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Human rights and crossfire

27 July 2005, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Rohomotullah Dept of Law, DU
27 July 2005, 18:00 PM
These days the movement of some human rights organisations against extra judicial killing is really eye-catching. After each and every crossfire they express their resentment through seminars where they lay emphasis on the rights of the notorious criminals and also place the statistics showing who are being killed in the hands of the law enforcing agencies. But the most astonishing matter is that they never arrange such seminars or processions when a businessman or a law abiding citizen is killed by these criminals. These human rights organisations can show you the statistics of how many criminals have been killed by Rab in the last 6 month but if someone asks them the number of the common people killed by these miscreants, they will remain silent. This attitude clearly implies their weakness for the criminals. Unfortunately, their hearts bleed not for the common people but for the criminals.

Their endeavour is to ensure human rights for those who are not human beings at all. The sufferings and pangs of the common people remain out of their focus. Actually, these organisations are selling human rights to the criminals for their own shake. The reason is that these human rights organisation are generally run by the lawyers and the criminals are their main clients. If they are all killed in crossfire the lawyers will be jobless. So they are trying desperately to protect them but the common people are aware of their malicious motive; that's why they are not getting public support. The people of Bangladesh want peace and a society free from terror. They are supporting Rab and also helping them spontaneously in eliminating the miscreants.

It is necessary for the human rights organisations to feel the pulse of the nation; otherwise they might become isolated from the common people.

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