Mother's question, 'What crime did the son have to shoot?'

Rahat Hossain (17) was repeatedly watching the shooting of student Abu Saeed during the quota reform movement in Rangpur on his mobile phone. He was very upset to see this. On July 17, after showing the video to mother Swapna Akhtar, she said, 'Look, mother! Just one day after that, Rahat also went to the same movement in the afternoon of July 18 and returned as a dead body.

At this stage of narrating the incident, Swapna was saying in a tone of regret, 'My son will go to the movement, if I had known this, I would never have left him. If I had known, I would have gone to the log myself, if I had been shot, I would have eaten mother and son alone.'

Rahat Hossain was a class XI student of Nawab Habibullah Model School and College, Uttara. Garment worker lived with mother and grandmother in Gopalpur of Tongi area of ​​Gazipur. Father migrated abroad for the prosperity of the family. Rahat's family claimed that he was shot in the head and killed during the quota reform movement on July 18 in the capital's Uttara.

After 11 days of his death, last Sunday at noon, it was seen that the entire family was mourning the loss of Rahat's house. Swapna Akhtar is a distraught mother who lost her only son. He was found in his own house after going home. They returned to Tongi after burying Rahat in their home Narsingdi two days ago. The small room has a bed, wardrobe, reading table and some useful things. Rahat's used books and notebooks and some clothes and schoolbags are scattered among these. Swapna Akhter is staring at them. He is crying when he remembers his son.

They (government) have returned the koda (quota), now return it to my son. Koda dise, the movement has stopped, the country is cold, but where is my son? Swapna Akhter, mother of deceased student Rahat

My only son. I was thinking, only one should learn properly and raise him. He will take care of us in the world of lack. But this is the end of me! Where am I going? The mother of the deceased Rahat was crying.

When the news of this reporter's visit to Rahat's house spread, relatives and neighbors also gathered there one by one. Some were consoling Swapna crying, some were crying themselves. Meanwhile, a young neighbor took out a picture of Rahat's body on his mobile phone. It shows the bullet wound on the left side of Rahat's head. The whole head and body are wet with blood. He is lying on the floor of the hospital.

Some of the neighbors said that on the evening of July 18, they suddenly got the news that Rahat had been shot dead. His body is lying in Modern Medical College Hospital, Uttara. After hearing the news, mother Swapna fell unconscious. Later, the neighbors took initiative and arranged to bring Rahat's body.
Swapna took the phone in her hand. He showed the picture and said, 'Someone kills people like this! He is so old, what crime did he commit that the boy had to be shot? Once I thought, how much pain my boy (son) suffered before he died. I will suffer if I see that I have never even touched a flower on her. But how did Kaira shoot him.'

Some of the neighbors said that on the evening of July 18, they suddenly got the news that Rahat had been shot dead. His body is lying in Modern Medical College Hospital, Uttara. After hearing the news, mother Swapna fell unconscious. Later, the neighbors took initiative and arranged to bring Rahat's body. Then Rahat was buried in his village home, Narsingdi.

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That day, the neighbor youth went to the hospital to bring the body. Al-Amin. Quoting the doctor, he told Prothom Alo, "There was a bullet on the left side of Rahat's head. It stays inside the head. After being admitted to the hospital, he was kept in the ICU. But in the meantime he died of excessive bleeding.

Asking the government to return her son, Swapna said, "If you want this kind of justice, I will have to return my son." They (government) have returned the koda (quota), now return it to my son. Koda dise, the movement has been stalled, the country is also cold, but where is my son Pamu?