Kamal Majumder's excesses

10 January 2012, 18:00 PM

Khaled Mohammed, Ex-student, Monipur High School & College, Dhaka

Photo: Palash Khan

Kamal Ahmed Majumder, who assaulted a female journalist recently, is known for terrorizing people who dare to speak against him using his goons. He is the president of the management committee of the reputed Monipur High School & College and is allegedly stealing money from the funds of the institution. Already annoyed at the mismanagement of the school, I have further learnt that he was using the innocent children of the school for conducting his political propaganda. My younger brother, a student of Branch-1 of the school, was forced to attend a human chain, formed to protest what Kamal Majumder termed 'conspiracy' to ruin his reputation, along with many of his classmates in the scorching sun for two hours without any food or drink! When the television cameras arrived, the students were forced to speak in favour of Kamal Majumder. Not only were these acts morally wrong, the students unwilling to participate were threatened with corporal punishment, which itself is illegal! I understand that the teachers who forced the students into such acts were themselves forced to follow the orders from upper quarters in order to save their jobs. I am gravely worried about the future of the school.