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Anyone who blames the 30 people on the spot that day, the dzongda and the parents who were there, should first do something incredibly brave, and then tell other people thet heroism is expected.

But it is a shame that these boys lost their lives, and it is not true that nothing could have been done. If we have sophisticated rescue teams, equipment, it would have been a happy story of seven lives getting saved.

Which is why we must make sure that this is the last time something like this ever happens.

We are going to have situations like this again. Our rivers are getting more and more dangerous. We need to make sure that next time, we are equpiied, that there is instant government intervention, a ready organisation responding to the emergency, and a success story, something that everyone wished for desperately this time round. Ask the parents.

We cant just let this pass by as a sad event and learn no lessons.

Thank you for letting me know that your party PDP is not behind this mindless act called the Solidarity Walk.

I would also like to explain that I suggested a provable link between the PDP and the so called “Concerned Citizens” group because I truly fail to understand the real motive behind the Walk other than to discredit the King and the government of inaction even while fully aware that action was already in full swing. I felt that only a political rival was capable of such a mindless and disruptive act. Please forgive me.

However, please reflect for a moment that both Bhutan Today and Kuensel had carried first person interviews with the families whose children were among those who were swept away. They have categorically stated that every one present gave their best to save the children. It was pitch dark and the water had swollen to dangerous levels. The location is in a tumultuous and slippery gorge. Even those who were struggling to save the lives of the children – their own lives were at risk. And yet they struggled tirelessly until the end. And yet, these Concerned Citizens are hell bent on spreading the rumor that the people involved did not do what was expected of them.

These motley group of 30 odd people comprising of a two-bit actor, a confirmed drug abuser and a social misfit has the audacity to call themselves the “Concerned Citizens” as if we the rest of the people of Bhutan were not.

I am terribly pained because in the first instance, they have set into motion something that is now irreversible – the strike culture. Secondly, even while they have recognized the fact that His Majesty the King and the government were already doing what was needed to be done, they still go ahead and go through the farce that was the Solidarity Walk. Thirdly, none of these so called Concerned Citizens took part in the rescue operation that tragic night and yet they mindlessly accuse and insult those who kept vigil and worked tirelessly throughout the night to try and save the children.

Lastly, and that is the cruelest part, they turned this tragic and painful moment of great loss into a public drama for whatever private agenda they have.

Their evil faces are now a part of history – they are recorded for eternity on video films and still cameras of the Police and the media. While such deceitful people will be incapable of any remorse even if this act of theirs brings this country to its knees, posterity will remember the event called the Solidarity Walk as a dark event in the history of Bhutan that forever altered the way the Bhutanese people will conduct themselves in future.

I wish we could relinquish this madness called democracy.

I feel really sad that now people and media have started accusing rescuer for failing to rescue those boys….i can understand the situation those people must have undergone and their helplessness in the middle of night and i am sure those people and particularly parents must be still going through inexplicable trauma that their loved ones washed away in front of their eyes…..

As of peace walk, they said that it is for peaceful purpose…..But my worry is, if this walk set precedence and future trend, then this could be a black day….otherwise, it is okey. No rallies in the world are organized to make violence, but in the process, few disgruntled people take the advantage and goes out of hand and the destruction are enormous…..at the end, only common people suffers! My sincere wish is, let this be the first and last!!!!

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Come on Guys…. Think, Think…. People should be happy that there are people who VOLUNTEERed to take this walk and also collect funds for the parents who lost their childrens. weather OL is behind this or if Jigme Drukpa is behind this, the bottom line is for a good cause. We should be more happy that our people are not going for Hartal or Strike. Voulunter asked permission from the government and the Governemnt gave a green signel to go ahead and thats what Democracy is. Dear Am I right? Dear Ashan, Dear guest…Just take a drive to Chukha and ses the faces of the parents and you will realise why this walk is needed. As the assembly session goes on our PM and fly down to India but he failed to go down to Chukha.