Human Rights in Bangladesh

	Human rights situation in Bangladesh: a theoretical overview By Khawaza Main Uddin
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1111	The emergence of Bangladesh as an independent state was the result of a fight against violation of human rights in different ways. People's struggle for establishing fundamental rights by brushing aside anomalies is always there in this part of the world. But unfortunately, the polity is yet to overcome the barriers to human rights.
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	Despite enough potentials for progress, the country is still faced with abject poverty, which is perhaps the most powerful enemy of human rights. Incidences of violence surrounding want and discrimination are common. Instead of being the protector of human rights, the state i.e. the government machinery is playing the role of tyrant. A promising but burdensome population is not in a position to assert the due rights and resist the wrong doing by the violators whoever.
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	Even after the democratisation process began through a popular upheaval in 1990, the people have to encounter with repressive police force, supremacy of the criminals in many areas, corrupt officials, isolated elected regime, backdated and slow legal system and all that, which are not conducive to having ideal human rights situation.
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	The human rights phenomenon has also been overwhelmingly circumscribed by extra-territorial actors as well as regional and global hegemony that frustrate people from enjoying their divine rights. It is hardly possible to implement those pro-people policies, which can anyway affect the interests of international players. So, people's aspiration is either suppressed, or they are not allowed to think and speak freely from a paradigm other than that of supranational powers.
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	With the existing structure favouring the already powerful elite having nexus with the vested quarters hooked into the criminal domain, the people living in suffocating conditions generally cherish mere pious wishes about what good things should be done, no matter whether they understand critical analysis of human rights or not.
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	It is the people or the individuals who are the neglected elements in the established politics and socio-economic activities. Because, they have been treated as subalterns in the domineering rule of the 'descendants' of king or queen in the port-colonial era. The power structure is highly centripetal that does not uphold the true spirit of the populace.
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	If human rights mean public interest or, say, people-oriented development, this is theoretically guaranteed but pragmatically hindered in the present-day order. The people need freedom to exercise their rights in an egalitarian manner. The process of democratising society has been rather sop polluted that any headway from the plight could not be attained easily. Yet there is ample scope for improvement in the status of human rights, provided the indigenous ideas are really promoted to find out ways and means to correct the situation.
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	Photo : Abir Abdullah/ Drik ( Evicted slum dweller, from high court ground)
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