His pictures were in the front page. Taken in quick succession, these pictures created a movie with the sequential events that went on. He was trying to run away, but those chasing him won't let him go; they were hitting him with bricks; they were throwing punches at him. They also had sharp weapons they were hacking him with. He was bloody; so were his attackers with their victim's blood!
What went on in Bishwajit's mind at that moment? A feeling of helplessness? A desperate calculation trying to understand why he was being murdered? Was he trying to picture his mother's face? I can only imagine. I do not know. But I do know this - this has got to stop! I am so angry! My heart is squeezed, and I cannot breathe!
Bishwajit was hacked to death simply because some activists of Chattra League thought he was a supporter of the "Seize Dhaka" program called by the opposition party. Whether he was a supporter or not is not the issue! Even if he was a supporter, would that have given rights to the attackers to do what they did? No, no, no!
We call ourselves civilized?! I have seen many beaten to death in the streets of Bangladesh! We cannot justify these no matter who is killing and who is being killed! There are some people who support these incidences when the victim is someone they hate. The attacks on 21st Of August, the barbaric killing of Babu, the logi-boitha incident, the massacre of six students in Savar - we cannot lend our patronage to any of these! Each of these is an insult to the whole humanity! These are insults hurled at the Creator!
If we have an issue with someone, we must resort to the law; we must face our political opponents on political grounds, not with violence Otherwise, the rule of law will never be established on this land! There will be more corpses on the streets for us to clean - corpses of our loved ones or ourselves!
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