<i>Violence in garment factories</i>
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I have read the above editorial with interest as business is my specialization. There is a problem in Bangladesh that whenever such chaos is created, most of the times the actual criminal activities get covered up by bringing in industrial or political issues. In every country there are industrial or political problems. It would be unreasonable to state that there is none in Bangladesh. The problems should be dealt with a holistic approach. But why the importance has been felt immediately after the killing and looting incidents is not clear. The criminals are much smarter: for example, a student kills another fellow student or a worker kills another fellow worker out of personal jealousy or conflict but then can easily find his or her way out of criminal charges by giving it a sensitive political or industrial colour, because in Bangladesh fellow students or workers or any other group of people can easily be attracted to stage a demonstration or similar sorts of events concerning the common interests of the group of people drawn upon to cover up criminal activities. Professionals, detectives, authorities must see through the events and separate criminal activities from sensitive industrial or political issues. Criminals should get their treatment under the respective law separately from general workers who work from morning to night. At least, the present caretaker government should not start listening to all quarters and succumb to old techniques. Two or three companies owned by non-Bangladeshis have managed to grow enormously in size and span solely from the capital earned and made within Bangladesh, while local big ones become the target of violence!
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