Unending procession of death

Photo: Anisur Rahman

“Ma, I am going to die. You will find me in a toilet”…we can never imagine the pain and trauma Polash, one of the victims of the Tazreen fire, went through while he told this to his mother over phone, in the last minutes of his life. The criminals responsible for these deaths as well as the flyover tragedy in Chittagong, which also claimed several lives, should not go unpunished. Three girders of the 1.4 km long flyover collapsed over the local people and now the authorities are getting ready to give colossal amounts of compensations. Why? Couldn't they use that money to complete that already delayed flyover project? If they did so, so many lives could be saved. These current tragedies also show that the authorities concerned are not at all worried about anything, be it the government agencies or the owners of the firms. As a teenager, I firmly believe that observing a national mourning day or compensating these unfortunate people will not help, not at all. But, restricting our lax laws and supervising that the laws are implemented will surely help. I appreciate the government's move of countrywide inspection of ill-equipped factories by fire service teams but I also urge that it continues and not stop after a certain period. There is no point in playing the blame game.