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Rape of Triplira Girl, Suicide of Father

Trauma continues to haunt family

Shahadat Hossain and Minhaj Uddin, ctg
In a society where rape is still considered a taboo, the psychological impact left on the family after the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl of the Tripura community and the suicide by the father the next day is traumatic.
It was evident the way the 45-year-old mother, Shanti Tripura, sat with her face buried in her palms at Chittagong Medical College Hospital yesterday with the victim sitting beside her, clutching her saree, following every move she made.
They had come for a forensic test for the November 12 battery. Another test was conducted on November 14, said 1 lead of Forensic Medicine Dr Syed MA Kashem.
The hollowness of her eyes spoke all too well of the shock from the double blow. A constable who had escorted them from their Uttar Talbaria residence in Chittagong's Mirsarai upazila said the girl cried intermittently all throughout the way.
Meanwhile, a pall of gloom enveloped their small hut as the family's three sons sat dejected outside. Of them, one lives nearby with his wife. Another daughter lives with her husband in Sitakunda upazila.
"Since the incident, mother has been weeping intermittently and refusing to eat. We have to forcefully feed her," said the youngest son, Anta Tripura, 10.
"My father used to cultivate paddy in other people's land and sell firewood collected from the hills. I used to help him
FROM PAGE 3 occasionally. We were totally dependent on his income," said Surya Tripura, 15.
"We only see darkness around us. We cannot even imagine that our father is no more," said the sons.
The three firmly believe that their father, Alindra Tripura, committed suicide for being unable to take the shock and thinking of the stigma it would attract and what people might say.
The neighbours described how traumatised Alindra was after the assault.
Mafizur Rahman, a tea stall owner of the area, said Alindra came to his shop around 5:00pm the day he committed suicide by drinking insecticide.
He wept silently in one corner thinking of his daughter's future and Mofizur could not console him however he tried.
There was none to run
the family now, said neighbours Rajkumar Tripura and Moshang Roy Tripura.
Two local youths, Joynal Abedin, 25, and Alauddin, 21, Alindra accused in a case filed with police of raping his daughter when she came out of her house to respond to nature's call were sent to jail by a Chittagong court on November 14.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Adibashi Forum, Kapaeeng Foundation and Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Parishad visited the residence and demanded capital punishment for the rapists.
At a press conference in Chittagong Press Club, they also urged the government to provide financial support to the family, conduct proper investigation into the father's death and ensure security and allocate Khas land for the area's indigenous community.