Dreams of 9 Bangladeshi youths shattered in
Courtesy New Age 26/4/08
Mihir Kumar Hira along with eight Sidr victims went to
Being desolated by the clutch of the cyclone, nine families of Hizla village under Chitalmari upazila in Bagerhat decided to send their sons abroad by selling their land and taking loan at high interest. Those ill-fated villagers ultimately lost everything as they were cheated by local manpower brokers who took around Tk 4,20,000 from each, alluring them of providing good job in
The dreams of the nine families were shattered less than three months as eight of the nine youths were forced to return home empty-handed.
‘The brokers appeared to us as second Sidr as they took away our remaining assets. We don’t know where we should go now as Sidr devastated our houses,’ Sheikh Mukhles, father of Sheikh Ashik, 17, one of the returnees, told New Age on Saturday.
Mukhles and other victims narrated their sufferings at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity.
The wailing father urged the authorities concerned to take stern action against ‘powerful frauds’ and initiatives for giving back their money.
Mihir told reporters that each of them gave Tk 420,000 to local manpower brokers Sheikh Taijul Islam, Sheikh Mizanur Rahman, Sheikh Samiul and Sheikh Zakir.
‘We went to
According to another victim Ashik, crafty brokers told them that they had some ‘good visas’ of a Canadian company in
On arrival in
The youths alleged that Tamil employees of the company very often used to torture them both mentally and physically even on the slightest pretext.
As they felt insecure life in
They returned home in two batches on April 5 and April 25 with the help of
In reply to a query, Ashik said they were taken to a recruiting agency MA Hamid and Sons (RL no- 904) before their departure to
When they approached to the ministry for lodging complaint against the recruiting agent, the officials told them that it was a fake one as the agency was not on the government list.
Responding to a query of going to local brokers, Mihir and his colleagues said when they asked local brokers to return their money, they were threatened to be killed if they pressed for the money.
Later they went to the Chitalmari police station to file case against the brokers but for inexplicable reasons, the police officers forced them to lodge a general diary, he alleged, saying that Palash, Arif Sheikh and Ebadul, however, managed to get back their money as they were the relatives of the brokers.
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