Trauma during forced disappearance still haunts me: Masum Billah | July Uprising

This is a news article published by Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) featuring an exclusive interview with Masum Billah, central joint general secretary of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) and Dhaka University student, conducted on August 2, 2025. The article documents his firsthand account of participating in the 2024 July Uprising, which resulted in the ousting of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5, 2024. The main topics covered include: The quota reform movement and its justification, tracing its origins from 2013-2014 through its peak in 2024, triggered by the Appellate Division reinstating a 56% civil service quota system Masum's forced disappearance and torture, detailing his abduction on July 17, 2024, four days of detention and interrogation by the Detective Branch, physical abuse, psychological torment including fear of extrajudicial killing ("crossfire"), and a fabricated weapons charge used to formally arrest him His personal trauma, including ongoing PTSD symptoms such as nightmares about being taken for execution, and his eventual learning of Hasina's fall while imprisoned with a fever on August 5, 2024

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