SBA's article
The writing of Mr. Badrul Ahsan attracts serious readers who want to keep abreast of the matters happening around them every day (Daily Star: 5 March 2010). But this time, I surmise, he has wilfully evaded or failed to single out the main players for the failure of the spirit of 1/11 in our country. It is very much unlikely that Mr. Ahsan does not know them all. If he was honest enough for the purpose he wrote about, he also should have at least hinted at those who foiled the whole game wilfully.
Perhaps Mr. Ahsan can still remember those days when almost every day somebody was arrested, taken into custody (not necessarily the court in all the instances). People's support was so splendid and unanimous that everybody thought the long expected change in our politics, our business, our bureaucracy was about to reach our doorsteps.
But yet it did not work properly at least up to their expectation. Perhaps Mr. Ahsan would admit that a few people only fell victim to the wrath of the then administration. There were a lot of businessmen who were not arrested but had to sacrifice hugely otherwise, there were lot of political people who could trek out the country with so called dignity, there were lot of civil servants who were not even questioned about their fortunes ever.
Methinks Mr. Ahsan can find the reasons of failure in those facts if he wants to. It is unfortunate that those people who indulged in corruption and resorted to corruption themselves will never be taken to task, let alone the politicians.
Corruption has many ugly faces. It cannot be eliminated partially. So, he may also consider writing about other aspects of the subject. Should we expect any in near future, Mr. Ahsan?
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