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Victims in Arson Attacks

Government to help families

Staff correspondent
The government will rehabilitate the families of arson victims, said the newly sworn-in Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim on a visit to Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday.
"Those who have been injured are also to be taken into consideration for a future initiative," headded.
A presidium member of the ruling Awami League, Nasim said he was visiting the hospital as per directive by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Several victims of arson attacks and crude bomb explosions have been recovering in the burn unit of DMCH. They now cling to the hope of being rehabilitated.
Meher Ali, a freedom fighter, appearing happy with optimism, asked The Daily Star correspondent if there was indeed any plan to rehabilitate them.
"Please tell the prime minister that when her father [Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman] came to my village in Rajganj of Jessore during one of his campaigns before 1971,1 was one of the villagers hosting him. I even arranged for a chair so that he did not have to sit on the ground like us.
" Please ask her to save my life now," Meher Ali said in a pleading tone.
CNG driver Khorshed Alam's wife Shamsunnahar urged the government to help her pay off the loan of Tk 4 lakh with which her husband had bought the CNG that was burnt down by arsonists in Chittagong.
"Will the government help us get our CNG back? Will we be able to pay off all the installments?" said Shamsunnahar with a deep frown on her face.
She went on in despair, "All three of my younger daughters go to school. Around three weeks have passed [as the new academic year began on January 1 ] but I have not yet been able to put them in school. The youngest is only seven years old. Should her education stop this early?"
Mosammat Sabila, wife of vegetable trader Lokman, is going through a similar ordeal.
She said she could only think of starting her life afresh if the government fulfilled its pledge.
Two of her daughters go to school and another goes to college. "The new academic year has started but I have not yet been able to pay their admission fees," Sabila said.
Besides, Lokman, who was burnt in an arson attack on a vegetable-laden pick-up in Gazipur last month, has to pay back the supplier from whom he took Tk 80,000 worth of vegetables, she added.
H owever, Abu Miah, a trucker who was burnt in Fauzdarhat, refused to be moved bywords.
"If they mean it, they should do it. Until then I will just have to imagine my life as that of an invalid."