Tanha, the 5-year-old child of Constable Amirul Parvez, who was killed on October 28, said in a tearful voice, `I am collecting money; I will buy my father from Allah.'
On Sunday (December 10) morning at Shilpakala Academy's Jatiya Natyashala Auditorium, a discussion meeting organized by the joint initiative of 'Mayer Kanna O Fire-Terrorism' to demand human rights violations and its trial became a witness to such tragic events. The entire atmosphere became heavy with the cries of the relatives of the families killed in the BNP-Jamaat fire terror.
The wife of the deceased constable said, if someone gives money to my daughter, she collects the money. If I ask, what to do with this money? Daughter says, I will buy father from Allah with this money. What will I answer her after these words? I have no answer.
On October 28, policeman Constable Amirul Parvez was killed in a clash with BNP in Fakirapool area of the capital. Also, relatives and victims of BNP Jamaat's arson attacks in 2013/14 were also present in this discussion. Relatives of Air Force and Army personnel who were tried by military courts in 1977 attended. The victims of the August 21 grenade attack also made the visitors cry by talking about their suffering.
On January 5, 2014, Jamaat-BNP people hurled petrol bombs in Dinajpur while driving a car and the whole body caught fire. Billal Hossain, the driver of the car, said, "I was not a political person." I was not affiliated with any political party. I used to drive to run my family. What will my family eat if I don't drive? So I will not eat? I still can't walk after recovering. Pain all over my body including my hands, feet. What was wrong with me? Why do I have to burn petrol bombs? That's what I want to know.
Noman, a private employee, asked the visitors, "What was my fault?" In 2015, Jamaat-BNP terrorists hurled petrol bombs on our car at Jatrabari on our way home after office. The whole car caught fire. My whole body was also on fire. I am a common man. So why do I have to burn? I still have to go through the unbearable pain of burning my body.
Meanwhile, the victims called upon the government to take strict action to stop this anarchy of BNP-Jamaat. They said, no other person should suffer the unbearable pain we are going through. We want it to end. We want these fire-terrorists to be prosecuted more severely. No one should be able to empty the chest of a mother by doing such terrorist activities in this Bangladesh. A wife should not lose her husband. Children should not be orphaned by losing their father.
A wife who lost her husband during the regime of military ruler Ziaur Rahman said, I did not even know what was wrong with my husband. Why was my husband killed in the name of justice? I could not even see my husband's body. I will show my baby a picture of his father, that picture has not been given to me yet. I cried so much, but I didn't get a picture of my husband.
The entire auditorium became heavy with such indescribable tragedy of the infinite suffering of the victims. The visitors stared in shock with tears in their eyes. It is like shrugging shoulders with pain. The victims were trying to comfort each other by pushing away the sadness. However, with a little bit of relief, the show ends with that.