<i>Election evokes sad memory as family silently sheds tear</i>

Journalist Kazi Kamruzzaman was killed in police shooting and beating on February 19, 1996 after the 6th parliament election when he was taking photographs of police atrocity on opposition protesters at Nilphamari but neither any judicial enquiry has yet been held nor punishment given to the persons responsible for the killing.
Since 1996 whenever Jatiya Sangsad (JS) elections come and the candidates begin campaigning the family of Kazi Kamruzzaman silently shed tears in his memory.
The journalist was killed in police firing while carrying on professional responsibilities amid political turmoil after the 6th JS election in 1996. Neither any judicial inquiry was held nor the killers were punished despite demand of the journalists' organizations from home and abroad.
Kazi Kamruzzaman's elderly father Kazi Abul Khair said, "Our sorrow knew no bounds when we found that no judicial enquiry was held and the killers were not punished even after passage of long time."
Kazi Md Kamruzzaman was the staff reporter of local weekly 'Nil Sagor'. Main political parties rejected February 15, 1996 parliamentary election results and launched agitation programmes demanding its cancellation.
In Nilphamari, police arrested some opposition leaders on February 18 night. Opposition parties in a procession on February 19 was going to the office of the deputy commissioner (DC) to hand over a memorandum to him.
On the way a big contingent of police barricaded the procession, charged baton and shot rubber bullets to disperse the participants. Journalist Kamruzzaman was taking shots of police atrocities on the protesters.
Police opened fire at about 12:30 a.m. at the protesters at the local municipal market area. Witnesses said that the first bullets hit Kamruzzaman and he fell on the road. He was hit on the head, abdomen and chest. A group of police rushed to him and started beating him with rifle butt till his death.
Police picked up the body of Kamruzzaman into a police van. But police did not hand over the body of Kamruzzaman to his father when he sought his son's body.