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Bangladesh: Rumana Monzur

Rumana Monzur: VANCOUVER - Rumana Monzur can picture a towering mountain or the blue sky on a sunny day. She remembers what the ocean looks like and can still conjure an image of water stretching out to the horizon. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "Each moment, I miss seeing her my daughter and not only her, I miss seeing people," Monzur, 35, said in an interview Wednesday. University of British Columbia student Rumana Monzur, who was beaten and blinded by her husband during a 2011 attack in Bangladesh, poses for a photograph at the university where she will begin law school in September, in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday July 10, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck But she hasn't seen her daughter in more than two years when, during a trip home to visit her family in Bangladesh, she was the victim of a vicious domestic assault that left her blind and her husband charged with attempted murder. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.