THE NEW NATION – August 26, 2007

The student outburst at Dhaka University campus was a preplanned incident that spread across the city as well as the country through the same way, the intelligence agency report said.

Sources said that the students were provoked to be violent by some vested quarters, including some politically motivated teachers and student leaders and some other unscrupulous persons who capitalized the student emotion for paving the way to oust the caretaker government.

They also wanted to set the students against the army to create instability, the sources said.

According to intelligence sources, detained Professor Anwar Hossain, general secretary of Dhaka University Teachers Association (DUTA), and Professor Harun-or-Rashid of Political Science who were taken on four-day remand admited that some other teachers, student leaders and also some influential personnel were also involved in the conspiracy.

Among them were former Dhaka University, Vice-Chancellor Professor AK Azad Chowdhury, Professor Mizanur Rahman of Law Department, Professor Muntasir Mamun of History Department, detained former Rajshahi University VC Saidur Rahman Khan, private cable TV channel owner Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, son of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's parliamentary affairs adviser, ETV owner Abdus Salam, Rangs Group owner Abdur Rouf Chowdhury, National Bank Chairperson Parvin Huq Sikder, former Chhatra League president Enamul Huq Shamim and Chhatradal DU unit president Hasan Mamun.

Highly placed sources in the government claim that they have information that funding support was provided to groups of youngsters to organise and continue the agitation.

These conspirators also supplied food to the agitating youngsters and did some acts of provocation with an intention to get the army involved and create biterness between the disciplined force and the people, they observed.

The intelligence agency report sources said that Tk 20 crore was spent at the Nilkhet area of the city by vested quarters to fuel the agitation. On Saturday the talk of the town was failure of the Tk 150 crore plan to oust the caretaker government.

Imposition of curfew was a timely decision of the Caretaker government to save the life and properties of common people, they said.

Taking advantage of price hike and the huge unemployment problem the vested quarters wanted to spread hatred among the people and instigate hawkers and unemployed youths to engage in clashes with law enforcing agencies.

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