With the advancement of social media we’ve encountered both positive and negative side effects. One of those negative side effects being the growing trend of taping acts of violence and posting it for the world to see, a prideful proclamation of grotesque proclivities come to life. Monsters are fueled by the idea of the shock and awe their viewers experience, and have lost the fear of publicity. We continue to witness this practice with ISIS, and now we are seeing it with the brutal killing of Samiul Alam Rajon, a 13 year-old boy beaten to death in Bangladesh.
Authorities in Bangladesh are on the hunt for a gang of killers who murdered a young boy, as protests break out across the country over the video of the incident the killers posted online. Samiul Alam Rajan, 13, was violently beaten to death by a murderous gang that accused him of stealing a rickshaw.
They lashed him to a stake and mercilessly beat him until he died of internal bleeding.
The 28-minute-long video of the murder posted online shows Rajan suffering at least 60 serious injuries prior to the moment of death. Throughout the ordeal, the child continually begged for water and screamed for help.
The attackers in the video listened to 13 year-old Alam Rajon’s screams for mercy, and with a depravity that is foreign to the vast majority of us they casually laughed as he was crushed. Across the world we are seeing Islamic fundamentalists becoming more open and brazen in their attacks, especially with the lack of response from the rest of the world, a world that seems preoccupied by “courageous” celebrities and the removal of flags. Samiul Alam Rajon was not given a trial, he was not given a chance to plead his case; he mercilessly became yet another form of proof that such barbarians care not about the truth, but instead care about the message they send to those who witness the attacks.
Police said the attackers tied Samiul, a part-time vegetable seller who dropped out of school to help his impoverished family, to a pole for allegedly committing a burglary — a charge his family vehemently denies.
“My son is not a thief. Everyone knows it. I want justice for my child’s murder,” Samiul’s mother Lubna Aktar told reporters.
In the video, the terrified youngster can be heard screaming in pain and repeating: “Please don’t beat me like this, I will die.”
Samiul’s attackers can be heard on the footage trying to force him to confess his involvement in the burglary.
Arrests have been made, but for Bangladesh this is just another in a string of violent attacks, and another sign that the safety of citizens in this country is continuously deteriorating. As recently as May, we saw yet another blogger – who had previously been critical of Islam – slaughtered.
Attacks on bloggers critical of Islam have taken on a disturbing regularity in Bangladesh, with yet another writer hacked to death Tuesday.
Ananta Bijoy Das, 32, was killed Tuesday morning as he left his home on his way to work at a bank, police in the northeastern Bangladeshi city of Sylhet said.
Four masked men attacked him, hacking him to death with cleavers and machetes, said Sylhet Metropolitan Police Commissioner Kamrul Ahsan.
The video of Rajon being beaten has been impossible to watch for some:
I tried a few times, but couldnt gather enough courage to watch the video. I am losing faith in humanity. #JusticeForRajon #Bangladesh
— Nazmul Haque Hirok (@hiroktweets) July 12, 2015
As calls for justice ring throughout the internet, and protests grow in Bangladesh, the plight of Bangladesh children – specifically – are coming to light.
According to Dhaka-based child rights promoting organisation Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF), only from January till March this year, 96 children have been raped and 66 were murdered in Bangladesh besides numerous other acts of violence done against them.
The statistics tallied by the NGO shows an alarming jump in the atrocities against children with every passing year in Bangladesh as 119 incidents of rape and 292 murder incidents of children had occured in 2014. The numbers were at 150 rapes and 180 murders in 2013.
Experts in Bangladesh have pointed out that children are “soft targets” for attackers if they have feuds with the child’s family; they want to blackmail the family for money or have other criminal intentions.
Many on Twitter have also mentioned the increasing danger children face in Bangladesh:
Justice for Rajon is not enough, there must be positive and permanent change in the way we treat children in Bangladesh #JusticeForRajon
— Save the Children BD (@SCinBD) July 14, 2015
The growing fear of such atrocities in Bangladesh is not new, and as human beings are butchered in the streets for simply a disagreement in politics or religion, we shouldn’t be surprised when the youngest and easiest victims become prey to those who wish to send a message of hate to the people of their country, and to the world. The growing silence and purposeful ignorance to such barbarity around the world only serves as an endorsement of this behavior. When will such inhumanity take precedence over donut licking celebrities and transgender athletes? That’s the question that has gone unanswered for far too long.
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