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An activist of Bangladesh Chatra League (BCL) [opposition student wing] was stabbed to death in the city on January 6. Five activists of Jatiyatabadi Chatra Dal (JCD) [ruling party student wing] swooped on Akbar Sultan,18, a second-year student of MC college, on the campus around 10: 30 am and stabbed [him] in the abdomen and legs. Akbar was admitted to the Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries at 8 pm....
The Bangladesh Chatra League (BCL) yesterday demanded immediate arrest and trial of the killers of Akbar Sultan, vice-president of Sylhet Government College unit
- The Daily Star, January 9,2003
Another dead boy, killed by an idea –
Democracy. And western donors won’t
Mention him on the BBC: we had
A ‘free and fair’ election, and that’s news.
His story won’t be interesting, either –
Thousands like him, a boring pattern; power
At, say, thirteen, armed at fourteen, careering
Through the ranks until he fell, used and trashed.
Used by the parties, by aid-givers, by
Intellectuals, here, abroad, by NGOs....
Everyone turned the knife – careers and cash
At stake. And what could he have been,
I wonder, had multinational interests
Left him alone to die surrounded by grandchildren?
Iftekhar Sayeed
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