Students recover weapons from BCL-controlled dormitories at Dhaka Teachers’ Training College

Students from the Anti-Discrimination Movement recovered a large number of locally-made weapons from dormitories controlled by the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Dhaka Teachers’ Training College on this afternoon.

The recovered weapons included knives, machetes, sickles, rods, hockey sticks, batons, and cricket stumps.

According to Hasibul Islam, a coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, they had received information that the dormitories at the Teachers’ Training College in Dhaka had been under the control of the BCL for an extended period and that a large cache of weapons was stored there.

Acting on a tip-off, they initiated their operation, searching each room in the dormitories and recovering the weapons.

Hasibul Islam stated that these weapons had been used by BCL leaders and activists on various occasions, most recently during attacks on protesters in the quota reform movement.

Teachers from the college were present during the operation; however, no BCL leaders were found at the scene.