Eviction of poor horijons
It was pathetic to see horijon families at Nandigram in Bogra are being evicted from their colonies without any prior warnings. These poor and socially oppressed people have been living there for more than forty years and now they have no place to go but to sleep under the bare wintry sky. I find this act very callous on the part of the local government who has committed a grave injustice to these people. Evicting these families right in the middle of Diwali and Kali puja ceremonies is obscene and inhuman. I find it pretty odd that no Bangladeshi news media have taken up this issue. The reason could be that these poor people are so marginalized in our society that nobody really cares whether they could make it to the next day or not.
Would the Awami League, or any one in the government be able to look into this matter and redress the problem? Or, the poor horijons need to put up with such institutional injustice too?
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