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Violated, she sought justice but went beyond

Shaheen Mollah
A young girl of sixteen took her own life after she fell victim to the savagery of her paternal uncle who wanted to derive perverted pleasure from violating her.
Mariam took her life as she realised the so-called civilized society sides only with the power and pelf, it would never value her dignity and punish the perpetrator because of fear
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of those who hold sway over the society.
Mariam, daughter of Abdul Hanif and Amena Khatun, who hailed from Chatmohor of Pabna died after she fought for life for seven days at the Bum and Plastic Surgery Unit of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
t«u$W r.NW H&WA. W The hospital with bum injuries on June 10.
"It was 8pm of June 6.1 was .liking to Sagor. an employee of a computer shop in Dhaka. We had a relation. As we were conversing at a garden of our village Afzal Hussain whom I called uncle showed up out of nowhere; Sagar immediately slipped out of the garden,” Mariam told The Daily Star correspondent just two days before her death.
"1 was burning with shame as 1 used to hold him in high respect as my paternal uncle but on my way back home he made an indecent advance towards me,” she continued.
"I tried to resist him but as he was unyielding I threatened to put him in shame in public; then he dragged me into a nearby sugarcane field and tried to strangle me with my scarf,” Mariam, a student of class IX at Dolong Mahila Dakhil Madrassa said in a choked voice.
"As I cried out louder some locals rushed to the spot and rescued me from his clutch,” she told this correspondent while undergoing treatment at the bum unit.
After the incident Mariam demanded Afzal's punishment and requested her family members to file a case but everyone refused to do so leading her to the decision of committing suicide to bury her shame, said family members.
"I want justice before my death; I know I might die soon; at least 1 demand the arrest of the criminal before my death,” she said just two days before her death.
Her sister-in-law Rehana Begum said, "AU family members tried to persuade her not to lodge a case as it would malign our family prestige and status."
In reply she kept mum. said nothing and slipped into her bedroom. She locked the door and poured a bottle of kerosene to burn herself to death, she said.
Dr Samanta Lal Sen, project director of the burn unit, told The Daily Star that the patient came with fifty percent serious burn injuries and it was quite late to get proper treatment.
Mariam's brother, Anwar Hossain, however filed a case against Afzal Hussain under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act on June 10 soon after her suicide attempt.
Officer-in-Charge of Chatmohor police station, Syed Shahid Alam, told The Daily Star yesterday, “I talked to Mariam at theThana Health Complex on the day of incident, She said that she demanded justice from local people and as she did not get it she tried tocommit suicide."
"We conducted several raids in the area to arrest Afzal. He has been on the run,” he added.
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