Poor Joj Miah!

S.A. Mansoor, Dhaka
Manik and Laskar's informative report in detail, headlined in your front page on August 25th, lets the cat out of the bag! Poor Joj Miah! Words fail to describe his misery. However, he is lucky to be alive. The criminal tendencies of BNP are evident in this gruesome public attack on its opposing political party! Their great mastermind, now absconding from the law, must be buzzing the internet, advising Mummy on how Joj Miah can be liquidated! The top CID official mentioned in the first line of your report, and the others in the know, and all others, who used their power and official position in masking the real criminals involved in the mass bombing including the then Home Minister needs to be criminally tried and given maximum punishment, to set an example, the sooner the better! They should be dismissed from service retrospectively from the date of the crime, and all their pay and benefits (with retrospective effect) should be set up in a trust fund, the profit and interests of which should be perpetually given to Joj Miah and his legal successors. He should also be gifted with adequate land grant, to get back equivalent land that he had to sell to stave off starvation, because of the BNP's cruel misuse of power, which clearly justifies the proverb: "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"!