News No.42/2016: Friday,
May 20, 2016
THE army stopped the
Hill Students’ Council (PCP) on Thursday from making a makeshift stage for its
27th founding anniversary rally to be held in Dighinala today,
according to sources.
The PCP activists were
busy making the stage at Baanchara High School ground at 3 pm when a group of
army personnel from Dighinala zone arrived there in two jeeps.
They encircled the whole
area, drove the PCP activists and hired labourers away by force and threw
bamboos and other materials all over the ground.
When the PCP members
protested, the army men threatened them with arrests, torture and dire
consequences.
Meanwhile, the office of
the Khagrachari Deputy Commissioner in a letter yesterday informed the PCP
leadership that “it has not been granted permission to write any graffiti and
hold any student rally and procession.”
Signed by Dewan Moudud
Ahmed, an assistant commissioner, the one-page letter quoted an official report
by the Superintendent of Police as terming the PCP as “a regional student
organization with no state recognition.”
The PCP in a statement
condemned the action of the army as undemocratic and vowed to hold its planned
rally at all cost.
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