Denial of freedom of speech

As a citizen I feel ashamed and terrified of this insanity. How can a nation which is a developing country and whose main priority is education afford an attack on a writer and teacher? Don't we have any respect for them? If we are living in a democracy then why did we attack professor Humayun Azad who is just trying to talk freely? “Denial of freedom of speech is a denial of what human being freely thinks.”

I am a student of class 7 in a private educational institution. I went to school as usual on March 4. The school was closed because it was on strike protesting against the attack on professor Humayun Azad. I felt proud of my school. I felt that it's really high time that all of us should become aware of this kind of heinous attacks on the teachers who give us knowledge, and this must be stopped.

Another thing that bothers me is that we attacked a Bangla writer and a Bangla professor just 12 days after the 52nd anniversary of the language movement and International Mother Language Day. What will people in other countries think of us? What will be their vision of us? Are we monsters? Are we devils? Are we blood thirsty villains? We are not. But some of us are! But we cannot let them rob the society of cultural, secular, democratic and of course peaceful values.

Professor Humayun Azad is fighting for his life. We wish him and his family the best.

Inshallah I hope we would live in a society of peaceful values where freedom of speech is the basic law.