This Is Not Suicide; Systematic Killing by Silencing Pen, Voice, bKash, and Expression

Opinion

What was published as the ‘last writing’ clearly showed the reality of not being able to write. The government’s interference in the media was clear, the censorship and self-censorship in the media regarding writing was clear, the financial hardship was clear, the government’s attempt to minimize the world of writing of a veteran journalist in the changing circumstances was clear, the freedom of the media and freedom of expression was clear.

Who is responsible for this? Who is responsible? Find it.

The public outcry against the Vibhuranjan government will be a sham if it does not speak out on these issues.

If you want to call it suicide, tell me; who forced you to search with me?

In interim Bangladesh, media workers are losing their jobs in a matter of words; the media is being threatened openly, the media is being taken over with advance notice, instructions are being issued for the media through government decrees, and legal action is being threatened; in such a situation, what you, Bibhuranjan Sarkar, have done is a protest.

It is a terrible time when a free-thinking journalist’s writings are depriving her children of their potential, despite their qualifications.

So his passing is a protest against his inability to survive these terrible times.

Bibhuranjan Sarkar, this is the situation of thousands of media workers in this country. Many are victims of false cases, many are victims of mobs, many are imprisoned on false charges. No one is good in these difficult times. You were also not good, you protested that many do not have the courage to protest.

If you were as brave as I am, hundreds of media workers would be found dead in various places like this in this country.

History will record that there was a journalist and political analyst named Bibhuranjan Sarkar, who, unable to bear injustice, protested at the highest level. If he remained silent, if he remained a government agent, then the death of Bibhuranjan Sarkar would be just a death.

This departure of Bibhuranjan Sarkar is not suicide, it is systematic murder!
The message that one has to be a broker to survive, that message – that environment killed Bibhuranjan Sarkar.

–Kabir Yahmed