"Father, I am going to die, take my body away," these were the last words of martyr Nafisa Hossain Marwa to her father, Abul Hossain. Nafisa spoke these words in a soft voice on her father's mobile phone about half an hour after she was shot. She was shot dead during last year's anti-discrimination student movement.
Meanwhile, the tea shop owner's father cannot remain still when he remembers Nafisa's last words. That is why Abul Hasan still visits the grave almost every day to look for his beloved daughter Nafisa. Whenever he remembers his daughter, he bursts into tears.
Nafisa was a science student at Tongi Shahajuddin Sarkar Adarsh Vidyanyakan and College. She passed the HSC examination from there with a GPA of 4.25. Nafisa was martyred a week before the results were announced. Her younger sister Saba Hossain Raisa is studying in the seventh grade. Raisa studies at her grandmother's house in Savar. Her mother Kulsum Begum migrated to Kuwait in 2022 with the dream of changing her fate.
It is known that Nafisa Hossain Marwa courageously led the anti-discrimination movement in July. Nafisa lived with her younger sister and tea shop owner father in a small rented house in Ershadnagar Block 8, Tongi.
In the early days of the movement, Nafisa and her classmates would open a messenger group and take to the streets every day to chat with each other. When her father left for the shop in the morning, Nafisa would go to the movement without informing anyone. When her father heard about her daughter's participation in the movement through her neighbors, her father, Abul Hossain, scolded her.
At one point, on July 28, Nafisa went to her father's house in Dhamrai, Dhaka, with permission. From there, she went to her younger uncle's house in Savar on July 30. But she continued to participate in the movement every day from there. On the afternoon of August 3, she sent some pictures of the movement to her father. Her father got angry and scolded her.
On the morning of August 5, she joined the long march with the students in Savar, ignoring the obstacles of her uncles. Shortly after 2 pm, a joint attack by the police and Awami League supporters began on the protesters in front of the Savar Model Mosque. At that time, the police opened direct fire, and Nafisa, who was in the front row, was shot in the chest. Her fellow fighters rescued her and took her to Savar Labzone Hospital.
At around 3:30 pm, an unknown number called Abul Hossain's phone and said, "What happened to her? Come to Labzone Hospital immediately, Nafisa has been shot."
Nafisa's father was distraught upon hearing this news. He left the tea shop open and set off for Savar. But as there were no cars on the road, he reached Savar by walking and taking a rickshaw.
Nafisa was taken from the lab zone to Enam Medical College Hospital in Savar. Later, doctors said she had died long ago due to excessive bleeding.
After the first funeral prayer in Savar at night, Nafisa's body was brought to Ershadnagar in Tongi. Later, after the second funeral prayer in Ershadnagar, she was buried in the local graveyard. Abul Hossain said in a tearful voice about Nafisa, "I am poor, I have no means of support."
"I have two daughters. They were my only assets." He lamented, "The fascist Sheikh Hasina and her cronies did not let my daughter live. I remember her again and again."
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