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Day he waited so long for

Boy grows up to 42-year-old, finds justice finally in the killing of his father
Colam Mostafa was a journalist of the daily Purbadesh, where Chowdhury Mueen Uddin also worked. Mueen Uddin was the "key person" behind his abduction.
Yesterday, as the International Crimes Tribunal-2 was reading out the verdict against Mueen Uddin, Anirban and his wife Afroza Parvin wept. Even their 10-year-old son became emotion-chocked.
To Anirban, the verdict is something more than his personal quest for justice
Wasim Bin Habib
The unseen walls inside which he kept, or rather treasured, his many emotions all these years fell apart yesterday. His brimming eyes could not hold back the large tears when the verdict against the killers of his father, martyred journalist ANM Golam Mostafa, was pronounced.
Anirban Mostafa was only ninemonth old when some armed Al-Badr men abducted his father from their FROM PAGE 16
closer to becoming the nation his father and other martyred intellectuals once dreamt.
" I didn't get my father and so he remains in my personal feelings which I don't want to disclose," he told The Daily Star.
"But the most important thing is that the verdict will help fulfil the dreams of a non-communal Bangladesh my father and other martyrs dreamt of. We are happy with the verdict," said the 42-year-old professor of Khulna University.
Anirban brought along his son, Bishonko Broto, so he can hear the verdict.
"I came here to hear the verdict against those who killed my grandfather and others during the Liberation War," said Bishonko, a class-IV student.
"At the dawn of December 11,1971, when my grandfather was walking in the veranda with my father in his arms, a group of Pakistani occupa-
tional forces along with Mueen Uddin came and forcibly took my grandfather away, saying he will be released soon," he added.
He said they killed and tortured those who dreamt of a non-communal country. "Some fought in the battle fields, others with pen; and my grandfather belonged to the latter group."
Asked from whom Bishonko learned his grandfather's story, Afroza Parvin said he grew up in such a family environment. "He understands these issues deeply though he is too young to realise it."
In his testimony in the case against Mueen Uddin and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, Anirban said: "1 did not get a chance to call out my father as 'baba'. But I have always cherished the name of Bangladesh in my heart."
Anirban said the government should now bring the two convicts back home and execute the verdict.