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ONE YEAR INTO BLOGGER ANANTA MURDER

Ailing mother losing hope for justice

Charges yet to be filed; memorial unveiled

Our Correspondent, sylhet
Subid Bazar area in Sylhet has changed much over the years. Though it is still full of hardworking people trying their best to earn their keeps, signs of prosperity could also be seen as there is a growth of new apartment buildings and shopping or commercial centres in the area.
Except for Pijush Rani Das, her life has remained frozen for the last one year. Her youngest son, Ananta Bijoy Das, a freethinker and blogger, was barbarically killed in broad daylight by a group of assailants on May 12 last year at Bankalapara near Dastidar Dighi of the area.
She has lost her ability to shed tears and all she has left are some questions.
“How can I expect justice for my son, when it has been a year already?' she said yesterday, marking Ananta's first death anniversary.
Upon entering the house where Ananta grew up, it was almost impossible to fathom it has been a year since his killing. His room has been left untouched, books were scattered everywhere exactly the way he used to keep those. His pens and notebooks are on the table, waiting, just like his mother, who stays mostly bedridden and refuses to go outside of her house these days. "Ananta used to give me medicine everyday, made sure I was feeling okay, "she said.
"He grew up here, in this area, swam in Dastidar Pond, played in the field; and finally got killed beside the pond, * said Pijush Rani Das, bottling up her emotions. "They are killing our sons at or beside our home; whom do I ask for justice, questioned Ananta’s mother."
"I miss my son so bad," she started wailing, unable to contain herself any longer.
"Ananta is my youngest son, my beloved. He is gone and I don't want to ask the government to ensure justice," said the dejected mother tired of demanding justice again and again. "They can't give backmyson. Noonecan."
One year into the murder, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is yet to submit a charge sheet in the case.
The CID, however, arrested two students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Mannan Rahi and Abul Khair, as suspected killers.
Mannan admitted before a Sylhet
court that he, accompanied by Khair and three others, hacked Ananta to death for his write-ups "that promoted freethinking", CID sources said.
"Four were involved in the murder pursuant to the confessional statement Mannan made before the court. We have not been able to arrest the rest of the killers yet," said Mirza Abdullahel Baqui, CID special superintendent, adding that once all the four were arrested, they would submit a charge sheet.
When asked, why they would need to wait till the arrest of all the accused to submit the charge sheet, the CID special superintendent in a seemingly evasive way just reiterated the previous statement.
On May 5 this year, both Mohaimin Noman, younger brother of Mannan Rahi and one Rashid Ahmed, accused murderer of Ananta, got released from Sylhet Central Jail getting bail from the High Court and were arrested again hours after their release on another case of rampage, said Sohel Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police
Station.
Meanwhile, marking Ananta’s death anniversary, a monument, "Gyaner Jyoti Chorabe Ananta, Anantakal” (Ananta will radiate the light of knowledge for eternity), was unveiled yesterday noon at the same spot near the pond, where he was killed.
Ananta Bijoy Smrity Raksha Parishad, Gonojagoron Mancha Sylhet, Nagarnat and Sylhet district unit Chhata Union paid tribute.
Gonojagoron Mancha arranged a cultural programme "Ananta Shwaran” at Sylhet Central Shaheed Minar and published a previously unperformed play "Bruno's Death” written by Ananta as a book.
Chanda Nrityalaya, Udichi Sylhet, Nagarnat, Charjapath, Theatre Murarichand, Mrittikay Mahakal, Tarunyo and Bangladesh Gonoshilpi Sangstha also performed on stage.
Later, Gonojagoron Mancha brought out a torch procession protesting the brutality of killing writers, bloggers, teachers and other freethinkers.