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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

[mukto-mona] The plight of Kashmir's 'half widows'

 
The plight of Kashmir's 'half widows'
By Altaf Hussain
BBC News, Srinagar

A rally by half widows in Indian Kashmir
The half widows hold protest rallies every month
"Every day I wake up in the morning, I think he might be at the door. In the evening while I lay the table for dinner, my eyes are fixed at the door in the hope that he may just come in," says Zainab, whose husband went missing 10 years ago.
Zainab's husband was allegedly arrested by soldiers fighting separatist militants in Indian-administered Kashmir in a conflict notorious for its human rights abuses.
There has been no information about him since then.
Zainab is someone that people in Kashmir refer to as a "half widow".
A prominent human rights organisation, the Coalition of Civil Society, says there are between 1,500 and 2000 half widows in the state.
Most have given up hope that their men will ever return.
Yet hardly any are ready to marry again.
'Worse than a widow'
Shabnam was married to a lorry driver, Abdul Rashid, for 12 years when he disappeared in 1997.
Shabnam, whose husband disappeared in 1997
Shabnam has spent 'a fortune' trying to find her husband
"My parents insisted that I should re-marry. But I thought of my children. I am both mother and father to them. I cannot desert them," she says.
Shabnam breaks down while talking about her husband.
"I miss Rashid so often and miss him so badly. My heart bleeds for him. He was such a good man. I cannot find another Rashid," she says.
"Had it not been for my children, I couldn't have lived."
Rafiqa, whose husband disappeared 13 years ago, says a half widow is worse than a widow.
"If I knew for sure that my husband was dead, I would give up on him. But, we have been kept in the dark. We think he might still be alive. The uncertainty is so agonising - for me, for the children, for everyone."
The half widows are worse off for one more reason.
They have to spend a "fortune" to search for their missing husbands.
Duped
"We visited every detention centre across the state. We had to spend a huge sum of money. We sold our house and several household articles. But all in vain," says Shabnam.
Many such women have been defrauded of their money by rogues.
"Many people came to me saying they had seen my husband. I paid them a lot of money to buy his freedom. I could have set aside the money for my children. First I lost my husband and then my money too," says Rafiqa.
Some half widows have been supported by their parents, in-laws or other close relatives.
A soldier keeps vigil in Kashmir
Thousands of civilians have disappeared in Kashmir since 1991
But in most cases the relatives themselves are too poor to do much for them.
Safia, who lives in Rajbagh in Srinagar, says, "My only brother is a meagrely paid salesman. What can he do for me? Both my parents are ill. Everyone from my husband's family has been caring, but they have their own families to look after."
Safia had to give up her teaching job for health reasons. She has now set up a stationery shop to make a living.
The president of the Coalition of Civil Society, Pervez Imroz, says 85% of the half widows are poor as most of the disappeared men were from the weaker sections of society.
Traumatised
"It is the backward communities that are most vulnerable to human rights violations because they are voiceless, powerless," he says.
Mr Imroz says a recent survey by his group in Baramullah district indicates that more than 60% of the disappeared persons were civilians; only the remaining were militants or those connected to them.
Mr Imroz says the half widows and their children also suffer from post traumatic distress syndrome (PTDS).
"They need counselling but none is available to them," he says.
Many of the half widows have been campaigning under the banner of the APDP (Association of the Parents of Disappeared Persons).
They hold protest rallies and demonstrations at least once every month. They have also filed petitions in the state high court which, given the slow pace of the Indian judiciary, makes justice a distant dream.
They have been demanding that the government declare their missing husbands dead if they are not alive.
Theoretically, the government has to pay 100,000 rupees ($2,500) and provide job to one family member as compensation to the kin of any civilian killed by militants or the security forces.
But the family of a missing person has to wait for five years before they can apply for such benefits.
The APDP says less than 400 half widows have received the relief.
The authorities put the number of missing people at 3,931 but APDP says 8,000 to 10,000 people, mostly civilian, have disappeared since the outbreak of the armed conflict in Kashmir 19 years ago.


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[vinnomot] Vinnomot's report on Fund raising in Bangladesh consulate in Los Angeles

Mr Khan interviewed Dr Kali P. Chowdhuri who donated $25,000 personally to Consulate general of Bangladesh in LA. Also interviewed is Dr Kamal Hossain who raised $100,000 from Muslim community of Nevada.
Video:
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Re: [mukto-mona] Re: Trouble for Taslima Nasreen

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I dont believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
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[vinnomot] Dr Mohathir's son Mukriz now in Soronkhola,Bangladesh , with a medical team to help the sidr victims

dear all,
Dr Mohathir's son Mukriz now in Soronkhola,Bangladesh , with a medical team to help the sidr victims.
link bellow
 


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[mukto-mona] 'If treated like Taslima, I'd give up writing' - Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy: "I don't believe that a write like Taslima Nasreen can undermine the dignity of ten million people. Who is she? She is not a scholar of Islam. She does not even claim that Islam is her subject. She might have said extremely stupid things about Islam. I have no problem with the quotations that I have heard from her book. Dwikhandito has not been translated into English but let's just assume that what she said was stupid and insulting to Islam but you have to be prepared to be insulted by something that insignificant."
 
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'If treated like Taslima, I'd give up writing'


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[mukto-mona] (Prothom Alo) Muktijudher itihas niye bitorko noi

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Re: [mukto-mona] Re: Trouble for Taslima Nasreen

WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/45290

--- "Kamal Das"@yahoo.com wrote:

> There is no such thing as religious scholars, there
> are only bigots who have
> read a few pages on religion and suffer from
> arrested mental development.

Well said. I totally agree.


Sukhamaya Bain


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Re: [mukto-mona] Appeal for Our Taslima Issue

WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/45297

--- "Subimal Chakrabarty "@yahoo.com wrote:

> ..... We all know that Taslima has created
> enemies among her secularist friends by being
> truthful and too much outspoken. Her name and fame
> has given rise to professional jealousy. ........

If the above is the case, is that supposed to be
Taslima's fault?

No wonder, Bangladesh is going down the ditch of
Islamic fanaticism, and West Bengal is going the same
way. The credit belongs to the 'secularists' who are
professionally jealous, and get indigestion when they
are given doses of truthfulness and outspokenness
against Islamic hatred and stupidity.

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Re: [vinnomot] Re: More dramatic than drama - justice K M Sobhan administated oath taking of Tikka Khan, !! now demanding trial of war criminals!!

it is known to all.justice k m sobhan still alive. he never denied.so i think newspa[per clippings or vdo footage are not necessary.it historically Truth.
it is the actual face of some mock heroes.
if Mr k m sobhan claim that he did it under the threat of being shot by pak army,first of all we must admit that he is a coward and posses questionable patriotism.
even we can say that at that time he was pro Pakistani and after liberation he changed as pro liberation.
justice b  a siddiquee was brave enough to refuse  administering the oath taking.

badrul_islam2001 <badrul_islam2001@yahoo.com> wrote:
Any documented proof of this???? Like newspaper clippings/video
footage-- and day, date and place of the oath???

Also there is one factor: Justice K.M.Sobhan cam claim that it was
done under the treat of being shot by the Pak Army???

But then what excuse did Justice Badruddin have for not
administering the oath.

--- In vinnomot@yahoogroups.com, "Md. Aminul Islam"
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> dear all,
> this is the month of victory.i want to bering one
thing to your notice again.
> it is
>
> "More dramatic than drama - justice K M Sobhan administrated
oath taking of Tikka Khan, !! now demanding trial of war
criminals!!""
>
> it is noted that Mr sobhan is one of the greatest intellectuals
of B A L.
> pls comment on it
>
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[vinnomot] Re: Celebrating the month of victory - and a note for Barrister Rafiqul Haque

No offense, Mr. Sengupta, but you should start reading more than
writing and copy&pasting. Thats a general advise.

Also, there is a specific suggestion. The things written in the
innovation_line column is way beyond your league. So, it might be a
good idea to stay from it, :)

Bye bye now.
Innovation Line

--- In vinnomot@yahoogroups.com, gopalsengupta@... wrote:
>
> Celebrating the month of victory - and a note for Barrister
Rafiqul Haque
>
> The month of December this year should be a month when the nation
takes some
> time to introspect and retrospect, to make sure that we as a
nation
> celebrate our success and correct our failures.
> The collaborators of Pakistani Army have either killed the best
brains
> during our 1971 Liberation War. At the very end of our nine-month
war, the
> collaborating forces did the worst crime of the last century. The
gathered a great
> number of living intellectuals and killed them in a planned way so
the newborn
> nation cannot stand upright The intellectuals carry the burden of
conscious
> of a nation and that burden is very high when a nation has come
out of a long
> armed struggle and where many of the best people have been killed
in war.
> Those who did kill our intellectuals - did it with a very
conscious mind.
> The deserved to be prosecuted without mercy at the end of the war,
they deserve
> so today. However, we know that is something that we as a nation
owe to our
> liberation war heroes. No question about it
> With that background, we want to highlight one single issue today.
It is not
> only the loss of our greatest minds that caused our current
situation. There
> is another side of the story. What good brains we were left with,
they did
> not do their job. They are not doing their job. We want to
highlight one such
> example today. Many of you may disagree with this viewpoint We are
also
> sending this article out hesitantly - with a hope that this may
trigger something
> good. Sometimes a good brain needs some teaser to act Hopefully,
we are doing
> exactly that
> While watching a biographical programmed on the life of Barrister
Rafiqul
> Haque, it seems that he has some share in almost all the important
things that
> our nation has gone through. Some of those roles will make us
proud, but many
> others would give us a feeling, which are not so proud. However,
he, it
> seems, has been a witness to most of the important ups and downs
of the legal
> history of our country.
> Right now, he is involved in something that one day might prove to
be a low
> point of his career. After being part of many of the important
legal
> proceedings, he was rightfully saying that he wants to retire from
the legal
> profession after finishing the current assignments.
> We would like to humbly suggest one thing to this living legend.
> Almost all the misgivings of our nations history can be traced back
to the
> great loss of our greatest sons of the land. Intellectuals who can
guide the
> nation were killed - cowardly.
> Then there was another set of intellectuals - who did not do their
job. You
> generation failed to do the right thing. You did not punish those
cowards -
> you did not have the time to prosecute the culprits.
> Would you come out public and advise the nation (instead of
advising the
> corrupts) about how to proceed about prosecuting the unpunished
criminals of
> 1971?
> That would be a service that nation would remember you for.
> You do things when Hasina tells you to do; you do things when
Khaleda tells
> you to do.
> Would you volunteer your legal advise to the nation about how to
proceed in
> trying the criminals of 1971? Certainly, you would not get money
(in
> disguise) earned through corruption, in this case. Or a share of
illicit power, which
> you so cheerfully described - off course, you are good in sugar
coating your
> stories. But try this one this time. Do it out of good conscious.
A good
> chance to prove your critics wrong.
> If you thought some of the ideas are worth of your reading time,
please
> forward it to others. If you have an ear to the columnists in
regular traditional
> media, please forward it to them. If you have an ear to the
journalists and
> news editors of the electronic media, discuss it with them. Hope
they would
> look at the suggestions and give due diligence.
> Thanks for your time,
> _innovation_line@..._ (mailto:innovation_line@...)
>
> (Heartiest congratulations to the writer and the Editor of the
Daily Amader
> Shomoy)
>



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[mukto-mona] Appeal for Our Taslima Issue

We will be soon publishing a special issue on Taslima ( Rahul Guha as editor: rahul.guha@gmail.com)
 
She is not just a writer but an icon of secularism and human right.
 
 Her case is the litmus test of whether Bengalis will be able to defeat the evil force of Islamism. Unless you raise your voice and millions of protests be heard to shake the Islamist protector rulers of West Bengal ( may be worst-because it is highly possible they might have planned this violence to win minority vote bank in la Jamati style  and divert Nandigram issue), we deserve no secularism but a society captive in the hand of Islamists.
 
Choice is yours. If you feel strongly for Taslima and her cause, this is not the time to seat back and think and watch what would happen next. History demands that you must take active participation in this process or be prepared to be kicked out by the Islamists in near future. Article, recorded voice, video--all forms of media are welcome. Please also circulate this email among your friends who want to protest in the Taslima issue. Millions and millions of voice must be heard in support of Taslima--or be ready to live a life of doom-- captivated by the Islamists.
 
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RE: [vinnomot] Distribution of Cyclone Relief politicized for upcoming Election, Even under this Car

Thank you Golam Akhter for reminding us about the corruption and preventing such things again.
 
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From: akhter@erols.com
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 21:20:40 -0500
Subject: [vinnomot] Distribution of Cyclone Relief politicized for upcoming Election, Even under this Care Taker Government

Dear All,
 
      Distribution of Cyclone Relief is politicized for upcoming election, even under this Care Taker Government, our corruption and number one position in TIB (Transparency International, Bangladesh) is so deep rooted and this present government is trying to uproot it from the top. But the BNP and Awami League oppositions look like too strong (Release Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia for the sake of Democracy in Bangladesh etc.) and we may end up like Pakistan, Most corrupted and alleged murderer leaders- Sharif Newaz or Benazir Bhutto possibly will be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan. If we are not vigilant enough our Bangladesh may be again ruled by alleged criminals.

      All our relief activities, more than 500 Million Dollars ( reported to be highest donation received till 1971)  will be misused and consumed by our corrupted leaders and officials if we are not vigilant enough to look after our relief efforts from beginning to end.  Some related news , views, and corruption demonstrations are referred here:     http://www.nybangla.com/This_Week_News/News79.htm ,  http://www.voanews.com/bangla/2007-12-02-voa1.cfm   
  Please be vigilant and check your purse and thieves in the pretext of political, religious, and social voluntary relief work.

Regards.
Yours sincerely,
Golam F. Akhter
Bangladesh-USA Human Rights Coalition



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[mukto-mona] Re: [banglarnari] RE: Where is ICNA sending its "donation" for cyclone victims?

WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/45270

Yes you are scared and afraid of their good work, because you have nothing to counter their good job, rather demonizing their sincere and honest effort that benefit poor and helpless people.

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