Fifteen-year-old Rihan Mahin only asked for a sip of water. After four hours of relentless beating, his throat had gone dry. They didn’t give him that water.
The boy died. Now his mother says — her son was not a thief.
In Magura, a man named Israf il was dragged from his home and beaten to death. A case was filed against 28 people — not one arrest.
Police say the matter is “complex and sensitive.” What does that even mean? A man was murdered, the body lies cold — and the police call it complex?
Over the past thirteen months, 67 people have been beaten to death by mobs. More than 9,000 individuals have been named in cases. Only 114 have been arrested — that’s about 1.27 percent. What does that number show? That in a country where people are being lynched in broad daylight, the killers roam free.
The “revolution” that Muhammad Yunus and his allies claimed to have launched in July has now turned into a license to kill. Even Law Adviser Asif Nazrul has admitted that mob violence is their government’s greatest failure. But admission isn’t enough — where is justice for the dead?
At Dhaka University’s Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall, before killing Tofazzal Hossain, students gave him a meal. They fed the mentally challenged man — then beat him to death. That case gained attention, so a few arrests followed.
But in Comilla, Roksana Begum and her two children were hacked to death by a mob. The main accused, Chairman Shimul Billah, remains at large.
In most cases, police only stir when the media covers the story. And the rest?
In Noakhali, after Abdul Kader Milon was lynched, his wife didn’t even file a case. You know why? Fear. Filing a case means naming names — creating enemies. And this reign of fear — who created it?
After Rup Lal Robidas of Rangpur was murdered, his son Joy Robidas, a ninth-grader, had to leave school to work as a cobbler.
He now stitches shoes in the market two days a week — because his father, the family’s only earner, is gone. Murdered.
The killers walk free.
And the son mends shoes to survive.
Who is this country for?
In Bashundhara, two Iranian nationals were beaten by a mob who thought they were muggers. Later it turned out — they weren’t. It was a quarrel over currency exchange. Meaning now, anyone can be beaten to death — for anything. In front of Mitford Hospital, in broad daylight, Lal Chand was lynched — stones and bricks crushed his head, and they stripped him naked before killing him. All in public. No one stopped it.
This government — installed through foreign funding, militant backing, and military protection after overthrowing an elected administration — will do many things, but enforcing law and order isn’t one of them.
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Because their power itself is illegal. The very mobs that brought them to power through the July riots are now killing people in the streets. They know no one will touch them — because they’re the “revolutionaries,” the ones who “saved” the country.
Sara Hossain said it well: when there’s no justice, injustice continues. She’s absolutely right. But how will there be justice when the entire system is illegitimate? A government that came to power through a coup — whom will they prosecute? Their own?
In just thirteen months, 220 people have died from mob violence. Among them — children, women, the mentally ill.
And what is Dr. Yunus doing in power? Giving interviews to foreign journalists, showing off his Nobel certificate — while people in his country are beaten to death in the streets. A man who made millions from microloans — how much value does he place on ordinary lives?
Take the September 16 case. It’s now November — a month and a half later. Israf il’s killers are still free. Police call it “sensitive.” Sensitive? A man was murdered. The killers aren’t caught. Or is it “sensitive” because the killers are connected to the regime?
In Thakurgaon, Rubel Islam was murdered back in January. A case was filed against one to two hundred unknown people. Not one arrest — even after all these months. But was there ever a real attempt to catch them?
Every single day, someone is being murdered by mobs. Who bears this responsibility? Those who unleashed the July riots. Those who sent frenzied mobs into the streets. Those who attacked the police — they are now running the country.
And the people are dying — slowly, silently.
No one comes to save them.
Because those who should protect — stand with the killers.
