Schoolboy's death

By Zeenat, Gulshan, Dhaka
12 July 2005, 18:00 PM
I was shocked to read on the front page of The Daily Star the news about a schoolboy being beaten to death. I don't know what to say except to ask everyone that in a so-called civilised society how is it that teachers are still allowed to hit school children? I cannot fathom the loss of the parents but my question here is what is going to be done about this? What are the authorities going to do? What are the people going to do? You hear all the time of muggers and robbers being beaten to death, the people taking the law into their own hands, but when something like this happens no one is really that concerned. How can that be? Please don't misunderstand what I am trying to say here, I do not, for a second, condone or appreciate 'mob' behaviour but when they can get so enraged about something like that then how come nobody seems to be outraged by such a horrible and heinous act? Maybe it wasn't meant to be severe, maybe it was an 'accident' a blow to the wrong place which led to the little boy's death.

The fact is that he was unwell and that just made things worse whatever the case was-- the fact remains that the little boy went to school, he was physically abused and he died.