what is happening to the world?curfew in 21st century!!is our world time traveling?

Question

i thought curfew was history...but they are having curfew in bangladesh.are we in 21st century or 18th???

Answer 1

Which world are you living or referring to? In the 21st century there are curfews imposed from time-to-time in places where they are required.

The impact of six-hour night curfew from 11pm to 5am sine die on capital Dhaka, all metropolitan cities at district Headquarters are such that it now enabled its citizen to move freely during non-curfew times (18-hours) without the fear of being beaten by unruly political activists whose leadership encouraged them to come over to Dhaka with home made weapons like “Laathi”, “Logi” or “Boitha” during a call given in one of her public meetings to uphold their democratic-rights!

Where were your concerns when a particular party was reigning mayhem and resorting to the imposition of series of intermittent Strikes, Hartal, Blockade and making the lives and properties of the citizen miserable and economy of the country hostage to go to power by any means?

Now at least the people would come to believe that if you do anything wrong (as above) then there is Rule-of-Law in Bangladesh to go after you and see to it that you or your party do not break the Law.

References:

DHAKA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Bangladesh's night-time curfew passed peacefully under tight military control on Friday after the head of the country's interim government quit and postponed polls in a dramatic bid to halt political violence.(today.reuters.co.uk/).

Referring to the constitutional provision for declaring the state of emergency, the president in the proclamation said a grave emergency exists in the country in which the security or economic life of Bangladesh is threatened.

The president declared the state of emergency in the wake of the Awami League-led grand alliance’s boycott of the parliamentary elections scheduled for January 22 and its series of siege and Hartal programmes to resist the polls.

“As it is to the president’s satisfaction that a grave emergency exists in which the security or economic life of Bangladesh is threatened by internal disturbance, a Proclamation of Emergency was issued throughout the country until further order under articles 141A (1), (2), (3), 141B, 141C (1), (2) and (3) of the constitution,” said a circular issued by Bangabhaban, the office and residence of the president.

Usually, when an elected government is in office, the president with prior counter signature of the prime minister may issue the proclamation of emergency if he is satisfied that a grave situation exists in which “either the security or the economic life of Bangladesh or any part thereof is threatened by (a) war or external aggression or (b) internal disturbance”.

The counter signature, however, is not necessary when the caretaker government operates and the proclamation of emergency can be revoked by the president by a subsequent proclamation.

Although the president in the proclamation did not specify the timeframe for the enforcement of the emergency, it shall cease to operate at the expiry of 120 days unless it is approved by a resolution of parliament before the expiry.

New Information (as of 5pm on 12th Jan.):

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner has issued a Notice informing that Curfew has been lifted from Dhaka Metropolitan City Area from tonight. So, we can see that since there were improvements in law & order situation, the curfew has been withdrawn from Dhaka after only one-night of its imposition.

Answer 2

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