I got here to India on July 28 on a traditional vacation. In India, I had hoped I might have the ability to go to Kashmir. However that was to not be.
My husband – a police officer in Dhaka – was referred to as again to work. Whereas the strain again residence stopped him from returning, I’ve a number of different kin and kin who’re within the police.
Since Monday, I’ve been listening to of 1 police station after one other being looted and set on hearth.Worse, a number of cops are being focused and killed. I’m nervous about my kin, my associates and my husband who can barely disguise his feelings.
For the reason that fall of the Awami League govt led by Sheikh Hasina, the policemen have been affected by concern and insecurity as police stations throughout Bangladesh have change into targets of miscreants. Prior to now few days, many policemen have been killed in clashes with the protesters for merely following orders.
They did as they had been instructed to do. Now I’m extraordinarily nervous about their safety. I hear that the Bangladesh Police Subordinate Workers’ Affiliation has introduced an indefinite strike. One would possibly presume the state of affairs when cops name for strikes.
I had booked a ticket on an Indigo flight at 2.50 pm on Tuesday however it acquired cancelled. Bangladesh Biman too has not been in a position to present any surety of confirmed tickets. We’ve already checked out of the resort as we want to be with the household at this second of disaster. Now, I’m desperately making an attempt to get a bus ticket to return residence.
The visuals which are coming from my nation have unnerved me. I can’t think about a preferred motion getting hijacked. The scholars are our future. To see them being utilized by people who find themselves going round and looting each govt property is disheartening.
The brand new govt must be tolerant. We can’t go about vandalizing Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s statues and busts.
The PM’s residence is not only a chunk of private property. It has a historic significance. Therefore, we’d like everybody to take a seat collectively and set up peace first. Most individuals of Bangladesh are peaceable and are extraordinarily hopeful concerning the future.
Once I return to Dhaka, it ought to fill me with pleasure and never with apprehensions.
(As instructed to Dwaipayan Ghosh in Kolkata)
