
02/06/2025
He died with shackles on his dignity.
Sangmoy Bawm—a man whose name in his native tongue means “elevated radiance”—was not a militant, nor a criminal.
He was a sick, aging member of the Bawm community, a Christian Indigenous minority in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), persecuted not for deeds, but for identity.
On Sunday afternoon, Sangmoy took his final breath in his home in Bandarban.
He had just been granted bail—two days too late.
For over a year, he had languished in jail under unsubstantiated allegations.
No court could convict him.
No evidence could justify his imprisonment. Yet he was detained, denied medical care, and reduced to a skeletal frame by the time he was hospitalized. Even then, justice crawled.
His bail came only when his body had already begun to collapse.
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