Parents of murdered school kids seek justice
“Why did they have to kill my only son?” Jusna Begum wailed as she broke down into convulsions.
“How will I live without him?” she asked.
The bereaved parents of Biplob and Jewel, the two schoolboys murdered in city's Meerertek area two weeks ago, are still struggling to get back to their normal lives.
The two schoolboys Biplob, 7, and Jewel, 9, went missing on April 29 and Ramna police retrieved their decomposed bodies two days later from an abandoned house at Noyatola, about a kilometre off their houses.
The reason behind their death is not yet known, but police suspect that both boys were physically abused before being murdered.
The loss of their beloved children, and their inability to come to terms with the shocking murders of their children, is also holding the parents from returning to their jobs, leading to them often going without food.
Jewel's rickshaw-puller father Alal Uddin and housemaid mother Josna Begum, say they are unable to deal with the shock.
“How can I think of work when I have lost my child forever? Josna Begum wailed.
“The only thing I wish for is that my son's killers are arrested. Because I need to ask his killers what my nine year-old did wrong that they had to take his life,” Alal told The Daily Star as he broke down into sobs.
Jewel's mother said they took out Tk 7,000 in loan from locals to look for their son, when he first went missing, and then subsequently to bury him in their village home at Muktagachha in Mymensingh.
“The lenders are already pressing us to pay back the loan, but we don't have the mental strength to work,” Josna said wiping the tears off her face.
She said no one in her family had gone to school before, but they had put Jewel into one and he would have made them proud by being the only literate person in their entire family.
She can only cry now as she thinks of her son.
Biplob's mother Bilkis Begum and father Siddiq, a private car driver, are also struggling to return to work, neighbours told the Daily Star.
Bilkis sits and stares blankly at the roadside where, her neighbours point out, her son used to play. She doesn't answer any questions, just stares speechlessly.
Siddiq wants justice for his young son's death.
Both sets of parents said they could get some consolation if the killers were arrested and brought to justice.
Thirteen days into the murders however, the investigators remain clueless about who carried out such brutal acts.
Inspector Abul Kalam Azad of the Detective Branch told The Daily Star last night that they have drawn up a list of thugs in the area and will now investigate each one on the list to find any possible links to the gruesome killings.
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