Eden in Flames

15 July, 2024, Monday-

12:30 pm, Students of Dhaka University are standing in front of Eden College and chanting,

❝Eden, you have no fear;

We have not left the main road.. ❞

Everyone is chanting the same slogan. Everyone is knocking on the door in front of the gate. When the push was not working then they picked up bricks. Once the gate was opened to block the door with bricks. When the gate was opened, all the students rushed into the ground. Everyone went in and brought out the students of Eden. 

I was sitting in my room watching this on video. I have seen the bravery of the students many times but I have never seen their unity before. 

Suddenly someone knocked on the door. I opened the door after hearing a knock. When I opened the door I was surprised to see my student. 

"What are you doing here? You don't have school today."

Without answering my question, she asked back, "The students of Eden are prisoners..... You won't help them, ma'am?"

"You go home," I said hoarsely.

As I was about to close the door, my student stopped me with her hand. I frown at her. She bowed her head and said, "You are a coward, a loser and a spineless person."

I was stunned. I stood silently and looked at her. I felt ashamed at her words. She said it right. I am truly a coward, a loser and a spineless. Or would I have been hiding in my house like this when the country was in such condition? I did not participate in this war of my brothers and sisters? If I were really a brave and spineless person today I would go and free my sisters. I used to help them. I stood by them.

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At two o'clock in the afternoon, I was eating while watching TV. Then Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader appeared on the TV screen. He said, "The movement has revealed self-confessed arrogance and arrogant mentality or behavior. Chhatra League is ready to respond."

What does this mean? Is he threatening the protesters? A party that lead the state, how does the general secretary of the party say all this? How are students threatened? Can an educated person say that? Not in my opinion, never. If an educated person says this, then he is not really educated. He is totally stupid and uneducated. Maybe he is also in quota.

If he thought that threatening or attacking the students would make the students calm down, then he is wrong. Because if the students were to do this, then the country would still be in the hands of the Pakistanis, and would not be independent.

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"Look at the road, Barshti. Other students have come to help us."

I looked out the window to the street after listening to my friend standing next to me. Yes, the students of Dhaka University have really come to free us and help us. 

i am Barshti. A student of Eden College. I have also joined this quota reform movement. For which I am currently imprisoned in my own educational institution.

We are all very happy to see the students of Dhaka University. We started shouting to encourage them. Students of Dhaka University broke the gate and came inside. They came and released all the students. They started taking us with them one by one. Many were hurt, I was helping them out. Then one of my friends chased me and said,

"Barshti... come out quickly. Chhatra leagues are coming towards our college. "

"I'm coming..."

Hearing my friend's words, I quickly started evacuating the injured. After taking them out, I went out myself. As soon as we came out of the college gate, all the Chhatra league groups started attacking us. All of us are running like crazy, for the sake of saving our lives. However, the Chhatra League had no illusions. They are beating boys and girls, older and young, without regard to anything. How many girls were beaten unconscious in front of my eyes, how many girls were beaten and made bloody. 

I was stunned. We didn't know anything about this. They beat unarmed students and left them bleeding. I was running for my life. Then suddenly an intoxicated person came and beat me with a stick and made me sit on the street. The boy is beating heavily with a stick. I cover my eyes and face with my hands. Beats me and lays me down for a while, then goes on to attack other girls. A girl was beaten in front of my eyes and blood was drawn from her nose and mouth. Two boys came and somehow took me to the hospital. I opened my eyes and saw the horror of the road. 

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6:45 pm, looking at the sky through the window. Today's sky is very beautiful, very. But this beautiful sky today does not look beautiful, it looks terrible. The red-blooded sky, as if the terrible scene of the day has unfolded. This sky may be aesthetic to many. but to those who know today's events, for them it is the reflection of the whole day.

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9 p.m. After praying, I finished reading Quran Sharif. After reciting the Quran, the phone call came. As soon as I picked up the phone, I saw Ishrat's name appeared on the screen. As soon as I picked up the phone, Ishrat was worried and anxious and said.

"Is your blood type A+?"

"No. Why? Something happened? Who needs blood?"

"You don't know? Today in front of Eden, the Chhatra League has seriously injured agitator. Many were badly injured. Emergency they need blood. "

"What are you talking about? Is your sister okay?"

"She didn't have any serious injuries. But many are in bad condition. Do you know anyone with blood type A+?"

"No. I don't know anyone like that."

"Well then, I'll keep it. And if you know someone like that, please let me know."

"Okay."

Ishrat hangs up. As soon as she cut the call, I entered Facebook. Only pictures and videos of attacking agitator on Facebook. Photos of the injured are all over Facebook. Ah! beating them inhumane way! Can a person beat a person like this? Boys and girls are not judging anything! Who can get him!

While scrolling through Facebook, a live suddenly appeared. The name of the live streamer is Barshti. I started watching her live. What happened to the girl's appearance! I was shocked to see her. 

"..... They beat us with sticks..... They boys and girls didn't see anything, they beaten the one they found very badly... They beat me and left me on the street..... They didn't come alone, they had hired street tokais with them.... Wherever you are, Come to the movement..... This struggle, the movement is not only ours. It's yours too..." 

After watching live I logged into her ID and started watching. Doesn't the girl look amazing in the picture given in the profile However, the condition of her appearance in live is difficult! How cruelly she was tortured throughout the day is evident in her face.