Identity Crisis of Children Born of Rape

Photo: Collected

Author

Nazratun Nayem Mamduda

Student, Department of Population Science

Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University

One doesn’t have control over birth so birth cannot be the medium of fixing one’s identity (especially negative) in society. We know, every person have equal rights in the society though incredibly, it is true that all person don't find equal opportunity (not equal right). In our society rights and equality are fixed by birth for some people. Let me tell you a story.

Nasima Begum, a normal human being but in the society she is considered as “illegal child” only because of she has no paternal identity. Her mother was raped by Pakistani army during the liberation war in 1971 and she gave birth her. From the very child hood she has been being treated as “illegal child”. Her whole life is in under difficulties. No mother allowed their baby to play with her, talked to her and fraternize her. She is now 47 and still facing the identity crisis and a sever discrimination.

The question is, is she responsible for this anyhow or is it a problem of the society?