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Who will hang the drug syndicate?

Published : Sunday, 11 June, 2017 at 12:00 AM  Count : 658
Mir Abdul Alim
Mir Abdul Alim

Mir Abdul Alim

The court has sentenced Oishee to life imprisonment for killing her parents. It has been confirmed that Oishee herself has executed the murder of her parents. As far I know, Oishee has committed the worst & abominable crime in the country by killing her parents. It is out of my knowledge whether any other girl has murdered her parents in such a brutal way or not. Oishee has been judged.
At first, the court declared the sentence of death by hanging and then life imprisonment. We have no questions for the death sentence or life imprisonment. The court has executed its right order. But the question comes -- whether the verdict of one Oishee is final. She has been sentenced to life imprisonment. But what will happen to those who have led Oishee to drug addiction and also made a murderer?
I know the addiction of drugs has made her a murderer. Now the question will come -- why Oishee became drug addicted. How did drugs reach to this teenage girl? Who did this? What will our answers be of such questions? Whom should we blame for this? Is Oishee alone responsible for her present situation?
Now the question is -- why should we not be sentenced to life imprisonment or the death sentence by hanging as Oishee has been sentenced to life imprisonment for her execution of the murder of her parents? Ours fault is there as none of us never confess our own crimes and failures.
We do not try to eliminate the drugs. That is why the country is full of drugs. The young generation is getting absorbed in taking drugs. Where are the drugs leading to us? So many failures, nevertheless the government does not have any look, why? This needs a prescription.
The Oishees must not let to be addicted to drugs anymore. The Oishees must not let to be made murderers any more. They have to be brought back from this path. Many of us have been pleased for the verdict of Oishee. This is not the final say of one Oishee's judgment.
We must look into the reason exactly why Oishee became the murderer. We have to eliminate the drugs from the country. The addiction of drugs is making the people inhuman and murderers like Oishee. And panic has been created across the country for how the drugs are spreading out.
The country's drug outbreak has reached the unit level. Now addicts are from homes each. The addicts have killed their friends as well as their neighbours. The addicted sons have killed their parents. Now the addicted daughters have also shown the examples by killing their parents. Being addicted, one brother has killed other one. This is going on throughout the country.
What else can be more terrible when the son of a family becomes violent for its members? We are going apart from our religions and duties. We are getting accustomed to the foreign cultures. These happenings are taking place because of drugs and demolishing social bonds as well. Hence, being addicted, the daughters are killing their parents and so have been proved in the court.
Now the incidents of murdering are taking place in the general families in our country. At one time, it will happen at a high level. The chairmen will be killed by their sons. The MPs, the ministers will be slaughtered at the hands of their addicted children.
We see, but are not taking any steps. It is a matter of surprise that so many happenings create storms of protest in the country; but none speaks of the drugs. In the parliament, many things like using abusive language, songs, group music take place; but they remain grossly silent about the drugs.
They remain seated locking their mouths. The people of the government and the opposition remain speechless. Even it is not vindicating if one or two speak out. And this silence of the people in authority is contributing to spreading of the drugs by the drug seller syndicates. Across the country, the outbreak of drugs is extreme. What is the state doing? Doesn't the state have any responsibilities and liabilities?
The responsibility of the police in eradication of the drugs is somewhat high. But today what we see in the newspapers is that the police are rearing drugs rather than eradicating. To help the drug dealers against the police, in some places the police themselves are committing the hateful crime of selling drugs.
From newspapers' clippings, the drugs worth 25 thousand crore is marketed a year. Nobody knows the exact statistics of the number of drug addicts. The government says, the number is 50 million; but according to the private sources the number is more than 70 lac.
We can conceive that the number is more. Most of them are young men and women. We have also seen the connection of both the house owner and the house wife in this perspective. Around 80 per cent of the drug addicts are aged from 15 to 35. Bangladesh is in the 7th position among the drug addicted countries. Its vicious clutch has been spread from the cities to village.
The children aged from 8-10 years including the old are getting attacked by the fatal effects of drugs every day. The number of drug criminals in the country was 6 per cent in 2002. But now it is more than 20 per cent. This business of drugs is running at a high speed in the country.
The 'Golden Triangle' comprised of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, 'Golden Crescent' surrounded Bangladesh with the 'Golden Ways' of Pakistan, India, Nepal and Tibet, and the border region of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran. As a result, Bangladesh stands amid the largest drug producers and traders in the world.
Thousands of phensidyl factories have been built on the boarder of the neighbouring country around the joint cycle of Bangladesh and is spreading yaba peacefully across the country via Cox's Bazar from Myanmar. The young society, especially the school and college going students are falling into the trap of the new addiction of yaba.
Phensidyl, heroin and yaba are being found here and there though they are not produced in the country. It has become a family problem in the last two decades after dominating the social problems. Often being unable to return the sons back from the corpulence of drugs, the parents have handed over their sons to the police and in some cases, the sons have handed over their parents. The incidents of parents being killed at the hands of their sons are taking place constantly.
The people of different classes and occupations including school and college going students are getting phensidyl, heroin, yaba and tobacco within their reach. As a result, the family ties are being broken up. Crimes are increasing gradually. Numerous youths are going astray. Families are being destroyed. There is nothing new to say about how the drugs are eating up our society little by little. This addiction is not restricted to age, gender and social status.
The main problem is of the society and of the state. If the rising class of the country are hostile to the social characteristics then the country's future is dark. To protect the country, the concerned people will have to play a leading rule in this regard. 
We believe that the drug syndicate is not stronger than the state. If the state wants to reduce the country's drug expansion, it is possible. Hope that the state will end up with this expectation.

The writer is Chairman, Al-Rafi Hospital Ltd





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