Editorial
Jamaat's terror tactics
Needs stern handling
IN their unabated acts of violence targeting law-enforcers and the unsuspecting public, the Jamaat-Shibir activists on Monday again struck terror in the capital city as elsewhere in the country.
As before, their violence seems to be aiming at freeing their arrested senior leaders now facing trial for crimes against humanity in 1971.
And they are never short of excuses to engage in such criminal acts of violence, especially against law-enforcers before or after court verdicts or at any other times they choose. But by their outrageous tactics of surprise attacks on law-enforcers, pedestrians and commuters, they simply cannot hope to achieve any end whatsoever.
Jamaat must keep within the bounds of civility and due process of law since it is a legal matter but they are taking law into their own hands and killing people. Once the fabric between law and lawlessness is snapped by vandalism and violence, then those behind such crimes are liable for severe punishment.
Regrettably, Jamaat-Shibir, by their destructive acts are not only alienating themselves from the people as a political entity, but are also courting a pariah image before the people.
As we did more than once before in this column, we would again warn them against adopting such destructive path to achieve a political agenda. They must take resort to due course of law to convince the government and the people of their point if any.
They should rather be respectful of fundamental norms of democracy if they want to function as a political party.
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