Editorial
Recovering Reshma
We salute the recovery team!
THE recovery, alive, of the young Reshma from the rubble of the Rana Plaza building on the seventeenth day of the rescue operations is nothing short of a miracle. That she survived is a matter of both her courage and the mysterious ways in which Creation works. That the rescue team discovered her alive and brought her out to safety is an instance of good, focused teamwork in trying circumstances.
With as many as 1,058 bodies having been recovered from the rubble of the building in Savar, there is hardly any way in which we can put our grief aside and go about our usual business. At a time such as this, it becomes the moral responsibility of all to stand beside the families of the dead, and point to them a way to the future. For those who have survived, the initial job is to get them out of their trauma and help them to move on.
Finally, we pay a very well-deserved tribute to everyone involved in the recovery mission -- the army, Rab, police, fire service and citizens across the spectrum -- for a job done in splendid manner. They have demonstrated to the country and to the world that when it comes to a crisis, Bangladesh's people are capable of helping themselves out of a bind. To all these brave men who have toiled for days and nights (one has even died in the line of duty), we say with pride: "A grateful nation salutes you!"
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