering Mugdho’s smiling face, Prof. Munnujahan said Mugdho’s classmates will go back to the classroom of BUP again but he won’t come back.

Earlier, Mugdho’s elder brother Mir Mahmudur Rahman Deepto reportedly said Mugdho was already dead when his friends brought him to Crescent Hospital.

He mingled with the students until his martyrdom to help the demonstrators, who were fighting for a just cause against the Awami League government, Deepto said, adding that from the young age, Mugdho always raised his voice against injustice and corruption.

Deepto also said that Mugdho was a unit leader in the Armed Police Battalion Scout Group and achieved the “National Service Award” from Bangladesh Scouts for his promising role in rescuing and evacuating people during the Banani Fire in 2019.​
 

Video of piling bodies on rickshaw-van at Ashulia goes viral
Staff Correspondent 31 August, 2024, 22:27

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The video of piling up bodies in a van that went viral on social media occurred at Ashulia on the outskirt of the Dhaka city.

The incident took place on August 5 after Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled to India amid the student-led mass uprising.

In the viral video, several bodies were seen piled up in a van.

Besides, it was also seen in the video that another body was being loaded on them by police members in two attempts that was just like throwing sacks loaded with goods. The bodies were later covered with a poster. At that time, some other police members were also seen walking around.

Soon after the gruesome video went viral, an argument arose among netizens where some people were seen suspecting it to be a fake one or a video not related to the latest movement.

It could be, however, confirmed that the incident took place on a road near the Ashulia police station on the afternoon of August 5.

It was primarily believed that the victims were protesters but their identities could not be confirmed.

Out of the several police members there, the identity of one could be confirmed as Arafat Hossain, an inspector of Detective Branch.

DB officer-in-charge Riaz Uddin Biplob confirmed that the police officer was his colleague Arafat who hailed from Barishal.

‘Arafat is now not at the office. He went on five-day leave. His leave will end on Sunday,’ he said.

Arafat was called but he could not be reached over the phone despite several attempts.

In the video, it was not clear how many bodies were there but those who watched the video assumed the number between four and eight.​
 

Ashulia video clip of body dumping warrants early probe
02 September, 2024, 00:00

A VIDEO clip of apparently police personnel dumping a body onto several other bodies onto a rickshaw van, said to have taken place on Dhaka’s outskirts of Ashulia, that has gone viral on social media warrants immediate government attention. It calls for an early investigation to establish whether the video clip is real or fake. The investigation would also need to establish what the incident was, who the people at play were, when it took place and whether it was related to the law enforcement unit’s killing towards the end of the student-mass uprising that many suspect it to be so. The proposition calls for an investigation even if it is not related to the killing that took place during the student protests. The video clip, said to have been made in the afternoon of August 5 after the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country, shows a body was being thrown onto several bodies covered with a poster on the van. A few people in police gear were seen walking around. One of them is said to have been an inspector of the Detective Branch.

An early investigation of what the video clip shows constitutes gross violation of rights. The reason for the investigation is also pressing in view of what happened during the student-mass uprising of July-August in which, more than 650 people were killed, as the Office of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights says, in attacks first by the Awami League front people aided by various law enforcement units and later solely by law enforcers. Although the protests began with public university students first seeking the abolition of the civil service job reservations and later reforms in the process, after mid-July when the protests turned violent, students of private universities, colleges and schools and, finally, ordinary citizens joined in the protests that culminated into the overthrow of 15 years of authoritarian regime of the Awami League. If what the video clip shows is true, this is another glaring instance of rights violation and the ‘use of lethal force’, the UN Human Rights Office describes the events, of the Awami League government and its use of state agencies in its desperate effort to cling to power by quelling rightful protests. Even if the happening that the video clip has captured is not related to the student-mass uprising, the government should still carry out the investigation and act accordingly considering this to be a grave violation of rights by the law enforcement agency.​
 

Students to hold `shaheedi march’ today
DU Correspondent 05 September, 2024, 00:05

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Students’ Movement Against Discrimination coordinator Sarjis Alam addresses a press conference announcing Shaheedi March for today to remember the martyrs of the movement at the Teachers-Students Centre of Dhaka University on Wednesday. | New Age photo

Students under the platform of the Student Movement Against Discrimination on Wednesday announced that they would hold the ‘Shaheedi March’ today across the country marking the one-month of ousting of the Awami League government by the student-led mass uprising.

They said that they would organise the march in honour of those martyrs who sacrificed their lives during student protests and those injured during the movement.

Sarjis Alam, a key coordinator of the movement, announced the programme at a press conference held at the Teacher-Student Centre of Dhaka University.

Sarjis Alam said that on the occasion of the one-month anniversary of the student-led mass uprising, students would hold a ‘Shaheedi March’.

‘This programme will be observed at all levels, from unions to metropolitan areas, across the country honouring the martyrs,’ he said, adding, ‘We will arrange the event to show our respect for our brothers and sisters killed during the protests and those suffering on hospital beds, as well as those who have lost their limbs, hands, feet, or eyes.’

The ‘Shaheedi March’ in Dhaka will begin at 3:00pm from the Anti-terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus, he said.

The march will parade through Nilkhet, New Market, Kalabagan, Mirpur Road, Manik Mia Avenue, Farmgate, Karwan Bazar, Shahbagh, and Raju Memorial Sculpture, before ending at the Central Shaheed Minar.

Key Coordinators Hasnat Abdullah, Abu Baker Mojumdar and Mahin Sarkar, among other coordinators, were also present at the press conference.

Hasnat Abdullah said that the AL used to engage in tagging and blaming people whenever someone made a logical demand.

‘In Bangladesh, the AL created a separate religion,’ he said, adding, ‘They introduced “the Awami religion” in clothing, food, and everywhere. Bangabandhu was made a political prophet.’

He also said that those involved in killings would not be spared.

Students under the platform of the Student Movement Against Discrimination began the quota reform movement in July resulting in a student-led mass uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to resign as the prime minister on August 5 and flee to India, where she has now taken shelter.

The interim government’s health adviser Nurjahan Begum told the media on August 28 that more than 1,000 people were killed in the student-led mass uprising.​
 

Govt to honour martyrs of July uprising on Sept 14

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Photo: BSS

The government will honour the martyrs of the students-people uprising on September 14.

Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Adviser Md Nahid Islam said a commemorative meeting in memory of all the martyrs in the students-people uprising will be organised on September 14, said a press release.

"The government will give the highest honour to the martyrs' families in the commemorative meeting," he said.

"Bangla Blockade", "Complete Shutdown" and "Long March to Dhaka" must be highlighted in the commemoration as those words acted as a tonic in the mass movement, he said, adding that the commemorative meeting will be organised in such a way so that it can create the atmosphere of the July mass movement.

Nahid will work as the focal point of the commemorative meeting.

Posts and Telecommunications Secretary Md Mushfiqur Rahman along with senior officials of the ministry were present in the meeting.​
 

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