Tuesday, July 26, 2016

The cruel murder of Sagar Barman


In Bangladesh, a child whose given age was between 9 or 10 was murdered.  Sagar Barman  just wanted to live. It took 8 men to hold him down and insert an air compressor into his rectum. ( Four of these men were known to the father and four were not.)  His father, 70 year old Ratan Barman, who worked at the same facility  found his body lying still by the air compressor with a grossly distended abdomen. The child died 2 hours later.

Ratan Barman filed a complaint with the police. Shortly there after, the police conducted a raid where Sagar was killed. They removed 27 children under the age of 14 and returned them to their families. It is against Bangladesh law to employ a child under the age of 14. The owner and one manager was arrested.

Bangladesh has Islam as a state religion. The Quran has a very definite verse about killing a believer.

"Whoever kills a believer intentionally, their reward will be Hell, to abide therein forever, and the wrath and the curse of Allah are upon them, and a dreadful penalty is prepared for them." (Holy Quran, Chapter 4, Verse 93)

I watched news feeds and read information from the following links before blogging.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_labour_in_Bangladesh

https://www.google.com/search?q=child+labour+in+bangladesh&biw=1366&bih=667&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmqsX9xZDOAhWFOiYKHS7JAOMQsAQIKg

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/25/bangladeshi-child-labourer-tortured-to-death-at-textile-mill

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/bangladesh-police-investigate-killing-child-labourer-160725092935475.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/world/asia/bangladesh-child-worker-killed.html?_r=0

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bangladeshi-child-worker-killed-co-workers-reportedly-pumped-air-into-his-rectum-via-compressor-1572302

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/world/protests-boy-killed-bangladesh/

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-07-25/boy-aged-9-killed-in-bangladesh-factory/

http://newagebd.net/242618/child-worker-sagar-killing/


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