Editorial
Terribly insecure young girls
Convict their killers!
We are deeply worried over some recent incidents of young women dying in unnatural circumstances. Only days ago, the death of Hena from beating inflicted by the imposition of a so-called fatwa caused outrage all over the country, to the extent that her body needed to be exhumed for a fresh post-mortem. We eagerly wait for justice to be done to those who killed Hena as also those who provoked the killers into their sinister act.
Even as we mull over the atrocity which caused an end to Hena's life, we come by horrifying reports of the abduction and killing of a teenager named Tumpa. Apparently, she had been out celebrating Valentine's Day and while she was returning home late in the evening, she was abducted and killed. What makes Tumpa's death all the more stupefying is the fact that she was murdered eight months after her brother was killed by goons who had taken umbrage at his admonition to them over their stalking of his sister. Add to the killing of the siblings the suicide of Serafina Mardi, an indigenous teenager, ten months into her rape in Godagari of Rajshahi on Monday. Indeed, the incidents of rape and murder over the past few months leave little doubt that many of these crimes are related to sex and have been committed with an unabashed sense of impunity. It certainly disturbs us that at a time when women's empowerment is the buzzword in our deliberations on socio-economic realities, it is ironically women who keep falling prey to the predatory instincts of malevolent elements in the country.
The authorities keep informing citizens of the good job the police are doing in maintaining law and order, even though there are some perfectly valid reasons to question that position. The deaths of the women mentioned above surely give the lie to the assertion that all is well on the law and order front. Unless swift, drastic measures are taken to haul in the criminals responsible for the deaths of Tumpa (and her brother), Hena and Serafina, similar crimes will occur, to a point where it might become difficult for the authorities to roll conditions back.
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