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Killing a Man

Posted by xanthis on February 9, 2008

Death is the end of the life of a biological organism. Death may refer to the end of life as either an event or condition. Many factors can cause or contribute to an organism’s death, including predation, disease, habitat destruction, senescence, malnutrition and accidents or physical injury.

2008-02-08-18-08-17-feb_eight-07.jpgQaiyum Khan was one of the strongest voices of Dhaka Metropolitan BNP. Since his first triumph in 1996 City Corporation Election, Qaiyum was the unbeaten Ward Commissioner of Badda area to the time being killed. He was one of those persons, who have been arrested overnight 1/11’s coup d’état. He was arrested by civil dressed security forces before the first sunrise after 1/11. Do you know why? He was arrested in the charge of “conspiracy against the regime”. Then, heart-diseased & high blood-pressure suffered Qaiyum Khan was kept inside jail for consequent twelve months without any properness of treatment, whereas both the lower court & high court declared that Qaiyum’s detention was absolutely illegal. But this military government saw it no important to care about what those civilian court says. They keeps Qaiyum inside jail. However, at Qaiyum’s lawyers’ constant request and notification of Qaiyum’s illegal & timed-out detention to the court, court forced this regime to release Qaiyum. Then may be on January 6 this year, Qaiyum was released. But in the way Brig. Hannan Shah got rearrested yesterday, Qaiyum was picked up by civil-dressed security forces in the same way, before he walked passing the shadow of the jail gate on the ground. Qaiyum Khan got arrested again. And do you know this time why? This time, Qaiyum was arrested because of the fear of violating the state of emergency and charge of conspiracy against the government. Qaiyum was treated in the remand in such way, which an uncompromising BNP leader can expect from this regime. qayyum_wife.jpgYou have already seen how a Senior Joint General Secretary of BNP, Tarique Rahman has been tortured, so I see no reason to explain about how Qaiyum was tortured. Not only the torture, Qaiyum in this 12 months has not been gone through any proper treatment, while his family was frequently notifying jail authority as well as the court about Qaiyum’s poor health.

Upcoming City Corporation election, where BNP’s campaign could have an effective influence of once Deputy Mayor Qaiyum Khan, today Qaiyum Khan has been a victim of this regime’s wrath on major political parties, whereas other parties like Jatiyo Party, Jamaat Islam have been kept untouched. Leaders-activists-supporters of BNP & Awami League and their wings like ChhatroDol-ChhatroLeague, JuboDol-JuboLeague have been detained, tortured and harassed lavishly. Now what is going on, those detainees have started losing their lives, through the nastiest debate of whether they have been killed or not.

A family, contains a father, a mother, brothers & sisters. When the father or the brother of someone is in jail with no good reason, that person knows that his/her husband or brother is ill but there is no treatment, I can’t explain that what the mental condition of those wives or sisters or children can be. After all of these, when that woman gets the phone call, that her husband has died inside the jail, how she can take this? She looked at her husband being taken to jail a year ago. Now after 394 days without any communication, without any call, without a single moment passed together, that person comes out of that place where this comeback is actually a departure forever. How they feel? How the family feels? How can they give a solace to themselves? Why their dear died? Just sighs come out. What else!?

Today, Moazzem Hussain Alal has been arrested. His apartment was raided by the police officer, Shibli Noman the OC of Mohammadpur Thana, who has been alleged as one of masterminds of Jessore’s journalist Shamshur Rahman’s murder in 1997. Mrs. Shamsur Rahman told to the media, to police & to the court for several times that this Shibli Noman, then an SI of Jessore (Kotowali) Thana, came along with the shooter of Shamsur Rahman to his chamber and he was present there at the very moment Shamsur Rahman was shot to death at point blank range. This accursed police inspector was this regime’s choice to arrest Moazzem Hussain Alal. I ain’t thundered at it anymore, because OC Noman has been the fittest choice according to the inhuman kind of this regime. Alal today has been a part of this regime’s repression chronicle. The cursed chronicle which had Tarique Rahman, Hannan Shah, Chhatro Dol’s Fazlul Bari Helal at earlier part, now has Alal and in future this can be Rizvi Ahmed.

Today, this of my posts will have no conclusion. Only some words, if you consider these to be the conclusion, are- human rights, humanity & honesty are several things, which have been suspended brutally in the present chapter of Bangladeshi history. Bangladesh in her history of 37 years, has never witnessed inhuman brutality just to propagate the political wrath, like this present military regime is doing, unlike BKSALite era, unlike Ershad’s autocracy era, even sometimes unlike nine months long tenure of plunder by foreign tyrants. This regime is just killing people.

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