Crisis and opposition leader
The nation has seen perhaps the worst attack in its history by a few unruly BDR personnel. The whole nation along with the Bangladeshi communities living abroad are deeply shocked by the loss of lives of military officers as well as other innocent people. It is one of the views now that early intervention could have reduced the number of casualties. However, most of the local and foreign media and representatives of civil society, foreign governments, as well as high officials of the army have agreed that the situation could have deteriorated further if they had intervened earlier. Many more civilians could have been killed instantly, and on the other hand, an intense long-term rivalry would be established between the two forces-- the Army and the BDR. None of these would contribute to bringing back peace to the nation. Therefore, the government deserves thanks for the intelligent and bold steps it took to avoid those unwelcome events.
The government is taking every possible action to capture the killers and bring them to justice and also trying to find out the force that had acted from behind the scene. For ensuring fair investigation, every member of committees should act in a transparent and credible manner (not what we have seen with the 10-truck of firearms case). The opposition leader and a few other politicians should be careful in articulating what they say. With a view to cooperating with the smooth overcoming of such crisis and tragedy, they should stop involving themselves in the blame game.
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