Onslaught on embassy

Our workers seek greener pastures abroad after having sacrificed much at home. They endure severe hardship abroad in the hope of a better future if not for them then at least for their progeny. That they will resort to violence and that too against our embassy on a foreign soil defies logic and only demonstrates the sheer point of desperation that they must have been driven to, to resort to such an act. Their exasperation apparently crossed the threshold of endurance to the point where neglect over time towards them and their sufferings caused them to burst at the seams.

We feel that the PM should order an independent inquiry into the matter since it is also the omissions and commissions of the embassy in Kuwait that must be brought under the purview of the inquiry, and must also unearth the causes behind this act of vandalism. It must also find out why there was a communication gap between our embassy and the Bangladeshi workers in Kuwait that precipitated the incident.

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We would hope that relevant persons and authorities would take lessons from this sad episode and do the needful so that the welfare of those on whose sweat our foreign exchange earning is so largely dependent feel taken care of and that such incidents, which bring slur upon our image, could be avoided.