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This is not about ideals anymore. If the recent murders of a blogger, a college professor, and the editor of a magazine (the subject matter has nothing to do with this) aren't enough to goad the government into at least attempting to protect its own citizens, I'm afraid all is lost. But why should it? It's far easier to simply blame the Opposition for it (if it can even be called an opposition anymore) and deny that the country is in any actual danger. Sweep the whole thing under the rug. Nothing to see here. People get killed by people nearly every other day here in Bangladesh, over things as petty as a dispute over land or even suspicion of adultery. People die out of hunger out on the streets. People die from the heat. If there is one thing that defines Bangladesh more than anything else, it's death - it's what led to the nation's birth, after all, so why bother trying to protect folk from the inevitable? Perhaps this is exactly the rationale that our current leaders are subscribed to, and given the state of affairs, it doesn't seem that unlikely. Protecting free expression No, this is not about ideals. Ours is a free country - curtailing basic rights such as freedom of thought and freedom of expression should not even come into question after nearly half a century worth of progress well into our nation's existence. So why is it that our own prime minister condemned an entire segment of our society to fend for themselves over their beliefs, or rather lack thereof? What reason do we have to believe that our own government is even willing to protect us from any sort of danger anymore, when they themselves have practically given the go-ahead to any enterprising two-bit thug