We certainly appreciate Sheikh Hasina's call to her party workers for
restraint but the scale of attacks being made on BNP-Jamaat activists
and leaders leaves us gravely concerned. Even yesterday, at least 10
BNP and Jamaat supporters were injured in separate attacks by AL
activists in different parts of Khulna city. In Kishoreganj, Awami
League activists attacked the houses of local BNP men in Kuliarchar
and Katiadi upazilas, leaving 12 injured. Six BNP men were injured in
another attack by AL workers at Parbacharparatala village in Katiadi
upazila on Tuesday midnight. In Sylhet, AL activists set fire to the
house of a local BNP leader at Munshirgaon village in Biswanath
upazila early Tuesday. In another incident, four BNP activists were
injured in an attack by AL workers at Jasherpur village in the upazila
at the same time. On Tuesday, three people were killed and 34 injured
in post-election violence in different parts of the country amid
feelings of pleasure over Monday's dramatic election results.
It is time that the AL chief acts swiftly to stop her party workers
now going on rampage in different parts of Bangladesh. She also should
take note of a report in the daily Independent that BCL workers have
now returned to the campus in jubilation, occupied all student
dormitories of Dhaka University and ransacked several rooms of JCD
activists. Such spate of violence in fact belies her oft-repeated
statement that her party had never resorted to terrorism. But inaction
and silence in the wake of extensive attacks mean `go-ahead' to
vandals and musclemen. `Logi-Baitha' rallies are a grim reminder of this.
All these attacks are reminiscent of the 1996-2001 Awami League rule.
Terrorism, which once spawned in certain pockets, had suddenly spread
to the grassroots after AL took over. This had tarnished the image of
the AL so much so that during the 2001 general election, even party
men like Al-Haj Maqbul Hossain of Mohammadpur and Haji Selim of old
Dhaka area had to promise in their poll posters their firm resolve to
contain terrorism once elected. But then common voters, who had fallen
victim to their acts of terrorism, utterly disbelieved their promises
and voted against them. We welcome Hasina's move to set up a joint
South Asian Taskforce to contain terrorism in the region. We will
acclaim her more if she immediately establishes such a Taskforce
inside Bangladesh to weed out local terrorists as they only breed
seeds of civil strife, which will surely spare none in the society.
http://www.newstoday-bd.com/editorial.asp?newsdate=
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