Twelve students of Barishal University who gathered on the campus to participate in a programme titled 鈥楻emembering Our Heroes鈥� were taken into custody on Thursday, the police said.
The programme was announced by Students Movement Against Discrimination.
AR Mukul, officer-in-charge, OC, of Bandar police station, said they took the students, including university coordinator of the platform Sujoy Shuvo and co-coordinator M H Tamal, into custody for security purposes.
Meanwhile, since the establishment of the university, although there was no committee of the BCL on the campus, a section of the BCL activists gathered on the campus. They said that they were trying to make sure that no one could create anarchy on the campus.
The Students Movement Against Discrimination announced the nationwide campaign titled 鈥楻emembering Our Heroes,鈥� on Wednesday in response to the mass killings, widespread arrests, attacks, cases of enforced disappearances and assaults on teachers that occurred in connection with the quota reform movement across the country.
It also demanded an investigation by the United Nations and fulfilling the nine-point demands of the students.
