Friends
I will only quote one small part of HRP 2007 as released by State department.
Quote :
"The government's human rights record worsened, in part due to the state of emergency and postponement of elections. The Emergency Powers Rules of 2007 (EPR), imposed by the government in January and effective through year's end, suspended many fundamental rights, including freedom of press, freedom of association, and the right to bail" unquote.
---Was the HR record worse than the BAL's first three years ? Is the present security have more record of extra judicial killing than the BAL first period ?????
---No definitely not. The records of The Great RAKHKHI BAHINI
in extra judicial killings rose to hundreds of thousands i.e. in Lacs
--During this CTG period the Media both print and visual enjoyed the maximum 100% freedom none can deny it. The papres were critical of the CTG and it's advisors and embarrassed them with thousand and one implicating questions.
---The TV aired several Talk shows in numbers daily mostly with pro BAL activist or it's Paa chata dalals and shoe jibis gongs !!!!!!!!!! Only once the CTG intervened and stopped one Talk show in ETV a indi ponthiand owned channel for undermining ,defaming and derogatory comments by the chamchas.
---The criminal arsonist,looter and hoddloom pro Banksal teachers were released by direct intervention of the Prsident.
---By having so much openess of the CTG still if is termed as HR violatory CTG it is nothing but unfortunate and ill conceived.
Of course it is not the direct fault of the report preparing authority since they are fed with all false and concocted stories of HR violation by the friends inside and outside Bangladesh.
I am sure there will be comming hundreds of e-mails thru diffrent blogs hailing the defamatory report against our motherland by the friends and well wisher of BAL and jibis.
Faruque Alamgir
akhter <akhter@erols.com> wrote:
Dear All,
Bangladesh- Country Report on Human Rights Practices - 2007- US State Department released after approval of the US Congress, the summary is: "The government's human rights record worsened, in part due to the state of emergency and postponement of elections." who is responsible for this - clearly and evidently our two major political parties, BNP and AL. If the President would not have declared Emergency, there would have been "Blood Bath"- shame on all of us; after 1971 to 2007- 37 years, still no democracy in Bangladesh.
You can read the full text by going to www.state.gov then go to Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007. in the annual reports press release. We shall soon meet to discuss all the related annual reports.
Regards.
Yours sincerely,
Golam F. Akhter
Bangladesh-USA Human Rights Coalition--------------------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ----
Bangladesh
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
March 11, 2008
Bangladesh is a parliamentary democracy of 150 million citizens. Khaleda Zia, head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), stepped down as prime minister in October 2006 when her five-year term of office expired and transferred power to a caretaker government that would prepare for general elections scheduled for January 22. On January 11, in the wake of political unrest, President Iajuddin Ahmed, the head of state and then head of the caretaker government, declared a state of emergency and postponed the elections. With support from the military, President Ahmed appointed a new caretaker government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed, the former Bangladesh Bank governor. In July Ahmed announced that elections would be held by the end of 2008, after the implementation of electoral and political reforms. While civilian authorities generally maintained effective control of the security forces, these forces frequently acted independently of government authority.
The government's human rights record worsened, in part due to the state of emergency and postponement of elections. The Emergency Powers Rules of 2007 (EPR), imposed by the government in January and effective through year's end, suspended many fundamental rights, including freedom of press, freedom of association, and the right to bail. The anticorruption drive initiated by the government, while greeted with popular support, gave rise to concerns about due process. For most of the year the government banned political activities, although this policy was enforced unevenly. While there was a significant drop in the number of extrajudicial killings by security forces, they were accused of serious abuses, including custodial deaths, arbitrary arrest and detention, and harassment of journalists. Some members of security forces acted with impunity and committed acts of physical and psychological torture. Violence against women and children remained a major problem, as was trafficking in persons.
Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. __._,_.___
[Disclaimer: ALOCHONA Management is not liable for information contained in this message. The author takes full responsibility.]
To unsubscribe/subscribe, send request to alochona-owner@egroups.com
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe
__,_._,___