The father of eight-year-old Musa Khan, who has been on tube feeding since being shot during the July mass uprising in 2024, appeared before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday seeking justice for his son鈥檚 suffering and the killing of his mother.
Mostafizur Rahman, an electronics shop owner from Malibagh, told the tribunal that his mother, Maya Islam, was killed by the same bullet that struck Musa in the head in front of their home in Rampura, Dhaka.
鈥業 saw the officer-in-charge of Rampura police station firing outside the gate of my residence,鈥� Mostafizur testified before the three-member tribunal headed by Justice Md Golam Mortuza Mozumder.
鈥楽ome police members were with him, including one named Chanchal,鈥� he added.
He said the bullet hit Musa and his grandmother on July 19 while they were standing in the garage of their rented house, about 70 feet from Rampura police station, waiting for ice cream he had bought for them.
Musa was later taken to Singapore for treatment at government expense and has since been surviving on nasogastric tube feeding.
鈥楳y son cannot speak. He cannot move,鈥� the father said in tears.