13-12-2016
Daily Star Vocabulary
1. Persecution - নিপীড়ন
2. rapporteur on human rights - মানবাধিকার দূত
3. atrocities - নৃশংসতা
4. ethnic cleansing - জাতিগত নির্মূল
5. responded callously - অনুভূতিহীন প্রতিক্রিয়া
6. dreaded military intelligence - সামরিক গোয়েন্দায় ভীত
7. dispossessed - স্থানচ্যুত করা
8. Rohingya tormentor - রোহিঙ্গা উৎপীড়ক
9. diplomatic cliché - কূটনৈতিক পদসমষ্টি
10. permanent chargé d'affaires - স্থায়ী উপরাষ্ট্রদূত
11. on-going pogrom - চলমান সাম্প্রদায়িক সহিংসতা
12. minority community - সংখ্যালঘু সম্প্রদায়
13. more circumspect - আরো সতর্ক
14. regional security - আঞ্চলিক নিরাপত্তা
###- Another suicide after public humiliation.....(editorial)
1. humiliation - অপমানকর
2. Unlawful arbitration - বেআইনী সালিসি
3. outrage and grief - জুলুম ও দুর্দশা
4. objectionable relationship - আপত্তিকর সম্পর্ক
5. public shaming - প্রকাশ্য লজ্জা
6. despicable behaviour - ঘৃণ্য আচরণ
7. abused his power - তার ক্ষমতার অপব্যবহার
8. cohorts - দল
9. exemplary punishment - দৃষ্টান্তমূলক শাস্তি
10. isolated case - বিচ্ছিন্ন ঘটনা.
11. impose barbaric punishment - বর্বর শাস্তি আরোপ
12. commit suicide - আত্মহত্যা
13. medieval law - মধ্যযুগীয় আইন
FULL EDITORIAL..........
Another suicide after public humiliation
Unlawful arbitration must be stopped
We express our outrage and grief at the news of 16-year-old Afroza Khanom of Satkhira who took her own life because she could not bear the humiliation she had been subjected to by a village arbitration. Her crime was that she had been in an 'objectionable relationship' with a boy. For this she and the young man in question were held by locals while recharging her phone at a shop and then taken to the Chairman of the union with their hands tied. The Chairman then beat them up in public, after which the young girl went home and hanged herself, unable to take the public shaming.
There is no doubt that those who were involved in apprehending Afroza and taking part in shaming her and the young man, should be held responsible for her death for they in effect killed her with their despicable behaviour. Being a public official the Chairman abused his power and actually caused the death of a minor. Surely that is enough reason for him and his cohorts to be given exemplary punishment.
Unfortunately this is hardly an isolated case. It is quite common to see influential individuals of villages and unions taking it upon themselves to impose barbaric punishment on the helpless especially girls and women, for what they consider 'immoral' activities. But who has given them this authority? And what right do they have in inflicting such punishments that are so humiliating that they may lead the victims to commit suicide? The state must immediately put a stop to this medieval law of the jungle that seems to supercede the law of the land.
Daily Star Vocabulary
1. Persecution - নিপীড়ন
2. rapporteur on human rights - মানবাধিকার দূত
3. atrocities - নৃশংসতা
4. ethnic cleansing - জাতিগত নির্মূল
5. responded callously - অনুভূতিহীন প্রতিক্রিয়া
6. dreaded military intelligence - সামরিক গোয়েন্দায় ভীত
7. dispossessed - স্থানচ্যুত করা
8. Rohingya tormentor - রোহিঙ্গা উৎপীড়ক
9. diplomatic cliché - কূটনৈতিক পদসমষ্টি
10. permanent chargé d'affaires - স্থায়ী উপরাষ্ট্রদূত
11. on-going pogrom - চলমান সাম্প্রদায়িক সহিংসতা
12. minority community - সংখ্যালঘু সম্প্রদায়
13. more circumspect - আরো সতর্ক
14. regional security - আঞ্চলিক নিরাপত্তা
###- Another suicide after public humiliation.....(editorial)
1. humiliation - অপমানকর
2. Unlawful arbitration - বেআইনী সালিসি
3. outrage and grief - জুলুম ও দুর্দশা
4. objectionable relationship - আপত্তিকর সম্পর্ক
5. public shaming - প্রকাশ্য লজ্জা
6. despicable behaviour - ঘৃণ্য আচরণ
7. abused his power - তার ক্ষমতার অপব্যবহার
8. cohorts - দল
9. exemplary punishment - দৃষ্টান্তমূলক শাস্তি
10. isolated case - বিচ্ছিন্ন ঘটনা.
11. impose barbaric punishment - বর্বর শাস্তি আরোপ
12. commit suicide - আত্মহত্যা
13. medieval law - মধ্যযুগীয় আইন
FULL EDITORIAL..........
Another suicide after public humiliation
Unlawful arbitration must be stopped
We express our outrage and grief at the news of 16-year-old Afroza Khanom of Satkhira who took her own life because she could not bear the humiliation she had been subjected to by a village arbitration. Her crime was that she had been in an 'objectionable relationship' with a boy. For this she and the young man in question were held by locals while recharging her phone at a shop and then taken to the Chairman of the union with their hands tied. The Chairman then beat them up in public, after which the young girl went home and hanged herself, unable to take the public shaming.
There is no doubt that those who were involved in apprehending Afroza and taking part in shaming her and the young man, should be held responsible for her death for they in effect killed her with their despicable behaviour. Being a public official the Chairman abused his power and actually caused the death of a minor. Surely that is enough reason for him and his cohorts to be given exemplary punishment.
Unfortunately this is hardly an isolated case. It is quite common to see influential individuals of villages and unions taking it upon themselves to impose barbaric punishment on the helpless especially girls and women, for what they consider 'immoral' activities. But who has given them this authority? And what right do they have in inflicting such punishments that are so humiliating that they may lead the victims to commit suicide? The state must immediately put a stop to this medieval law of the jungle that seems to supercede the law of the land.
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