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Quota reform activists at Jahangirnagar University were subjected to violent attacks by the university's Chhatra League unit, in a night of violence, mayhem and seesawing tensions, although it may have eventually ended much better than it looked at one point for the protesters.
The JU campus had been tense all day throughout Monday, with Chhatra League activists bringing in outsiders, leading to clashes between general students and the police, and turning the campus into a battlefield.
More than 50 individuals, including a teacher, were injured after activists of the ruling party student front attacked a gathering of the quota reform protesters in the evening.
The injured teacher is Awalad Hossain, professor of the Department of Chemistry and transport officer of the university. The injured students were taken to the university's medical centre.
The students protesting for quota reform brought out a procession in front of the university library around 6:30pm. When the procession reached Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman residential hall, Chhatra League activists led by University unit President Aktaruzzaman Sohel and General Secretary Habibur Rahman Liton, attacked the procession leaving several students injured including some female students.
With word going around of Chhatra League preparing another, bigger, quota reform activists had taken refuge around the Vice Chancellor's residence, regarding it as the only safe space on campus. But they turned out to be wrong, as they would soon find out.
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