Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW Vol. 5 Num 451 Thu. September 01, 2005       Letters to Editor At last comes the acceptance Tareq Ahmed On e-mail At last our government has accepted that the bomb blasts taking place in our country are not estranged incidents. On the contrary, an well-organised group is behind these attacks. Can anyone remember after how many attacks and at the cost of how many lives the "wise" people in the government have reached this conclusion? Will they inform us how many more attacks and how many more lost lives are needed to accept that a radical fundamentalist group is operating under their nose? What is going on in this country is the result of the 23% growth in the "madrassahs" during the last five years. Just look at the people who are being arrested all over Bangladesh by the law-enforcing agencies. Needless to say that a strict observation and if needed shutdown of madrassahs is the necessity of the day right now? But I'm not convinced that the government has the guts to do so. Partly because they depend heavily on these madrassahs and partly for the fact that our people, to me, have not yet recognised how big a threat these madrassahs pose to the country and to all our achievements.