Criminals at work
Attacks on pioneering thinkers and social revolutionaries are not the sole traits of the Bangladeshis, although I feel ashamed for this attack in my country. Starting from Socrates, Galileo and, in our living memory, Mahatma Gandhi, they all laid down their lives to the rages of their countrymen.
The individuals, who attacked Prof. Humayun Azad, were perhaps poor, uneducated and hired hands. A small amount of money no matter how it reached them was inconsequential. The Jallads executioners, were happy that with that tainted meagre money they perhaps could feed their family for the day.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The people, perhaps powerful in Bangladesh, who are behind this inhuman crime, are not different from those who, with their power and wealth, attack another nation pre-emptively.
Whether or not the government of Bangladesh makes an attempt to identify and bring to justice the criminals, no matter how powerful they are, has to be watched. It is interesting to observe that none other than the President of Pakistan, a country well known for their ultra rightist Mullahs, is going all out to curb the power of this group.