All these 'nonsense'about corruption
Sunday, 1 March 2009
No matter how corrupt (as had been alleged) the BDR officers had been or how cruel they might have been (also alleged) to their soldiers, they still did not deserve to be murdered in cold blood. And murdered they were for their real or imagined crimes, more than a hundred of them as is being speculated now.
What was the intelligence agencies doing (one talk show guest repeatedly called them security forces but intelligence and security is not the same thing and there is no use pretending it is)? From what is now coming out this was not a spontaneous violent reaction by the soldiers-it had been planned earlier and very well too because it chose the perfect timing when they would be able to get so many officers, nearly a hundred and fifty, together at one time and in one place.
As for corruption, we have seen and understand that it is in our veins. How many of the corrupt people, from politicians to peons, pay for their crimes like the massacred BDR officers? What is then the point of having the courts? Also, most people are not fools (some are specially those who believe everything told on television) and know that BDR is a place where one can have an extra earning-no smuggling can take place if these people do not receive their piece of the halua. Must we then believe that it was only the officers and never the jawans who benefited? No one will believe that nonsense. There is something extremely fishy here and if we call ourselves a civilised nation and a democracy, we need to get to the bottom of the matter.
Sajjad Ahmed
Khulshi
Chittagong
What was the intelligence agencies doing (one talk show guest repeatedly called them security forces but intelligence and security is not the same thing and there is no use pretending it is)? From what is now coming out this was not a spontaneous violent reaction by the soldiers-it had been planned earlier and very well too because it chose the perfect timing when they would be able to get so many officers, nearly a hundred and fifty, together at one time and in one place.
As for corruption, we have seen and understand that it is in our veins. How many of the corrupt people, from politicians to peons, pay for their crimes like the massacred BDR officers? What is then the point of having the courts? Also, most people are not fools (some are specially those who believe everything told on television) and know that BDR is a place where one can have an extra earning-no smuggling can take place if these people do not receive their piece of the halua. Must we then believe that it was only the officers and never the jawans who benefited? No one will believe that nonsense. There is something extremely fishy here and if we call ourselves a civilised nation and a democracy, we need to get to the bottom of the matter.
Sajjad Ahmed
Khulshi
Chittagong