Editorial
A teacher dying like this!
Symptomatic of deeper campus ailment
Only a year ago, Rajshahi University witnessed the murder of a teacher Dr Md. Younus; and now it's Prof. Abu Taher, felled by a premeditated lethal stroke. We are deeply concerned at the deteriorating security situation in the RU campus. But we suggest that the home ministry make a reassessment, in the light of the latest gory incident, as to whether there has been any downward trend in the administration of the police and other law enforcing agencies, particularly at district levels. Needless to say though that the university administration has to take the blame for the security slack which is apparently a byproduct of poor internal risk assessment and consequent lack of timely precautionary measures being put in place. What primarily fuelled the murderous impunity seems to be the absence of any tangible and credible progress in the investigation of the murder of Dr. Younus. If that one and a half year old murder mystery (or was it a mystery!) were resolved, and the culprit brought to book, the last tragic incident most probably would have been averted. Similar observations were made by two former vice-chancellors of the university. There is no hiding the fact that today student and teaching communities at the university level are highly conflict-ridden with their different shades of partisan political opinion and philosophy; yet we must deal with a murder as murder without any political finger pointing or blame-trading whatsoever. The latter invariably proves to be a costly distraction. All this is not to preclude, however, the pressing need for an all-round improvement in the various aspects of academic management so as to create a congenial atmosphere, in which the pursuits of high learning are made to feel free of threats on the life and freedom of the teachers and the students alike. Our condolences to the members of the bereaved family as we urge the government to bring the killers of Dr Younus and Prof Taher speedily and unfailingly to book.
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