PM's reactions over the murdered Italian

The recent murder of an Italian in the diplomatic area of Dhaka is so far, unexplained. The police have said that they are following leads and do not yet know enough to draw conclusions. 

The PM termed the event as “very unfortunate.” Maybe this would have been an OK reaction if it wasn't for the rest of her comments. She is apparently “surprised” by the reaction of the foreign missions in Dhaka. She says, “Awami League leader Nazmul was murdered in New York City. Was an alert issued then?”

But she has her facts wrong. Before the murder on Monday evening, the Australian, UK and US embassies had already issued warnings to their nationals about the possibility of militants targeting westerners in Bangladesh. The warning wasn't issued in response to the murder. The PM should be concerned more with how to deal with this issue than whether or not the embassies were right to react in the way they did.

Arnold T. Hearst
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