What we were not then what we are now. Because it is said the people deserve the government it has.
We were a peace loving people and have been struggling long for democratic values of rights, liberty, respect for life and free election. We were a responsible people living together.
Now, the image with which we living is we are a cruel and lawless people needing police state kind of governance with no voting right to choose our government.
We are so greedy that corruption can make us forget our patriotic obligations to the people and the country. We are in a situation
of lawlessness and insecurity of life.
It is on January 30 that police arrested a 60-year-old man for raping a seven-year-old child at Kochakata village under Nageshwari upazila in Kurigram district. The accused-father of six – was a neighbour of the victim.
On the same day, two other minors were raped in Noakhali and Gazipur. A local dressmaker of Begumganj’s Kalirhat Bazar was reportedly responsible for raping a third grader in Noakhali. In Gazipur, a 14-year-old girl was raped by her neighbour when she went to collect vegetables from adjacent area to her house.
Incidents of raping young and not so young have become a horror for parents.
Apart from rape there is general negligence for safety and care for the children. On Friday night, the local rescuers recovered the dead body of a 5-year-old boy who drowned in a canal at Adabor in Dhaka.
The ill-fated boy Jisan, son of Abul Hashem, lived in one of the tin-roofed houses along the canal which was very near to a cantonment.
The child was playing football and got entangled in the shrubs in the unclean canal when he wanted to collect the football fell into it.
There would have been cases for negligence if the people had faith in law enforcement.
In our situation killing of other people or their children is not a matter for the government to worry.
Jisan was not the first boy who met the tragic end of life drowning in the canal; the official sources said at least 20 minor boys so far have been drowned in the city canals in last five years.
There are many tragic killings of children in various parts of the country on allegations of minor thefts. The existence of law enforcing agencies meant nothing to the culprits.
On November 28, a video clip went viral where BCL leaders were seen beating to death a 9 year old boy at Chougram of Singra upazila in Natore.
The incidents of raping girls and later killing them are also frequently reported in the press. Gang raping is a common incident nowadays.
On Friday night, it was reported that a girl was gang raped in front of her young brother. The bus driver and his helpers raped the girl without fear of being caught and punished.
We have a government where they themselves can commit crimes. Nobody needs competence.
It is not possible to give full accounts to make the point that how easy cruelty of rape and murder has become in Bangladesh.
At state level also killing is easy. Killing in crossfire by law enforcing agencies needs no accountability. Death in police custody is something the nation has become used to.
They were carrying drugs or they were terrorists-these are very common allegations to justify such deaths. Nothing to worry that death without due process of law is not only illegal but also unconstitutional.
The truth is, politics of running the government itself has become a cruel affair. The fear of insecurity of life and liberty is the bureaucratic way of governing through creating panic.
The country is deprived of political leadership or political considerations for the government to build an orderly society where making life safe and secure is the elementary responsibility of a normal government.
But the question that disturbs every sensible person is how so much cruelty and lawlessness could engulf a peaceful and kind hearted people like ours. It is not the people we were before independence obtained with the military help of India and the demand of democracy has created a never ending crisis of cruelty.
It is a matter of deep frustration that the political leaders including Bangabandhu who all their life struggled for democracy faced violent death.
Change is a must but any peaceful way of change through election is locked down.
Our people are helplessly wondering how much cruelty and injustices they must suffer before they can have an accountable government of their own.
We were a peace loving people and have been struggling long for democratic values of rights, liberty, respect for life and free election. We were a responsible people living together.
Now, the image with which we living is we are a cruel and lawless people needing police state kind of governance with no voting right to choose our government.
We are so greedy that corruption can make us forget our patriotic obligations to the people and the country. We are in a situation
of lawlessness and insecurity of life.
It is on January 30 that police arrested a 60-year-old man for raping a seven-year-old child at Kochakata village under Nageshwari upazila in Kurigram district. The accused-father of six – was a neighbour of the victim.
On the same day, two other minors were raped in Noakhali and Gazipur. A local dressmaker of Begumganj’s Kalirhat Bazar was reportedly responsible for raping a third grader in Noakhali. In Gazipur, a 14-year-old girl was raped by her neighbour when she went to collect vegetables from adjacent area to her house.
Incidents of raping young and not so young have become a horror for parents.
Apart from rape there is general negligence for safety and care for the children. On Friday night, the local rescuers recovered the dead body of a 5-year-old boy who drowned in a canal at Adabor in Dhaka.
The ill-fated boy Jisan, son of Abul Hashem, lived in one of the tin-roofed houses along the canal which was very near to a cantonment.
The child was playing football and got entangled in the shrubs in the unclean canal when he wanted to collect the football fell into it.
There would have been cases for negligence if the people had faith in law enforcement.
In our situation killing of other people or their children is not a matter for the government to worry.
Jisan was not the first boy who met the tragic end of life drowning in the canal; the official sources said at least 20 minor boys so far have been drowned in the city canals in last five years.
There are many tragic killings of children in various parts of the country on allegations of minor thefts. The existence of law enforcing agencies meant nothing to the culprits.
On November 28, a video clip went viral where BCL leaders were seen beating to death a 9 year old boy at Chougram of Singra upazila in Natore.
The incidents of raping girls and later killing them are also frequently reported in the press. Gang raping is a common incident nowadays.
On Friday night, it was reported that a girl was gang raped in front of her young brother. The bus driver and his helpers raped the girl without fear of being caught and punished.
We have a government where they themselves can commit crimes. Nobody needs competence.
It is not possible to give full accounts to make the point that how easy cruelty of rape and murder has become in Bangladesh.
At state level also killing is easy. Killing in crossfire by law enforcing agencies needs no accountability. Death in police custody is something the nation has become used to.
They were carrying drugs or they were terrorists-these are very common allegations to justify such deaths. Nothing to worry that death without due process of law is not only illegal but also unconstitutional.
The truth is, politics of running the government itself has become a cruel affair. The fear of insecurity of life and liberty is the bureaucratic way of governing through creating panic.
The country is deprived of political leadership or political considerations for the government to build an orderly society where making life safe and secure is the elementary responsibility of a normal government.
But the question that disturbs every sensible person is how so much cruelty and lawlessness could engulf a peaceful and kind hearted people like ours. It is not the people we were before independence obtained with the military help of India and the demand of democracy has created a never ending crisis of cruelty.
It is a matter of deep frustration that the political leaders including Bangabandhu who all their life struggled for democracy faced violent death.
Change is a must but any peaceful way of change through election is locked down.
Our people are helplessly wondering how much cruelty and injustices they must suffer before they can have an accountable government of their own.
