'I will fight until the last'
Slain Rajshahi University teacher Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee's daughter Rizwana Hasin has told the CNN that she will fight until the killers of her father are punished.
“I will fight until the last to get them [the attackers] what they deserve for their deed,” she told CNN which carried a report titled “Bangladesh Professor: Daughter's fury over slaughtered father” yesterday.
“How can they do this? How can anyone do this? I can't express my emotion as a daughter, seeing his picture, seeing him lying on the road. Three hours he laid there, slaughtered,” she said.
The CNN report says that a statement from ISIS blamed the deceased professor of “calling to atheism”, but the family refutes the claim. According to Rizwana, her father was not an atheist. “Who could kill him? Why should they kill him?” she asked.
“He loved music. A concept is growing in Bangladesh these days that those who are interested in music, culture, are not believers in religion,” Rizwana said.
Since the killing, there have been protests all over Rajshahi city with professors and students travelling from other parts of the country and joining in.
Rizwana told CNN, “The murderers didn't imagine such things would happen after killing him. He didn't have a political background.”
“He used to live alone in his own world. Now he is the symbol of honesty, purity. They cannot be murdered. Wherever he is, he [must be] feeling very proud,” she said.
Meanwhile, police yesterday claimed that four operatives of the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) took part in the killing of Prof Rezaul.
Unknown assailants hacked to death Prof Rezaul on the morning of April 23 when he was waiting for the university bus in Shalbagan area of Rajshahi city.
His son Riyasat Imtiaz Shourav filed a case with Boalia Police Station accusing unnamed people for the murder.
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