Protect rivers and trees
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Recently, a daily newspaper reported that instructed by some army officers some people felled several trees beside Dhanmodi Lake. Only when a senior citizen (a lady) and a journalist Intervened that activities stopped and those doing the logging said sorry. But by that time many trees were cut. Is not Dhanmondi Lake a public property? Can anybody cut trees in this way? The contractor who was engaged to cut the trees said that those trees were for sell. Would it be wrong to term this as robbery in broad daylight? Our judiciary can order to punish those miscreants. I wonder whether they have any freedom to perform their duties properly. In the recent years, thousands of trees were felled by the so-called powerful people and no action, whatsoever, was taken against them. People's power need to be established in this country for an exploitation-free society and safe environment. Let the people be united again like that of 1971 but this time to protect rivers and tress.
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