Prof Yunus calls for soul-searching to stop violence

Prof Yunus calls for soul-searching to stop violence

Nobel laureate professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday expressed his utter dismay at Friday’s attack in a Gulshan restaurant as, what he said, Bangladesh is a tolerant liberal country.

“I cannot think of such attacks taking place in Bangladesh,” he said in a statement after the deadly terrorist attack that left 28 people including law enforcers and attackers killed.

“We must do soul searching on how this breeding of violence began in our country,” said Yunus.
In this context, he emphasised a peaceful society for everyone with adequate space and right to express their views freely and without fear or social or official constraints.

Yunus expressed his shock at the “barbarity of the terrorist attack on innocent people” in Dhaka. “I express my heartfelt condolences to those, far and near, who have lost their loved ones and wish their souls to rest in peace,” he said.

The Nobel laureate also made an appeal to all nations to work to bring lasting peace in the Middle East. “Violence, military or terrorist, can no longer be contained in one country or the region,” he expressed his conviction.

He added that the nations must wake up to the fact that violence in one place breeds violence even in remotest places of the world.

“I plead to the powerful nations please overcome differences among yourselves to bring peace in the Middle East so we have better chances of peace in our cities and communities around the world.”

Muhammad Yunus also urged the civil society leaders to bring pressure on relevant parties and superpowers to stop violence and to go to the negotiating tables to bring immediate peace in the Middle East.

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Source: The Daily Prothom Alo

Updated Date: 3rd January, 2017