Cultural activists and other professionals with the leaders of different political parties at an event at Central Shaheed Minar on Tuesday evening demanded justice for killings of students and people during the quota reform student movement.

They also demanded proper treatment for injured protesters, filing cases against the police for killings and UN investigation into enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings in the past 15 years.

The event titled Amra Tomader Bhulbona was organsied by Chhatra Shikkhak Lekhak Sangbadik O Shilpi Samaj.

Lyricist Latiful Islam Shibli, Abu Saeed Khan, Zahidur Rahman, Mayer Daak coordinator Sanjida Islam Tulee, Mahfuza Akhter, Asaduzzaman Asad, Nirmal Omar and Saeed Bari spoke at the event which was moderated by writer-journalist Ehasan Mahamud.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and its senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, BNP standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, Moin Khan, Selima Rahman, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal, Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, among others, were present at the programme to express their solidarity.

Deepak Kumar Goswami recited the poem Sob Kichu Mone Rakha Hobe, rickshaw puller Sultan Mia from Rangpur sang his self-composed song and a troupe of musicians performed group songs, including the national anthem at the event.

The event was inaugurated by fathers of three martyrs of the Student Movement Against Discrimination, who demanded justice for the killing of their sons.

‘The entire country is traumatised by the killing of young students. We have to suppress the system of fascism through intellectuality and unity. I demand justice for killings, but it is not by hanging killer Hasina,’ said Latiful Islam Shibli.

‘We have to reform the state for a democratic system, laws and justice. We have to continue the movement with the students,’ said Abu Saeed Khan.

‘The previous government formed Ayanaghor and captured a lot of political leaders who were against them. We demand a UN investigation into extrajudicial killings in the past 15 years and demand justice for every killings, every missing and every bullet,’ said Sanjida Islam Tulee.

She said that more than 800 student protesters were killed in violence during their protests.

‘We demand proper treatment of every injured protester undergoing treatment at hospitals across the country. We do not want to see any more deaths of the protesters,’ said Saeed Bari.