WORLD: STUDENT ALLY OF BANGLADESH EX-PM BEATEN TO DEATH ON CAMPUS
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A Bangladeshi student leader was beaten to death on his university campus in apparent retaliation for attacks on protestors during the upheaval that deposed former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last month.
Shamim Ahmed attended Jahangirnagar University in the capital Dhaka and was a key member of Hasina’s Awami League student wing, according to police officer Abu Bakkar.
Bakkar said Ahmed was beaten by unknown assailants on Wednesday night for leading an attack on student demonstrators at the campus in mid-July, when protests demanding Hasina’s removal from office were gaining momentum.
“We took him to the Gonoshasthaya Hospital, where he later died,” the officer added.
Staff at the hospital confirmed to AFP that Ahmed died after being admitted with multiple injuries.
Ahmed is at least the second leader of the Awami League’s student branch to die this month.
According to local media accounts, fellow leader Abdullah Al Masud died hours after being battered by a crowd in Rajshahi, northern Bangladesh, on September 8.
He was also accused of organising counter-demonstrations against the student-led rebellion against Hasina, who fled the nation in early August, minutes before demonstrators stormed her Dhaka palace.
Hasina’s government was accused of widespread abuses, including the mass detention and extrajudicial killing of political rivals.
More than 450 people were killed in the weeks of violence leading up to the autocratic leader’s toppling.
Since her departure for exile in neighbouring India, cabinet ministers and other senior members of Hasina’s party have been arrested, and her government’s appointees have been purged from courts and the central bank.
At least 25 journalists seen as close to Hasina’s regime have also been taken into custody since her ouster and replacement with an interim government led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohammed Yunus.
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