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BNP cadres again gang raped a minority girl in Bagherhat

Translated from Daily Janakantha dated 5th February, 2002



Bagherhat, 4th February, 2002:
Although four party alliance has completed their 100 day in the government, their party cadres yet to get restrained from attacking minorities and gang raping minority girl. The ruling party cadres along with some elements of Islamic Fundamentalists continue their medieval rampage in Mullhahat. Again they have attacked and gang raped a school going girl of minority community in broad daylight.
After the brutal gang rape, locals took the blood-spattered and unconscious body of the destitute girl to the hospitals for treatment. This incident took placed at Kamargram of Mullhahat. The father of the destitute girl filed a case in the Mullhahat police station accusing BNP's Jubodal leader Milon Mullha who kidnapped his daughter from the pond at gunpoint and gang raped her in the neighboring jungle while guarded by notorious followers.
The poor hand-to-mouth father of the destitute girl Mr. Ashok Biswas alleged that initially police was reluctant to accept the case against the said notorious Jubodal (BNP's Youth Wing) leader but accepted the case only after the intervention local BNP leaders.
While writing this report police could not arrest the miscreants. Janakantha reporter got a chance to talk with the destitute girl. She was utterly crying when the reporter asked her to described the incident, with great remorse she asserted, " I have lost everything, my very self, what more can I tell you …".
It is to be noted that after general election there been several incidents brutal gang rape in this area alone in which mother and sisters were included. Yet, local administration has not taken punitive action to punish the miscreants and safeguard the minorities.