Police action on opposition activists
Syed T. Haque, Lalmatia, Dhaka
A couple of weeks ago we saw that the Awami League activists kept the roads of Dhanmondi blocked for many hours while holding a rally. The leading newspapers are writing about how the AL activists were beaten up by the police, but none of them published any picture of how people remained stranded on the roads due to the protest rally. When the protestors started to throw stones at the cars police had nothing else to do. There were kids who were going back to their homes after their class, many of them were students of playgroup who even did not know what was happening. I saw a lady crying with her daughter in her lap and she was urging the so-called activists not to break the glass of her car.But no one had any concern about that; her car got hit by a stone and her child started crying. We claim we love our country and our people. I think the newspapers can play a very important role in condemning this kind of acts! But unfortunately no one seems to have that courage to come up and protest against this kind of vandalism. The government should take some tough measures to stop such activities. If they can talk about human rights when police beat up opposition activists, why can't we ask for protection from the government?
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