About Rab
This is in response to a letter published in The Daily Star on December 16, 2004. I agree with Mr. Firoz Mannan that "Where there is just one policeman for every 10,000 people and law is almost useless, the government should find an alternative solution." So the government introduced Rab (Rapid Action Battalion) . At first I was also happy that now we would be able to live a better life. Rab arrests a criminal and interrogates him. Later we hear that the criminal has been killed in "crossfire". This really raises a lot of questions.
I am not saying that Rab has only demerits. In fact Rab is a mixture of both merits and demerits. Here I want to refer to Mahathir Mohamad, the former prime minister of Malaysia. He said that if the top government employees are corrupt, no one can uproot corruption from a society. So if top government employees become honest, only then we will be able to bring the criminals to justice with existing laws and uproot crime from the country. Side by side, we must increase the number of police personnel to control crime. And I think this is the only solution.
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