In a powerful audio address delivered on Thursday evening, five-time Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina launched a scathing condemnation of the vicious assault on Dhaka University teachers, including female faculty members, by DUCSU Social Welfare Secretary AB Zubayer, a leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir, and his gang of thugs as they attempted to submit a memorandum to the vice-chancellor.
Sheikh Hasina described the attackers as devoid of basic human decency, questioning whether they even have parents or were ever taught manners, while highlighting their expertise in terrorism and thuggery that has terrorised educational institutions since the July 2024 events.
She detailed how teachers, regardless of gender, were physically assaulted, humiliated, and degraded in an unprecedented manner at the university’s Social Sciences Faculty building. She extended her strong condemnation to the ongoing pattern of attacks on educators, linking it directly to the violence that began after July 15, 2024, when killings were blamed on Awami League leaders and workers, followed by endless fabricated cases.
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Marking December as the month of victory, Sheikh Hasina paid profound homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the four national leaders, the 3 million martyrs, and the 200,000 mothers and sisters who suffered indignities during the Liberation War and extended a thousand salutes to freedom fighters. She recalled the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu in 1975, just as he was rebuilding the war-ravaged country and achieving remarkable growth, noting that the killers targeted not only her father but her entire family, especially freedom fighters.
Sheikh Hasina defended Bangladesh’s hard-won independence in 1971 under Bangabandhu’s leadership, pointing out his pivotal role in creating Pakistan in 1947 despite East Bengal’s majority status and contributions, only for West Pakistan to exploit the region through discrimination. She mocked those nostalgic for Pakistani rule, saying it meant enduring kicks from Pakistani boots, and asserted that true Bengalis, being freedom-loving, rejected subjugation.
Turning to the current regime that seized power after August 5, 2024, Sheikh Hasina accused it of dragging Bangladesh’s global honour into the dust, destroying the economy, eradicating social security, stripping women and teachers of dignity, and turning the country into a militant haven under Muhammad Yunus. She highlighted mob justice, daylight murders, assaults and rapes of women with images broadcast, and indemnity for killings and arson since July, benefiting Yunus’s NCP, Jamaat-Shibir, and BNP while cases pile up against the Awami League.
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Sheikh Hasina credited her party’s rule with reducing poverty, providing housing, healthcare, and education, and elevating Bangladesh to developing nation status with worldwide respect. She called for national unity to confront the regime, rescue the country, and restore prosperity, declaring victory belongs to the people and that this is merely a temporary blow.
In related developments, the Awami League rejected the election schedule announced at 6pm on Thursday by the interim government’s Election Commission, declaring polls set for February 12, 2026, illegitimate without the party’s participation.
The party has called for protest marches nationwide on Friday, December 12, following Jumu’ah prayers, and a full lockdown across the country on Saturday, December 13, as part of its ongoing mobilisation against the regime.
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