Md: Milon

The month of July 2024 added a glorious chapter to the history of Bangladesh. Shaheed Md: Milon is one of the victims of the way the government pushed a very ordinary demand like quota reform by the students and the public towards a violent end through repressive policies. He was an ordinary fish trader.
Md. Milon, a resident of Jhatra village in Angaria Union of Dumki Thana in Patuakhali district. Born on March 26, 1988, this young man's life was simple and normal. He used to do fish business to support his family. He had a happy family with his wife Momtaz Begum and two children Din Islam and Sumaiya Islam. But in the game of fate, he was snatched away from this happy life. On July 21, 2024, he was seriously injured in a police shooting during a protest on Chittagong Road. In this incident that happened around 12 noon, he died on the spot.
Despite being an innocent fish trader, Milon became a part of a national movement. His death is a great loss not only for his family but for the entire country. His death reminds us how much sacrifice people can make for a better future. The death of Md. Milon raises a question – can an ordinary man's life be taken so easily? His death makes us all think, how much further do we have to go to build a beautiful Bangladesh?
I pray for the forgiveness of the soul of Shaheed Md: Milon. His death will not be in vain. His self-sacrifice will surely inspire the building of a beautiful Bangladesh in the days to come.
Background of Martyrdom
The quota reform movement took the form of an anti-discrimination mass movement when people from all walks of life spontaneously participated. But by usurping the people's right to vote and arbitrarily using power for nearly a decade and a half, the Awami government has turned itself into another Frankenstein. The Awami Frankenstein then began to consider itself invincible. The soil of this country is his ancestral property, the people are his subjects and second-class citizens. In the words of Sheikh Hasina - 'This country belongs to my father'.
The government began to treat the protesters exactly as they had done in Pilkhana in 2009 and at Shapla Chattar on the night of May 5, 2013. To suppress the protesters, the murderous Hasina unleashed the loyal stick-wielding force of the police and the dogs of the Chhatra League, who had been built up for 15 years, who were involved in extortion, tender grabbing, murder, rape, and beating people to death in broad daylight. The government imposed a digital crackdown and a nationwide curfew. The movement became violent and the whole country turned into a furnace.
Students and the public also took to the streets in Siddhirganj, Narayanganj. On July 21, to thwart the anti-discrimination student movement, the Awami League and their allied organization's supported leaders and activists united and created panic among the public by obstructing traffic on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway with firearms, pistols, shotguns, cocktails, and sticks. Sheikh Hasina, Obaidul Quader, and Asaduzzaman Khan ordered indiscriminate firing and attacks on students and the public. The condemned Obaidul Quader said in a press conference that the Chhatra League was enough to suppress the movement. The Awami terrorists created fear by detonating cocktails on the streets and indiscriminately shot and beat the students and the public with the domestic weapons in their hands. Shaheed Milon was returning home empty-handed after not finding fish at the fish market. On the way back, around 12 noon, a police bullet pierced his chest, the bullet pierced his heart and exited through the side of his spine. Milon collapsed on the road. When he was rescued and taken to Pro-Active Hospital in the Signboard area, the doctors on duty declared him dead. In this way, the terrorists made two innocent children fatherless and orphans, his wife a widow, and his elderly parents childless.
On the same day, his relatives brought him home and after the funeral at ten o'clock at night, he was buried in his own district of Patuakhali, in the village of Jhatara, Dumki police station.
Statement of a close relative about the Shaheed
The wife of the Shaheed said, "Milon always told his children, 'Always tell the truth, never hurt anyone. Allah will always help you.'"
After the death of Abu Saeed in Rangpur on the 16th, he was expressing restlessness, repeatedly saying, "There was no need to kill the boys, there was no need to kill the boys."
Sohag Howlader, Milon's uncle. He says - Milon was a good man. He lived in Narayanganj for a long time and did business.
Description of the family's economic condition
Milon was the only earning member of the family. He lived with his family in the BJC Chattar area of Narayanganj. In Narayanganj, he lived in a rented house with his son, daughter, wife, and younger brother. His elderly parents lived in their own house in Dumki, Patuakhali. He managed all the expenses of his parents and all the expenses of his younger brother who was studying honors. They have no land except for the homestead. With Milon, the only source of income, dying in the anti-autocracy movement, the family has become helpless and the future of the children has become uncertain.A Glimpse of the Shaheed's Personal InformationName : Md: Milon
Date of Birth : 26-03-1988
Father : Md: Hossain Hawlader
Mother : Momtaz Begum
Permanent Address : Village: Jhatra, Union: Angaria, Thana: Dumki, District: Patuakhali
Children: 2
Din Islam (9 years old)
Sumaiya Islam (1 year and 6 months old)
Occupation : Fish Trader
Place of Incident : Chittagong Road
Time of Injury : 12 PM
Time of Martyrdom : July 21, 2024, 12 PM
Type of Injury : Bullet wound to the left side of the chest
Assailant : Police
Current Location of the Shaheed's Grave: 22°28'46.2"N 90°22'39.8"E
Proposals
1. A regular allowance can be arranged for the elderly parents.
2. All responsibility for the care of the two orphaned children can be taken.
3. The educational expenses and employment of the brother studying Honors can be arranged.
4. A permanent income can be arranged for the wife and family.