News:

Seven people, including a ward councillor and a lawyer, were abducted from two cars on Sunday, 27 April 2014, allegedly by some law enforcers. Later, they were found dead afloat in a river and a ditch on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. People were shocked to learn from media that the dead bodies were almost decomposed, each of which had the hands and the legs tied to two sacks, each containing 12 bricks. Their abdomens were cut and faces tied in polythene bags.

Comment:

According to media reports, more than 53 people have so far been abducted in the first four months of 2014. The figure was 46 in 2010, 59 in 2011, 56 in 2012 and 68 in 2013. These figures do not portray the true picture as people initially do not want to report such incidence with the hope that the abductors will return the victims if they do not report it. In most of the reported cases, families point to law enforcing agencies for the abductions.

Law enforcing agencies in Bangladesh used to officially engage in ‛crossfire', especially after the establishment of RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) in 2004. At the outset, some people welcomed killing criminals in staged shootouts as criminals used to get out from the prison using loopholes of existing human made laws. Later, it turned out that the law enforcing agencies have started ‛private practice', where the officials of the security services can be hired to fulfil personal wishes. Now the innocent people are getting killed, maimed and abducted by the agencies and the criminals alike.

The rise of such criminal activities show how miserably the existing system failed to secure people's lives. On one hand, the law enforcers themselves do not believe that the existing law and judiciary can deliver justice. On the other hand, in order to ensure so-called justice, they have to be engaged in illegal activities such as extra-judicial killings. Then, the same law enforcers get to serve wishes of political elites, corrupt businessmen and criminals in return for financial benefits. End of the day, the whole process encourages the cycle of corruption and criminality; and more heinous social crimes are committed each and every day.

While people are frightened at the revelation of such horrific crimes, the political leaders are engaged in the usual blame game. Ensuring safety and security of people is never in the minds of Hasina and Khaleda; all that they are concerned is ensuring their own safety with a large entourage of security people. This is despite the fact that they continuously talk about rule of law and good governance. Current democratic, secular, human made system will never be able to deliver justice and ensure safety and security of people's life. In reality, no one believes that the existing system or Khaleda-Hasina can do that.

Only the laws revealed by the Creator (swt) of human beings and the universe and His (swt) system, the Khilafah "Caliphate", can ensure security of life. Allah (swt) and our Prophet (saw) promised safety and security after the establishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate". Allah (swt) said,

وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنْكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُمْ فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ وَلَيُمَكِّنَنَّ لَهُمْ دِينَهُمُ الَّذِي ارْتَضَى لَهُمْ وَلَيُبَدِّلَنَّهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ خَوْفِهِمْ أَمْنًا يَعْبُدُونَنِي لَا يُشْرِكُونَ بِي شَيْئًا وَمَنْ كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ

"Allah has promised those of you who believe and do good deeds that He will most surely make them to succeed (the present rulers) in the earth as He made their ancestors before them, and that He will establish for them their religion, the one which He has chosen for them, and that He will change their present state of fear into peace and security..." [Surah An-Nur: 55]

Our Prophet (saw) said,

«...وَاللَّهِ لَيُتِمَّنَّ هَذَا الْأَمْرَ حَتَّى يَسِيرَ الرَّاكِبُ مِنْ صَنْعَاءَ إِلَى حَضْرَمَوْتَ لَا يَخَافُ إِلَّا اللَّهَ أَوْ الذِّئْبَ عَلَى غَنَمِهِ وَلَكِنَّكُمْ تَسْتَعْجِلُونَ»

"By Allah, this matter will be complete so that a traveller can go from San'a' to Hadramawt fearing only Allah, or the wolf for his sheep..." [Sahih Bukhari]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir By

Muhammad Raiyan Hasan

Member of Hizb ut Tahrir, Wilayah Bangladesh