The killing of 22 people in Dhaka and the bombing in Baghdad are a wake-up call to world leaders. It is just brutal, horrid violence. A country’s leader swearing to “root out terror and militancy” from her country reflects more despair over a hapless situation than rage as the Islamic State appears to be making progress. World leaders need to shed their blinkers and fight terror jointly.
N. Visveswaran,
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If it was Dhaka the other day it is Baghdad today. Tomorrow it will be some other city in some corner of the world. Is there no way out? It is obvious that some nations are harbouring the perpetrators of these heinous crimes which are taking away innocent and gifted people. The UN needs to step in and act in a big way. Its belated utterances have no impact. There should be concerted efforts to declare the abettors of these crimes as offenders and have them prosecuted on the lines of the Nuremberg trials. Diplomacy in international relations has become ineffective and is more choreographed.
M.N. Gunavardhanan,
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If some countries feel that they are safe and not the target of terrorism, they are far from being right. The visitation of evil in any part of the world is round the corner considering the ever-expanding terrorist network. The quick succession of attacks leaves one shattered. It cannot be said that governments all over the world do not know anything about the existence and workings of terrorists. The exact reason is that the governments do not want to take any proactive and overt action fearing a fierce backlash. But we have to act before it gets too late. Places that harbour, and people indulging in, terrorism need to be acted against ruthlessly.
V. Lakshmanan,
Tirupur, Tamil Nadu