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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

[ALOCHONA] Re: [Dahuk]: Law and order improving after Hasina came to power: Sahara



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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Law and order improving after Hasina came to power: Sahara

 
The people of Bangladesh are flabbergasted at Home Minister Sahara Khatun's outlandish claim that the country's law and order situation has been improving since Sheikh Hasina came to power in January 2009.
   The woman Home Minister made the comment when her attention was drawn to the recent killings in Natore and Sirajganj and also in Dhaka, and the brandishing of firearms in political conflicts, which indicate worsening of the law and order situation.
   
Sahara made the disclosure on Wednesday when the garment sector leaders went to her office to seek effective measures against the pilferage of exportable goods from containers on the way to Chittagong from Dhaka and also at the Chittagong Port.
   
   Army deployed at Ctg. Port
   Sahara's complacence about law and order situation, however, was not recongised by her government that had to call in army to restore order at Chittagong port following a miserable failure on the part of civil administration.
   Home Minister's utterance was invalidated by her own party men in Munshiganj who were locked in a fierce clash with firearms, lethal weapons and homemade bombs injuring at least seven persons on the same evening of Wednesday.
   Villagers said the clash triggered from differences in selection of party candidates for the ensuing Union Parishad election.
   Home minister's claim was also disproved by the attack on joint forces' camp at Sharafpur under Dumuria upazila in Khulna early Thursday. Some robbers attacked the camp and looted a submachine gun injuring a policeman, Nayek Abul Basar who was later admitted to hospital.
   
On October 11, four outlaws were beaten to death by a mob at Nolkola village of Kushtia Sadar upazila. Police claimed that they were members of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML) -Janajuddho faction. Police may feel happy that they were not killed in encounter but in mob beating.
   On the following day, a UP member and acting chairman of Chuadanga failed to escape death, despite alerting the police before he was attacked at his home at midnight.
   "He had alerted the Damurhuda police and Hogladanga police camp over mobile phone immediately, but by the time the police reached the spot, the gang had entered the house forcibly and hacked him to death in front of his wife and daughter," police said.
   
   3 tribal youths killed
   In the hill districts of Khagrachari and Rangamati, three tribal youths belonging to pro-peace group were killed by their rivals last week indicating a fragile law and order situation in the hills.
   A Juba League leader Yusuf Ali Sardar, 35, was beaten to death allegedly by the rival group in Moghbazar in the city on October 7. Police said row over dropping of tender had led to the incident.
   
   RMC closed
   The Rangpur Medical College (RMC) has been shut till Oct 22 after a clash of cadres of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League.
   Ruling Awami League activists on Wednesday vandalised the office of the Kahalu Upazilla Nirbahee Officer (UNO) in Bogra after his reported refusal to award them dealership for government's open market sale of goods.
   The UNO told reporters that the local Awami League activists, led by party's upazila unit joint-secretary Kamaluddin Kabiraj, entered his office room in his absence and vandalised it.
   These are some of the incidents of the week that tells something contrary to Home Minister's claim about improvement in law and order situation in the country.
   
   Violence, killings
   Shahara Khatun may have the best answer as to why Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had to withdraw her name as organisational chief of the BCL on April 4, 2009 for their involvement in violence and killings in the educational institutions throughout the country.
   The killing of Natore Upazila Chairman Sanaullah Noor Babu in broad daylight by the ruling party hoodlums, killing of seven people in a train accident and setting a running train ablaze at Sirajganj, and all the infightings of "Bajikars", as coined by ex-Chief Justice and former caretaker chief, definitely do not make the people satisfied like their contended home minister.
   
The newspaper cuttings relating to law and order situation is certainly placed on her table every morning but she does not go through them. Maybe she also does not get time to watch independent satellite TV news on law and order situation.
   If she did, she could sure get the news that law and order has deteriorated seriously across the country in recent weeks. She could also realize how alarmed are the people at the news of killings, attacks and extortions committed by her party men that her government failed to contol.
   
   Shaon's pistol
   Sahara Khatun definitely have certain arguments in defence about the action taken so far against ruling party lawmaker Nurunnabi Shaon whose licensed pistol was used in killing the ruling party man Ibrahim in the Sangsad Bhaban area on August 13.
   The Home Minister also might have been satisfied when the police rank and file about the incident of slapping the Sharsha OC by the local MP in Jessore. A DMP police officer who lost his gun in an attack by the ruling party goons in city's Nikunja last month. Arms not yet recovered nor the criminals have been arrested.
  
 People will be convinced when the frequent assurances made by Prime Minister, Home Minister and the ruling party ministers and leaders regarding actions against "whoever might be involved in crime" will be executed properly.
   But much to their frustration, the citizens hear from the civil society group like SHUJON that, "One-third of the tenure of the government has passed and most pledges remain unfulfilled. All pledges of the Awami League have been transformed into mere words which is the most fundamental failure of the government."
   The opposition BNP also alleged that under this government, precious life of the people had become of no value as the entire country has now become insecure. A BNP leader alleged that the police administration is aiding the government's illegal acts.
   
   Delwar surprised
   The BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain wondered over the Prime Minister's remarks that the killing of Baraigram upazila chairman Sanaullah Noor Babu was the outcome of intra-BNP conflict, while her general secretary Syed Ashraful Islam stated that the killers would be arrested by watching the video footage.
   "Such statement from the Prime Minister is unfortunate. Now what the police will do -- investigate into BNP's internal conflict or arrest the killers?" Khandaker Delwar Hossain said at a press briefing at the party's central office Wednesday.
   
   Blaming others
   He said the Prime Minister should not make such statement that would impede the rule of law. "She (PM) is trying to shift the blame on others in a planned way to protect the killers," he said.
   "If the killers are protected by the government who will give security to the people," he asked. It is expected that a good government goes for punishing the offenders and secure the peace-loving people. But under the present government, people find that accused killers are being acquitted of charges and death row murderers are pardoned under political considerations.
 




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