Sat 27 Jan 2007
The following picture was published in Daily Star yesterday of a petty thief being punished by being tied to the ceiling at the local thana in Bogra. However, in a swift action as per the instruction of the chief adviser, 5 police officers were immediately sacked from their post. A few exemplary actions like this one and it won’t take long for the local administration to get the message.
January 29th, 2007 at 8:20 am
[...] l killings, which the Daily Star published on their front page on Saturday 27th, next to a photo of a man being tortured in a police station. Equally worrying [...]
January 29th, 2007 at 10:17 am
I think us Bangladeshis are sometime very disillusioned people. We are quick to point out current injustices and atrocities of CTG while in the last 15 years there were so many atrocities and brutality that were committed by these thugs and hoodlums of the political parties. We cried that they were walking freely under the protection of the political and influential people. Now that the CTG is actually taking action for those past crimes we are quick to point out the interrogation techniques etc etc.
What the CTG is doing is restoring people’s belief in the rule of law which has become a mere guideline and sometime a joke to whatever gov’t was at power at certain time. As Plato would say there can be no Republic without the Rule of Law.
I also can’t help notice a certain animosity towards the CTG government and everyone seems to be in such a hurry. We gave democratic gov’t 15 years so can’t we give the CTG a year or two? It is my sincere appeal that we give this government a chance to make the necessary adjustments.
Cheers!
January 29th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Rashad, my feelings exactly. We need to give these guys a bit of time before making a judgement on them. Not everything they will do will be right. But rights need to outweigh wrongs eventually. However, I am not for giving them more than 12 months to repair the damages to our institutes. The probability of doing something right is inversely proportional with time.
January 29th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
What wrong is always wrong, be it some political govt or govt of the messiah! If one thinks that these techniques are wrong for the political govt, they are wrong for all govts. So I don’t see anything wrong in pointing out the injustices and atrocities. Did I not learn here in DP that Rahim’s wrong-doings cannot be justified by what Karim did in his time?
I think everybody understands that what we saw in that picture is not a problem of direction or authority. Rather it’s an outcome of practice by lower-order providers of law and order. So it’s not about the efficiency of the CTG in itself. In fact, CTG should get some praise for taking action (that’s what the news says).