National unity
A General in a talk show stated that our security forces can be infiltrated easily and such infiltrators are untraceable. In the recent mutiny of the BDR outside infiltrators surely were there, according to him. He also said they could not be identified, as if they simply vanished into thin air. Now, it is a fearsome claim implying that our security forces lack security themselves and we have no remedy for that. He has not answered how he decided that there were invisible infiltrators since he could not find any. How does he know if the story was not concocted? In these talk shows, we see bashing of one group by another and vice versa. This is not the time for division, confrontation and reaping political benefits. We should stand united as a nation now more than ever. Mir Mahboob Ali Fiction Writer and FreelanceConsultant Former Senior Executive The Bangladesh Observer
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It appears that a section of our politicians and military experts (?) are unhappy with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government for choosing the path of negotiation, instead of military action in quelling the recent mutiny of a section of BDR jawans that resulted in dastardly killing of more than one hundred of our brilliant army officers serving that force on deputation.
These people, perhaps, forget that had there been military action, casualty figures would have been enormous as not only the opposing combatants but also a large number of civilians residing in and around the Pilkhana area could have been killed in the crossfire.
Moreover, military action could have escalated and spread the fratricidal conflict throughout the country creating an anarchic situation which could threaten the very existence of our beloved motherland and turn it into another Somalia!
Jahangir Bin Alam
Purana Paltan Line
Dhaka
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