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Acid Attack Victim Plastic surgery is her hope

Shaheen Mollah
Right after the acid attack by her stalker cousin last week, 18-year-old Syeda Mahbuba Akhter Mukta became mentally devastated.
But now she is recovering fast as hope has begun to glimmer after doctors of the Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) have told her that 60 percent of her injuries can be brought back to the previous state. " Plastic surgeries will not get my looks back, but still I am not going to lose heart," Mukta has sounded confident although her body suffers 10 to 12 percent burn, mostly on the face.
"I will continue my studies and build a career," added the teenager, who wants to become an engineer and was preparing for admission in a university.
Mukta's cousin Mohammad Mohasin, 22, known as a local thug in Shaldai village of Kapasia, Gazipur, began stalking and disturbing her almost five years ago, when she was in class-VIII.
"He used to threaten me with consequences that I would regret for the rest of my life if I did not marry him," said Mukta, "But I have never thought, even in my dreams, that he would stoop so low."
However, Mukta's parents decided to send her to a hostel for higher secondary education as Mohasin's disturbance increased.
Mukta's elder brother Shahidul Islam, a student of Mymensingh Medical College, said, "We never complained to police against Mohasin, as he was a member of our extended family. Instead, we secretly sent Mukta to a college in Gazipur town, where she stayed at a hostel and studied."
After the Higher
Secondary Certificate examination, Mukta returned home. But this time Mohasin kept an eye on her.
On the night of August 26, local people saw him smoking cigarettes under a tree outside the window of Mukta's mother's room.
Mukta's mother Begum Salma alleged that Mohasin threw acid at her daughter early on the day, at the time of the Fazr prayers. Mukta was then sleeping along with her mother on a bed placed just by the window.
Arrested the next day, Mohasin admitted to committing the crime to police.
Delwar Hossain, officerin-charge of Kapasia Police Station, said during the attack Mohasin had spilled
some acid on his left leg.
"We took him on remand for five days to find out from where he had got the acid," he added.
Plastic surgeon Samanta Lal Sen of DMCH Burn Unit said Mukta's condition would improve after about three plastic surgeries. It will take about a month.
"Since 1986, when the Burn Unit was opened, we have received about 100 acid victims. Among them, some 40 victims almost got their pervious look back," said Samanta Lal.
Mukta clings on this hope. She has not surrendered to the demands of a thug neither would she let the acid injuries stand in her way to a bright future.