High Commissioner's folly?
The Bangladesh born former British High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Mr. Anwar Choudhury arrived in Dhaka on a three-day visit. Some BNP supporters namely Shacheton Nagorik Shomaj and Anti-Repression Student Group staged a protest rally at the airport. The leaders of the protesting supporters of the BNP demanded among others, arrest of this British high profile diplomat. His offences, according to the protesters, are his support to the 1/11 changeover, destruction of democracy in Bangladesh etc.
According to real conscious citizens, Mr. Anwar Choudhury, if had really helped the change over on 1/11, he deserves profuse thanks and gratitude from the people of Bangladesh. Instead of trial, he should have been given heroic civic receptions in big auditoriums in Dhaka during his stay and we should honour him with medals for saving Bangladesh from the brink of an eminent disaster. Let us imagine what he has done. If the BNP could have staged an Aziz-Hasan brand election on an agenda of pre-fixed election results on 1/22, there would have been bloodshed, the BNP would not have been able to stay in power for more than a week or so, democracy would be been killed and the country would have plunged into chaos and civil war.
I think, the leadership of the present BNP has wrongly advised their supporters to organise such protest rallies.
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