The New Nation - Internet Edition

What has become clear is that as soon as curfew was announced everything became calm and normal. Now it is clear that there was no popular movement The universities were used for organising a movement of violence by vested groups.

Intelligence agencies will now identify persons involved in violence from video footages and still photographs. They are also trying to find out how a section of students in public universities was used by political activists to defeat the government's drive against corruption.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner and Additional IGP Nayeem Ahmed said that the persons involved will surely be brought to book. It is for the first time in the history of DMP that seven senior police officers were injured. Number of other police personnel injured is 74.

As the students' unrest on the DU campus was not politicl in nature, the unusual situation that arose from the unpleasant incident indicates that the government agencies were not aware of those who lay in ambush to seize the opportunity and create chaos elsewhere. Now, it seems the situation is coming down to normalcy. Fighting feud ensued between the police and the students around the incident and continued on Tuesday. Students in a number of varsities of the country demonstrated against that incident As children of the country the govt immediately took the incident into consideration and expressed deep shock for the same. Five demands of the students including withdrawal of army camp were fulfilled. Moreover, the government gave assurace that investigation will be conducted into the incident and persons liable would be punished. The army also initiated an inquiry and a judicial probe was ordered by the government Even then the situation aggravated. Political activists were determined to exploit the situation politically.

What happened on Monday evening at the DU campus was undoubtedly regretable and unwarranted. But, in spite of that, the anarchic situation that was created in the streets of the city was certainly pre-planned.

Certain pickters from among those displaced by eviction might have been hired to destroy public and private properties and set fire to vehicles in order to create panic and anarchy. The intelligence agencies, we feel strongly, ought to have monitored and gathered information about the three-day development that may have been engineered by politicised groups in the University. Otherwise, such a turn of the otherwise politically isolated incident could not have been possible. The demand for withdrawing the state of emergency adduces evidence to this hypothesis.

Apparently, with no public support to the campus incident it died as the curfew was imposed.

What has happened during the last few days should awaken the government to the truth that about seven months have passed since it took over amid popularity and expectations and in months to come it has to carry on in cooperation with and support from the people. The caretaker government is for a limited purpose and it must concentrate on that for maintaining popular support Such a government has to do everything to revive economic activities to ease people's suffering. It has to succeed in its mission of reforms with popular support