Not Again...
Salaam,
Hope everyone is well inshaAllah,
I think its something with me and riots...i think its been a week or so since i last wrote something and quite a lot has happened since then; a big fight, a political rally, another fight, and a wedding.
Re the Big fight, basically...it reminded me of the burnley riots..It was after zuhr four/five days ago that i was sitting in a relatives shop in the bazaar when some kid comes running towards us saying theres a fight going on on the main road. So as you do, me and my relative went to see what was going on. When we got there there was around 50 people surrounding a car, a guy bleeding from his head, and another guy with blood on his face.
We got as close as you could to the group and tried to find out what was going on, but no one seemed to really know. In the car was two guys at the front, looking very distressed,with a woman and two small girls in the back. Then as we got closer to the car some guy came from behind us wielding a machete and started attacking the car, and was followed by three other guys who started kicking and punching the car and the windows. At this, even though the whole street was now full of people and the car was completely surrounded, the driver who had kept the car running, started moving his car and forcily sped off. The guys who were attacking the car and now another 15/20 people started chasing after it throwing stones and bricks at the back of the car...the car sped off and turned right onto a bridge at which it knocked over a rickshaw and then proceeded to run over two sheep..and then went off into the distance...
In the aftermath i found out that the car had knocked over a motorcycle about two minutes before the fight happened. The owner of the cycle then chased the car and made it stop, conveniantly outside his shop (the motor cycle owners). Here there was a confrontation between the driver of the car and the motorcycle owner where the car driver got hit. Seeing this the male passenger of the car also came out and there was another fight. BUT since it was the motorcycle owners home turf, and his three brothers happened to be in their shop they all came out (these were the guys with the machete and who started attacking the car). And seeing this, all the locals also surrounded the car.
There' s more. Three hours later the police turned up (classic bollywood style). Here we find out that the passengers in the car had just arrived from the UK and were on their way home from the airport and that the male passengers grandad was a local "chairman" (equivalent of mayor i think) where this position holds a lot of power, so now the whole thing is gonna get dragged out and may end up going to the court and involve a lot of money for all involved. (i hope everyone followed my awful story telling...)
The other things...my local MP came and decided to hold a political rally in a community centre outside our house which was interesting to witness (Bd is a fiercly political country), the other fight was at a cricket match i went to watch where the local side lost a cup game by one run and claimed that they should have got a 6 but instead got a 4 leading to a fight and a relative of mine got married so i got to see a proper bengali wedding.
Anyway my Bangladesh trip comes to an end this Wed when i will be flying back to the Uk, so inshaAllah i will see some of you soon,
Wassallam.
Hope everyone is well inshaAllah,
I think its something with me and riots...i think its been a week or so since i last wrote something and quite a lot has happened since then; a big fight, a political rally, another fight, and a wedding.
Re the Big fight, basically...it reminded me of the burnley riots..It was after zuhr four/five days ago that i was sitting in a relatives shop in the bazaar when some kid comes running towards us saying theres a fight going on on the main road. So as you do, me and my relative went to see what was going on. When we got there there was around 50 people surrounding a car, a guy bleeding from his head, and another guy with blood on his face.
We got as close as you could to the group and tried to find out what was going on, but no one seemed to really know. In the car was two guys at the front, looking very distressed,with a woman and two small girls in the back. Then as we got closer to the car some guy came from behind us wielding a machete and started attacking the car, and was followed by three other guys who started kicking and punching the car and the windows. At this, even though the whole street was now full of people and the car was completely surrounded, the driver who had kept the car running, started moving his car and forcily sped off. The guys who were attacking the car and now another 15/20 people started chasing after it throwing stones and bricks at the back of the car...the car sped off and turned right onto a bridge at which it knocked over a rickshaw and then proceeded to run over two sheep..and then went off into the distance...
In the aftermath i found out that the car had knocked over a motorcycle about two minutes before the fight happened. The owner of the cycle then chased the car and made it stop, conveniantly outside his shop (the motor cycle owners). Here there was a confrontation between the driver of the car and the motorcycle owner where the car driver got hit. Seeing this the male passenger of the car also came out and there was another fight. BUT since it was the motorcycle owners home turf, and his three brothers happened to be in their shop they all came out (these were the guys with the machete and who started attacking the car). And seeing this, all the locals also surrounded the car.
There' s more. Three hours later the police turned up (classic bollywood style). Here we find out that the passengers in the car had just arrived from the UK and were on their way home from the airport and that the male passengers grandad was a local "chairman" (equivalent of mayor i think) where this position holds a lot of power, so now the whole thing is gonna get dragged out and may end up going to the court and involve a lot of money for all involved. (i hope everyone followed my awful story telling...)
The other things...my local MP came and decided to hold a political rally in a community centre outside our house which was interesting to witness (Bd is a fiercly political country), the other fight was at a cricket match i went to watch where the local side lost a cup game by one run and claimed that they should have got a 6 but instead got a 4 leading to a fight and a relative of mine got married so i got to see a proper bengali wedding.
Anyway my Bangladesh trip comes to an end this Wed when i will be flying back to the Uk, so inshaAllah i will see some of you soon,
Wassallam.
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