While addressing an event marking the 55th birth anniversary of Sheikh Russel, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued strong words of warning against those who would torture children. Condemning the recent barbaric murder of a child at Jaintiapur in Sylhet, she vowed that her government will do its best to offer children a better life free from torture, barbaric behavior, drugs, militancy and terrorism.
Words are not enough to portray the spiteful way in which Tuhin Miah, a five-year-old child, was murdered at the Kejaura village of Sunamganj’s Derai upazila on October 14. The disturbing details of the torture and murder would shake anyone to the core.
It is high time that we seal the legal
loopholes through which the
criminals escape justice
It is dismaying to note that an average of 28 children get murdered and 49 raped in the country every month as reported by Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF). Only on October 11, a man allegedly raped four children in Savar’s Dhamrai upazila, all of them aged between five and seven. Such brutality makes us wonder if we still live in the dark ages, in the absence of any law and order. However, in order to effectively bring down the rate of such crimes, it is high time that we seal the legal loopholes through which the criminals escape justice.
It is sad but true that we find a plethora of news regarding child killing, child rape, child labour and child torture which are published and broadcast in different print and electronic media but we hardly find any programme or show which are made to create consciousness among mass people on child abuse and violence against children. Also social institutions like schools, mosques, offices, universities etc should put forth their concerted efforts to create consciousness among people against child abuse and violence against children.
