There are moments in a nation’s life when it must pause, reflect, and ask: who truly stands guard when the storm arrives? In Bangladesh, that answer has never been ambiguous — it is the Armed Forces. Through cyclones and floods, pandemics and insurgencies, and the collapse of governance itself, the nation’s soldiers have been its final line of defense. Yet today, the very institution that embodies sacrifice and national pride stands under siege — not from an enemy across borders, but from within its own discourse, its own politics, and its own misguided narrative of justice.

Nowhere in the civilized world do citizens vilify their own defenders the way Bangladesh’s military has been vilified in recent times. The uniformed men and women of the Armed Forces do not serve for wealth or privilege. They enlist to defend the soil, to offer — if fate demands — the ultimate price: their lives. In no other profession is such sacrifice written into the very job description. Yet, when these defenders are publicly humiliated, dragged into politically charged trials, or painted as villains without verdict, the moral fabric of a nation begins to tear.

The current wave of arrest warrants and criminal proceedings against officers of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) and members of elite security units like the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) reflects a troubling trend. Justice must indeed be served — but justice, in any democracy, cannot be weaponized. It cannot be reduced to spectacle or vengeance. For when justice turns political, it ceases to be justice at all.

The DGFI is not a mere bureaucratic office; it is an organ of national defense operating under the Official Secrets Act. Its personnel handle matters of counterterrorism, espionage, and state security — domains governed by confidentiality, not by public trial. Section 123–125 of the Evidence Act and Section 352 of the Code of........

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