Comments on news report

“GALLOWS for 14,” published on February 2, 2014

Sara
The judgment sounds harsh at the surface but below are some thoughts to justify otherwise:
*    Weapons were large enough in quantity to arm a formidable force (e.g. Chittagong cantonment).
*    Weapons were knowingly being supplied to a terrorist group.
*    Weapons were likely to cause mass deaths and destruction, including of civilian lives (e.g. the JMB grenade mayhem in 2003-05 was created by only a handful of grenades)
Taking into account the abuse of authority of the convicts, death sentence is appropriate. Alternatively, think of a scenario where the weapons were being supplied to JMB. All arrested JMB high-ups were executed for killing civilians (with a much smaller arsenal). If the suppliers of bombs to JMB were arrested and not handed death sentences, would it have been just?
ULFA may be different from JMB in many ways but the application of the weapons could hardly be different.

Nazrul Islam
The government and a section of newsmen are trying to establish that BNP was involved with this arms smuggling. People know it very well those arms were seized by the BNP government.

OpeeMonir
I see this as direct incapability of handling of our national security apparatus which concerns DGFI, NSI, home ministry including ministry of defense (MOD)...no country would allow a sensitive case like this one to go so public.

Shahin Huq
This verdict follows the pattern of weakening the opposition parties. It definitely came from across the border.

Truthprevails53
Insinuating that India is doing it is just childish. Think of what your Pak brothers did by killing our great men like Zahir Raihan and Shahidullah Kaisar. Nizami deserves to die a thousand deaths.

Rashed
Good verdict. No anti-Indian act should be tolerated inside Bangladesh.