Dhaka, Feb. 8 -- Md Nayem, a 17-year-old 12th grader of Shanarpar Rowshan Ara Degree College, had a dream of becoming judge but a bullet snatched away his life during the anti-discrimination student movement.

He was fatally shot dead on July 19 last year when he joined the anti-discrimination student movement in the Kutubkhali area of Jatrabari in the city.

Nayem embraced martyrdom at a time when members of law enforcement agencies launched a massive crackdown on the student movement that eventually had turned into a student-people uprising by that time.

A bullet that penetrated the left side of his chest, just above his heart, exposed his family to a state of total wilderness both emotionally and financially as his father Md Kamrul Is...