Even in the midst of 10 days of mourning elsewhere other than Britain and many people queuing to pay their respects to the Queen, some said their feelings for the Queen are not that simple. In a video of an interview of two women by The Guardian, one of the UK’s leading newspapers, one was seen saying, “The Queen, it’s like, I care but I don’t…” when the interviewer asked Asked to clarify the caring part and the not caring part, one of them said, “I care because this is our queen.” In the middle of her sentence another woman chimed in and said, “Our queen is a person who died, like, it’s sad.” Explaining the “don’t care” part, another woman in the same video said, “He hasn’t done anything for us.” The point is that many of the Queen’s own countrymen were not interested in the pomp and pageantry with which the death was mourned.
Although the Bangladesh government’s announcement did not raise many such questions from the people here, some of them asked why the government did not declare state mourning, even once, in two major “accidents”. At least 120 people were killed – 51 people were killed in an explosion at a chemical depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda on the night of June 4 last year, and 69 people died when a boat capsized in Panchagad on September 25 the same year Was.
The government respected the memory of the Queen and rightly so to some extent considering the diplomatic, political and economic aspects of the decision. But why didn’t the government think about the citizens of their own country, about the dignity and value of their lives? Otherwise, what could be the reason for not declaring any state mourning on so many deaths?