War and peace are two different things and they also hold opposite meanings. War sheds blood and takes lives. But peace ensures safety and security heralding the glory of life. That is why, mankind wants peace.
Victory and defeat are the part of war. The defeated force always submits to the victorious. And it happens everywhere and in every battle that the defeated forces always accept the rule of the victorious and abide by the laws of the land. But, unfortunate as it is, it didn’t happen in the case of Bangladesh.
The defeated forces of 1971, engaged in killing, looting, burning houses, helping Pakistani occupation army raping the Bengali women during the War of Liberation, went into hiding and continued in disguise their war against the legal government. They didn’t accept the country’s independence and on every issue they consider it was war against them. It mattered little to them whether the government was busy in nation-building work aimed at people’s welfare. They take country’s success as their defeat. The government under Sheikh Hasina is fighting a grim battle against the country’s enemy.
They didn’t hesitate to stage Holey Artisan mass killing, the most
sensational terror attack in the history of the country. The barbaric
attack was an attempt to portray before the world that Bangladesh
was not safe and investment-friendly. After the Holey Artisan incident
almost all the foreigners working in Bangladesh left the country
immediately and started identifying Bangladesh as a terror country
like Iraq and Afghanistan.
In achieving their selfish end, those anti-Bangladesh forces, when expedient, resorted to clandestine attacks and false propaganda. They created serious panic among people by saying that the Padma Bridge needed millions of child head. The heinous propaganda created panic among millions of mothers and it delayed the start of the iconic bridge – the country’s biggest pride.
In a bid to undermine the present government they have killed foreigners, who had been on a mission to help the needy people in the rural areas of Bangladesh. Not only that, they didn’t hesitate to stage Holey Artisan mass killing, the most sensational terror attack in the history of the country.
The barbaric attack was an attempt to portray before the world that Bangladesh was not safe and investment-friendly. After the Holey Artisan incident almost all the foreigners working in Bangladesh left the country immediately and started identifying Bangladesh as a terror country like Iraq and Afghanistan. But the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina brought back the lost image of the country within the shortest possible time by crushing the terror activities with iron hand.
In long 50 years the enemy, who had been defeated in the War of Liberation in 1971, didn’t accept the country’s independence. They have declared war against the country and its peace-loving people at home and abroad. By using the derogatory language on social media platforms the enemies have lost their right to be citizens of Bangladesh.
After wretchedly failing in the petrol bomb attack against the innocent people during the countrywide blockade, the enemy resorted to attacking the banks in the country, and now they have the mission to stage nationwide gang rape program because they know the media will love to publish it in block letters on the front page of their newspapers. And that is their benefit.
The intelligence sources said they have information that enemy activists are directed to inflate the number of nationwide gang rape cases so that they can publicise that the law and order situation in the country is deteriorating.
Recently some sensational news items have been published in newspapers on the horrible killing of mothers and their children. These are happening in most cases around insignificant issues. It is grotesque, no doubt. If such crimes are not stopped immediately, the enemy will attempt to inflict more traumas in the minds of the people. It must be stopped once for all.
Sharif Shahab Uddin is the Editor-in-Chief of Bangladesh Post
