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Speaker 1: It's an absolute tragedy that we are in a situation

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Speaker 1: where a twenty three year old international student's life was

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Speaker 1: lost last week and the alleged murderer appeared in court yesterday,

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Speaker 1: is my understanding. Now joining me on the line right

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Speaker 1: now is the Chairman of the Islamic Council of the

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Speaker 1: Northern Territory, Chowdhri Sarta rund In. Good morning to you, Childhri.

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Speaker 1: Let me just try to get him on the line again.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to.

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Speaker 2: You Childrei, Good morning, Good morning to you listener.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning. Now we

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Speaker 1: know that a prayer service was held yesterday. It's an

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Speaker 1: incredibly sad, sad time I would imagine for the Islamic community.

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Speaker 2: It is indeed, I myself living in Darwin first last

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Speaker 2: twenty three years, I never feared this type of tragedy

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Speaker 2: in my twenty three years in Darwin, so definitely it's

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Speaker 2: a very tragic incident which taken out the whole communitee.

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Speaker 1: It really has you know, I was a whay last

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Speaker 1: week and I felt so incredibly sad thinking about the

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Speaker 1: fact that that a family sent their twenty three year

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Speaker 1: old son to Australia for a better life, to further

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Speaker 1: those studies, and it's something like this could happen.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, especially he was the only child and the

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Speaker 2: couple got him after quite a long time after their marriage,

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Speaker 2: so you can understand the loss. And I myself is

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Speaker 2: a parent. I've got a boy, one single child, and

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Speaker 2: when I put myself into their shoe, I cannot imagine.

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Speaker 2: I cannot sleep at night when I think about it.

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Speaker 2: So you can understand the feeling of normal community.

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Speaker 1: Now, can you tell me a little bit about the

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Speaker 1: service that was held yesterday for say fat and what

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Speaker 1: people was saying at that service.

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Speaker 2: It's just a Islamic system of before burial, we actually

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Speaker 2: washed the body, so that happened yesterday in the morning.

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Speaker 2: I participated in that washing of the body and then

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Speaker 2: putting the shower down, and then it took him to

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Speaker 2: the mosque for a small prayer, which very simple in

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Speaker 2: Islam how it has to be done. And next one

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Speaker 2: is the burial. So his body will be taken to

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Speaker 2: Bangladesh on Thursday. The flight is on Thursday and his

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Speaker 2: parents will receive him over there. His uncle and auntie

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Speaker 2: from Sydney. They were here in Darwin when he passed away,

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Speaker 2: so they are also flying from Sydney and they will

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Speaker 2: meet him over there in Bangladesh.

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Speaker 1: Chadrick, can you tell me how his family wants him

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Speaker 1: to be remembered.

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Speaker 2: I didn't have the opportunity to meet his parents or

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Speaker 2: talk to his parents, but I did talk to his

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Speaker 2: uncle and the cousins, and also many of his friends

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Speaker 2: in Dawin, especially his roommates, I mean the flagmates. He was.

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Speaker 2: He was a very jolly sort of person and everybody

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Speaker 2: used to love him for his liveliness and generosity and

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Speaker 2: a fun loving sort of person. The Universityalseur University is

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Speaker 2: doing a fantastic job at this moment there trying to

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Speaker 2: create a fund so that fund can be utilized in

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Speaker 2: memory of Siafat, like, for example, creating a scholarship or

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Speaker 2: some other other thing which can help the international student

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Speaker 2: and other students. So that's what they're doing, and definitely

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Speaker 2: we will consult the family before it lies in that

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Speaker 2: fund which way they like to see him remembered in.

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Speaker 1: Darwin, and we will make sure that we share any

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Speaker 1: of that information so that the community is able to

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Speaker 1: support that childre Can you tell me how is the

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Speaker 1: Islamic community feeling at this point in time when it

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Speaker 1: comes to safety, and particularly with those discussions that you've

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Speaker 1: had with the international students and his flatmates.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. But the three things here which actually highlighted to

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Speaker 2: the politicians, the Chief Minister and the Opposition leader. Also

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Speaker 2: Number one is a safe accommodation. Basically, we are planning

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Speaker 2: is now struggling to get an accommodation. So we need

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Speaker 2: to think about it how we'll be accommodating all this

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Speaker 2: international students. Like as for example, cephat was I was

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Speaker 2: struggling to get an accommodation. He got an accommodation with

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Speaker 2: with with his friends, but it's not a suitable accommodation.

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Speaker 2: Number two, I get lots of information from the community,

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Speaker 2: Quite often they feel unsafe, especially our ladies I've been

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Speaker 2: thing is that if we feel like to make Darwin

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Speaker 2: that this is a safe place, which we were doing before,

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Speaker 2: make it a safe place so we can promote it

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Speaker 2: to the international students.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's a safe place for international students

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Speaker 2: As I told you that, I'm living in the city

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Speaker 2: for the last twenty three years. Before that, I used

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Speaker 2: So definitely if it was a better place in past.

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Speaker 2: And Vice Chancellor was telling it constantly that he was

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Speaker 2: in bangladeshli ten times. Okay, so he went to Bangladesh

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Speaker 2: ten times and always he's promoting Darwin as one of

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Speaker 2: was telling me that, you know, next time if I

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Speaker 2: Dhaka University will be visiting Darwin very soon, how he

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Speaker 2: will be standing by his statement that he was giving

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Speaker 2: the same feeling if the place was in past, it

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Speaker 2: cannot be again. What are the things, what are the

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Speaker 2: things you're not not doing properly? You know, what is

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Speaker 2: what is going wrong? You know? You think about it.

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Speaker 1: We really do well, you know, we people are really upset,

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Speaker 1: they're absolutely heartbroken and and we want to see change. Chadri,

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you speaking to me this morning. I'm

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Speaker 1: so sorry for the loss of Sefat. It's an utterly

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Speaker 1: heartbreaking situation for us as territories too, you know, to

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Speaker 1: have such a tragic and unnecessary loss of life of

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Speaker 1: a young man who did not deserve for something like

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Speaker 1: this to happen. I really appreciate your speaking with me

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for talking to me.

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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you