RU Student Faruk Hossain Murder: Bruises gone, trauma remains
It has been twelve years since the gruesome murder of Rajshahi University student Faruk Hossain in the early hours of February 9, 2010.
However, the case trial, pinning top-tier leaders of Jamaat and Chhatra Shibir, has seen little to no progress.
The trial began at Rajshahi metropolitan additional session judge's court by framing charges in July 2019, after a nine-year-long police investigation came to an end.
For over two-and-a-half years, the date for hearing prosecution witnesses have been deferred many times due to the pandemic, according to public prosecutor Siraji Shawkat Salehin.
He also expressed his doubts to this correspondent over the possibility of any progress on February 13, the next date for hearing.
However, the prosecution witnesses have stories that are no less horrifying than the murder itself.
Talking to this correspondent recently, Md Ruhul Amin, one of the witnesses, recalled how he almost lost his life amidst the violence of that night. Ever since moving in as a resident student at RU's Sayed Amir Ali Hall in 2007, Ruhul has closely observed Shibir's reign of terror.
"Very few dared to utter the name of Chhatra League," he said.
In one of the many attacks and counterattacks on Shibir members by BCL activists, Sharifuzzaman Nomani, a prominent Shibir leader at the campus at that time, was killed.
On February 9, 2010, a coordinated attack was launched by around 100 Shibir men on BCL members at different male dormitories of the campus following this incident. At 1:20am of that night, Ruhul was bedridden with fever in his room, when Shibir men broke in and attacked him with machetes, Chinese axes, hammers and rods.
Ruhul was subjected to inhuman torture by the attackers. "They broke my limbs and cut the tendons of my left hand and right leg," he said.
Ruhul recalled that later, police recovered him from his room and admitted him to RMCH, where he got 18 stitches on his head, and 126 stitches on the back and the lower parts of his body.
For more than a year, he went through a series of surgeries.
"The bruises from the night are now gone, but the pain and trauma remain. I still feel numbness in parts of my body and require assistance to recover from that."
During one of the many attacks that night, Shibir members brutally murdered Faruk Hossain, a mathematics major, dragged his body out of his room at Shah Makhdum Hall and dumped it into a sewer.
Further investigation revealed that the attack was carried out following direct orders from top leaders of Jamaat -- Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Delwar Hossain Sayedee -- two days after they visited Rajshahi.
However, the case trial, pinning top-tier leaders of Jamaat and Chhatra Shibir, has seen little to no progress.
The trial began at Rajshahi metropolitan additional session judge's court by framing charges in July 2019, after a nine-year-long police investigation came to an end.
For over two-and-a-half years, the date for hearing prosecution witnesses have been deferred many times due to the pandemic, according to public prosecutor Siraji Shawkat Salehin.
He also expressed his doubts to this correspondent over the possibility of any progress on February 13, the next date for hearing.
However, the prosecution witnesses have stories that are no less horrifying than the murder itself.
Talking to this correspondent recently, Md Ruhul Amin, one of the witnesses, recalled how he almost lost his life amidst the violence of that night. Ever since moving in as a resident student at RU's Sayed Amir Ali Hall in 2007, Ruhul has closely observed Shibir's reign of terror.
"Very few dared to utter the name of Chhatra League," he said.
In one of the many attacks and counterattacks on Shibir members by BCL activists, Sharifuzzaman Nomani, a prominent Shibir leader at the campus at that time, was killed.
On February 9, 2010, a coordinated attack was launched by around 100 Shibir men on BCL members at different male dormitories of the campus following this incident. At 1:20am of that night, Ruhul was bedridden with fever in his room, when Shibir men broke in and attacked him with machetes, Chinese axes, hammers and rods.
Ruhul was subjected to inhuman torture by the attackers. "They broke my limbs and cut the tendons of my left hand and right leg," he said.
Ruhul recalled that later, police recovered him from his room and admitted him to RMCH, where he got 18 stitches on his head, and 126 stitches on the back and the lower parts of his body.
For more than a year, he went through a series of surgeries.
"The bruises from the night are now gone, but the pain and trauma remain. I still feel numbness in parts of my body and require assistance to recover from that."
During one of the many attacks that night, Shibir members brutally murdered Faruk Hossain, a mathematics major, dragged his body out of his room at Shah Makhdum Hall and dumped it into a sewer.
Further investigation revealed that the attack was carried out following direct orders from top leaders of Jamaat -- Matiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Delwar Hossain Sayedee -- two days after they visited Rajshahi.
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