Dhaka, June 4 -- A boy back from his rural home soon after Eid, hacks himself to death with a coconut-seller's cleaver, while screaming to be forgiven for some unknown sins. It's so absurd and surreal that they sound almost like a cinema scene of the avant garde variety. He was actually taken to the DMCH and there died soon, finally to be located by his relatives a few days later. It shocks everyone and makes people think that something truly foul is on. What was the sin he had committed that he killed himself?

It was considered so foul that even the Chhatra League was moved to take out a procession and demand that police find out immediately what is going on. They blamed the police for complicity which in Bangladesh is no big deal.

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