Democracy In Crisis At Rajarata

By Students for Human Rights -February 15, 2014 

As we speak now, the students of University of Rajarata are facing the threat of brutal repression by the state using police violence, democracy is in crisis in Rajarata and students are risking their lives to fight a war against the state, to protect the people’s right to dissent. While the news about students’ sit-in at Rajarata has been on the news for the past few days, we do not believe that dimensions of democracy that is being repressed in Rajarata are being represented genuinely or accurately. As students’ who care about democracy, freedom and as students who understand and believe that we must stand in solidarity with anybody being oppressed anywhere to meaningfully protect democracy for everyone, everywhere we want the citizens of this country to know what is happening at Rajarata and what it means for democracy.

The sit-in

Students of University of Rajarata have been engaging in a sit-in action for the last 60 day to oppose the arbitrary suspensions given by the University administration to 27 student activists and because we believe that information and only complete information will make the people of this country understand the level of repression that they, along with us, are being subject to we would like to narrate what caused these suspensions.

Although it is a day like any other to most people in this country, 20^th of June is a special day for all university students of the country because the Student Heroes’ Day that celebrates the students martyrs who paid with their lives for the protection of the supposed “free” education on behalf of all of us, fall on that particular date. While any government would want their people to forget the ordinary men and women who fight battles for us every day, we as university students want to remember them, not only to respect them and cherish them but also to remind ourselves, that the path has been difficult, the times have been harder and we are here today only because of those men and women who refused to give up. Inter University Students’ Federation organizes a commemorative event, every year on this day to celebrate the student heroes and this fact is not unknown to university administrations.                                                Read More