Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Homeless people in any Country.

Homeless people living on footpaths was a common sight in Dhaka. We saw them at Kamalapur Railway Station and in many places at night. But after the caretaker government took charge of the country, the scene radically changed. The number of homeless people increased manifold. Now I see them everywhere in Dhaka. The other day when I was crossing the street in Mirpur at about 12:00pm, a middle-aged woman was sleeping there on the island. Any time I pass through Karwan Bazar, in front of Prothom Alo office I see people sleeping or lying on the footpaths. If I make a list of the places where every day I see these floating people, it won't end. We all know what happened, these people were evicted from slums where they had been living illegally! They can't manage their two meals daily and this eviction added to their sufferings. We praised this govt for demolishing illegal structures, but what's the use? The poor families who were living in some illegally built slums are now living under the open sky. We want the government to rehabilitate them. We don't want to see homeless people roaming around. They are human beings too.

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