Comments on news report
“Victim punished, accused spared,” published on February 04, 2014
Abdus Samad
Women's rights organisations have neither the resources nor the inclination to work for exploited and vulnerable women in rural areas. Bangladesh do means its 68,000 villages and empowerment of women in those areas is critically important. I recall that the High Court did ban the issuance of this type of indiscriminate fatwas and yet it doesn't stop. Laws alone won't change anything. We have to start teaching our youngsters that it's vital to treat women with fairness, equality and justice.
Akhtar Shah
State should now take up the issue of the child's (a 13 year old is one) wellbeing. Let the Law take its own course. The media should also be alive to the issue to ensure that the complaint of the wronged is not swept under the carpet. It's a pity that none of the political or especially religious parties condemn such acts of barbarism. The fatwa deliverer should face the law and if found guilty, be punished.
Touchstone
This is always the case: blame the victim of rape. In this day and age the paternity can easily be determined by DNA testing in order to bring the culprit to book.
Ibrahim Zaman
Rezaul should be awarded the maximum possible punishment under the laws that may apply in this case. Simultaneously, the state should ensure the security of the mother and her to-be born child with its full capacity. But a question will still remain: what will be the ultimate fate of these two? Will our society ever become generous enough to accept the victims as innocents?
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“BCL men clash in presence of minister”(February 04, 2014)
Mofi
So what? Ministers are no more important than BCL, are they? Moreover, most of these ministers were BCL members when they were students. Therefore, it's just a little bit of naughtiness by the juniors.
Barkat
Even their own party juniors neither care nor respect the ministers and MPs.
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