In the latest episode, the bombs blasted within five minutes of each other striking a note of premeditated orchestration. Although the plastic explosives planted in yet another cinema hall did not explode, the twin attacks pulled off were sufficiently telling both in terms of range and insidious messages. One lad got killed, and among the seven critically injured not all might survive.

There had been a series of cinema hall explosions earlier on -- in Mymensingh and Satkhira on December 7 and September 28 of the year 2002 respectively. The choice of cinema halls as targets lends itself to some plausible kind of surmising. First, cinema house as a place for public convergence is targeted because it affords opportunity for a maximum administration of shock therapy; and secondly, an orthodox antipathy towards show-bizz is betrayed by picking on cinema halls.

What, however, is essentially vital to realise is that none of the bomb blast cases which are well past the double-digit number, have been resolved, far less anyone convicted of public murders. Investigations have invariably been blighted by inhibitory partisan imputations even before those could take off. So long drawn they have been that forensic pieces that could help solve the puzzles were lost through disuse.

Ranging from hush-hush to sweeping under the carpet, the handling of cases has lacked professionalism; otherwise, we would have got to the bottom of at least some of the gruesome bombing incidents by now. Even the major bomb blast cases could not nudge the government.

It is high time we took international assistance in unearthing what remain mysteries for too long for any comfort.