New task for Dr. Yunus!
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal, JNU, New Delhi
The triumphant return of Dr Md. Yunus to Bangladesh after receiving the Nobel Prize for Peace certainly makes every member of the Third world (particularly the people of Bangladesh) proud and should signal a positive surge of political values in Bangladesh. He has rightly stressed that there is no alternative to holding peaceful election in the country which must be participated by all parties to be credible and generally acceptable. There is no alternative to humanist democracy. World peace depends largely on disarmament and end of wars and Dr. Yunus should strive for that noble objective as well, for, world peace can be achieved only through comprehensive nuclear disarmament. He warned that political unrest in Bangladesh or any other country for that matter would adversely affect the economy of the country. Irrespective of the outcome of his efforts to clean up the muddy politics of Bangladesh, Dr. Yunus should pursue his socio-political and economic goals for which he was awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize this year. The expectations of the world from Nobel Peace Prize winner ought to be very high. The awardee has to serve the cause of world peace forever, even though the award is given for the services rendered by the awardee for a specific cause, like M. Gorbachev was conferred this for helping end the Cold war that in turn resulted in sea changes in international politics. Similarly, Dr. Yunus should use his diplomatic resources for the cause of world peace as well hereafter. In the light of the recent killing of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein at the behest of the occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan led by the US, Dr. Yunus should raise voice against capital punishment per se as being the most cruel way of murder, still preferred and "performed' by the so-called civilised Western world. Long live Dr. Yunus!
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