On July 18 last year, 14-year-old Syed Muntasir Rahman Alif was shot while participating in the 'Complete Shutdown' program. But the bullets could not stop him. He continued to participate in the movement even after being shot.
Then, on August 5, he ignored his parents' objections and participated in the 'Long March to Dhaka' program. On that day, Alif was martyred by being shot in the head in front of the Jamia Islamia Darul Uloom Madania Jatrabari Madrasa.
Former and current students of Ta'mirul Millat Kamil Madrasa, Jatrabari Madrasa and nearby educational institutions have made important contributions to the mass movement against the fascist Sheikh Hasina government in Jatrabari. One of them is Muntasir Rahman Alif, a first-year student of Alim. He was a member of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, according to his father, Syed Gaziur Rahman, a Jamaat leader from the Kazla area.
On July 18, Alif left home to join the 'Complete Shutdown' program called by the anti-discrimination student movement, saying he was interested in coaching. That day, his body was left scarred by police bullets. He received first aid and went home, but did not tell his parents.
Alif used to go to the movement every day, talking about coaching despite his body pain. His father Gaziur Rahman could sense this to some extent. But since he himself was also in the movement, he did not stop his only son Alif. Alif's mother Shirin Sultana also participated in the movement.
The brutality of the police-BGB and Awami terrorist forces in Jatrabari made Alif extremely angry. So Alif told his childhood friend Akil Abdus Shakur, 'I have seen with my own eyes how the police are beating the protesters and throwing them off the Jatrabari flyover. After that, there is no point in sitting at home anymore. Whatever happens, I will go to the protest.'
On the morning of August 5, Alif joined the movement with the students and the crowd in front of the Jatrabari Madrasa, disobeying his mother's prohibition. Then, as the afternoon and evening passed, Alif's parents' worries began to increase. They started searching everywhere. Unable to find Alif anywhere, they finally searched all the nearby hospitals but could not find him.
The doctors asked Alif's father to go to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) to inquire. Later, he, his friends and fellow soldiers reached DMCH around 11 pm. There, they saw many bodies piled up in a room in front of the morgue. The people in charge there took out Alif's body from among them.
When they took the body to Quantum in Segunbagicha, they bathed it, wrapped it in a shroud and asked for a 'death certificate'. After convincing them, Gaziur Rahman signed a bond and brought his son's body to Kajla's house at dawn on August 6.
Then, in the morning, he was taken to his village home, Daulkhan Deobhander, Nangalkot Upazila, Comilla district. After the Zuhr prayers, his father, Syed Gaziur Rahman, himself led the funeral prayer for his son. After that, Shaheed Syed Muntasir Rahman Alif was buried in the family graveyard.
Syed Gaziur Rahman said, "If he had lived, his son would have turned 15 on September 11. He wanted to send him to an Islamic university abroad for higher education. After a few days, we would all perform Umrah together. But before that, the boy passed away."
We hope that we can see Bangladesh as Alif wanted to see it. At the same time, he also called on political parties to help the revolutionary students and the masses carry out their reform initiatives properly, without going against them and without opposing the interim government.
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