Students' activity

By M. Chowdhury Dallas, USA
17 June 2005, 18:00 PM
I am a regular reader of your newspaper's on-line version. I'd like to make a few comments on the reporting of the recent DU conflict.

Well, it is natural to grieve over the death of a fellow student by road accident, but I do not understand the lawlessness that was shown by students by burning buses and creating chaos which must have endangered more innocent lives in that area. No reasonable person in a civilised world can support this kind of action. There are lots other ways to bring justice, like filing cases against the bus company etc. I have been seeing this kind of reaction after road accident all over Bangladesh. It's time you (the newspapers and other media) take a stance against this kind of behaviours by general public to bring some civility in our society. It cannot go on like this forever if we'd like to be part of a civilised world. And any media, whatever affiliation they may have, should play their responsible part to advance the country against lawlessness, corruption and misbehaviour of some that think it is a rule rather than exception to do so.

I hope I was able to make my point clear. It is not only a problem with a certain group or political party but the whole country behaves like this. There must be something wrong with our people and it needs to be addressed. Grievance for one death should not bring more death that is my point.