Terrorism and public awareness
There is a positive sign that the people are quite conscious about the vicious acts of the terrorists at home and abroad. They are aware and ready to respond to combat terrorists in our country. The government should seize this opportunity to make a very concerted anti-terrorist campaign to mobilize the people to wipe out this evil force from Bangladesh.
I think the electronic media and the private telephone companies can and should play a greater role by projecting good and positive educational advertisements/serials to keep up the positive mood of the public, especially younger people. We have already seen their strong and effective creative work in other fields to get across the message to the target groups. It is time for them to launch a national campaign against terrorist acts. The work might seem easy, but I think it is a delicate job to make the message educational and motivational with no political string attached.
One thing is very important to keep in mind that terrorism has no boundary, no religion and no ideology, but has political ramification if not well defined and appropriately targeted without any political intention or recipe to combat the terrorist acts. The JMB is more powerful than we know about. They might take full advantage of our current political transition.
The politicians are divided and not necessarily concerned about the real danger of playing with the terrorists for political gain.
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