Teachers, students protest RU teacher’s murder

Teachers and students at Rajshahi University have been staging demonstration on the campus, protesting the murder of professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee.

Rajshahi University Teachers Association (Ruta) has boycotted classes since noon today, its secretary Prof Shah Azam Shantanu declared at a rally held protesting the murder.

The teachers will continue their boycott programme till tomorrow. They will also hold a mourning rally tomorrow morning, reports our RU correspondent.

In the morning, miscreants killed Siddiquee, a professor of English department of the university, in Shalbagan area of the city.

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As the news spread, over 200 students from different departments blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in front of RU main entrance for half an hour protesting the killings of Siddiquee and their fellow student Mizanur Rahman whose body was found at a Rajshahi hotel yesterday.

Traffic movement remained suspended for half an hour from 10:15am following the blockade.

Rajshahi University Teachers Association (Ruta) boycot classes protesting the murder of AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee, a professor of English department of the university. Photo: STAR

Addressing at a short rally, the students demanded immediate arrest of the killers. Later, they also brought out a protest procession that paraded through different streets of the campus.

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Later, around 500 students of English department brought out another procession on campus protesting the murder of their teacher.

RU Vice Chancellor Prof Muhammad Mizanuddin and Pro-VC Prof Chowdhruy Sarwar Jahan expressed deep concern over the killing and also demanded proper investigation into the killing.

Meanwhile, Chhatra Union, Chhatra Federation, Chhatra Front and Biplobi Chhatra Moitree of Rajshahi University unit, University Teachers Association and Rajshahi University Association of Law Finders (RUALF) condemned the brutal killing and demanded to bring the killers to book immediately.

The law enforcers have yet to identify any of the killers. They could not say anything immediately about the motive of the murder.