By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
Guwahati: The little girl was screaming at her bed at Guwahati Medical College Hospital. The four year old Taslima Khatun of Narasingbari village in Assam’s Baska district has lost her finger and received bullet injuries as armed militants of National Democratic Front of Bodoalnd (NDFB) opened fire killing four people in front of her on Thursday night.
The little girl does not know anything but she can feel the acute pain and she wants of get rid of it as her mother Farida Khatun, another lucky survivor in the incident tries her best to console her daughter. “What was the fault of this girl that she has to suffer like this? Is this humanity? I wish I would have died instead of seeing my daughter like this,” a dejected Farida Khatun told TwoCircles.net said.
Four year old Taslima Khatun is battling for her life at Guwahati Medical College Hospital
Taslima was sitting with her grandmother Champa Bewa (60) along with a few neighbours after having dinner at her village at Narasingbari village area near Anandabazar, under Gobardhan police station in Baska district. Suddenly a group of armed militants appeared at the scene and started to open fire indiscriminately aiming the people who were sitting at the courtyard.
Three people including Taslima’s grand mother died on the spot and another one, Rashida Khatun (12) breathed her last on the way to hospital. Taslims’s neighbour Sona Miah (40) and his wife Ramisa Khatun (35) died on the spot.
“Before we could realize what had happened we heard the cry. We rushed out of the house to see them (people sitting on the courtyard) lying on the ground,” Farida said.
Taslima is one of the lucky survivors after suspected armed militants of National Democratic Front of Bodoland (S) gunned down 11 people in different places at Bodoland Territorial Areas District (BTAD) on late Thursday and early Friday. Besides losing her thumb, the little Taslima has also sustained injury at cheek and her upper chest.
The doctors attending the girl, however, said that her condition is stable and she is expected to recover soon. The doctors have found no major problems with her vital organs including the eye sight.
“We hope that she recovers as soon as possible. This is the plight of democracy where no one can assure safety and security to the common people like us. I wish that the state government and the BTAD authorities will take immediate and appropriate measures so that no more such incidents take place in future,” said Samsul Hoque, uncle of Taslima.
Though, All Bodoland Minority Students’ Union (ABMSU) and others have blamed the Bodoland People’s Party (BPF) for triggering the violence, the family members said that they just want to live in peace. “We are common and very poor people. We have no idea how politics work. We just want to live in peace,” Hoque added.
Another injured Bipin Boro who was shot at and injured in his house by two suspected militants at Nizdefeli is also out of danger and stated to be stable by the GMCH superintendent Ramen Talukdar
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