Editorial Desk :
Despite claiming that we are living in a civilized society, killing, abduction and forced disappearance continues unabated terribly shocking the nation with every such crime while police prove mindlessly unhelpful to stop it. Plain cloths people are perpetrating the crime that many believe can’t work without political shelter.
The nation saw how a helpless young law student was gang raped by half a dozen transport workers on Friday night on Tangail-Mymensingh highway; who later killed and threw the body on the roadside. Only
few weeks ago criminals raped a primary school teacher in the classroom in Betagi upazila of Barguna district to show the extent of lawlessness all over.
We have a rich history of Liberation War that led to shameful defeat of giant Pakistani occupation force. But in the free Bangladesh when rape and torture of women and abduction and killing of young people are taking place even defeating the record of the occupation force in many cases we are pained to see the silence of our freedom fighters to come to their rescue.
Awami League is using the name of freedom fighters to hold control over politics to their advantage and grab everything. Corruption and misuse of power by politically powerful people are rampant in their hands. They are busy to protect the regime but ordinary people appear to become increasingly unprotected and defenseless as everyday’s unfolding situation suggests.
In our view helpless people look at the true freedom fighters to come to their help. Claiming freedom fighters is not enough; freedom of people from poverty, hunger and their safety from abduction, killing and dishonouring of women by anti-socials are more important now to save people from terrible crime.
The missing of the general secretary of a political party linked to the major opposition from last Sunday from in front of party’s city office at night is the latest act terrorizing political opposition. His whereabouts is still unknown.
In yet another incidence of forced disappearance a Hindu businessman remained missing from early this week from Baridhara’s diplomatic area of the city. Police in both cases said they are trying to find out the victims; which is almost a routine response to queries from the families and press.
These are the big headlines of the week while many such incidents throughout the country involving killing and such other gross violation of human rights remained unreported. Victims’ families don’t go to police in many cases because they can’t be sure of police cooperation and even fear reprisal of perpetrators for informing police.
What seriously puzzles the people is why police having been professionally trained can’t know the identity of the perpetrators; they can’t have any excuse of failing as trained police force. The other point may be that police are sheltering crime gangs going after political targets and this is why abduction cases never got resolved. If polices were people’s police, public safety would not have been so much compromised. What is important, police must know that their credibility is at very low and they must try to improve it.
In fact human rights situation is facing serious backlash all over. On the eve of International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, a group of UN Human Rights experts said forced disappearance throughout 2017 continues to happen and following every such incident, life of entire families breaks into pieces. This needs to end.
Meanwhile Human Rights Watch in its recent report said Bangladesh government has intensified its crackdown on civil society, media, and critics. Authorities have killed and disappeared members of the political opposition, while it failed to protect bloggers, gay rights activists, and religious minorities.
To the bureaucracy dominated government, it is becoming clearer as the time passes that crimes against our people involving security of life and protection of women against rapists are of no concern at all. Basically this is the responsibility of the police, but police feel no accountability. The politicians in the government are in competition to eulogize the Father of the Nation as if he was not for the suffering people.
But we all cannot be inhuman to see our men and women are being treated as helpless by criminals.
Despite claiming that we are living in a civilized society, killing, abduction and forced disappearance continues unabated terribly shocking the nation with every such crime while police prove mindlessly unhelpful to stop it. Plain cloths people are perpetrating the crime that many believe can’t work without political shelter.
The nation saw how a helpless young law student was gang raped by half a dozen transport workers on Friday night on Tangail-Mymensingh highway; who later killed and threw the body on the roadside. Only
few weeks ago criminals raped a primary school teacher in the classroom in Betagi upazila of Barguna district to show the extent of lawlessness all over.
We have a rich history of Liberation War that led to shameful defeat of giant Pakistani occupation force. But in the free Bangladesh when rape and torture of women and abduction and killing of young people are taking place even defeating the record of the occupation force in many cases we are pained to see the silence of our freedom fighters to come to their rescue.
Awami League is using the name of freedom fighters to hold control over politics to their advantage and grab everything. Corruption and misuse of power by politically powerful people are rampant in their hands. They are busy to protect the regime but ordinary people appear to become increasingly unprotected and defenseless as everyday’s unfolding situation suggests.
In our view helpless people look at the true freedom fighters to come to their help. Claiming freedom fighters is not enough; freedom of people from poverty, hunger and their safety from abduction, killing and dishonouring of women by anti-socials are more important now to save people from terrible crime.
The missing of the general secretary of a political party linked to the major opposition from last Sunday from in front of party’s city office at night is the latest act terrorizing political opposition. His whereabouts is still unknown.
In yet another incidence of forced disappearance a Hindu businessman remained missing from early this week from Baridhara’s diplomatic area of the city. Police in both cases said they are trying to find out the victims; which is almost a routine response to queries from the families and press.
These are the big headlines of the week while many such incidents throughout the country involving killing and such other gross violation of human rights remained unreported. Victims’ families don’t go to police in many cases because they can’t be sure of police cooperation and even fear reprisal of perpetrators for informing police.
What seriously puzzles the people is why police having been professionally trained can’t know the identity of the perpetrators; they can’t have any excuse of failing as trained police force. The other point may be that police are sheltering crime gangs going after political targets and this is why abduction cases never got resolved. If polices were people’s police, public safety would not have been so much compromised. What is important, police must know that their credibility is at very low and they must try to improve it.
In fact human rights situation is facing serious backlash all over. On the eve of International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, a group of UN Human Rights experts said forced disappearance throughout 2017 continues to happen and following every such incident, life of entire families breaks into pieces. This needs to end.
Meanwhile Human Rights Watch in its recent report said Bangladesh government has intensified its crackdown on civil society, media, and critics. Authorities have killed and disappeared members of the political opposition, while it failed to protect bloggers, gay rights activists, and religious minorities.
To the bureaucracy dominated government, it is becoming clearer as the time passes that crimes against our people involving security of life and protection of women against rapists are of no concern at all. Basically this is the responsibility of the police, but police feel no accountability. The politicians in the government are in competition to eulogize the Father of the Nation as if he was not for the suffering people.
But we all cannot be inhuman to see our men and women are being treated as helpless by criminals.
