Anti-Discrimination Student Movement to observe 'Resistance Week' from today

The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement has announced a week-long programme titled "Resistance Week," from today (13 August). 

The movement, driven by demands for justice and equality, will start with a nationwide "Road March" aimed at honouring the martyrs of past anti-discrimination movements, as per a statement by Abu Baker Mazumdar, coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.

The road march will see participants gathering at locations across the country where people sacrificed their lives in the fight against discrimination. 

The organisers of the movement have put forth a set of four demands:

• A special tribunal must be established to ensure the swift trial of the massacres carried out by the fascist Hasina, her party, and the government using fascist structures.
• Those involved in the planned killings, looting, and robbery against minorities by the Awami League and its coalition partners in an effort to discredit the people's uprising must be brought to justice, and the legitimate demands of the minorities must be accepted.
• Those in the administration and judiciary who have legitimised the attacks, cases, and massacres against the student-populist uprising and repeatedly attempted to establish fascism must be removed as soon as possible, and their appointments in the new government must be cancelled and brought to justice.
• Those who have been victims of discrimination in the administration and judiciary must be provided equal opportunities as soon as possible.

The march is scheduled for 3pm, with the primary assembly point at the Raju Memorial Sculpture near TSC of Dhaka University.

The participants will observe a one-minute silence and offer prayers in memory of the martyrs.