Keep it up
Saadi Islam Chowdhury, English Department, Rajshahi University
Your motto: "Journalism without fear or favour" could not ring truer than in the light of the events unfolding following the grenade attack on the opposition leader Sheikh Hasina. The Daily Star is continuing to report objectively and giving detailed and unbiased coverage of the prevailing mood in Bangladesh, which is something I found lacking in other newspapers. This is precisely the sort of stance that is needed in the aftermath of a terrorist attack and should be promoted amongst the Bangladeshis. Our civil society must not be coerced into silence, but taught to fight these criminals back in every manner possible. The terrorists' goals are self-justifying and open-ended: someday they might want to kill the mother who is fighting for the cause of mothers in the country or another day they might want to go after their own people. They have no rational thought process, but an ideology or a belief that is ill-imported and taken out of context. Their grievances against our civil society are not legitimate but invoked, shaped and moulded by sources outside the country. They are a brute force. The Daily Star's unrelenting efforts in voicing the concerns of the true citizens of Bangladesh for whom the country's peace and well being matter so much will surely go a long way towards fighting these criminals. Well done!
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