2025 Khulna JCD–SAD clash | |||
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Part of Bangladesh post-resignation violence (2024–present) | |||
Date | February 18, 2025 | ||
Location | Khulna, Bangladesh | ||
Caused by | Issue of student politics [1] | ||
Methods | Mob violence • Political violence | ||
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Casualties | |||
Injuries | 100+ [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.