Where is the country heading to?
Very recently six innocent students were beaten to death in Aminbazar area of Dhaka in the holy night of Shab-e- Barat, 44 students died in a horrible road accident in Mirsarai, Chittagong; a teacher of a renowned school in Dhaka raped his student; and a husband pushed his fingers into his wife's eyes, making her completely blind. The list of such incidents will be long. Our experience tells us that none of the accused will be punished for their crimes. We know very well that no crime is punished in this country. The law enforcing agencies are being used by the people in power, whoever they are. And the common people are getting no justice. We do not know every day how many girls are being harassed and raped in this country, how many people are dying in road crashes, how many women are beaten, tortured, and burned to death, and how many persons die by mob beating. As the perpetrators get away with impunity, others are encouraged to commit the same crimes again. The Aminbazar incident is an indicator how frustrated people are with the law enforcing agencies that they are now taking the law in their own hands. The overall situation of the country is getting from bad to worse. We go to sleep every day fearing what would happen the next day.
The question that frequently comes to our mind is: are we going back to the Dark Age? If we can't punish the evil doers in time, a bleak future is waiting for us.
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