Dhaka, Sept. 17 -- It is now exactly a month that a great spectacle of human tragedy was staged right on the runway of an international airport that had been watched live by people all over the world. We saw human souls, desperate to find safety from the approaching hyaenas, running along the runway side by side with a huge aircraft taxing for takeoff, ignoring the common knowledge of how dangerous it had been to do so. In times when a fragment of a second's delay in decision making might push someone on the verge of a great debacle; people naturally lose the sense of proportion and try to hang on whatever they find nearby. The scene is a unique example of what happens when such a time approaches.

This great spectacle continued almost fo...