Abrar's last two Facebook posts

Slain BUET student Abrar Fahad was critical of Bangladesh’s recent deal with India over sharing of Feni river. His last public status on Facebook, uploaded at 17:32 on 5 October, has been shared over 74k times as of 6:00pm on 13 October. He also earlier posted some Facebook statuses in which he was critical of India. 

His last public Fabebook status reads:

1. There was no sea port in the country’s western side after partition in 1947. The government at the time requested India to allow use of Kolkata port for 6 months. But, the 'dadas' (big brothers) outright refused. As a result, the authorities were forced to open Mongla port even before its inauguration. The irony is that India is now begging to allow them to use the very same Mongla port.

2. Tensions between Canaris (people of the Indian state of Karnataka) and Tamils (ethnic group of Southern India) over sharing of Kaveri river’s water hogged the media headline some years ago. While a state does not want to share water with another state of a same country, we are giving 150,000 cubic meter water in exchange of nothing.

3. North India stopped coal and stone export few years ago on the pretext of saving their resources, yet we will provide them gas. While we sometimes are forced to close down our own factories due to gas shortage, we will light the homes of our friends by providing them with our resources.

Abrar then wrote a four-line of a poem of Kamini Roy about helping other’s selflessly.

Earlier on 30 September, he posted another status on Facebook criticising India: “Who says India does not give us any return. They have opened Farakka barrage immediately after receiving 500 tonnes of Hilsha fish. Now we would drink water happily and farm Hilsa in our rivers. In Sha Allah (God willing), we would send them 1001 tonnes of Hilsa fish next year.”

He also posted some statuses on the Kashmir issue where he was apparently critical of India government’s stance on Kashmir.

Abrar was beaten to death at Sher-e-Bangla Hall of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) by some Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders on 6 October night.

BCL is the student wing of ruling Awami League.

His murder has created huge outcry in the country.