“Sonar Banglay Manob Itihasher Nrishongshotomo Hottakando” (The most brutal massacre in human history of Bengal), read the lead headline in an issue of The Daily Ittefaq published in December 1971.
A child steps onto the street from an alley -- only to be shot dead in an instant. A college student lies lifeless in a pool of blood at a city hospital, his phone vibrating with calls from “Maa”. And a “laasher michhil” (procession of bodies) on the streets of Dhaka.
Eighteen-year-old Alif Hassan Rahat, a student from Milestone College in Uttara, dreamed of becoming a rocket engineer.
Tofazzal Hossain was a familiar face to many resident students of Dhaka University. He would often wander about the campus, dorms, and gladly eat if somebody offered him food.
The pulsating energy of Dhaka University campus works as a catalyst to inspire students and shape their conscience.
Hundreds of students from Dhaka, Chattogram and districts in between were seen marching towards Feni on August 22. They travelled in trucks, with speedboats and life jackets, on a mission to rescue those stranded by the unprecedented floods that swept through the region.
After broadband internet was restored in selected areas on July 23, a video dated from July 19 began circulating on social media showing a boy hanging from the cornice of an under-construction building.
Man seen hanging from ledge of Rampura building while being shot by police in viral video miraculously escapes death
“Is this a place to ply a rickshaw?”
Mugdho, 25, died after getting shot in the head
On every Friday, Mostofa Zaman Samudra, a 17-year-old SSC graduate, goes to Juma prayers with his father, Tajul Kal.
Samudra's mother recalls his last words after the 17-year-old died of bullet injuries
"Move aside! Get me a trolley! He needs help!".The air inside Dhaka hospitals was filled with cries for help and painful screams
Some of them are teens, some in early 20s and many are middle-aged men. The one thing common between all of them is that they have been shot either by shotgun pellets or bullets, as police and BGB opened fire at protesters and alleged infiltrators during the recent unrest centring the quota protests.
It was absolute mayhem in Rampura and Badda areas on Friday..Quota protesters clashed with police and BGB personnel since morning to dusk, leaving at least 13 killed and over 500 injured. Many of the victims had bullet and shotgun pellet wounds on the upper part of their bodies..Thes
It was absolute mayhem in Rampura and Badda areas yesterday.
Is it a vast river, or a habitable land?
“Move aside! Get me a stretcher! He needs help!”
