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Ruma Sharker’s Statement at GBHC zoom meeting in January 2022
First, my heartfelt regards to all of you & thank you all for allowing me to speak in this forum. I wish to introduce myself with you all in this roundtable conference today. I am Ruma Sarker, Govt College poet & writer, reciter, and news broadcaster at Bangladesh betar (radio) and television.
I would like to express me the suffering I had to go through from the month of October -2021 During the celebration of our biggest Hindu religious festival of Durga Puja, On 13 Oct, 2021 a fundamental Muslim man named Iqbal placed a copy of their Holy book Quran on the foot of Hindu Goddess in a temple in city of Comilla Bangladesh. They took a picture of the Quran lying on the feet of Hindu goddess and spread I it in fb. Police took the Quran away, Soon after a group of Muslims came to the temple, broke down the puja pandal and ransacked the whole temple. News of this Holy book Quran spread fast. Impact was huge and devastating. Total five people were killed, one of them was Zoton Saha a devotee of iskcon temple in Noakhali district, women were raped. Muslims mob attacked, ransacked, and burnt lots of Hindu temples and their properties in twenty-two districts spontaneously in Bangladesh. Sixty-six houses of Hindus were burnt in Rangpur district alone. There was no visible action from the administration. Hindu community people get afraid like anything and do not no what to do or how to save themselves, inhuman miserable situation, 2022 crying for help.
At that point I made a fb posting in protest of these atrocities and about a viral video in fb. And the result was, On 20th Oct, 2021 2021 around 12:15 am law enforcement agencies knocked on my door non- stop, I was alone with my 2 kids. I got scared, my two 7 year old twin babies woke with fear and anxiety. I did not open the door, I asked who are they? They said they are from law enforcement agencies. I do not believe them, I thought they They are miscreants, I was extremely nervous and scared. But I requested them to come in the morning. They did not say anything and they were quiet, I thought they left. But they came back@2:30 am again, kept on knocking on my door heavily, I asked who told you to come to my residence, they said Home Minister! Then they broke my door and get in to my apartment they were with civil dress and, I thought they are terrorists, I beg for my life for sometimes to put my kids in a safe place! They arrested me, inhumanly leaving my kids behind under the Bangladesh.supervision of two unknown men chosen by law enforcement agencies!
They took me to RAB headquarters and questioned me for 35 hours continuously, after that the warrant officer filed a case against me under Digital Security act 2018. Meanwhile Dhaka Court put me in remand for 2 days then sent me to jail. I had to stay there for 70 days in a very inhuman miserable situation, sometimes with no food. Sometimes other prison mats share their food with me I got out on bail on 30th Dec,2021.0n a court date on 19th january , 2022 I requested them to allow my kids of get their confiscated cell phone back which they use for online class . the court did not allow that! my kids education has been stopped ! they did not allow me to join my work ! my next court date is on 6 feb,2022, they already charge-sheeted me! they spread news against me stating that I posted hatred message against their religion Islam, nowpeople are targeting me, anything can happen with me ! I am extremely nervous afraid , Ican not express in words how miserable my life is with my two kids . so, I need help desperately . I would like to request you all , your organization IRF , and other international authorities through your organization , please come forward and do whatever is needed to help me to enable me to survive . Thank you all again for listening to me. Thanks.
Ruma Sarker, from Dhaka Bangladesh.