Raufun Basunia

Raufun Basunia (Bengali: রাউফুন বসুনীয়া Raufun Basunia, died 13 February 1985), former Joint Secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League, and the General Secretary of its University of Dhaka branch was a prominent student leader who led anti-dictatorship movement in Bangladesh and was killed by pro-junta activists.

[4][5] His death provoked the anti-junta student activists, and the movement for restoration of democracy became even more radicalised and consolidated.

University of Dhaka authority later placed a statue of Raufun Basunia in its campus commemorating his sacrifice.

Raufun Basunia was born in a typical village named as Paikpara which is situated in Rajarhat Upazila of Kurigram District in Bangladesh.

To counteract the pro-democracy movement, the junta formed a new student organisation Nutun Bangla Chatra Samaj whose job was to baffle the protests.

[1] This student body with arms and ammunitions under military auspices started to capture different residential halls of Dhaka University.

On 13 February 1985 the Dhaka University front of Bangladesh Chhatra League brought a regular procession under the lead of Raufun Basunia.