Ethnic minority people and right activists on Tuesday in Rajshahi demanded punishment of the alleged rapists and killers of Mariam Murmu, a woman of Santal community.
The demand came from a human chain participated by Jatiya Adibasi Parishad, Adibasi Cultural Development Organisation, Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, Barindra Unnoyan Forum and other human rights organisations.
The programme, held at Shaheb Bazar Zero Point in the Rajshahi city, was also attended by leaders from different left political parties, cultural activists and ethnic minority students from Rajshahi University and Rajshahi College.
The speakers at the programme said that Bangladesh had become the graveyard for ethnic minority people and castigated the successive governments for their failure to punish the criminals, guilty of torture, rape and murder of ethnic minority people in the past.
Urging the Rajshahi police super to immediately arrest the killers of Mariam, they threatened that they would launch a tougher movement otherwise.
Later they had also held a procession that marched through the major points of the city.
Jatiya Adibasi Parishad president Anil Marandy and Rajshahi district unit president Bimal Chandra Razoar, Barind Development Forum general secretary Faizullah Chowdhury and project coordinator Roksana Ferdousi, ADAB Rajshahi president Zalal Uddin Ahmed, Mahila Parishad Rajshahi district chapter general secretary Kalpana Ray, Niskrity Foundation director SKL Mohammad Lalon, Astha Network secretary Debashish Pramanik Debu and Adibasi Cultural Development Organisation Rajkumar Shao addressed the programme, among others.
On July 10 the police recovered the body of Mariam Murmu, 48, widow of Hopna Mardi, at Shimla Dighipara village under Godagari upazila in Rajshahi.
Her son filed a murder case, mentioning his paternal uncle Biswanath Marandi as a major suspect as he had a long-standing dispute over land with Mariam.
Source : New Age
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