Reaction in the pro-liberation student community deepening over growing influence and public show of Islamists and fundamentalists in Bangladesh educational institutions
By Our Correspondent
Agartala, August 7, 2025
The forced regime change in Bangladesh on August 5 last year had been financed by the infamous US deep state on the back of a student movement and mob violence orchestrated by the Islamists including the banned Jmat-e-Islami in collaboration with ‘Razakars’, ‘Al Badr’ and ‘Al Shams’ goons who had opposed the country’s liberation movement in 1971 and helped the genocidal Pakistani occupation army massacre lakhs of people. It was this sinister and genetically violent force that had led the mob uprising culminating in the ouster of Sheikh Hasina and since then this evil force has been carrying out all kinds of nefarious activities all over Bangladesh including in educational institutioins from schools to universities . But now a natural reaction to the song and dance of the once-outlawed anti-national forces seems to hve set in as reflected in the student protest in Jahangir Nagar university in Mymensing yesterday . Sources from across the border said that yesterday on the first anniversary of the ouster of Awami League and Sheikh Hasina the Islamist student groups had sought to legitimize the anti-liberation forces in a programme held in the Dhaka university but this provoked a reaction .
In protest against the display of photos of anti-liberation Razakars, Al-Badr members, and war criminals at Dhaka University (DU), a group of progressive students from Jahangirnagar University (JU) organized a torchlight procession and burned effigies labelled "Razakar" on Wednesday night.The students held the procession from the university’s Bottola area at around 11-00 PM , marching through the road adjacent to Shahid Salam-Barkat Hall, passing by Shahid Tajuddin Ahmad Hall, Hall 21, and Kazi Nazrul Islam Hall, and then returning to Bottola.
There, they held a brief gathering and burned an effigy inscribed with the word Razakar. The protesting students also claimed that provocations had come from covert members of ‘Islamic Chhatra Shibir’ and that their procession was peaceful.Sohagi Samia, an organizer from the Socialist Student Front, said "we have repeatedly witnessed the resurgence of Razakars in Bangladesh. Again and again, they try to pit the Liberation War of 1971 against the July uprising of 2024. Jamaat and Shibir displayed the images of Razakars at Dhaka University because they view them as their leaders."
She said, "we want to make it clear that those who wish to erase the existence of Bangladesh on behalf of the Razakars will themselves be erased. Every attempt to rehabilitate Razakars will be strongly resisted."Russell, a student of the Bangla Department, said, “we have seen how the Razakars, who clawed at the flag of Bangladesh during the Liberation War, were portrayed as heroes in photos displayed by Shibir at Dhaka University. Let us not forget, on March 25 1971, it was with the help of Razakars that the Pakistani military carried out killings in Dhaka University. There can be nothing more disgraceful. We strongly condemn this act."
Notably, during a program organized by the Dhaka University (DU) unit of Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir on Tuesday to commemorate the July uprising, the university’s proctorial team removed images of convicted war criminals following protests by students.Assistant Proctor, Associate Professor Rafiqul Islam was present at the scene and personally took down the images, subsequently transferring them to the proctor’s office.Earlier, members of a left-wing student alliance and a section of general students had launched a protest after spotting the images of the war criminals displayed within the DU campus.Sources said that the public reaction to the excesses being committed by the anti-liberation forces is spreading fast and soon retaliatory action may start against the Islamists and fundamentalists.
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