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Arson at Bihari Camp

Too tragic to get over with

Shaheen Mollah and Wasim Bin Habib
He stood silent, looking around his fire-ravaged house where he lost nine members of his family, including six children, to an arson attack a day after Shab-e-Barat.
Now the bittersweet memories of the family having lived in the 10 feet by 10 feet house for over a decade in the capital's Kurmitola Bihari camp
ana tne only uaugnter, wno survivea
the blaze on June 14, are all Mohammad Yasin has to live with for the rest of his life.
The 50-year-old has visited the charred remnants of his past every day since his house along with seven others at the camp in Pallabi was torched amid a clash between Biharis and law enforcers, allegedly accompanied by local people.During one such visit on June 20, he pointed at different spots in the room and said, "Here, Farzana [his daughter], her mother and my daughter-in-law used to produce handicrafts."
Bom in a Bihari camp in Bogra, Yasin came to Dhaka around 34 years ago to earn a living. He used to live at his uncle's house at the Kurmitola camp. He married Baby Begum 27 years ago.
His two other daughters, who had been married off, came to the house on the occasion of Shab-e-Barat. One of them had a child.
They were also among the victims of his family.
In this saddest turn of his life, Yasin still manages to fight back tears. It is only because of his sixteen-year-old daughter Farzana, who suffered 17 percent bums and has been undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
"She [Farzana] is the only reason [for which] I am still alive. I want to get her back, cured," murmured the father, who has been living at a relative's
house in the camp following the incident.
A hairdresser at Gulshan in Dhaka, Yasin is facing some uncertainties as to whether his daughter will make it back to a normal life, whether she will have a burnt face and above all, how to tell her about what happened to her loved ones.
"I couldn't go to see her regularly as I don't have answers to her questions. She keeps asking me about her mother, her brothers and sisters and why they don't go to see her.
"I lied that they were also undergoing treatment at different hospitals like her," Yasin sighed.
Farzana often gets upset at seeing none, except her father, at the hospital, he said.
"One day she said, 'no one loves me, no one comes to see me'.... I can’t see her writhing in pain any more,” the father added.
Sometimes he bends to his daughter's insistence on talking to her mother and makes calls to one of his
female relatives, requesting her to play the mother for Farzana over the phone.
Looking back to his good days, Yasin said, "We were looking for a suitor to marry my Farzana off to him and we met some people to that end. Now I don't know what will happen."
Partha Sankar Paul, residential physician of the bum unit, said Farzana sustained inhalation injuries and deep bums in her face, back and hands.
"She needs to undergo some surgeries and so she may have to stay at the hospital for around three months," he told The Daily Star.
Visiting Farzana at the DMCH bum unit recently, one of the correspondents saw her screaming in pain.
After nurses had applied dressing to her wounds, her father was running a cotton swab with his inexpert hands to blot her rose-red wounds.
Farzana shouted out, “You are not good at it. You are causing me more pain. Where is mother? Call her, she is good at it."