A female student of Barisal University, hacked by her unwelcome suitor, being stretchered into a chopper to Dhaka yesterday. Later, she was declared dead by doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
For Saoda, the story is this: She was loved and killed by the same man.
The 18-year-old succumbed to the mortal injuries she suffered in an attack by her former lover yesterday.
But that was just yesterday. Before that the boy, Russell Mia, 20, loved her for at least one year, according to sources in the Barisal University where the two studied.
Their relations turned sour about a month ago when Russell proposed to the girl, upon which her parents rebuked the boy, said Prof Harunur Rashid, vice-chancellor of the university.
Saoda
Following this, the girl had been trying to avoid him over the past one month. Infuriated, Russell hacked her with a knife in the back and neck around 8:30am on the university campus, said teachers and students of the university.
The first-year accounting student was brought to the intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital by an air-ambulance around 1.30pm where she perished around 5:30pm.
Russell fled the scene immediately after the attack and was missing since.
However, he made a phone call to Saoda’s classmate Salma, around 1:35pm, and warned her against rallying support for the girl. He also allegedly threatened her with the same fate.
But how can this be that the same man that loved her killed her?
Dr Omar Rahman, US board certified psychiatrist, formerly faculty at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, seems to have an answer.
“Adolescents find it difficult to deal with rejections,” said Rahman, now vice-chancellor of Independent University in Dhaka.
“They are of an age where they do not think clearly about the future, and therefore react to stress in bizarre ways, even if it is given by close ones,” he said adding that this, however, did not justify the killing.
Russell
He also recommended that Russell’s mental condition be assessed to find out the state of mind he was in to have reacted the way he did.
Russell’s mother Renu Begum told this correspondent that locals criticised her and also her son after the girl’s family rejected Russell’s proposal.
“We are poor farmers and we rear goats. That is why Saoda’s family turned down the proposal. People criticised us a lot for this,” she said.
The university authorities expelled Russell following the incident and police were trying to catch him.
Source: The Daily Star
This guy should be in the slammers. That psychiatrist should go back to the United States and practice there. He forgets, our entire nation is sick. There is no law and order. Killers get pardoned or get scot free. A country where violence has taken a drastic route. We are nationally sick. We all suffer from social sickness.
We seem to have become a nation of strong likes and even stronger dislikes.
Love me or I’ll kill you – is obviously not LOVE but insanity!.