Should I Seek Justice for My Father’s Murder or My Rape?

Opinion

I am talking about the Hindu girl from Barguna who was raped, and while seeking justice for her, her father was brutally murdered. The girl, around 12 years old, belongs to a Hindu family. Her frail, malnourished body is a testament to her suffering.

According to the girl’s account, the rapist tied her hands and feet with ropes and kept her hidden in the bushes behind his house. In one night, she was raped three times. The next morning, the rapist left her on the roadside.

The girl’s father filed a case against the rapist at the police station. Pressure was exerted by the rapist’s side to withdraw the case, but the father, unaware of the consequences, refused. Six days after the rape, on the night before the court hearing, the father was murdered.

Like his daughter, the father was also tied up and left in the bushes. The difference? The daughter was alive, but the father was lifeless. The daughter’s survival doesn’t mean she is truly living.

When journalists went to interview her, the girl asked, “Brother, should I seek justice for my father’s murder? Or for the inhuman torture I endured? I can’t figure it out yet! My mother has a one-and-a-half-month-old baby in her arms. I’m in seventh grade! I don’t have an older brother! I don’t know how my family will survive. Should I seek justice or just focus on surviving?”

I don’t have an answer to her question. Instead, I can appeal to you all: even if you have to collect donations, please contribute some funds to the likes of Netra, Getra, and Ummah.

With some funds, they might be able to rent a helicopter for rapist Mamunul and his two henchmen, Hasanat and Sargis, to visit Barguna. Who knows, they might need to cremate the girl while she’s still alive!!

-Anonymous Netizen 

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