The year 1971 was very difficult for girls in Bangladesh. Pakistani aggressors brutalized girls irrespective of whether they were Hindus or Muslims. The state had nurtured them. He gave permission to do whatever they wanted. They did that. With the support of the state, killings, looting of immovable property and rape have been carried out equally. Now there is no Pakistan, now we are independent, Bengalis are ruling Bengalis. So why are girls being abused like this?
Being trafficked to India, going to the Middle East in search of livelihood, being molested, being raped everywhere, committing suicide every now and then, getting caught in the trap of child marriage? The cause is unknown to us. The reason is that Pakistan has gone away but the ideology of that state has not gone away. The ideology was capitalist. He-ideals are now victorious more than ever before. The weak are bullied, will continue to be, because we will continue to prosper, and the prosperity of the very few will be forgotten by the rest. This is what is happening.
Those who say that the ghost of Pakistan has not yet left us are not lying. But most of them do not recognize the ghost. The ghost is nothing else, the ghost is capitalism. And what about the ghost, he is very much alive. He is busy taking the lives of the living. He uses religion as a means and a cover. There is no denying that our nationalists are all capitalists: they differ in name from the Pakistanis, but not in character.
So what's the way? Protest? of course The protest is going on. There are reports that girls who disagree with child marriage are complaining to the authorities. Teenage girls rescuing schoolmates from weddings, we learn. A May newspaper reported that a mother in Magura beheaded a young man who molested her daughter with a chapati. But that does not change the system. There were protests in America against Trump. The mother of one of the two Americans who were killed while protesting the sexual harassment of girls in Oregon, USA, said her son was a hero and will remain a hero even after death. Attempts are being made to take away the humanity of people, they will continue to try; but humanity is not to be destroyed, it will not be. But it is a proven fact that protesting alone will not work.
So what to escape? But where to escape? People had to flee from Bangladesh in 1971, when they came back they saw that Pakistan remained! The change is only in name. People are still fleeing. The rich have already built houses abroad, will leave in time. The general secretary of Awami League has warned the party people that if the party is not in power then there will be no way to escape with the money. Was this warning necessary? Those who have already made arrangements, others are also active. And those who lack money, not party people, but common people, a part of them are also fleeing.
The report says that among those who try to cross to Europe by sea, Bangladeshis are now at the top in terms of numbers. These unfortunate people do not go to launder money, but to earn money. But it's going. Lives are at stake. Jumping into the sea. It is natural that people will flee from war-torn Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Eritrea, but why are so many people fleeing from post-war and prosperous Bangladesh? Fleeing because there is no security of livelihood here; and the plight of girls says that life is not safe here.
The decision is so essential. What needs to be done is to get rid of capitalism. But no one can do that work alone, if you do it, not only disappointment, but danger will increase. Dismissal will require movement, and movement will require political parties. Not only will the team fail, if the enemy is not identified correctly, and the correct strategy and tactics are not adopted. In Bangladesh, and in many countries around the world, the nationalist war is over, what remains is the people's war for socialism.
It is clear that this war will not be easy. Coercive capitalism has many weapons at its disposal; a very powerful weapon is the media. The media spews out the atrocities of capitalism, but not the real news; Covers up, confuses, and keeps various fairy tale factory going. A fairy tale story was printed on the front pages of all newspapers in Bangladesh. Bangladesh defeated New Zealand in cricket. The story is told as a fairy tale; because this victory was unexpected, almost impossible.
The media loves fairy tales, but fairy tales cannot erase the hellish reality of which a story is in the newspaper, and on the front page. That is the recovery of the body of a mother with three children in this capital. It is believed that the mother herself killed her children, one by one; then she killed himself. The dead mother's brother, however, says that it is impossible, that his sister cannot do this and that others have done it; It's a murder. Either way, it's murder. And there is no doubt that the mother with three children was suffering from extreme depression.
Her husband once had a good income, invested Tk. 50 lakhs in the fraudulent business firm Destiny, got beat up; Tried to start a business on his own without success, can't pay his children's school fees, can't even feed them well; There is a family dispute over property. There was no light of hope anywhere. And all the burden was sitting on the neck of the endangered girl. She was a brilliant student; Passed MA, looking for a job, but didn't get it. Husband's thought there was a life outside, the wife's life in three rooms. Life was a miserable ordeal for him.
The fairy tales of progress are being shouted. But the reality is now so dire that there is no way to cover it up. Newspapers have more news about the hell of people in Bangladesh. 1. Being the second daughter in Satkhira, the newborn was killed by the father. 2. In Barguna, a pregnant housewife was beaten to death for not getting dowry. 3. An attempt was made to rape a student by entering the class room in Roumari. 4. Student raped by talking about marriage in Araihajar. 5. Expatriate wife missing with three children in Gazipur. 6. Mother's press conference demanding justice for daughter's murder in Dhaka. More news: 1. Two people were arrested on charges of child rape in the capital. 2. Widow beaten to death after failing to rape in Shaistaganj. 3. Wife gang-raped by husband in Kaliakore. 4. Beaten to death after rape on public road in Habiganj. Every incident is terrible. The 'improvement' continues.
The cry for change in the system is inherent in this improvement. Frustration will not end if the movement for change is not strengthened.