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Enquiry on CHT incidents
Sir. On 23 April a Foreign Ministry spokesman was reported as claiming that articles in the foreign press about the killings at Lougong. Khagrachhari on 10 April were highly exaggerated, false and mischievous." He said that only 10 people were killed and 10 Injured by Bengali settlers tn retaliation for a terrorist arrack earlier in the day. However, on 11 April the Brigadier of Khagrachhari Cantonment, who visited the site about 11 pm on the day of the incidents, reported that 12 had been killed by the Shanti Bahlni, 11 of them tribals.
There is an easy way to learn the truth, the same way that the Indonesian public learned about the massacre of
more than 50 defenseless people In East Timor last November — by appointing an Impartial Judicial enquiry commission to look into all aspects of the occurrences and to publish their report publicly within a short time. Previous governments have appointed enquiry commissions but their reports, If ever completed, were never made public. One can hope for better results from a democratic government
Father Timm
Justice and Peace Commission Dhaka.
Expensive JS
Sir, Can we afford a 6-day parliament session?
A Mawax Dhaka
"BTV: Is ghost of
Ershad still there?'
Sir. Thanks to Sultana Faizun Nahar for her nicely written opinion piece "BTV : Is ghost of Ershad still there?" tn Ihc Daily Star on April 21. Endorsing the views expressed by the writer I would like to add a few lines of my own.
It is a matter of record that all governments, since independence of Bangladesh, used Radio and TV as their own propaganda machines and no government ever allowed any focus of any political party except the party in power.
The present government ts not a total exception to the former governments. Bui we must accept that Radio and TV now recognise political parties other than the ruling one.
To come out of this stalemate, we may ask the government to allow Radlo-TV stations in private sector so that there could be a healthy competition between the government owned Radio-TV station and that In the private sector. Like government-owned news papers and newspapers under private ownership, the former may be run by more gover
nment advertisements while the later will be financed more by Its subscribers.
If this works, we may allow private sector T & T company. Electricity, WASA etc.
M Saleem Ullah. Advocate Mo ttj heel. Dhaka.
Hats off to Windies
Sir. Through this esteemed dally of yours. I would like to congratulate the West Indian cricket team on their spectacular successes against South Africa especially for the first Test between the two countries at Bridgetown. Barbados.
Although it seemed like a fairy-tale, they did win the Test and no doubt no other country could have done so, In such a manner. Hats off to Courtney Walsh, hats off to West Indian sportsmanship spirit.
The West Indians have again proved themselves to be the true kings of cricket. May they carry on to show us more "magic" in the future.
Asrarul Islam Chowdhury ( Bonn ie)
JU. Savar. Dhaka.