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HUMAYUN AZAD'S DEATH

Doubtful campus for int'l probe

DU CORRESPONDENT
Daughters of the late Humayun Azad yesterday appealed to Dhaka University (DU) students to protest the 'planned killing' of the writer in Germany as the shocked university community demanded an international probe to unravel the mystery surrounding the death.
Sisters Mouli Azad and Smita Azad went to four dormitories with their appeal, saying fundamentalists killed their father and they had nobody to protest the killing except for his students.
"Come and resist the fundamentalists," they cried, but only a few students responded to their call on the campus still doubting his natural death in Munich on Thursday, six months after he suffered life-threatening knife injury that his family blamed on Islamist extremists.
Asked to comment on the autopsy report in Germany that said 'he died of natural causes', Mouli said: "I don't
believe it."
They have killed him, either by poising his food or gassing him," she told The Daily Star.
Different student organisations, Dhaka University Teachers' Association (Duta) and Humayun Azad Mancha yesterday joined the torrents of call for an international probe into the death of Azad, also a professor of Bangla at the university.
Duta President Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique demanded the international probe at a campus rally at the end of a mourning procession from the Aparajeyo Bangla to the Central Shaheed Minar, joined by hundreds of blackbadge-wearing teachers.
Sharing his last memories with the author of over 60 books of essays, novels and poems, Siddique said: "The ill-motive of the vested quarter, who had tried to kill him, has become successful."
The fundamentalist forces attacked him several times and now people want to know whether his
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death is natural or not, he said.
"Prof Azad was found dead in his Munich apartment by a member of the German PEN Centre when he did not come to an appointment with the PEN member," a German embassy press release said on Friday.
Azad went to Germany on August 8 on a fellowship from PEN International and intended to do several months of research on romantic German writer Heinrich Heine.
Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the Awami League, Bangladesh Chhatra Union, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-backed Chhatra League, Samajtantrik Chhatra Front, Bangladesh Chhatra Moitree and the Mancha staged separate processions and rallies on the campus.
They demanded an international probe into the death of Azad, a staunch feminist and a fearless critic of fundamentalism and human rights violations, saying they smelt a foul play in the death.
Azad Mancha submitted a memorandum to the vice-chancellor of the university, demanding accurate information on the death in 24 hours.
A range of other organisations voicing the same demand includes Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal, Bangladesh Chhatra Kendra and Bangladesh Sramajibi Nari Moitree.
The director general of the consular and welfare wing of the foreign ministry called Azad's family by phone yesterday and told them the author's body would be flown home according to their wish.
The family said they would take a decision after discussing the issue among themselves.
The family will inform the foreign ministry of their decision today to bring the body to Dhaka as soon as possible, Siddiqui told The Daily Star.
"The family hopes to receive the body by the end of this week, depending on cooperation from the German embassy and the government."
Biman Bangladesh Airless runs only a direct flight between Frankfurt and Dhaka on Thursday this week, a foreign ministry spokesman said.
"The family may choose an alternative airliner to bring the body home," he said, adding "But the route might be quite cumbersome and longer.
UNB adds: The German police released the author's body after autopsy and sent it to mortuary in Munich.
"Autopsy has already been done and nothing suspicious was indicated for the cause of his death, " Bangladesh Ambassador to Berlin Alimul Haque told the private news agency by phone.
Both the governments of Bangladesh and Germany are now waiting to know the desire of Azad's family to initiate the process of bringing the body home, he said.
The ambassador said obtaining reports of two other tests to examine toxin and alcohol levels would take two weeks time.
Asked about the party Azad attended on Wednesday night, the diplomat said the function was held on the lawn of the apartment where he had been staying, but could not say who were the others present there.