Bayezid Bostami

A video of a pile of corpses on a van went viral across the country shortly after Hasina fled the country, among those corpses was Shaheed Bayezid Bostami.
Bayezid Bostami was born on 28 April 2001 in the village of Kaigram Farshi Para. His union is Umar, Thana Dhamuirhat, District Naogaon. His father's name was the late Sakawat Hossain. Mother Benu Ara. Bayezid Bostami has two brothers and one sister. The elder brother, Karimul Islam (24), is a day laborer, and the younger sister, Umme Salma (17), is a tenth-grade student. He studied at Kaiftpur High School. Bayezid Bostami was married. His wife's name is Rina Akhtar. She is a garment worker. Bayezid Bostami has a 7-month-old son. The name is Rafi Abdullah. Bayezid Bostami was a garment worker by profession. He worked as an office assistant at Vanessa Bangladesh Limited. He lived in Ashulia with his wife and children.
How He Was Martyred
Bayezid Bostami participated in the movement as his garment factory was closed due to the anti-discrimination student movement. On August 5, he joined the student-public movement in front of Ashulia police station to free himself, the country, and the people of the country from the clutches of autocracy. At approximately 4 pm, the police fired shots to disperse the student-public movement and arrested several people. Shaheed Bayezid Bostami was shot. Many others were killed along with him. The police stacked those corpses on a van. The video went viral across the country and created a stir. Then he and those corpses were taken to a Laguna in front of Ashulia police station and set on fire. The whole body of Shaheed-Bayezid Bostami was burnt.
On August 6, the half-burnt HSC ID card, mobile phone and wife's photo of the college student with Shaheed Bayezid Bostami were found and the body was identified. Shaheed Bayezid Bostami's family was contacted from Ashulia police station. Receiving the call, Shaheed Bayezid Bostami's cousin Alamin, Salman and his wife rushed to Ashulia police station. Later in the afternoon, the burnt body of the martyr was handed over to his wife Rina Akhtar through the student coordinator of Jahangirnagar University and the army.
Sometime after Sheikh Hasina left power and fled to India, this video went viral on social media and created a stir across the country. The video shows several policemen picking up many corpses and stacking them on a van. Then they are covering the corpses with a large cloth and taking them somewhere. The police took those corpses to a Laguna. Then they poured petrol and burnt them. The burnt corpse video footage went viral on social media on August 6.
Financial Condition of the Martyr's Family
Bayezid Bostami's father passed away in 2018. After the father's death, Bayezid's elder brother Karimul Islam left his studies and took over the responsibility of the family. Bayezid was studying then. As there was no property left by his father, the martyr's elder brother worked as a day laborer to run the family. Bayezid Bostami also worked from time to time. This is how the family of 4, including 2 brothers, 1 sister and mother, was going on. Where Bayezid and his sister also studied. Bayezid passed SSC in 2018 and came to Dhaka for livelihood. He took a job as an office assistant in a garment factory in Savar Ashulia. He also got admitted in HSC in Uttara Ideal College. He passed HSC in 2020. Then he applied for admission in Honors. In 2022, he got married to Rina Akhtar. Due to financial constraints, Bayezid Bostami struggled to manage his own family and his younger sister's education expenses.
The Martyr's Family
His wife, along with her 7-month-old child, has become extremely helpless after his martyrdom. Currently, she is living a miserable life at her sister's house in Ashulia, Savar, after losing her job. Bayezid Bostami's family has only two mud houses to live in their village home. They have nothing but 17 acres of homestead land.
Overall Description of the Martyr
A small village - Kaigram - can be seen after crossing a winding dirt road some distance from the market. A baby boy was born into a poor family in Kaigram, Dhamirhat police station, Naogaon district on April 28, 2001. Mother Benu Ara and father Sakhowat Hossain named their son Bayezid Bostami. Who doesn't know the story of the mother-loving Bayezid Bostami in history? This child Bayezid was also devoted to his parents.
Bayezid Bostami was the second child in the family. He was calm in nature since childhood. He understood the reality very well. Due to the financial problems of the family, he used to work in people's houses with his elder brother along with his studies. In 2018, he passed the Dakhil examination from Farshipara Muzaffar Rahmaniya Dakhil Madrasa.
What a cruel irony of fate! In that 2018, his father Sakhowat Hossain passed away. The responsibility of the family fell on the shoulders of the two brothers. So, thinking about the family, he came to Dhaka. He joined Vanessa Garments as an office assistant in Ashulia. He continued his studies along with his job. He got admitted in the eleventh class in the humanities department at Uttara Ideal College. Despite the difficult job alongside his studies, he did not stop thinking about his younger sister and his own family.
In 2020, Bayezid passed HSC from Uttara Ideal College. Later, he applied for admission in Honors. On December 11, 2022, Bayezid Bostami got married to Rina Akhtar. Both of them used to work in garments, which made their life quite good.
On February 2, 2024, a beautiful son was born, illuminating Bayezid's house. The name was kept Rafi Abdullah. Everyone in the family is happy. But this happiness soon fades away. A terrible shadow of mourning descends on the family. The dark horror of August 5 shatters all the dreams and hopes of this family. Bayezid's wife becomes stone with grief. Did the seven-month-old Abdullah understand anything? Did he understand that he became an orphan at the age of just 7 months? Did he understand that his father's face would never float in front of his eyes again?
The first funeral prayer of Shaheed Bayezid Bostami was held in front of Ashulia Jame Mosque. The next day, on the morning of August 7, after his second funeral prayer at his own village Kaigram's Farshi Para under Naogaon's Dhamuirhat police station, he was buried forever in the government Graveyard. The struggling Bayezid is lost from the light and air of this earth. The cries of Bayezid's childless mother make the sky and air heavy!
The Wailing of the Martyr's Relatives
His brother, who was like a friend, started crying hugging the clothes left by Bayezid. He said in a sobbing voice, "They shot my brother, but why did they burn him in fire? What was my brother's fault?" He further said, "I will keep the clothes left by my brother carefully. When his son Rafi grows up, I will show him. He will feel what his father's scent is actually like." Saying this, he hugged the clothes and cried like an innocent.
The younger sister cried like a madman and said, "Who will take care of my studies? Who will love me?
Bayezid's mother says, "The money that was found in Bayezid's wallet, he took that money from me to come home." She says, "My son came home indeed, but wrapped in a white shroud with a burnt body."
A neighbor uncle of the martyrs, Enamul Haque, said, "Shaheed Bayezid Bostami was a very hardworking and brave boy. After the death of his father, the two brothers ran the family with great difficulty." He became emotional while talking about their family's miserable condition and the martyr.
Seeing the pitiful condition of Bayezid Bostami's family, no one had the words to console them at that time.