Readers Respond

Here are some comments that came in response to Sunday's The Daily Star news report headlined “KSA executes 8 Bangladeshis”

Dr. Shaidul Kazi
The way the KSA has executed the 8 Bangladeshis is unacceptable.

Ali wazed
It is very sad news for Bangladeshi people. But we need to avoid any big crime like murder.

RCH
This is not Bangladesh that you can manage the police and judges! Law is harsh but it is the law and application is quite dreadful. Same as summary execution employed by BD government using Rab.

Gupta
Isn't this the place that America and Britain should be fighting to bring democracy instead we find these governments turning a blind eye to Saudi and enforcing it's dictatorship with every assistance and advice.

Freeman
The BNP and AL should now stop quarreling. If they love Bangladesh, they should now launch an international protest together against execution of Bangladeshi in such a manner in Saudi Arabia.

Nasarullah
It clearly reveals the failure of political diplomacy and weak-kneed response on the part of the government. Whatever attempts the government made so far were good but more avenues could be searched and explored to save these 8 people or to make life-term imprisonment rather than be beheaded.

Dr. Iftikhar-ul-Awwal
Human dignity, respect and sanctity have taken a big lash in Riyadh. We do not wish to know the proceedings of the case or whether the accused understood the gravity of the charges and the mode of their confession. It is clear that for one single life, the brutal killing of eight is a travesty of justice.

Jumana Sarwar
I have been living outside Bangladesh for a long time. Generally my feeling even though back in home country we are a bit of careless but in a foreign country we are very disciplined.
The beheaded persons if committed such crime must have been done it under extreme circumstances or desperation. Further what they could possibly gain stealing electrical cables? Where they would get the opportunity to sell those goods?

Tirtho Mahmud
A shameful display of ctruelty not because they killed Bangladeshis, but they killed human beings in such a brutal manner, in the name of law.
Saudis have high-rise towers and expensive fashion boutiques; but deep down, their society is hardly up to modern standards. What kind of Islamic state is it anyway?

Anonymous
In 1996, Lucille McLauchlan and Deborah Perry, two British citizens, killed an Australian nurse Gilford in Saudi Arabia. The amount of blood money paid to the victims was 730,000 pounds.
British government had strong lobbying for their citizens. The murderers returned to the UK even without being lashed. So, for the downtrodden, life is in constant danger everywhere; they will not get paid, they will be underpaid and they will be beheaded!

Nafiza Nasarullah
I am profoundly shocked to see such act of cruelty in an open place. We respect the law of Saudi government but still we hope, if alternative way could be defined for punishing foreign nationals, who are working there for their national development, if they commit any crime.
The respective governments of foreign workers should give proper guidance and information about civil laws, rules to all those to go for work in other countries beforehand to avoid and face such cruelty.

S A Chowdhury
Sharia Law means abiding by the Holy Quran and not in parts as practiced in other Muslim states. The consequences of such crimes are within The Laws of Holy Book and those that think it's barbaric should think again.
I agree more could have been done but how many people in Bangladesh actually knew that these men were on death row? Where was the high level exposure of this case by the Embassy and the MoFA? We should look at our own failings first.