Mass arrests
Fahima Bintee Jamal, Kazipara, Mirpur
Such a drastic step by our government is nothing new. However, the authorities concerned should feel at least a pang of guilt when they witness the widespread sorrow & hardship they are causing amongst the families of the hundreds of innocent arrestees. Most of them are guilty of only one crime: being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Stooping to such a meaningless method of extracting troublemakers is really a shame. It just highlights the extent to which our security forces are incapable of handling a crisis. Once again it is the poor and the underprivileged that have to bear the brunt of a pointless scheme. Criticism of mass arrests have been made by bodies of lawyers and human rights' organizations, but is that sufficient to convince the authorities of the inhumanity of their act? When will our government learn to be ashamed of creating unnecessary complexities for us?
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