Editorial Desk :
The US ambassador to Bangladesh, Mr Peter Haas, has been expressing his anxiousness to see Bangladesh having a government of people’s representatives chosen genuinely in a free election.
The US government was open about the existing government not being elected.
The USA did not invite Bangladesh for attending the gathering of democratic governments for two times.
This had worked as a shattering blow on the fortress of the government that has realised that we are not alone and helpless in gathering strength to oppose the cruelty and lies.
In this newspaper we have said again and again to remind that nowhere in the world an emerging democracy can survive without cooperation of other democratic countries.
That was the way we tried to convey to the democratic world the message that we needed help.
Our understanding is that it is President Biden’s shift in foreign policy to the effect that America has a responsibility to protect human rights anywhere by saving democracy.
It is only the United States that has the resources and the benefits of worldwide connections to make freedom under democracy as a dream come true.
When the US visa sanction policy was inflicted on some high officials in the law enforcing agencies their clenched iron fist began to unclench.
Most of the government officials were conscious of their obligation and duty to serve their people.
But a few enjoyed power to abuse it for showing how helpless we were before them.
We cannot say enough in words how to express our gratitude for helping to pluck the courage against the practice of secret killing and forced disappearance.
Although the government was based on the near-perfect democratic Constitution given by Bangabandhu but he committed the blunder of giving up the democratic system believing that the concentration of all powers in his hands will make his government strong to deal with the weaknesses of the internal management of the governance.
His party, the Awami League, tried hard to refrain him from going the revolutionary way unknown to it.
But a gigantic fraud was committed on the people’s Constitution without denying its existence but making it non-functional in its entirety by the government with the use of terror.
Everybody not with the government had to live in fear of secret killing and forced disappearance.
The whole nation was disgraced as uncivilised, immoral and uneducated.
It was a sadist pleasure for the government to humiliate anybody and everybody who is highly honourable nationally and internationally.
This was never our politics.
We had to wonder how our own people could be so cruel and so slavish to carry out any order so vile and insane.
Revenge politics must not be acceptable but cry of the people cannot go unheard and unpunished if change has to have any meaning to the people.
Truth about inhumanity has to be found out and all truth about secret killing and secret forced disappearance must be out in the open.
We are not sure if they will be ready to face the people.
We are not sure if the leading members of the government will be ready to face the people in a free election.
Free election alone is not the success of democracy.
We shall need international help and cooperation to build democracy on the ashes of the ruthless denial of everything that was just and fair.
The rule of law and fair justice must be upheld however hard the job.
The widespread corruption and endless opportunity to be benefited by abuse of power at all levels of the government have left a gaping vacuum for democratic politics and political leadership.
Politics has been polluted to be attractive for money making businessmen in the guise of being politicians.
To serve the people was not the responsibility of the government.
Even when the people are dying of dengue in large numbers for the total failure of the healthcare system the government was busy, with the luxury of foreign trips.
What is unforgivable must not be forgotten.
Never before our people witnessed the crimes of bank robbery and money laundering committed so defiantly.
If not selfless, one is not a politician.
The government is well-advised to accept the sovereign will of the people as expressed in a free and fair election and be part of the dignified change willingly and humbly.
