BANGLADESH

The father of Mohammad Mojaheed, one of the two students killed in a clash between Bangladesh Chhatra League and Islami Chhatra Shibir at Chittagong University on Wednesday, has claimed his son was a Shibir activist.

"My son was involved with Islami Chhatra Shibir's politics. His killing was pre-planned," Mohammad Humayun Kabir Mir said in a written statement at a press briefing at the Chittagong Press Club on Saturday.

On Wednesday, Mohammad Mojaheed of zoology and Masud-Bin-Habib of English department were killed in a clash between the student wings of ruling Awami League and Jamaat-e-Islami. Right after the clash, Shibir had claimed that the duo were activists of the organisation.

But BCL that night at a press conference claimed that Mojaheed was their activist.

Claiming Mojaheed was innocent, his father Kabir also demanded immediate arrest and punishment of the killers. He alleged that Hathazari Police Station did not take a case he wanted to file.

"I used to see Islami Chhatra Shibir books among his books when my son visited home during university vacations. I had never thought it as his fault or illegal that he was involved with Shibir's politics," he told after the press briefing.

"My son is a victim of political butchery," he added.

Mojaheed, of Purba Kismat Jafrabad under Mirsarai Upazika, was the second among five brothers and sisters.