Imran A. Chowdhury Founder & CEO Centre for Policy Promotion & Prevention TO The Editor The Asian Affairs
Dear Sir.
I am just so touched and humbled to read your editorial on the massacre in Sri Lanka. This was a violation of extreme brutality. How extensive the humanity will be bearing these menaces? I do not have any answer to it. But all I hear and can say that; these atrocities must stop once for all. This magnitude of the killing of innocent worshipers during their prayer is unacceptable and I am personally saddened and completely disturbed. The tourists visiting the country for a few days of relaxation and respite from the hustle and bustle of day to day life returned home in a body bag; where children were not excluded speaks volume of the mindset of the perpetrators. We have seen these kinds of atrocities in Bangladesh in recent past, but the resilience and security measures adopted by the Bangladeshi law enforcing agencies and coordinated effort by all the government apparatus and civil society have been paying off its dividends. It was baffling to see the complacency in within the Sri Lankan higher echelon of the government. In the pursuit of controlling these so called religiously motivated apartheid by inflicting carnage need more resilient and impetus. The society, the clergy, the government and the indigenous communities they all have a role to play to obliterate those ill-fated wish. We all need to uproot those scars from our human society to make the world a better peaceful place for descendants to exist in harmony. All faith, religions and communities need to work collectively to eradicate these twisted ideology. Perpetrating these mindless killings in the name of religion must have to stop by us all. With best regards Imran Chowdhury