Father, I am attending classes at the university. I am busy with lab work. Around 5:00pm, we will go shopping. I will go with a friend.”
That was the last conversation Nahida Sultana Bristy had with her father on April 16.
“There was so much joy in her voice,” said Jahir Uddin Akon over the phone.
She was supposed to return home in July. She used to buy things for herself and for us whenever she found time.”
No one will call me ‘father’ anymore. I used to call my daughter ‘Ma’. I will not be able to call anyone ‘Ma’ again,” he said, his voice breaking.
I have only one demand now, find my daughter’s body and bring it back. I just want to see her face one last time.”
According to Bristy’s father, she went missing shortly after receiving a phone call from a man identified as Hisham Saleh Abugharbieh. She went downstairs to speak with him and did not return.
had many dreams for my daughter,” her father said. “She was very good in her studies. She went to the United States to fulfil her dreams. With her, I have lost my dreams as well.”
Bristy’s cousin, Tuli Akon, said her family first learned about Bristy's death through a Facebook post by her brother.
“She had been missing even before that. We still do not know how or why she was killed,” she said.
“We want justice. We cannot accept this death. We demand punishment for those responsible and the return of her body.”
Bristy's family awaits body
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Poor girl couldn't have known her life was in danger.
I wonder what he said to her, maybe pretended Zamil was in trouble?
