Unmitigated violence
The Daily Star carried an editorial on 5 July under the headlines "Rumours Leading to Unmitigated Violence". Violence on rumours, small incidents or street accidents, demand for shifting of exam dates in schools and colleges, dismissal of an employee for indiscipline, transfer of a teacher from one place to another, a small quarrel between the bus conductor with a passenger, there is no word if the passenger is a student, even a feud in an office may lead to such violence in Bangladesh. I heard that in the night Brazil was defeated by the Netherlands violence occurred in some places in Bangladesh. Today, I noticed a small news item in a Bangla daily that a person had committed suicide after the defeat of his favourite football team, Argentina. A few years back there was a street procession against a dramatist who in his drama punished a villain in his drama story.
In Bangladesh there may be violence at any place at any time over small quarrels. Creating lawlessness, violence has become a culture in Bangladesh. Even if your car touches a rickshaw (3-wheeler) in the jam packed road, this may create a scene and you will find a big crowd within a minute and the road is blocked. Before you could guess the situation you will find that some are hitting your car and abusing the driver. You hove no escape unless you pay a small amount or beg apology from the rickshaw-puller. The crowd will not judge who was at fault. Creating violence is a pleasure for most Bangladeshis.
Violence in campuses, garment factories, offices, streets, uprooting of railway slippers, burning cars on any pretext, seizing of principal's offices are common and daily affairs in Bangladesh. People of all walks of life, educated or uneducated, get pleasure from participating in destructive activities in Bangladesh.
Now the time has come to look for a remedy to this situation. There should be some laws to punish the hooligans on the spot.
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