An attack on progressive thinking

'He had no personal enemies', so it has been unequivocally stated by the people who knew him regardless of their political beliefs. This gives rise to suspicion in the public mind and academic circles that his killers might well have been politically or ideologically motivated. No one is left in any doubt that it was a conspiratorial and pre-meditated act perpetrated by psyched up or hired professional killers.

This is the conclusion one draws from the reactions of progressive-minded teachers and students of Rajshahi University who instantly linked the dastardly killing to a sustained 'campus siege programme' spearheaded by a 'particular student organisation'.

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That Professor Yunus was being stalked is borne out by the fact that he had been the target of attack on November 30, 1995 suspectedly by elements of the same ilk. A very pertinent issue arises here from the standpoint of throwing a surveillance cover around a person who had actually experienced an 'attempt to murder'. What are the precautions taken by the police in such high security-risk cases? The threat to life of a person must be taken seriously, more so, in respect of person, who had once escaped an attempt on his life.

All of this falls into a kind of pattern which the government can ill-afford to ignore and must therefore do everything in its power to checkmate.

We find no word adequate enough to condemn the heinous murder of an accomplished teacher like him and express our deepest condolences to the members of his family at their hour of grief.