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Milestone Tragedy and Our Response
Milestone School and College experienced quite an unexpected and unfathomable tragic incident, the first of its kind in Bangladesh. However, our response to that pathetic incident did not seem rational. On 22 July, just after the day of the Milestone incident two advisors namely law and education were detained for 9 hours by the students who could not come to the main road and then again, their security men took them back to the college where they had to remain for 9 hours and finally, they were rescued by security men through an alternative way. The students from adjacent areas also...
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