“Five or six days later, we attacked another police target, a police sergeant’s motorbike. He parked it on the pavement and was talking over the walkie-talkie about the demonstration. While his back was turned we set upon the bike with iron bars, sticks and rocks. We smashed it up. We carried out these actions on the instructions of some of our candidate’s supporters. The police were after us. We hid out in the Tejgaon Railway Station. Then we went to Kamlapur Station and slept there on the platform. At about 11 o’clock at night the police arrested 28 of us boys. They took us to a room in Tejgaon Police Station, on the third floor. The police knew that boys our age had been involved in the demonstrations and had been attacking their vehicles.

At 2 am we smashed the glass of the windows of the room where we were being held and we climbed out. The guard was asleep in his chair. We escaped from the building and went to Bangla Motors. A police car drew up and asked us where we had come from. We told them that we had been to a wedding party at a club in Kawran Bazar (It is a community centre where we can sometimes get free food.).

We went to the club at Mirpur and slept there. In the morning our Party supporters gave us food for our breakfast. They told us some of our candidates supporters had been arrested and were being held at Rajarbagh Police Station where I used to work. We went there that afternoon. We threw stones and broke the windows of the police hostel. When I first came to Dhaka I used to be afraid of the police. Now I think the police are afraid of us.”