Pall of gloom prevails in Khagrachhari
The murder of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) leader Mithun Chakma has sparked widespread criticism among the townspeople as well as in the social media.
On Wednesday noon, some masked men on two motorcycles and a battery-run rickshaw abducted Mithun Chakma, a member of the media wing of UPDF and former president of Greater Chittagong Hill Tracts Pahari Chhatra Parishad, from near his house at Aparna Chowdhury Para in Khagrachhari.
They later shot him in Sluice Gate area of the district town.
Mithun's body was brought to his home from hospital in the evening and political fellows, well-wishers, relatives and neighbours thronged there to console the bereaved family.
Visiting Mithun's home yesterday morning, this correspondent found a pall of gloom prevailing there.
He lived in an old shabby house comprising three rooms.
“Mithun was murdered on Wednesday, the birthday of his two-year-old son,” said the slain leader's aunt Swapna Chakma.
“Those who want to continue oppression in Chittagong Hill Tracts have committed the well-planned murder,” said Michael Chakma, an UPDF organizer and former president of Democratic Youth Forum.
“Some people who formed 'Mukhosh Bahini' (UPDF-democratic) were expelled from the UPDF for breaking party discipline a year ago,” he said, implying their possible involvement in the murder.
Seeking anonymity, a development activist, also a former classmate of Mithun, said, “Mithun never did politics of fighting and murder. He was a follower of idealism and never compromised with any wrongdoing.”
Mithun passed the Higher Secondary Examinations from Notre Dame College in Dhaka and studied linguistics at Dhaka University, he said.
His funeral will be done at Golabari crematorium today.
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