Editorial Desk :
Militants attack at Sholakia in the sideline of the Eid congregation that killed at least four people including two policemen showed how desperate they have been to challenge the government. Sholakia has a history of nearly 200 years of holding unbroken Eid jamaat and the militants’ action immediately after the mayhem at Gulshan Café showed that state security and people’s safety are almost collapsing.
The government is blaming militancy as the biggest threat to the state but what most people believe is that it is not a problem itself, but an offshoot of the bigger political problem now destabilizing the nation.
It is clear that there is a political leadership crisis in the country but the government is trying to overcome it by use of police power which can’t however fill in the vacuum of political leadership. The call for national unity makes no sense to us, as because what is needed most is to fill in the leadership void for politics of unity, and not unity of failed leaders.
Bangladesh has become a country of killing and being killed. There is no understanding that setting of police check-posts
everywhere is not the way to stop terrorism. The terrorists will not use check-posts. On the contrary police at check-posts are exposed as open targets of the terrorists.
Meanwhile, people are being killed everyday. Only yesterday a Jubo League leader was hacked to death in Sutrapur in the city. Another ruling party man was killed in Gandaria in factional feud.
It is not helpful to blame militancy alone for every setback although it is destroying peace, social harmony and endangering state security. The setback to trade and investment, particularly the uncertainty of Bangladesh’s export abroad is more part of the bigger political problem. Foreign investment is almost drying up. Our tourist industry is facing setback as people are cancelling booking and the slow down is noticeable since political troubles that started after January election in 2014.
After the Gulshan mayhem, importers of Bangladesh garments are suspending business trips from Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, USA and European nations. Foreign aid workers remained grounded in the country while JICA and many others have cancelled visits of their aid workers pending assessment of safety of their workers.
The lack of leadership is not only evident in the government’s attitude of not to bother its disconnect from the people or its desire to continue in power despite its inability to provide safety to the people. Though the government talks of fighting terrorism, but terrorism is not only growing, it is gaining support from international terrorism like IS. If the terrorism is home grown, as insisted on by the government, then why the intelligence agencies cannot find out the training centres of the terrorists.
Militants attack at Sholakia in the sideline of the Eid congregation that killed at least four people including two policemen showed how desperate they have been to challenge the government. Sholakia has a history of nearly 200 years of holding unbroken Eid jamaat and the militants’ action immediately after the mayhem at Gulshan Café showed that state security and people’s safety are almost collapsing.
The government is blaming militancy as the biggest threat to the state but what most people believe is that it is not a problem itself, but an offshoot of the bigger political problem now destabilizing the nation.
It is clear that there is a political leadership crisis in the country but the government is trying to overcome it by use of police power which can’t however fill in the vacuum of political leadership. The call for national unity makes no sense to us, as because what is needed most is to fill in the leadership void for politics of unity, and not unity of failed leaders.
Bangladesh has become a country of killing and being killed. There is no understanding that setting of police check-posts
everywhere is not the way to stop terrorism. The terrorists will not use check-posts. On the contrary police at check-posts are exposed as open targets of the terrorists.
Meanwhile, people are being killed everyday. Only yesterday a Jubo League leader was hacked to death in Sutrapur in the city. Another ruling party man was killed in Gandaria in factional feud.
It is not helpful to blame militancy alone for every setback although it is destroying peace, social harmony and endangering state security. The setback to trade and investment, particularly the uncertainty of Bangladesh’s export abroad is more part of the bigger political problem. Foreign investment is almost drying up. Our tourist industry is facing setback as people are cancelling booking and the slow down is noticeable since political troubles that started after January election in 2014.
After the Gulshan mayhem, importers of Bangladesh garments are suspending business trips from Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, USA and European nations. Foreign aid workers remained grounded in the country while JICA and many others have cancelled visits of their aid workers pending assessment of safety of their workers.
The lack of leadership is not only evident in the government’s attitude of not to bother its disconnect from the people or its desire to continue in power despite its inability to provide safety to the people. Though the government talks of fighting terrorism, but terrorism is not only growing, it is gaining support from international terrorism like IS. If the terrorism is home grown, as insisted on by the government, then why the intelligence agencies cannot find out the training centres of the terrorists.
