An eye opener
The Star Weekend Magazine feature story "A Place to Call Home" should serve as an eye opener. We feel deeply for the sufferings, daily humiliation of the Palestinian people by the Israelis, whereas at home we have created the same for the Biharis.
There is no denying the fact that a child who is born on any soil belongs to that soil. A person who lives in a place year after year belongs to that place. That place is his home. It is inhuman to consider the Biharis who have been living in Bangladesh for more than two generations as outsiders. If someone chooses not to be a citizen of Bangladesh, that is his or her choice. But as a human being we must consider them as ours first, since the majority of those people want to be the citizens of Bangladesh. The government must think about it. We must not and should not be narrow minded. If that is the case why we bother about the Bangladeshis who have been living in the USA illegally and demand that they be given the resident status? This is double standard and hypocrisy.
We should look at ourselves and clean the house first.
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