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 lead anti-dictatorship movement in Bangladesh and killed by the then pro-junta activists. He was shot dead during a clash between Chhatra Sangram Parishad and Chhatra Samaj, the ruling Jatiyo Party backed student wing in front of Mohsin Hall at University of Dhaka on 13 February 1985. His death provoked the anti-junta student activists and the movement for restoration of democracy became even more radicalised and consolidated. It turned into so violent that the dictator Hussein Muhammad Ershad had to resign shortly.
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13 February 1985 (aged )
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