Bangladesh’s ruling party runs university campuses with an iron fist

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Universities in Bangladesh have long been hotbeds of political dissent

Abrar Fahad, a student at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology was beaten to death in his dormitory. Police have detained 21 people in connection with the murder, many of them members of the Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League party. He appears to have offended them by making critical comments on Facebook about a water-sharing deal the government recently struck with India.

Instead of allocating the individual rooms, the Chhatra League puts all the first-year students—sometimes up to 100—in one enormous dormitory, the “public room”. Here, first-years are subjected to “ragging”, meaning bullying by older students, who report back to the League’s leadership. The whole process is designed to scare students into toeing the line.

 

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Such empire behaviour I wonder where they get it from

It is very glad to here this,the real people's voices are the voices of students..Govt.are very continua on students voices

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