Why Banani rape case is getting such attention, many ask that question. I say why not? Is class factor of the accused playing a role behind it? Yes, of course. Isn’t the type of the incident different from any other such cases? It is.
Characteristically it is different as retired Major General and analyst Abdur Rashid says. This is not a rape only, it involves many other evil elements. Trick, deception, threat of guns during the incident and use of social position after the incident, physical torture, confinement, violent sex are involved.
And this is clear that the act was not whimsical rather planned.
The suspect Safat has acquired a sense of impunity because of money his father has and because of social and political connections they have enjoyed for decades or so.
So isn’t it logical to get vast attention when urban middle class has taken the issue seriously?
When a poor Bangladeshi girl is raped, urban middle class does not bother at all, if some hue and cry takes place that happens because of some NGOs, and slowly that fades.
Interestingly this time, social media, media and urban middle class played the main role keeping NGOs or foreign funded rights activists at bay. So this trend has a different power to put pressure and make things happen.
