Dhaka, Dec. 9 -- Lieutenant General (Retd.) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, Adviser to the Ministry of Home Affairs, has stated that there is no magic button or simple on-off switch to immediately stop killings. "If such a switch existed, I would have turned it off by now," he said.
The adviser made these remarks on Monday after a meeting of the Law and Order Advisory Committee at the Secretariat, responding to journalists' questions about recent murders, including the killing of a freedom fighter and his wife at their Rangpur home.
He noted that violent incidents have been occurring even before the upcoming national election and denied any possibility of completely halting these murders ahead of the polls. "These killings are not just election-...