Editorial Desk :
The ill-fated Khadija Begum Nargis — a student of Sylhet Govt. Women College is now on life support at a city hospital in the capital having serious injuries of machete on her head which ran into her brain. The brave Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Badrul Alam showed his masculine might on the helpless girl because she had turned down his proposal for marriage. So he wanted to kill her. A love indeed of BCL style! And this murderer not alone, many BCL leaders and workers are routinely victimizing innocent girls throughout the country and have their blood in their hands as they had turned down their proposals. Doctors say Khadija’s chance for survival is slim when her family wonders what is at fault except the fact that Khadija was pretty and wanted to build a life and live it as she wanted.
Many believe she is already dead and the doctors are delaying announcement. Our sociologists and intellectuals are anxious to show their textbook knowledge and often too eager to blame the society for becoming cruel and brutally violent.
Even women organisations do not come forward strongly in protest of such easy murders and torture of young girls. Many of us have become politically subservient. We should be ashamed of it.
One thing is not appreciated is that police have also been politicised for politically protecting the political workers. Police must obey orders for public interest, not serving the interest of MPs and others in the government. They are not for obeying orders of student leaders either.
The killer of Khadija was once before charge-sheeted for harassing another girl and was beaten by public in 2012. He also assaulted three other girls one after another before making similar attack on Khadija. But nothing had happened to him. He was relentlessly active in his criminal activities. The police has no public accountability to the people as the people’s police.
The fact is that student leaders are used as muscle power for the ruling party to continue in power. They are not recruited to be political leaders competent to run a government. This is the position not only of Awami League but also of BNP when in power.
We are tolerating criminalisation of politics. So we as a nation must feel ashamed for proving unworthy of having honest and responsible government.
We have Human Rights Commission which must take blames for doing nothing against criminalised politics for violating human rights. The Chief Human Rights Commissioner has not been chosen for his competence or anxiety for protecting human rights. He has been chosen for his servitude to the government.
We are a very unlucky nation.
The ill-fated Khadija Begum Nargis — a student of Sylhet Govt. Women College is now on life support at a city hospital in the capital having serious injuries of machete on her head which ran into her brain. The brave Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Badrul Alam showed his masculine might on the helpless girl because she had turned down his proposal for marriage. So he wanted to kill her. A love indeed of BCL style! And this murderer not alone, many BCL leaders and workers are routinely victimizing innocent girls throughout the country and have their blood in their hands as they had turned down their proposals. Doctors say Khadija’s chance for survival is slim when her family wonders what is at fault except the fact that Khadija was pretty and wanted to build a life and live it as she wanted.
Many believe she is already dead and the doctors are delaying announcement. Our sociologists and intellectuals are anxious to show their textbook knowledge and often too eager to blame the society for becoming cruel and brutally violent.
Even women organisations do not come forward strongly in protest of such easy murders and torture of young girls. Many of us have become politically subservient. We should be ashamed of it.
One thing is not appreciated is that police have also been politicised for politically protecting the political workers. Police must obey orders for public interest, not serving the interest of MPs and others in the government. They are not for obeying orders of student leaders either.
The killer of Khadija was once before charge-sheeted for harassing another girl and was beaten by public in 2012. He also assaulted three other girls one after another before making similar attack on Khadija. But nothing had happened to him. He was relentlessly active in his criminal activities. The police has no public accountability to the people as the people’s police.
The fact is that student leaders are used as muscle power for the ruling party to continue in power. They are not recruited to be political leaders competent to run a government. This is the position not only of Awami League but also of BNP when in power.
We are tolerating criminalisation of politics. So we as a nation must feel ashamed for proving unworthy of having honest and responsible government.
We have Human Rights Commission which must take blames for doing nothing against criminalised politics for violating human rights. The Chief Human Rights Commissioner has not been chosen for his competence or anxiety for protecting human rights. He has been chosen for his servitude to the government.
We are a very unlucky nation.
