The present brutal way of life cannot be ours!

The society of Bangladesh is getting increasingly cruel and devoid of any human values with kindness and compassion fast disappearing from us as human beings. How could people here be so ruthless! A few days ago one Abir Ali allegedly killed a five-year-old girl, Alina Islam Ayat, as she refused to go with him after Abir tried to abduct her for ransom from Ayat’s father in Chattogram.
Soon after the incident of killing of Ayat and the subsequent recovery of six severed parts of her body by police, a horrific incident took place on Friday afternoon on the Dhaka University campus when a woman was killed as she was dragged along the road underneath a car.
The car owned by a former teacher of the university knocked the woman on a motorbike down near the TSC area of the campus and dragged her nearly half a kilometre, as was said by the police and eye witnesses. The driver of the car could have stopped the vehicle, but he didn’t do that out of fear. Instead, the car pushed the woman who was still alive.
Everyday incidents of such unspeakable cruelty are taking place of which some are drawing media attention but many are not. These examples of brutality are perfectly in match with the country’s hopeless economic scenario that has been brought about by the greed of money and power of the ruling few. As if some people here must remain in power and get richer at the expense of the lives of the majority of people!
Now the question that naturally comes to the mind is: have we, as human beings, lost our conscience and duty to society?
Sociologists can have a detailed answer, but in our eyes, it is mainly the seriously deviated politics of the country that is to blame for this gradual brutalisation of society. It is the logical consequence of the government’s dehumanisation of its own people.
Governance in Bangladesh that we see today does not have an iota of morality and respect for the law. For remaining in power, it is taking recourse to wholesale lies and cruelties so much so that people have, in a sense, stoically accepted that in Bangladesh this is normal and they have to live with them daily.
No, this inhuman and barbarous way of life cannot be ours. If morality and a respect for law can be restored in the prevailing politics that can be straightway termed evil for many reasons including secret killings and enforced disappearances, we can hope to create a humane society for the welfare of the common good of all, and not for the exceptionally privileged few.