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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Bangladeshi female wage earners' woes
This is about a Saudi princess named Meshael Alayban who is one of the six wives of a grandson of Saudi King Abdullah. She was charged with enslaving a Kenyan woman in California. She forced her to work in abusive conditions, 16 hours a day, for monthly salary of just $220 and withheld her passport. The victim had signed a contract with an employment agency that promised her a salary of $1,600 a month fora 40-hour work week.
In this context, I would like to refer to a recent report of this daily that says that around two lakh Bangladeshi women are currently working abroad, 90 percent of them in the Middle East. Many of them had poor pay, long working hours and some had even been locked up. After returning home, many of the workers complained of delays in getting wages and physical and mental torture that they had suffered there. That means the plight of most Bangladeshi female workers in the Middle East is almost similar to the Kenyan female worker's.
We urge the international human rights organisations to arrange schemes for educating the cruel employers like the above mentioned princess, extend their support to these victims and raise their voices to stop it.
MobarakAli
Gopibagh, Dhaka
Loan sharks
Many private banks are offering lucrative facilities to their clients under different schemes. They are providing their clients with various types of loans. Some of the banks also give education loan to meritorious students, especially those who wish to pursue higher studies abroad. Unfortunately, these loans, although offered without any mortgage or sponsor, have major drawbacks. The client has to pay an exorbitant interest rate. The interest rate is so high that it is not possible for the middle-class people, who really need the loan, to pay it. If these people were so capable of paying such huge interest, they would never need the loan in the first place.
Engr. Naome Syed Mohammadpur, Dhaka
Self-publicity with public
money
Recently the government has started grabbing billboards across the country to show off its successes ahead of the next parliamentary election. The government is using public money for their election campaign. The question is, will it help the government to win the next election or will it affect the AL badly?
Samiul Raijul
Bangladesh University of Textiles
Dhaka
Punish the stone thrower
A young female engineer met tragic death as miscreants threw stones into the compartment of a running train which hit the girl in the head. Who are these miscreants and why are they doing so? Police department must unearth the story and nab the killer. Countrymen want to see these dangerous miscreants hanged. Only that will put an end to this sort of killing.
KhandakerZia Hasan
Special Correspondent
The weekly Jogajog, Canada