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Published : 03 Feb 2025, 04:34 AM
Injured protesters from the July uprising have massed outside chief advisor's official residence Jamuna on Dhaka’s Minto Road, breaking through police barricades at midnight.
Anti-discrimination Student Movement Convener Hasnat Abdullah went there around 12am on Monday to pacify the protesters.
He assured the injured of proper treatment but was interrupted by the protesters while negotiating with them.
The injured in the mass uprising in July last year had launched a protest at the capital’s Shyamoli in the morning, demanding improved medical care, rehabilitation, and state recognition.
They relocated to the Shishu Mela intersection from there and held a protest there at 11am on Sunday.
Later, they began their march towards the chief advisor’s residence around 7pm.
Police personnel stopped them on their way there outside the capital's InterContinental hotel at around 9:45pm.
More than 100 protesters instantly staged a sit-in there.
They later broke through police barricades outside the InterContinental hotel around 11:45pm and moved towards the Jamuna.
The protesters took position at the intersection of three roads on the Minto Road and defied the army personnel’s attempts to stop them with barricades.
When they reached outside the Jamuna, Hasnat and several others had already been there.
Hasnat said it was the government's failure that the injured in the Anti-discrimination Student Movement were not given proper treatment.
“The government's bureaucratic system and secretaries are responsible for this.”
A protester at that time said, “Either ensure the recognition or shoot us dead. We will die by suicide if the demands are not met.”
Assuring that the government will ensure the rehabilitation of the injured, Hasnat said before being interrupted by the protesters: "The government will do whatever is needed for the immediate treatment of the injured at earliest. I appeal to the government to do so.”
Even after 1:30am, many injured protesters had been demonstrating on the road outside the Jamuna.
Some of them were lying on the road with police officers standing nearby.
One of the protesters, Kurban Sheikh Hillol, said: "None from the government has shown us even the slightest sympathy. We are also citizens of the country. We have been injured in the Anti-discrimination Student Movement."
