Editorial
Playing around with dead body
What a despicable act!
It is mind-boggling, abominable and unheard of. The very death of Golam Mostafa Milon, an Awami League volunteer group leader from tear gas shell attack topped off by merciless police beating during Sunday's opposition siege programme was a reprehensible act by itself. But the matter didn't end there, there was an even more contemptuous follow through as the police held his dead body in custody at the DMCH mortuary and despatched it at midnight to the Pirojpur village home of the deceased for burial the next morning.His wife, children and other close relatives couldn't even take a proper last glimpse of him, to say nothing of their denial of attendance at his funeral rather secretly and hurriedly conducted away in Pirojpur -- all under police surveillance. Even an alien police force wouldn't have done it, although the cops were acting under orders from the top. The dead body is a hallowed possession of the deceased person's near and dear ones and their being denied of the last rites is not only antithetical to time-honoured religious values but also repugnant to humanitarian sensibilities. After someone dies in the line of political agitation, nobody should try and make political capital out of his sacrosanct last remains. The cat and mouse game played with Milon's dead body by the authorities driven by a political motive was truly an abominable instance where all sense of propriety is thrown to the winds. May Golam Mostafa Milon's soul rest in peace. Our heartfelt condolences to the members of the bereaved family and we wish they would have the fortitude to bear up with his loss.
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