Safety of South is the Safety of Bhutanese

When all  over Bhutan were enthusiastically waiting for the dawn of celebration, in one corner, in the wake of the morning, a father, a teacher was alarmed by a threatening call at around 5.42 a.m by  the kidnapper of his son.The other end demanded a huge unimaginable ransom.We know this is not the first case of the kind. Preceding this, a string of same incident occurred coercing victims' family to arrange a ransom which is beyond their shallow pockets.

Clearly, from all the past incidences, all kidnappers wanted was an easy money.Even though, the fact remains, nothing comes for free. But it raises questions of how long this will go as is jeopardizing the security of the people? One has to constantly worry about the family members going out of home for works if they would return home or not.At times being even at home, deemed safe, do not guarantee the safety of not being a victim of such viscous act. This was obvious in the past when a father and son was taken hostage while having family meal in the evening. By close contemplation, i feel victims' family and general public are helpless unless  Bhutanese and Indian counterpart jointly pawn upon the matter very seriously, intensely and timely with no further delay. 

In response to this heavy issue, the Royal Government had re-instated the SSB escorting through the Indian road which would definitely lighten up the heavy heart of the Bhutanese commuters.Also several different level of Coordination Meetings were held and will be held to come up with a sort of solution that will lead people back to normal life.

Now the real questions on ground is the start of these incidences date back before two years and by those calculation, now its high time to equipped with a concrete action plans on hand and to focus on implementation of the solution. On the other hand, the Border Meetings cannot be deemed least important as it should be continuous deliberations involving  influential policy makers and military heads of  both the nations. But seemingly several meetings had taken place without a much needed concrete outcome at this point.This is a weakness that in one way prompt perpetrators to repeatedly gain guards to  kidnap innocence from a Bhutanese soil.

Our urgent need is concrete steps taken with necessary and genuine dialogues.

ACT NOW,  " EARLY BIRDS CATCHES THE WORM"