Small countries are in frightening situations for the gun politics of the governments. What is very tragic is that big power politics plays an important role here. These killer dictators, in brutally treating their own people, get courage and support from a favourable big power or powers as puppets. The people are helpless against the use of gun power for secret killing, torture and many other cruel ways. Security forces are to be found everywhere to make life difficult for those who express dissent. The people are now captives in the hands of government.
Gun power in present-day global politics has made it easier to suppress people by creating conditions of insecurity of life using security forces.
The free world powers are not sufficient to these rising killer dictators. Unless they take them seriously, these small dictators as terrorists will continue to thrive. Without the help of some big power, such mini-dictators could not have become so dangerous and ruthless. They are free to plunder the country and keep the people silent through the use of fear.
No government should feel safe to use guns bought with the people’s money to use them against people to suppress protest.
The free world has ignored the dictators for too long. The dictators are not killers of people but killers of democracy. As human rights have no importance to the mini-dictators, the free world powers should be on the side of people as their friends.
The growth of such dictators is serious threat to people’s freedom.
Fighting for human rights must mean fighting against dictators. Free election should be guaranteed for peaceful transfer of power according to the wishes of the people.
Take for example, the events that unfolded in the Islamic Republic of Iran after a 22-year old woman died in the custody of ‘Gasht-e-Ershad’, or Guidance
Patrol, an Iranian kind of morality police. This morality police are too dangerous for keeping the religious leaders’ atrocious government. The young woman was arrested for not wearing the country’s mandatory hijab properly. After so many years of dictatorship, the women rose in rage against the government. Now they are facing the people’s uprising defying death and torture.
Death of Mahsa Amini occurred six weeks back on 16 September, yet the protests are still continuing. The protesting women were later joined by their men and even school girls. By now, the number of people killed during the riotous protests crossed well over 250 including the law enforcers however.
The brutal crackdown on unarmed democracy and freedom loving people have also been taking place in Bangladesh’s neighbouring country Myanmar where the military perpetrated brutal violence on the country’s own Rohingya population after stripping their citizenship in 1982 with the support from the communist China. The military of the Buddhist-majority country thinks they must rule the country and arrested and punished Myanmar’s popular leader Aung San Suu Kyi with various jail terms. Still, the regime time and again detained the journalists who reported the events that unfolded in the country to the outside world.
In our country gun brutality has reduced visibly after knowing that the USA is not going to be just an onlooker of the events in Bangladesh. The people have gathered courage to demand resignation of the unelected government and are protesting against massive corruption causing lives of the general public miserable. The question is: will it be possible to bring about change without bloodshed and more violence? It is useless to talk about free elections. The government has no courage to face free elections.
