Why these killings?

We become overwhelmed with pain when chilling news of senseless killings reach us from all over the world. On June 17, 2015, a young white man killed nine African-Americans at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina simply because they were black! The killer is 21-years- old Dylann Roof of Lexington, South Carolina. He allegedly said he was there “to shoot black people.” We hope the killer will be brought to justice; but we're skeptical because we have heard of many incidents in which black people were denied justice.

In Dhaka on early April 14, 2015, shooting also took place. Bakhtiar Alam, son of Awami League MP Pinu Khan killed two people by firing shots from his pistol when he was stuck in a traffic jam and was feeling impatient.

We are waiting to see how this case will proceed and what sort of punishment he gets for this heinous act of crime.

Nur Jahan
Chittagong