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Nine held after Bangladesh gangrape victim kills herself

Nine held after Bangladesh gangrape victim kills herself

2011-02-24 14:50:00
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Dhaka, Feb 24 (IANS) A Roman Catholic priest and nine other tribal Christians have been detained for their role in an out-of-court settlement of a gangrape case that caused the girl to commit suicide when the promised marriage did not come through.

Police have claimed that Father Bernard Tudu and others 'provoked' the 14-year-old into a situation where marriage to one of the alleged rapists as part of the settlement did not come through, causing her to commit suicide.

The girl, gangraped last year, set herself afire in a village in Godagari sub-district of western Bangladesh's Rajshahi district earlier this week.

While the girl's father says he was coerced into reaching the settlement by the church leaders, Father Tudu denies a formal involvement of the church.

However, Father Tudu says the settlement was reached 'for the sake of the community' on the church premises and he had custody of Taka 140,000 ($2,000) that the perpetrators deposited as part of the settlement.

The girl committed suicide after the promised marriage did not come through.

Christians are a small minority in Bangladesh that is predominantly Muslim.

The authorities have taken the stand that out-of-court settlement was illegal. The court closed the case as no witness came forward to support the victim.

Of the nine people arrested Wednesday, Bishwanath Tudu presided over the settlement, said Zakirul Islam, officer-in-charge of Godagari police station.

Ain O Salish, a human rights group, has said that the out-of-the court settlement is illegal.
 
I hope this news will also get the same media attention the same way few days back the news of 15 year old girl dead due to lashing by a mullah got media attention specially in the western world.
 
Tumpa Abduction, Rape, Murder Same gang killed her brother last May

Tumpa Abduction, Murder Same gang killed her brother last May

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The same gang that allegedly killed school girl Tumpa after kidnapping her from the capital on February 14, had killed the victim's brother eight months ago, police are now suspecting.

The gang had been stalking Tumpa for three years, said the victims' mother Khairunnahar Shikha.

Tumpa's brother Al Kawsar Masud alias Babla once slapped a guy of the gang for stalking his sister in Segunbagicha of the capital, and 15 days later on May 31 last year Babla's body was found floating in the Kakon River of Narsinghdi.

Ayesha Akhter Tumpa, 15, a student of class-X of Begum Rahima Adarsha High School in Segunbagicha, was found dead similarly floating in a canal at Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra (DND) dam on February 16.

Police are saying Tumpa had been abducted by a local gang of five to six stalkers of Segunbagicha, led by a local young man named Asaduzzaman alias Hridoy, and she was raped before being murdered.

She was abducted around 9:00pm when she was returning home by a rickshaw from Dhaka University campus after celebrating the Valentines Day with her boyfriend Sayeedur Rahman Sayeed, 18, a student of Sheikh Borhan Uddin Post Graduate College.

Investigation officer of the Tumpa killing case, Sub-inspector Moktar Hossain of Shahbagh Police Station, suspects that the gang kidnapped, raped, and killed Tumpa out of spite, because she had celebrated the Valentine's Day with Sayeed, instead of them. He also suspects that her brother was killed because he had slapped one of the stalkers.

Shahbagh police arrested Sayeed, and stalker Nurul Huq, 19, who had been slapped by Babla. Nurul is a student of Ideal College.

Gang leader Hridoy, 22, is now on the run after allegedly kidnapping a teenaged daughter of a ruling party lawmaker on February 19. Tumpa's family and the lawmaker's family live in the same apartment building in Segunbagicha.

"As my son had slapped Nurul, his gang led by Hridoy, beat up my son and later killed him after abduction, and now they abducted and killed my daughter too," said Khairunnahar Shikha.

Tumpa's family had to escort her to and from school for the last three years for the gang's persistent stalking, Shikha said.

She said after Babla had been missing for five days, he told his wife over the phone that he was going to die, and in an eerie resemblance, on the night of Tumpa's abduction she also said the same thing to Shikha over the phone, and right after that the connection was cut-off. Shikha got Tumpa on the phone very late that night after repeated attempts.

Postmortem reports found extensive marks of injuries on both bodies, while Tumpa's postmortem also confirmed rape.

Shikha said although they had suspected that her daughter's stalkers had killed her son eight months ago, they did not mention the stalkers' names in the case filed back then, considering Tumpa's security.

"But now I have nothing more to lose, as I lost both my son and daughter. I fear nothing now," said the victims' father Amanatullah Chowdhury.

SI Mokhter Hossain said, "We suspect that the killings are linked."

"During preliminary interrogation, Nurul disclosed some names including Rhidoy's," he said adding, "Both arrestees were produced before a court, seeking their remand."
 
Another very sad rape and murder story .... I am very sorry for the parents who lost both of their children in a very short span of 8 month by the same group of criminal...:( . Toughest punishment should be given against this criminal. I heard abduction of teenage girl increased at an alarming rate in bangladesh. Many family did not open their mouth due to fear and loosing of prestige. This issue needs to be tackled as soon as possible and all the criminal need to be brought to justice and need to be given toughest punishment so that no one dare to commit such crime.
 
I heard abduction of teenage girl increased at an alarming rate in bangladesh. Many family did not open their mouth due to fear and loosing of prestige. This issue needs to be tackled as soon as possible and all the criminal need to be brought to justice and need to be given toughest punishment so that no one dare to commit such crime.

Crimes against women and children are treated less seriously in many cultures, including our own.

We need to have a separate legal stream for crimes against women and children to fast-track these cases and bring justice.
 
This is already days but no news in the western media..... very surprising... a church father gang raped a girl may be the reason... if a mullah would do it... case would be different... news of shriah law would be every where...

You do realize that the priest was not involved in the gang rape, rather he was involved in the settlement?

A Roman Catholic priest and nine other tribal Christians have been detained for their role in an out-of-court settlement of a gangrape case that caused the girl to commit suicide when the promised marriage did not come through.
 
This is already days but no news in the western media..... very surprising... a church father gang raped a girl may be the reason... if a mullah would do it... case would be different... news of shriah law would be every where...

No, the case about the Catholic church abusing children was in the news here for months! Thing is, most people here are atheists and while it was fun to condemn and ridicule the Church, its old news now and furthermore it happened in Bangladesh and not many people here are too concerned about what happens in Bangladesh.
 
Who cares what the Westerners think? You take a look at their history, when they had the same levels of education, they too were doing the same things.

And the Westerners are determined to hate Islam, you can't do anything about it. Look at their history. They talk about tolerance and peace, but go across the world, commit genocides against native Americans (North, South and Central), in Africa (look at the history of Belgium), support corrupt dictators on one hand while invading other countries "to bring democracy", openly practice the barbarian torture in Guantanamo and secret prisons around the world. They will make war with anyone who doesn't accept their dictates. Since we Muslims don't go along with whatever Uncle Sam says, they will hate us, insult our holy figures, holy books, etc. It is only to be expected. They will capitalize on every single incident which throws a negative light on Islam, while ignore their own crimes. They have their servants, the so-called-foreign-funded "intellectuals" to carry on their war inside BD.

Let me give you an example to highlight the character of the West. They celebrate Thanksgiving Day to remember the Native Americans who stopped them from starving to death. But those same oh-so-holy oh-so-Christian oh-so-forgiving white men wiped out the native civilizations in a hundred years in the greatest genocide in the world. That is their character, we should note it and be careful of it.

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No, the case about the Catholic church abusing children was in the news here for months! Thing is, most people here are atheists and while it was fun to condemn and ridicule the Church, its old news now and furthermore it happened in Bangladesh and not many people here are too concerned about what happens in Bangladesh.

Even then, if it was related to Islam in any way, they would not hesitate to splash it in their front pages.
 

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