The New Age is far too dramatic and exaggerates the impact of this event on the population. I was in Bangladesh when this tragedy unfolded.
Was it a tragedy? Yes. Was it shocking? No, it was not. No one was surprised. No one was outraged. They only wondered when the next collapse would happen and how many more people would be allowed to die because of corruption in local government.
Be under no illusion - the victims were allowed to die nee killed by our politicians and the corruption they spawn and foster in our country.
How many building code violations have been ignored through bribes to the Rajuk and similar authorities?
Are you sure your brand new luxury flat in Dhaka is truly safe?
The simple fact is that life in Bangladesh is cheap. It has been made cheap by our political class and their sycophants. Mujib's polticization of state institutions is the direct cause of this and so many other avoidable tragedies that happen everyday in Bangladesh. Our nethris and their sycophants seek only to continue and en-trench this legacy further.
I brook no moral outrage to such events as long as we as a nation continue to tolerate our nethris for as long as we do, such tragedies are nothing but fodder for coffee table politicians.....
....like myself.
Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com
Courtesy New Age 10/6/10
http://www.newagebd.com/2010/jun/10/oped.html
Ezajur Rahman
Nimtali fire
Courtesy New Age 9/6/10
The dreadful fire which broke out at Nimtali in old
While expressing her instant reaction to the tragedy, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, said, `Fire makes people destitute.' She is absolutely right.
We want the survivors to be compensated soon. May Allah keep the departed souls in peace.
