Letters To The Editor
Who's responsible for Monir's death?
It is with a mixture of anguish and relief that I read the death of young Monir, burned in his father's van by pro-hartal picketers. It was unimaginable agony which this innocent boy endured and which his parents must now endure mentally.
In the meantime, Mirza Fakhrul Islam has chosen not only to deny the involvement of BNP activists, but has gone to the extent of stating that government agents were responsible for Monir's incident. This grotesquely cynical view is hardly credible, or defensible. Nevertheless, the least he could have done was to say that his party was investigating this matter and should there be any involvement discovered, that person would be turned over to the authorities concerned for severe punishment. Apparently no such delicacy is possible in today's political climate, nor even one word of sympathy to the grieving parents.
While the AL and BNP wrangle over who was responsible for Monir's death, I ask only whether Monir would have died in that manner had the hartal not been called. Who will then take the responsibility?
Syed Hamde Ali
The Nawab Palace
Bogra
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