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Onus of grisly killings rests on major political parties

Speakers tell roundtable

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
The onus of recurrent grisly killings in bomb and grenade attacks rests on the two major political parties that assumed state power by turn, said speakers at a roundtable yesterday.
The roundtable was organised by Bangladesh Sangskritikkarmi Sangha, a forum of cultural activists, at the National Press Club in the backdrop of recent grenade attacks and postponement of 13th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) summit.
Neither the main opposition nor the party in power can deny its failure
to bring the perpetrators of series of bomb and grenade attacks to book, said Dr Rahman Chowdhury, a researcher.
He said although the common people have no role in today's politics, they become victims of the political game.
The security situation in Bangladesh had nothing to do with the postponement of the Saarc summit, it is the political, trade and imperialist interests that forced the summit to postponement, said poet Samudra Gupta.
"Global evil forces and their local agents have been carrying out such misdeeds," Gupta said.
Editor of the New Age Enayetullah Khan, who moderated the dialogue, said India withdrew from the summit in disregard to all diplomatic norms.
The people's ignorance about how and why the deadly bomb attacks are taking place one after another is a major obstacle to taking a tough stand against the perpetrators, said Ataur Rahman, a theatre personality.
"Lack of commitment to life and
society, degeneration in ideals, all pervading corruption and rot in the state mechanism have resulted in the kind of society we live in today," he said.
The perpetrators are invariably targeting Awami League leaders and activists and secular cultural activists so that the blame can easily be put on the BNP, said Sajjad Hossain, executive director of the Centre for National and Regional Studies.
"It is designed to create such a situation that will never let the two parties reach a national consensus," he said.
AMM Hasanuzzaman, presidium member of sangha, said the main suspect in Sylhet shrine bomb attack on the British high commissioner was sent to Singapore for treatment, but later he moved to England.
"Is it a limitation on the part of the government that it cannot bring the suspect back?" he questioned.
Razia Khanam Jhunu, president of the sangha, presided over the roundtable.