News No. 72/2015:
Saturday May 16, 2015
AT LEAST twenty people
including students have been injured when the army charged batons into
participants of a cricket tournament in Laxmichari.
According to sources,
the incident, which has been condemned by all section of the people in
Laxmichari including elected public representatives, took place at about 12
noon today.
A team of students
from Shuknachari studying in various schools and colleges were on their way to
a play ground in Baghyapara to participate in a cricket tournament organised by
Laxmichari Union Council when they came under attack.
The army stopped them
at Shilachari near Laxmichari zone and began beating them with wood sticks,
without giving them time to realize what was happening.
The indiscriminate
baton charges left twenty students and other people including motor bike
drivers wounded.
The army also made
them standing in the scorching summer sun for ten minutes and seized seven
motor bikes.
Some of the student
who suffered baton charges are Royal Chakma, Clinton Chakma, Hiron Chakma,
Ripon Chakma, Nion Chakma, Nantu Chakma, Arpon Chakma, Nayanta Chakma, Shilon
Chakma, and Tapan Chakma.
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