Crossfire deaths and human rights
A F Rahman On e-mail
I have been going through several letters written in the past few weeks in your daily, most of which expressed satisfaction and congratulated Rab for their actionsaccidental or intentional, for the resultant relief, unaware of its length of life. We, the common people, are used to be happy with the chalk or cheesewhatever is instant. We are least bothered as to who are 'godfathers', as they are out of our touch and in fact we usually don't encounter them. Those (mastans) who are directly encountered, if eliminated this or that way, can be treated as a great gift. Desperate problems require desperate remedies, as you know. Tracing out or eliminating the godfathers is the job of the law enforcers. If they cannot or do not punish them, could we really do anything? Why some writers or political elements or the so-called intellectuals---who do no good but render only lip service, should be considered (who are anyway microscopic) as the voice of the nation? I have respect for the writers like Mallik Akram Hossain writing from Hong Kong (DS Dec.04) who are concerned the other wayi.e. they could not praise the actions of Rab, but I could not appreciate his disdain ".. then what is the necessity of the judiciary?" None has disregarded or discarded the judicial system or disclaimed the existence of other law enforcing agencies. They are very much there in their quarters but as we all know there was no controlling of the social menaces in spite of their existence and exertion of powers. We have to see what they do to safeguard their prestige and reasoning for further existence. I can also argue that so-called godfathers can not survive that long in the absence of their gangsters and if their hands are crippled, their existence also will, at the end, be at stake. Yes, I also believe the crossfire deaths have nothing to do with the violation of human rights and Mr. Mallik's apprehension of "breeding of more social unrest" is grossly unfounded. And if the killing and torture by themastans/gangsters/godfathers are not termed violation of human rights, can we charge the law enforcers of such violation when they are trying to safeguard the rights of the innocent public?
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