Rasel

Shaheed Rasel created history by sacrificing his life for the motherland. This freedom-loving great hero was always dedicated to breaking the black hands of autocracy. The fiery Rasel was born in a respectable Muslim family on the first dawn of 1995. Rasel was unique among the six children of his late father Abu Kalam, and mother, Safura Begum. He was always vocal against injustice, oppression, and torture in society.
Rasel, who drank the nectar of Martyrdom, was deprived of his mother's love at an early age. At one point, due to financial constraints, his education life stopped at the primary school level. The responsibility of his siblings fell on the Shaheed. After some time, desperate to build a better future for her children, the Shaheed's mother, Safura Begum, remarried. Before reaching adulthood, Rasel had to find a way to earn a living. Forced by circumstances, he took up the profession of cutting and cleaning the fish purchased by customers with a small capital. With hard work and dedication, he gradually established himself. After some time, he himself started a small-scale fish business. The business began to flourish. Despite his own hardships, Shaheed Rasel never neglected his responsibility to his siblings.
Three years before his Martyrdom, he was married. His wife, Moyna Akhter Borsha (20), is a traditional Bengali bride. Despite the financial difficulties in carrying out the responsibilities of the family, Rasel cherished the dream of a better life seeing his wife. The ever-smiling Shaheed's wife likes to enrich the family with her own qualities. Because of this, she kept even a hungry life vibrant. In May 2023, their only son, Junaid, was born, illuminating the couple's home. Around whom all the decorations, beauty and joyful moments were built. Suddenly one day this happiness turned into a tragic chapter. The killers Hasina and her accomplices burst into wild joy, covering Rasel's colorful life in darkness. Student-Public Uprising and Long-Simmering Resentment
On June 5, 2024, when a High Court bench overturned the quota system and revoked the government's 2018 gazette, no one had any idea that the next two months would witness unprecedented events in Bangladesh's politics. Ultimately, this led to the end of the fascist Sheikh Hasina government's 15-year rule. The High Court's order that day did not receive much attention in many newspapers. But five weeks later, as a result of that protest, Sheikh Hasina, who had been in power continuously, had to secretly flee the country. The movement initially started with students demanding quota reforms. Later, countless people of various classes, professions, and ages of society began to participate in it. According to many, the months of July-August 2024 were the months of mass rebellion. For a long time, resentment had been brewing among the people for various reasons. The students and people of the country were looking for an opportunity to vent that anger. The quota reform movement provided that opportunity. The resentment and pent-up pain surrounding the movement forced the people to take to the streets.
The controversial Awami League, which was in a disastrous state after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with his family in 1975, has once again fallen into that state after almost 50 years. In the elections of December 29, 2008, the Awami League formed the government after winning two-thirds of the seats. Since then, the terrorist party has not wanted to leave power. One-sided or fraudulent elections, suppression of opponents and dissenting opinions, irregularities and corruption, the party's survival depending on bureaucrats and the administration, and the deprivation of the right to freedom of expression and human rights can be mentioned as the main reasons behind its downfall.
Context of Martyrdom
On August 5, 2024, the killer Hasina's nurtured assassin police force reached the ultimate level of brutality. On one side, there was a victory procession, and on the other, the streets of Jatrabari and various parts of the country were flooded with blood. Rasel left his house around ten in the morning to join that procession. While leaving, he told his wife, "Listen, I'm going outside." Then he arrived at Shani Akhra and Kajla premises in Jatrabari. The students and the public burst into slogans. The police fired at them. Suddenly, several bullets hit Rasel's body. He collapsed on the ground and began to writhe. The students and the public present quickly took him to Anabil Hospital. Seeing the condition critical, the doctors advised to take him to Dhaka Medical College immediately. The on-duty doctor at DMCH informed that Md. Rasel Ahmed was no more. He had already died. At 12:30 pm, the Shaheed's body was handed over to his family.
The Shaheed's wife Borsha began to cry, clinging to her beloved husband. With the help of neighbors, the body arrived home. Little Junaid touched his father for the last time. With the death of Rasel Ahmed, the sole breadwinner of the family, his wife repeatedly lost consciousness. Later, due to the pressure from the killer police, unable to reach the village with the Shaheed's body, they were forced to perform the funeral at 3:00 pm and bury him in the Matuail Graveyard.
Family Economic Condition
The Shaheed does not have his own house. He has some cultivable land, the division of which has not yet taken place. In this situation, the Shaheed's family is having a very difficult time after losing the only earner. The Shaheed's seventeen-month-old child, Junaid, before understanding the rules of the world, had his father snatched away forever by the autocratic Hasina.
A Glimpse of the Shaheed's Personal Information
Name : Rasel
Birth : 01-01-1995
Age : 29
Occupation : Fish trader
Father : Late Md. Abu Kalam
Mother : Safura Begum, Age: 55 years, Occupation: Housewife (remarried)
Permanent Address : Alipur, Dashmina, Patuakhali
Current Address : Shani Akhra, Anandabazar, Jatrabari, Dhaka
Time and place of Martyrdom : 10:30 am, August 5, 2024, Shani Akhra, Kajla, Jatrabari
Cause of Martyrdom: Police bullets
Shaheed's graveyard : Matuail Graveyard
Amount of assets : No permanent residence, has some arable land
Family : Wife: Mosammat Moyna Akhter Borsha, Age: 20, Occupation: Housewife
Educational Qualification: 5th class
Son: Md. Junaid, Age : 17 months
Proposals
1. Monthly assistance can be provided to the Shaheed's family
2. Employment can be provided to the Shaheed's wife
3. The Shaheed's newly orphaned seventeen-month-old child can be brought under orphan care