In the opening credit of the 1990s popular TV series Dark Justice , judge Nicholas Marshal (played by Rami Zada) was seen to have a reminis...
In the opening credit of the 1990s popular TV series Dark Justice, judge Nicholas Marshal (played by Rami Zada) was seen to have a reminiscence:
“As a cop, I lost my collars to legal loopholes, but I believed in the system. As a district attorney, I lost my cases to crooked lawyers, but I believed in the system. As a judge, my hands were bound by the letter of the law, but I believed in the system. Until they took my life away. Then I stopped believing in the system and started believing in justice.”
Like Judge Marshal, Bangladesh, as a country, apparently has a threshold of tolerance when it comes to upholding its image in front of the world.
Bangladesh’s image was not tarnished when global media wrote how the country’s people were robbed of their voting rights in two consecutive elections. Its image was not tarnished when pages of documented evidence portrayed how the state machinery use extrajudicial killings or enforced disappearances to instil fear among the dissenters. It was not tarnished when an incarcerated writer, detained under a controversial cyber law, died in jail.
But all of a sudden it started to get tarnished when journalists write about corruption in media or when common people vented out their anger and frustrations...
