Human rights or human wrongs?
What the world has learnt from the dailies in Bangladesh on 21April? Are we progressing as a nation or going backwards? Do we have a democratic government elected by people? Is the country run by a woman prime minister? Has politics made us so vicious, blind and cruel, when it comes even to treating women? Why does the government behave like the way Pakistanis had behaved with us? Hasn't Bangladesh seen enough in the last few years? The rape of women and opposition workers and their daughters after the election of 2001, the torture on female students by the police and JCD activists in the middle of the night in Samsunnahar Hall of Dhaka University. Add to this, the killings of opposition leaders, workers and MPs, the mass arrest of common people, the so-called crossfire, the rise of Islamic militants under the patronisation of the government. What more do we have to see? Why are you adding new chapters? I just hope that the civil society, journalists, educationists, media, and every conscious citizen of the country will strongly protest the police brutalities. We should all raise our voice against this, regardless of our political identity and support. All of us have mothers, daughters, and sisters.
This is a shame for the whole nation and the world does not endorse this.
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