[ALOCHONA] A poor gesture to the Japanese

A poor gesture to the Japanese

Courtesy New Age 12 April 2011

After the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan, our government announced that it would send a rescue team to assist the Japanese people. Days passed and then our government announced that it would send a medical team to assist the Japanese people. Days passed and still nothing happened. Finally, a few days ago the government announced that it was making a symbolic gesture and sending four people with 2,000 blankets, 1000 pairs of gloves and 500 pairs of boots. Certainly, given the vast difference between the resources of Bangladesh and Japan we perhaps cannot make a significant contribution to their recovery efforts. But even then this is a most unsatisfactory gesture on our part. The Japanese people have always been generous to us.

In this time of their greatest difficulty we should have done more than make such a paltry gesture. There are many thousands of citizens in Bangladesh who could have individually and effortlessly paid for such a package of items. It is quite shameful then that our government sends such a package on behalf of the entire country!

We could also have made a token gesture to the Japanese and asked them to temporarily reduce their assistance to us in light of the needs of their own people. It would have been appreciated as a great gesture of solidarity with the Japanese people. Instead we had the Japanese reassuring us that their aid to us would not be impacted! Soon after they had to announce they would not be able to give us $400 million to assist in the construction of the Padma Bridge!

The Japanese, as ever, are the very model of graciousness and politely smile at our beggarly conduct.

But how much longer can our nation's dignity absorb the failures of our shameless politicians?

Ezajur Rahman

Kuwait

 

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