How to stop these fanatics?
Golam F Akhter Convener, Bangladesh-USA Human Rights Coalition Bethesda, Maryland, US
The new trend of killing by grenade throwing is alarming to all freedom loving and democratic countries of the world. Killing and damaging the target is possible from a distance and the perpetrator can manage to flee mixing with the terrified fleeing general public: chances of being caught and punished seem to be minimum, everybody is running for his life. This process of killing is possibly more advanced than suicide killing or bombing, here the perpetrators go alive. One advanced technology that may be used to detect these possible perpetrators is remote video camera; these cameras will operate, say, at a height of 50 feet and at a circle of 500 feet; this is possibly the optimum distance for the perpetrators to commit the heinous crimes. Washington DC has almost cleared the drug infested street and neighbourhood by remote controlling those cameras and taking close pictures of the drug sellers and buyers, which facilitate the judge to get the pin pointed evidence. These cameras may be installed in a hidden place, mounted on van, even used in darkness with infrared detection. If these type of killings go unchecked and unpunished, the lives of both government and opposition leaders will be threatened. Blaming each other without concrete evidence beyond doubt does not help anybody. We are utterly amazed that opposition leader Sheikh Hasina after being attacked by grenades on 21st August, 2004 did not cooperate with the government and police saying, "With whom shall I cooperate, the government--the killers themselves?" In a democracy, peoples' representatives, good or bad, should be respected or replaced by votes.
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