These newspaper editors are ridiculous.
BCL are an integral and critical part of the peoples defence against the anti-Liberation forces. Without patriots like the BCL our glorious, prosperous and just society would be overrun by the Taleban.
In return for all their sacrifice in defending our freedom I do not understand why these editors are objecting to their raping, murdering, stealing, blackmailing and generally abusing ordinary students and the public. The latter are simply ordinary while BCL are doing the divine work of Mujib on earth.
It seems to me that an immediate movement to remove these editors who are clearly anti-Liberation and Pakistani spies must be started.
As for the ordinary students and public - this would not be such an issue if you simply paid the BCL money and offered up your daughters. Then they wouldn't have to ask.
That's the problem with Bangladeshis - they're not grateful.
Joy Bangla!
Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com
| Editorial The AL-BCL link disowning Ashraful's comments belie public perception  WE find rather strange and unacceptable the comments of Syed Ashraful Islam, minister for local government and general secretary of the AL, that since there is 'no link' between his party and the Bangladesh Chattra League, the AL has no responsibility for the BCL's activities on the hartal day. What occasioned the remarks was the question raised by journalists regarding the anti-hartal activities of the BCL that led to clashes with Chattra Dal, in and around the campus and the Shahbag crossing, on the day of BNP-called hartal. We are not only surprised by his observations, we find these irresponsible and expedient too which neither behooves his position as a minister and particularly as general secretary of Awami League. We are afraid we cannot accept such comment, it being, to our mind, an attempt to shirk the responsibility by the party for what the BCL did on the 27th. As the Chattra League elements were seen engaged in clashes with the pro-hartal elements, the police were in very close proximity to the scene appearing as mute bystanders at the very least. One wonders what the source of the strength of the BCL is. And even for the sake of argument if one were to accept that the government adopted a hands-off policy on the BCL, was it not tantamount to abetment. Was it not an issue of law and order which the administration, the law enforcing agencies in particular, were duty-bound to address effectively and even handedly? We cannot believe that when all kinds of processions and picketing on the day of the hartal was banned by the administration in certain areas, an anti-hartal procession could have been brought out by the BCL without the back-up of sorts. Therefore, any attempt to disown the link between the BCL and the AL whenever things go wrong evoking adverse publicity, it appears not only convenient but also irresponsible on the part of high government and ruling party functionary such as Syed Ashraful Islam. It is patently disingenuous too. We wonder whether that is the position of the governmen. If that be so, government's credibility will be called into further question. We are all for maintenance of peace at all costs as well as for people's right to register their protests peacefully. But what people won't stand for is even any smack of duplicity and double standards and playing politics with law and order issues. |
