Buet student stabbed

Tonmoy

A Gonojagoron Mancha activist was injured in stabbing allegedly by Shibir cadres at Palashbari upazila of Gaibandha Saturday night.
Tonmoy Ahmed Moon, a civil engineering student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), went to visit his village home on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.
Police said the victim, son of Manik Mian of Jamalpur village under the upazila, was travelling with some friends on a rickshaw van in Kishoreganj area.
When they reached Kashiabari around 9:00pm, a gang of nine, all masked and riding three motorcycles, encircled the van. They stabbed Tonmoy at least ten times and left the scene.
Locals took him to Palashbari Health Complex. Later, he was sent to Rangpur Medical College Hospital in a critical condition, report our Gaibandha and Rangpur correspondents.
Al Helal Didarul Alam, assistant professor of Rangpur Medical College Hospital, told The Daily Star yesterday that Tonmoy suffered grievous injuries in several parts of his body, including the head, left ear and right hand.
The victim's condition was very critical when he was admitted to RMCH. After a three-hour surgery, he was now out of danger and kept at the post operative centre of RMCH, the doctor said.
Shiekh Md Golam Mostafa, OC (investigation) of Palashbari Police Station, said a probe was going on to nab the criminals.
Tonmoy told The Daily Star yesterday afternoon over the phone he had identified three of the nine attackers. “Although the gang members were masked, I could identify the three from their physiques and getups.”
Of the three, he said, two were locals and the other was from the capital. He will disclose the identities of the assailants to law enforcers.
Tonmoy, a central committee member of Bangladesh Chhatra League, has all along been actively involved in Shahbagh movement.
According to his family members, including his mother, he has no political or any sort of conflict with anyone in the locality.
He was stabbed by the assailants from Jamaat and Shibir as he used to write articles in blogs against smear campaigns of Jamaat-e-Islam and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, they alleged.
Tonmoy, also a former general secretary of Buet Chhatra League, claimed he had received threats over the phone from Shibir activists for he and his friends had handed over 18 Shibir men to police in the past one year.
Campus sources say Tonmoy exposed a network of Shibir men carrying out propaganda against Gonojagoron Mancha, which spearheads the Shahbagh movement for capital punishment to war criminals and banning of Jamaat-Shibir politics.
A few weeks back, he also provided The Daily Star with huge documents revealing the network.
On April 9, Arif Rayhan Dwip, another Buet student and Gonojagoron Mancha activist, was stabbed indiscriminately. He succumbed to his injuries on July 2 after remaining unconscious for 84 days.
Within a month of the attack on Dwip, somebody sent by post shrouds to Tonmoy and Buet Chhatra League Convener Amanur Rahman Palash in their dormitories, the victim said. The deliveries bore the mark of Mirpur post office.
Maruf Rasul, an organiser of Gonojagoron Mancha, said those who stabbed Tonmoy should be arrested immediately and tried in speedy tribunals.
Siddique Nazmul Alam, general secretary of BCL, in a statement condemned incident and said this is an ominous sign for the country's politics.