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the bullet hole/ in my brother's chest/ unfolds like a pandora's box
The government wasted time while the violence continued.
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Over the past few days, The Daily Star published a series of reports on ordeals of the victims of mindless violence in the name of politics between January 5 and April 5 last year. Lives perished, people were crippled, families torn apart and dreams shattered in the 91 days of brutality that shook the nation to its core. In the last part of the series, we today will tell you the story of a victim who is living a life no one wants.
For 91 days from January 5 to April 5 last year, there was hardly a single day when innocent people were not burnt to death or injured in arson attacks on public transports.
An Indian teenager held captive for two weeks by a gang of men has said in an interview broadcast Sunday that she was repeatedly raped before being shot twice and dumped in a well on the outskirts of New Delhi.
Jamaat-e-Islami founder Maududi's takfiri ideology that permits use of “extreme violence” for establishing Islam in the society was adopted and followed by Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, a UK review reveals.
For 91 days from January 5 to April 5 last year, there was hardly a single day when innocent people were not burnt to death or injured in arson attacks on public transports. Some lost their loved ones, others their lone bread earners during the longest spell of horror allegedly carried out by the BNP-led coalition, protesting the January 5, 2014, elections.
For 91 days from January 5 to April 5 last year, there was hardly a single day when innocent people were not burnt to death or injured in arson attacks on public transports. Some lost their loved ones, others their lone bread earners during the longest spell of horror allegedly carried out by the BNP-led coalition, protesting the January 5, 2014, elections.
A Dhaka court sends BNP standing committee members Mirza Abbas to jail after his surrender before it in connection with two violence cases.
Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam calls upon BNP to return to the path of peaceful politics and shun the path of violence while addressing a rally at Bangabandhu Avenue celebrating the second anniversary of January 5 general elections.
The month of January has come again, starting a new year with new hopes and new promises. But it makes no difference to those stuck in a circle of pain, sorrow and uncertainties resulted from the unprecedented violence last year.
After BNP announced to hold a rally in Dhaka on Tuesday to protest the January 5 elections, ruling Awami League says they will also “hold programmes” on the same day. Thereby, again, the rival parties have called for holding programmes on the election anniversary with contrasting views – that ended up in violence and death of over a 100 people last year.
