- Recently a picture appeared in a local newspaper(in Jeddah) allegedly, of those Bangladeshis who perpetrated crime, with a bold heading. Latter it appeared that all of them were not from Bangladesh - the country now systematically blamed for most crimes that happening in the whole Middle east . Those who reads local English dailies notices that crime of other Asian nations would be mention as ' Asian national'.
- A recent survey by the competent authority of Saudi Government revealed that Bangladeshi's are 6th on the volume of crime committed and less than our neighbours in the list.
- Only last week court given a verdict allowing an Indonesian maid to claim Saudi Riyal 2,500 as compensation from her sponsor who, as per the same newspaper that reported the case almost two years back, beat her mercilessly, pulled her nails, broken her joints locked her in the bathroom for weeks until she developed a gangrene. Newspaper assessed her compensation as high as SR 400,000.
Inhuman treatment, violation of contracts, non payment of salaries for months, poor living conditions, maltreatments all goes mainly unnoticed by the general people. Thinking of cheap labor, more profits, think of Bangladeshis that is the common perception.
How these three events or news we can correlate together. I will only try.
Us, on the outset, Rabindranath's Keshto beta, docile. You meet any Bangladeshi, will appear as polite, humble, emotionally sympathetic or generally passive. As the management gurus characterised 'passive' people - after prolonged submissive intake bust at a time, of course unpredictable. This may not be comparable with Motia Chowdhury, Tofail's fiery daily outburst but my conviction is they did influence our society considerably. Maudud Ahamed's cunning disposition resembles sophistication; common people learnt only little of it. Our op-ed's generally follows earlier than the latter.
A good editorial recently on Bangladeshis in the Arab News, flooded the editors e-mail address with emotion choked messages.
Millions of Bangladeshi's find a living here in the Middle East and helping the country with unprecedented economic gains without any prejudice, Yet the successive governments have done little or nothing, but helped the recruiting agencies. Recently, even with their military power exploitation and extortion remain unabetted, media is full with their deceiving articulation. Can you segregate them from the earlier political governments on this issue, certainly, No. This should be the number one problem on the back drop of wage earner's sufferings and the whole problem starts here. Then it flourishes in the hand of employers due to dubious contracts and its unbinding covenants. And top of all, the indifference of the rulers towards the sufferings of their own people.
Recent campaign against Bangladeshis in Saudi Arabia Kuwait and will be repeated the same in Bahrain
As I simply can not remove it from my mind- last October during my trip to Bangladesh, I found 12 kilometer of national highway close to Bogra city remained in a dilapidated and dangerous condition for traffic for over a year. What this transpires to. 10 months has passed, the so called saviour from our all time corruption thought of its no importance. It did not bothered the ministry of Commerce, Industry, BOI, ministry of Justice, ministry of Agriculture, ministry of Communication and may be Prothom Alo or Daily Star (or our media).
Millions of dollar that is gained without any investment or effort, 'going with the wind' did not bother them either. Half a dozen untrained officials put in the post to serve 2 millions of Dollar churning countrymen. These officials neither have the ability to promote or capacity to deal with our multifarious problems. Like most of our secretaries and officials, these officials neither can speak nor can articulate their diplomatic strength. Least they could have embarked upon a campaign in Bangladeshi camps or locality to make them aware, had they intended. On the other, they can not face the barrage of complaints against them and their governments.
Such is the fate of Bangladeshis.
Living or born on the shore of Padma, or in Kurigram those poet or novelist, who champion themselves as the supreme patriots, never could see the impact of the drying Padma or inundation of Jamuna and the chronic hunger and deprivation, only engage in flowery words, phrases and thinking patterns of Kolkatar babu shaheb or semantic of romance-ism and rhetoric. Sufferings and core issues of millions of people neither touches their real heart nor imply in their literature. This is the state of our thinking people. Many are also reflecting the Bush, Blair's sentiment and only can see the rising Islamic sentiment, so poverty, hunger and deprivation not in their focus either, save the NRBs plight.
Unless and until we raise to the occasion as united a nation and find a resolve and promote our interest we will remain and live with this and our middle east expatriate's cries and woos going to blow away in the desert sand.
Poor humanity either in the desert of the rich kingdoms, or in the Mexican frontier of the world's most powerful, deceitful rules never attracts the world's so called human right organisations. – such is the plight of poor humans in this planet!
S Turkman <turkman@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I have no idea, why these people can find a Conspiracy Theory behind everything that goes wrong with our saintly people anywhere.
Nilkanto Chowdhury <nilkanto@myway.com> wrote:
There are people who are working against Bangladeshi in Middle East so that they can ruin Bangladeshi job market there and get benifite from that. Our government and people should speak up about that. Please be aware of that kind of people and media. Well, people from all nations are doing nusty things. We don't blame the full nation for that, do we? Why then Bangladeshi?
--- On Mon 05/26, Robin Khundkar < rkhundkar@earthlink.net > wrote:
From: Robin Khundkar [mailto: rkhundkar@earthlink.net]
To: undisclosed-recipients
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 16:33:58 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Bahrain Gulf News - Bahrain & Bangladeshis
This is really bad news. A hysteria seems to be rising againsts workers from Bangladesh. Though murder cannot be justified under any circumstances but does anyone know what happened that led to this tragic crime or the general perception that all Bengalis are prone to crimes. I have heard that employers mistreat workers and withhold their hard earned salaries, etc.
Robin
Bahrain government urged to stop hiring Bangladeshis
http://archive.gulfnews. com/articles/ 08/05/26/ 10216119. html
05/26/2008 11:50 PM |
By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
Manama: Decisions on hiring of Bangladeshi workers would have to be made by various official bodies, said a labour official as pressure mounted on the Bahraini government to halt the hiring of Bangladeshis.
Several Bahrainis, including journalists and a parliamentary bloc, have called upon the authorities not to allow Bangladeshis to work in the kingdom following the murder of a 38-year-old Bahraini at a garage on Friday.
Mohammad Hassan Al Dossary, a father of three daughters, was killed by Bangladeshi worker Mohammad, also a father of two daughters living with their mother in their native village, following an argument.
The mechanic allegedly attacked Al Dossary using a grinder before fleeing the scene, according to his sponsor, to hide in a mosque several kilometres away before he was arrested.
The murder revived calls made last year to take stringent measures against Bangladeshis following the killing of a Bahraini woman by her cook.
Monitoring
"Such a decision is not just about cancelling work permits by the Labour Ministry, but involves several other government bodies. There is a close monitoring of all events that helps understand the general orientation of the labourers and their adaptation to the character of the Bahraini society," Jameel Al Humaidan, Labour Ministry Undersecretary, said yesterday.
Al Asala, the second largest parliamentary bloc, called for a timetable to deport Bangladeshis, saying that they represented a threat to social peace and stability.
"We are shocked by the number and frequency of the murders and crimes perpetrated by this community, and the government should act promptly to deport those who are now in Bahrain and to stop issuing any new permits," Al Asala said.
"We will soon submit a motion to the parliament to force the government to end the hiring of Bangladeshis because of their aggressive and tense character," the Islamist bloc said.
Several columnists called for the "immediate and irrevocable" deportation of Bangladeshis, warning that failure to take action would mean more hostile behaviour.
However, the head of Al Meethaq Society, Ahmad Juma, rejected the calls, saying that Bangladesh should not be punished for the crimes by some of its citizens.
Bahraini blogger calls for ban on all Bangladeshis after horrible murder
http://archive.gulfnews. com/articles/ 08/05/25/ 10215875. html
05/24/2008 11:09 PM |
By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief
Manama: Bahrainis on Saturday called for a ban on the hiring of Bangladeshi workers, hours after the gruesome murder of a Bahraini father of three.
"We have noticed that most of the crimes in this country are perpetrated by people coming from Bangladesh, and the wise thing to do is to stop bringing them to Bahrain," a Bahraini blogger wrote on a website.
"We should have no mercy for the killer and ban other Bangladeshis from coming here out of fear of what they might do to us, exactly what Saudi Arabia and Kuwait did at one time."
Similar calls against Bangladeshi labourers were made last year following the murder of Sana Al Jalahma, a Bahraini woman, by her 29-year-old Bangladeshi cook. The cook, angered by Al Jalahma's remarks, waited hours for her return home to kill her. The murderer was sentenced to death.
However, political activist Ahmad Juma said while the calls to ban Bangladeshis were understandable because of the grisly character of the murder, a nation cannot be punished for the acts of some citizens.
"We sympathise with the family and friends of the victim, but we cannot simply say that no Bangladeshi should be allowed in Bahrain because of this. The criminal should be punished, but the country did nothing wrong," he told Gulf News.
Bahraini Mohammad Hassan Eisa Al Dossary was killed on Friday morning when a Bangladeshi mechanic attacked him with a grinder. Al Dossary, father of three daughters, wanted the mechanic to do some welding work on his car, but the two disagreed over the fee. Witnesses said their argument was over 500 fils (Dh5).
The mechanic fled the garage in Hamad Town, 20 kilometres south of Manama, but was eventually arrested after he called his sponsor who alerted the police and guided them to his hideout.
Bahrain is home to about 70,000 Bangladeshis.
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