On Saturday morning (yesterday), I got an email from a journalist in Rajshahi. I should really call him a fortune teller because he predicted a death. His email read like this:
Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Just now I heard Dr. Mizanur Rahman Tutul was arrested by RAB. Perhaps this night he (Tutul) would be ‘crossfired’. Dr. Tutul is the chief of banned Purbo Banglar Communist Party (M-L Red Flag).
As soon as I read it I felt a sense of helplessness, probably one millionth of how his family felt at that time. Dr. Tutul’s mother had no idea where his son was. From various sources she heard that Tutul was picked up by RAB and she feared for the worst. There was no court to go for bail, there was no lawyer to go to. Because he was not shown arrested in any official log. By Saturday night she desperately went for the last resort — ‘appealing’ to the government to save her son’s life. She went to the Rajshahi Press Club and asked whichever journalists she could talk to and she did a press conference clinging to a hope that perhaps a media outcry will help the government to move and save her son. I sent the email to every HR group I knew. Just like that journalists who were also trying their best to spread the word out with a sense of gloom.
Too little, too late.
This morning — the predictable news was on bdnews24. The fortune teller has called it correctly.
Naogaon, July 27 (bdnews24.com) – A top leader of an extremist party died early Sunday in an exchange of gunfire with police in Naogaon, a police official said.
The dead man was identified as Dr Mizanur Rahman, alias Dadabhai, the organising leader of Purbo Bangla Communist Party (ML Lal Pataka), an extremist party of the south, officer in charge of Raninagar police Tofazzal Hossain confirmed.
The dirty war continues.
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