2019 Campus Violence: Jamia Students Organise Mass Protest Agaisnt Police Action
Students of Jamia Millia Islamia gathered inside the campus for the mass protest on December 15, Monday, in commemoration of the sixth year of the brutal violence executed by Delhi Police on university students in 2019.
Six years back, on December 15, 2019, Delhi police along with para military forces, entered the campus, even in the Zakir Hussain library, forcefully and attacked students to the degree of causing severe life-threatening injuries.
The gathering on yesterday started with the participation of more than 500 students under the leadership of various student organisations of JMI. Even before the beginning of the protest, the heavy deployment of police right outside of Gate 7, as well as the rigorous identity card monitoring took place.
2019 Campus Violence: Jamia Millia Students Organise Mass Protest Against Police Action
The protest started at the central canteen in the evening with loud slogans of resistance, and leaders of student organisations delivered their speeches with the demand for the immediate release of student activists who are still imprisoned for being the voice of justice and pointed out the fact of providing compensation to the victims whose careers and lives were very badly affected due to the 2019 incident.
Nausheen Farooque, General Secretary, Fraternity Movement JMI, addressed the gathering and said, “In 2019, student protests started in the girls’ hostel led by student leaders such as Ayisha Renna and Ladeeda Farzana. The way the state government used police to crush the voice of dissent caused serious physical and mental distress among students. One student has lost his eyesight. Politicians provided promises to the affected ones. But all the promises are in vain and none of the victims received any kind of justice.”
2019 Campus Violence: Jamia Millia Students Organise Mass Protest Against Police Action
The following phase included the mass rally around the Jamia campus and then stopping in front of Zakir Hussain Library to remember the place where the echoes of truth were tried to be inhibited once. Therefore, the night witnessed the winding up of the gathering with the songs and slogans chanted by students, as they are the key elements to not stay silent against the unlawful actions of the government.
