The National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh responds to an editorial by The Daily Star.
There are no visible changes yet.
The trainee doctors at BSMMU have been demanding an increase of monthly allowance from Tk 20,000 to Tk 50,000 – a demand which is justified.
If you over-stretch yourself you strain yourself physically and mentally, our politicians and public administrators (generally speaking) are debauching themselves with such self-centred practices....
We do not have any race course and so we do not have any horse race. But we do have many courses of roads, highways and river ways and so we have replaced horse race with bus race, truck race and motor launch race....
Recently, Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, stated in an interview that there are ways to end family violence. Family violence in Bangladesh, according to her, accounts for 80 per cent of all kinds of violence....
Well, if I were a politician, I would have definitely created a situation where the government would have been forced to take a hard stance, and then I would be able to blame the government for oppression and political harassment, and claim that the government has failed to serve the people.
I would cite "minority oppression", would claim how the law and order situation has deteriorated, forgetting that I myself may have contributed to the deterioration. I would effectively paralyse parliament on issues that hardly serve the interest of the people and call numerous hartals when foreign delegates and donors are due to arrive at the capital city. How demeaning that is to the image and governance of the country!
But that is what we are watching these days.
During the two and a half years that the BNP government has been in office, people have observed that law and order has been in a constant and perpetual decline. The ruling party is talking of its commitment to better governance, but what it has clearly failed to do is to make any headway or gain any success in curbing lawlessness that prevails in our country, and is deteriorating day by day....
I had been following with interest the new political developments taking place with the possibility of a third force emerging under the leadership of Dr. Kamal Hossain and Dr. B Chowdhury . The development or formation of a third force in a system, where two major parties are dominating strongly, is not after all a bad idea. The third force in a system, where two parties play political musical chair, has played constructive roles in some well-established democracies....
The BBC recently carried out a series of programmes and conducted a poll to decide the greatest Briton of all time, which was won by Winston Churchill. This idea has really caught on around the world now and the Germans, South Africans and Russians, amongst others are carrying out similar activities as well. I think a poll on the greatest Bangladeshi would be quite interesting, even though we are not even 33 years old yet. Maybe including figures from the pre-independence era would make it more challenging. I think The Daily Star would be the worthy party to undertake this task because they are the entity in the Bangladesh media today, including all newspapers, magazines and television channels. Maybe, a series of special supplement profiles each week on some of the great figures,...
I am a victim of land grabbing and I wish to raise my concern with the good people of Bangladesh today as I have exhausted all other means without any redress....
It refers to a news item captioned 'HC asks BPC chairman to show up' published in your daily on 25.02.2004. It seems that now even a government corporation like Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) has acted in a way that is a classic example of erosion of respect for the courts of law.
This kind of acts of disrespect for courts has to be dealt with severely to re-establish our image as a nation of honour and dignity.
"Putrefied politics"-- we coin this pair of words very often nowadays to describe our politics or political system, and so much aversion accompanies utterance of these words that it sounds quite abominable. The multitude who do not have direct contact with politics have least anticipation left in it -- they are so much annoyed and fed up with politics!...
