Speedy trial of bloggers\\\' murder brooks no delay

Last Friday's gruesome killing of yet another blogger Niloy Chatterjee at his apartment in the capital serves, once again, as a crude pointer to the challenge that the violent extremists pose to the country. The utter failure of the law enforcers to nab those who were earlier involved in such incidents and to bring them to justice has, no doubt, given such obscurantist forces the opportunities, more at ease than before, to perpetuate their crimes.  Niloy is the fifth blogger to be killed since February 2013. This latest incident has triggered strong condemnation both at home and abroad. This also highlights the need to work together to counter violent extremism.  
Niloy, an activist of the Ganajagaran Mancha, received, according to his wife, a threat over phone about a month ago.  The nature of the attack on him is similar to those on other bloggers murdered earlier. This has been stated by the police. In his Facebook post, Niloy said he was passing his days under threat. Reports said Niloy had joined a protest rally at Shahbagh in the capital after the killing of Washiqur Rahman. When he was returning home, two youths followed him from Shahbagh and got on the same bus. After the incident, he went to file a general diary with the police station. But the police allegedly did not record the complaint and advised him, instead, to go abroad as soon as possible.
The alleged refusal of the police to record his complaint over a threat to his life is disturbing, to say the least. Although this allegation has to be verified, one still remembers how the police stood as mute witness to the broad daylight murder of blogger Avijit near Bangla Academy, in front of his wife. The higher authorities are yet to come up with any account of how the assailants could escape the scene when some police personnel were standing nearby. This kind of negligence explains for itself why one blogger after another is being killed, with impunity.
Unfortunately, killings of bloggers and cartoonists in revenge take place in various countries in the world. Not long ago, the world witnessed how brutally 12 editors and staff of a French magazine Charlie Hebdo were gunned down in Paris. It occurred in a country where security is supposed to be quite strong. Social networks have facilitated free exchange of views on various social issues. It is important to take sensitiveness of others into consideration, particularly on matters of wider consequences, before expressing views 'freely' on the social media. But it is also a savagery to take revenge in a ghastly form for such expressions of views. The law of the land should be allowed to take its normal course to deal with such matters. None should seek to take revenge on such counts. It is time for the government to hasten the process of bringing the killers of bloggers to justice and to enforce laws properly about websites and postings or contents therein. However, such actions should not also curb the rights of any individual to express views freely on social, economic and other relevant issues of consequence.