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JL [Jubo League - political party youth wing] leader's beheaded body recovered
Police recovered one behead[ed] body of local Jubo League leader AN Barua,25, from the Sanghu River....
- The Bangladesh Observer, February 25,2003
He lost his head. Gallows humour keeps us sane In Bangladesh. A country where we’ve lost Our sanity. The obituary’s buried In a corner of page 6, barely 3 by 2, under “Zilla News in Brief”, Along with two road accidents, tornado.... A natural and regular affair, I nearly missed it for the cricket games. We pick these boys, democracy’s shock-troops, When they are teenagers, full of ideas, And send them out to capture polling-booths And ballot-boxes; they help themselves to Taxes from local businessmen; they take to drugs To block out for short spells a life they know won’t last.
Iftekhar Sayeed
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