Resistance Week: Protesters to march through Dhaka in memory of ‘martyrs’

The Anti-discrimination Student Movement has announced a march from Dhaka’s Shahbagh to Rapa Plaza, a candle-lighting ceremony, and a prayer programme in memory of those killed during the quota reform movement.

The programme, held as part of the group’s ‘Resistance Week’ plan, will start with a gathering at Shahbagh.

Abu Baker Majumder, one of the coordinators of the movement, announced the programme in a press release at 2:30am on Tuesday.

The statement called on all Dhaka students to take part in the programme and come to Shahbagh.

It also called for processions, candle lighting, and prayer programmes at all places where people were killed during the protests.

Anti-discrimination Student Movement has announced a week-long ‘Resistance Week’ programme from Tuesday to push for a 4-point list of demands.

These demands are:

1. A special tribunal be set up to ensure the speedy trial of the murders committed using a ‘fascist framework’.
2. The ‘Awami League and its affiliates’ be brought to justice for their planned killings, robberies, and looting to derail the mass uprising and the legitimate demands of minorities must be accepted.
3. Those in the administration and judiciary who have legitimised the attacks, prosecutions, and killings of students in the uprising and are repeatedly trying to perpetuate the fascist regime must be swiftly removed and brought to justice.
4. Equality should be ensured quickly for those who have been discriminated against by the administration and the judiciary.