Editorial
PM's anguish over political violence
Act to remove the cause of it
WE share the PM's distress over the current spate of violence stemming from opposition activities particularly in the last few weeks. It is heartening to hear that she would rather have peace than the prime ministership.
We are all very upset too at the recent deaths and we welcome the PM's sentiments, it being wise and timely. However, the important thing is how to stop the ongoing turmoil. And in this respect we feel that a good deal depends on the PM if the country is to be spared further violence and deaths.
We fully agree with her that the opposition must abjure the path of violence and desist from such programmes that engender hostility, but we feel that she, on her part, could have done much more to prevent the current situation from coming to pass. It was the PM who took the initiative to call the leader of the opposition for talks, and it is her who should have gone the extra mile and proffered another date after her original offer was spurned by the leader of the opposition. Being the PM it was for her to act in a statesmanlike manner behooving the office she is holding.
It would not be remiss to say that the political impasse, of which violence and deaths are the most unfortunate outcome, has been brought upon us by the actions of the ruling party, particularly by the prime minister's position against the caretaker government. Arrests of senior BNP leaders do nothing to validate the PM's articulated quest for peace.
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