Save us

By Scared, Dhaka
12 February 2005, 18:00 PM
Please help us. I am one of the victims who do not have any powerful relative who could help me right now when I am about to lose all of my property to the land developers, in Kamlapur, Savar, (just beside Ashulia). My late father had bought a land like many other Dhakaites in the said area. But a few days ago about a thousand unknown people with a red flag in hand reached there and took over the lands calling themselves members of some 'Bhumiheen Punorbashon Shangha' and saying that the government had given them this authority. The local people had a fight with them. By this time one land developing (false/real?) organisation has set up an office there. They are pressing all the owners to sell the lands to them at a far lower price than the real one. They even threatened us. We all think it is a cruel joke. We can't even offer a proper price to other customers. We need the law enforcers' help.

We all think that it needs a proper investigation and reporting by the newspapers so that his type of land grabbing by force can be stopped. They gave us a deadline to settle the issue.

Please help us.