Mob justice
I felt obligated to write in reference to the news item “Rab man beaten to death in Habiganj” published in The Daily Star on August 29, 2009.
This is not the first time I read in The Daily Star the words "good beating" to refer to the act of beating someone by the mob. Often, we watch in horror on the Bangladeshi TV during even news programmes the pictures of mutilated bodies of dead persons, including even children. It is indeed very sad and painful to see such poor choice of words or pictures by our news media.
What kind of message does it send to the general public citizenry? At least, it desensitizes the citizenry for the worst so that it would soon, if not happened already, consider even the most immoral and inhume acts as normal happenings. At this time of history, all human societies should consider such mob acts to be far more despicable than any act of crime, however heinous it may be, by a criminal. Any person, even the worst of the worst criminals, should not face such extra judicial and inhumane treatment in any society at this time and age.
Any person suspected of committing a crime or even if caught red handed by the public should be handed over to the proper authorities to face the law and justice. Of course, rampant corruption in our law enforcing agencies along with almost all other government entities and almost complete lack of the rule of law in our country are as responsible as the mob for this type of uncivilized acts.
I respectfully urge our political leaders to be conscientious, to rise above today's petty polities and personal gains.
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