Bangladesh Udichi artist group has condemned the state repression, indiscriminate shooting and killing of students to suppress the quota reform movement. They say that the government cannot avoid the responsibility of these killings. The speakers said these things at the cultural rally organized by Udichi Gaibandha on Wednesday to protest the loss of lives of more than two hundred people around the quota reform movement and demand justice for all the killings. As part of the central programme, the rally was held in front of the Gaibandha Natya and Sanskultur Sansthan at DB Road in the district town around 11 am. Condemning the repression, shootings and killings of the government as well as the sabotage of state institutions, the leaders of the Udichi organization demanded the disclosure of the actual number of casualties and the identities of the dead in this movement. Also demanding a fair and impartial investigation into the loss of life, the speakers in the rally said that the incident of unintended use of force to suppress peaceful movement is never desirable for a democratic state. At the same time, taking advantage of the movement, the unprecedented vandalism of various important state institutions is also condemnable. Udichi Gaibandha District Parliament President Professor Zahurul Qayyum presided over the cultural gathering. Adviser of Udichi Gaibandha District Parliament Wajiur Rahman Rafel, culture worker Shirin Akhtar, journalist Afroza Luna and others spoke. Udichi demanded that the state should arrange proper treatment and compensation for every injured person under treatment in the hospital. Those who failed to protect the state establishment from vandalism around the movement, should be brought under punishment. The game of scorning the freedom fighters and the liberation war based on this movement, the game of achieving political interests with the spirit of the liberation war, must be stopped. A fair democratic environment should be brought back to the country immediately by stopping repression and killings. Chuni Islam, Suhana Rahman Anchal, Paroma etc. performed protest songs and poems in the cultural gathering.
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