No way out?
I would beg your indulgence to cite a well-known joke: A man was asked what he would do if he finds a tiger is coming to him from behind, high walls on both the sides (which he is unable to jump over) and a lion is coming to him from the front! The man pondered for a while and replied, “I have noting to do. “The lion and the tiger would do whatever they would like.”
We, the people of Bangladesh, are really placed in a similar situation. We hear that the country is badly in need of an elected government in order to save it from the current crises on the one hand, and the fact that it is the elected governments which successively led the country to the brink of civil war like Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Kenya and other African nations.
We, the general people, are not concerned about the blame game of who is responsible for what. We understand this much that the collective failure of the political leadership is fully responsible for 1/11 and we do not believe that they are capable of delivering the goods in future if their old forms and manners are not changed.
We do not want to go back to 1/11. It is the duty of this government to fulfil our expectations and it must create a condition in which future governments would be functional and the people of this country would be able to live in peace and harmony. If they fail to do so and if the civil war starts again, then the people will hold this government responsible for the loss of life and property.
We hope that this government would not take this risk and would do everything within its means to fulfil the dream of 150 million people to live peacefully.
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