“I might be killed anytime. I know there’s a threat on my life for my job as prosecutor. If I get killed, more Tureens will come forward to finish my job,” Tureen Afroz, a brave campaigner for justice for victims of 1971, told BSS.”But I am thinking about my daughter, what if they harm her?” Tureen asked failing to hide her motherly emotions. She said, she had got a phone call on October 17. A man identifying him as Manjurul asked her to pull out of the case of Hossain Daroga of Kishoreganj.”He said if I don’t comply with his order, he would kill me and my daughter,” Barrister Tureen, a senior prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, told the news agency.Expressing her concern, Tureen said she had filed a general diary (GD) with Uttara West police on that very day and given them (police) the Malaysian number, from which she had initially received the death threats.”Police had told me that they would look into the matter, asking me not to reveal it (matter) to anyone. But now the man is in the town and roaming freely. What are they doing? I even gave them two local phone numbers of that man, who I believe lives in a suburb of Dhaka city and teaches in a college,” Tureen continued.Meanwhile, Bidhan Tripura, deputy commissioner of police of Uttara Zone, said the matter has been sent to detective branch (DB) for further investigation.”It’s a foreign number, and we don’t have the necessary technology to track it down. So we sent the matter to DB,” he said.
