Victim-families

Five year old Md. Hanifa still believes that one day his father will come back. Pointing to a star in the sky, he tells his mother, “Mom, that star in the sky is my father. Dad, come down and give me a kiss on my forehead.” Whenever he hears even a slight sound outside the house, he runs to open the door, thinking his father has returned. But even after two years, no one has been able to make him understand that a single bullet took his father away forever. Mirajul Islam, a banana vendor, was ki...

As soon as the sound of gunfire at the border falls silent, a difficult task begins. The bodies of Bangladeshis lying on the other side must be brought home. The responsibility was not assigned by the government. Yet, for the past two decades, Abdur Rahman of Thakurgaon has been carrying out this work out of humanitarian duty. Whenever a body needs to be recovered at the Dharmagarh border in Thakurgaon’s Ranisankail upazila, members of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and local residents...