2025 Khulna JCD–SAD clash

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2025 Khulna JCD–SAD clash
Part of Bangladesh post-resignation violence (2024–present)
DateFebruary 18, 2025 (2025-02-18)
Location
Khulna, Bangladesh
Caused byIssue of student politics [1]
Methods Mob violencePolitical violence
Resulted in
Parties
Casualties
Injuries100+ [3] [2]
Detained 5 [2]

On 18 February 2025, during a campaign by the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatradal (JCD), on the campus of the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, [2] a group of students began protesting against them as they wanted a "politics-free campus." [2] This would end up becoming a clash between the general students and JCD members, alongside some regular BNP members as locals. [2] [3]

The clash would result in at least fifty people being injured [3] [4] and five detained, [2] the clash would lead to the interim government deploying two platoons of the Border Guard Bangladesh, [2] alongside Navy personnel, [3] soldiers of the Army, [3] and RAB personnel, [3] to the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology to prevent further clashes.


The campus went shut for straight 6 months after the incident.


References

  1. "Anti-Discrimination Student Movement announces protest over 'Chhatra Dal attack' at Kuet". Dhaka Tribune. 2025-02-18. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Chhatra Dal, Student Movement activists clash at KUET, BGB deployed". bdnews24.com. 2025-02-18. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "50 hurt as Chhatra Dal, general students clash in and around KUET". Daily Sun. 2025-02-18. Retrieved 2025-02-19.
  4. "ADSM issues 24-hour ultimatum to arrest KUET attackers". Daily Sun. 2025-02-18. Retrieved 2025-02-19.