Time to act: A unique solution for victims’ lifting is moral imperative

A recent one Report on The Daily Star Details The bureaucratic obstacles faced by the Julio’s lifting victims to be recognized and compensated.

Instead of reaching its doors (or hospital beds) with gratitude, the State sends them from one office to another, from one city to another.

In an irony turn, a frustrated survivor said he would prefer to have died. The wounded protester had told me: “I wish I had died instead of having to go through all this.”

These words serve as an accusation for the government, the so -called Bangladesh 2.0, which arose in the back of their sacrifices.

The current approach, which forces the survivors or the martyr families to gather the documents and travel from one city to another, reveals a total lack of empathy and forecast. Julio’s lifting heroes are not beggars asking for charity. The compensation that promised them is not a gift, but a recognition and the least we could do. It is a fundamental duty of the State to ensure that these payments are delivered quickly and efficiently. Instead, the victims are treated as if they should prove their worth before someone lifted a finger.

The recent comments of the Minister of Health on this subject are emblematic of insensitivity in the game.

He provided details of the millions of rupees spent in the treatment of some of the injured. This is deeply deaf. This framing turns what should be an obligation of the State into a benevolence narrative, as if government actions were acts of generosity instead of duty. It is as if the amount of money was synonymous with sincerity.

A clear and effective solution lies in establishing unique service centers for the processing of compensation claims so that survivors or martyr families do not have to transmit between hospitals, civil surgeons or DC offices and the July Foundation.

The inefficiencies and insensitivity of the current system are unacceptable.

Victims like Omar Faruk, Akash Bepari Lucky’s wife, and innumerable others deserve something better. They should not have to beg in the streets, spend nights at railroad stations or make repeated and fruitless visits to offices that do not respond.

The State has failed first to kill or disable their loved ones, and now, it continues to fail when delaying their recognition.

It is time for the government to act decisively.

The need for time is a system that works for victims, not against them.