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By Md Mamun Islam
RANGPUR, May 19, 2025 (BSS) – Md Badiuzzaman, 38, thought about the future of Bangladesh and welfare of its people through rooting out fascism from the country.
“He was always ready to sacrifice his life for ousting autocratic ruler Sheikh Hasina,” Aduri Begum, 30, wife of martyred Badiuzzaman told BSS.
“He was a very good and pious person, a complete believer in Almighty Allah. We have loved each other very much since our marriage in 2013. But, I felt his love for me even more since six months before his martyrdom on August 5 last year,” Aduri said.
Since the beginning of the anti-discrimination student movement, Badiuzzaman used to participate in protest marches whenever he got time while working as a supervisor in the dyeing section of the Knit Kanchon Garment Factory in Narayanganj city.
Aduri Begum was also working as a supervisor in the quality control section of the Banani Garments Factory in Narayanganj city.
The couple lived in a rented house in ACI Panikol area in Narayanganj metropolis.
After Badiuzzaman's martyrdom, Aduri had to return to her father's house. Aduri passed the SCC exam from Tepamadhupur High School in Kawnia upazila in 2012.
She lives there with her only daughter Bushrat Jahan Mim, 10, who is a fourth-grade student at the local Unity Residential School in Kawnia upazila.
After returning from protest marches, Badiuzzaman often asked Aduri and others to go out to participate in anti-discrimination student movement marches to hasten the fall of Sheikh Hasina's fascist regime, rather than staying at home.
He used to say that those who do not participate in the anti-fascist movement or do not accept martyrdom and stay at home will have to answer to Almighty Allah on the Day of Judgment.
Badiuzzaman used to tell everyone that those who would be martyred in the anti-fascist movement were the most beloved servants of Allah Almighty.
Inspiring people to participate in the anti-fascist movement, he often said that those who would be martyred while participating in the anti-fascist movement in this way do not need to be given any kind of bath before burial.
“Maybe, being a beloved servant of Allah Almighty, he knew in advance that he was going to be a martyr,” Aduri said while talking to BSS at his father’s house in remote Haricharan Sharma village in Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur recently.
Badiuzzaman's father Abdul Kaiyum Mia, 63, and mother Most Basiron, 57, also narrated the story of his life of struggle and heroic martyrdom to BSS at their home in Bhutchhara Majhpara village of Pirgachha upazila in Rangpur.
Badiuzzaman was the eldest of three sons and an intellectually disabled daughter born to his poor parents.
His father, farmer Abdul Kaiyum, said he was unable to educate his children due to extreme poverty in the family since childhood.
He tried his best to feed them from the crops he cultivated on 48 percent of his land and by selling his labor.
"Badiuzzaman was very polite, hardworking and thoughtful towards his family since childhood. He somehow managed to study up to class 10, but due to financial constraints, he could not sit for the SSC exams," he said.
Similarly, his second son Belal Mia, 36, could not study beyond the fifth grade.
Despite extreme poverty, his third son Jelal Mia, 34, somehow completed the Fazil level.
“I could not educate my only intellectually disabled daughter Kajoli Khatun, 30. She lives with us in the village house,” says a disheartened father Abdul Kaiyum with teary eyes.
With no other option left in extreme poverty, Badiuzzaman had to leave home in 2002 in search of a job to support his family. He joined the Knit Kanchon Garment Factory in Narayanganj city.
“Until his martyrdom, my beloved son Badiuzzaman worked as a supervisor in the dyeing department at the Knit Kanchan Garment Factory,” said Abdul Kaiyum.
Later, Badiuzzaman took his younger brother Jelal Uddin to Narayanganj and helped him get a job in the garment department of the same factory. Jelal has been working there.
“My second son Belal Mia is a daily wage labourer and works in the local crop fields and goes to Comilla, Noakhali and other south-eastern districts to work as a seasonal labourer during the paddy harvest,” said Abdul Kaiyum.
In 2013, Badiuzzaman married Aduri Begum, daughter of farmer Azahar Ali of Haricharan Sharma village in nearby Pirgachha upazila.
Later, Badiuzzaman took his wife Aduri to Narayanganj and helped her get a job at the Banani Garment Factory there.
“Our days were going very well. We were living well with the income from our jobs. We were living happily with our only daughter Mim. Badiuzzaman would often take me to various parks and restaurants with our daughter in his last months,” Aduri said.
After the fall of fascist Sheikh Hasina on August 5 and her flight to India, thousands of people from all walks of life took to the streets of Narayanganj in the afternoon, as in other parts of the country.
On August 5, Badiuzzaman had breakfast with Aduri at home and went out in the morning.
“I requested him not to go to the protest marches because the situation in the country was rapidly deteriorating and the police were becoming more violent against students and the public," he said.
Aduri was very busy with housework that day. The couple had no contact with each other until the afternoon.
After 5 pm, Badiuzzaman's cousin, Swadhin, who works in a garment factory in Narayanganj, informed Aduri on his mobile phone that Badiuzzaman had been sent to Victoria Hospital with injuries.
Without any delay, Aduri rushed to Victoria Hospital with her younger brother Minhajul, 25, who works in a garment factory in Narayanganj, and her brother-in-law Jelal and found Badiuzzaman's body lying on the floor in the veranda.
“We brought the body from the hospital to our rented house in ACI Panikol area of Narayanganj city at 6:45 pm. Badiuzzaman’s first Namaj-E-Janaza was held there at night,” Aduri said.
Later, Aduri, along with his brother Minhajul, sister-in-law Jelal and others, hired a body-carrying ambulance and brought it to Badiuzzaman’s ancestral house in Bhutchhara Majhpara village of Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur at around 5 am on August 6.
Quoting Badiuzzaman's colleagues, relatives and close friends in Narayanganj, his father Abdul Kaiyum and mother Basiron said that Badiuzzaman had participated in the victory procession of thousands of people in the Chashara area of Narayanganj city.
At one point, hundreds of terrorists from the Awami League and its affiliates and the police indiscriminately attacked the victory procession, resulting in the death and injury of many students.
"Awami League terrorists beat my son with rods and other weapons, breaking and crushing all the bones in his body and killing him. The next day I saw his body, I could not bear the pain, his bones were broken... the bleeding continued," he said, crying.
The second Namaj-E-Janaza of Badiuzzaman was held at the Bhutchhara Majhpara Eidgah ground at 11 am with participation of hundreds of people from the whole area.
“Later, Badiuzzaman was laid to rest in the local graveyard,” said an emotional Abdul Qayyum in a somber voice.
Earlier, in mid-June last year, Badiuzzaman had come to his village home during Eid-ul-Azha.
“At that time, Badiuzzaman showed us the location of the local graveyard and told us that if he died soon, he should be buried there,” said his mother Basiron, adding that Badiuzzaman was her pious and kind son.
“Our son Badiuzzaman always thought about the welfare of the country and its people,” the affectionate mother told BSS about his son.
“Later, Badiuzzaman was laid to eternal rest at the local graveyard,” said an emotion-choked Abdul Kaiyum in a sad voice, adding that my son Badiuzzaman always thought about the country and welfare of its people.
Earlier, Badiuzzaman came to his village house during the last Eid-ul-Adha festivity in mid-June last year.
“Badiuzzaman showed us the place at the local graveyard and asked us to bury him there if he dies soon,” said his mother Basiron, adding that Badiuzzaman was her pious and kind-hearted son.
Aduri said, “Badiuzzaman used to tell me that everyone is born to die. He too would die one day. During the July-August uprising, he often told me that if he were to be martyred, he would take our daughter with me.”
"And in reality, he was martyred by freeing the country from fascism and bringing a second independence to the nation," Aduri said.
She appealed to the interim government to build a house for her and provide her with a government job locally so that she could raise his daughter Mim as a worthy citizen.
