Mr. Isha Khan,
Many thanks for pointing the one sided
news reporting against bangladesh by the foreign
media. World's biggest slum is in Mumbai but that is
not shown in the foreign media. Half of the world's
poorest of the poor live in India, that is not the
subject of news in the foreign media. Our record in
human development and empowrment of women is better
than India and many other developing countries but
these positive news are not highlighted in the western
media. But why? and who benefits from such negative
propaganda about bangladesh? With the right leadership
we shall be able to overtake India in terms of
economic development.
Negative propaganda about Banglad3esh has
to stop but how? For this we need a powerful
intelligence agency which is to be active both locally
and internationally and would be able to influence as
to how news are reported in the foreign media.. I do
not see any other alternative. Government shold
actively consider having our wn ISI/RAW within the
shortest possible time.
Salahuddin Ayubi
--- Isha Khan <
bd_mailer@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Has anyone examined where the stories are being
> cooked?
>
>
> No so long ago, for about 30 years in fact, every
> story about Bangladesh had Jewish refugee Kissinger
> racist insulting quote. It stopped when some of us
> pointed out to US media that it was a deliberate
> insult like quoting Nazi Germans racist cliche about
> Jews in every report to do with Jews. And then every
> Bangladesh report quoted the population figures and
> percentage of impoverishment. In recent reports, a
> phenomenon started in India, they talk about a
> "largely destitute population"- as quoted by Barbara
> Elk in the Washington Post not so long ago. And then
> reports about global warming has given Indians to
> whisper and shout that the destitute are flooding
> into India as India is now the new America ( except
> that India has half the poorest people, and amongst
> the most destitute, in the world!). No reporter
> sees propaganda, racism or irony or cheek in the
> Indian fabrications. The fact remains India suffers
> massive and brutal internal instability, and needs
> to build wire
> barriers with her all neighbours to keep its
> rebellious nationalities under effective control.
>
> Bangladesh image is so bad that even nations with
> hardly a leg to stand regard themselves lucky. Even
> Afghanistan regards Bangladesh as destitute, even
> though its people are at the mercy of America and
> Europe for every thing, including nearly free mobile
> phones. Afghanistan has hardly any industry, food,
> hospitals or even education. Afghan life expectancy
> is less than 40. Bangladesh life expectancy is 64
> and rising.
>
> What of the people of Bangladesh themselves? They
> regard themselves- correction: every other
> Bangladesh person, bar themselves and their
> immediate family, as destitute, disaster prone,
> corrupt, illiterate, diseased. Unbelievably,
> Bangladesh writers even today give out pseudo-
> anthropological description of Bengali people as:
> "short, blackish, of Dravidian origin". We all seem
> to have very low opinion of ourselves and freely
> communicate such beliefs to foreigners. One has to
> ask who has planted such a seed of inferiority
> complex on a whole nation of 160 million.
>
> Such is the leper-like colony image of Bangladesh
> that hardly anyone, in any part of the world, has
> any respect for our talent as lovers, artists,
> managers, chefs, journalists, doctors, poets,
> designers or workers. How did we allow this to
> happen to us when we have some many diplomatic
> missions round the world and we have a 8 million
> strong probash? How did it happen to a Bengali
> nation so seemingly proud of its 3,500 history and
> all the greatness it has produced in the last
> hundred years, in cinema, music, literature,
> medicine, science....?
>
> Sri Lanka has been in a brutal bloody civil war for
> over 30 years, between Buddhist Sinhalese
> themselves- an issue largely hidden today ; and then
> between Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Sinhalese. Despite
> the extreme violence and suicide attacks (Hindus
> still hold the world record for the most suicide
> attacks) the investors have kept coming, aid has
> kept flowing in,... and no one has been allowed to
> caricature Sri Lanka or the Sinhalese as violent or
> anything else. In fact Sri Lankans and their
> diplomats have been the most proactive in crushing
> every story in the international media (including
> stories about sexual exploitation of little boys for
> tourist dollars) which they dislike by actively
> putting out their own viewpoint and bombarding the
> international media with corrections or smooth talk.
> With the result that international media, and the
> BBC, ensure that civil war is reported with great
> care. There has been no adverse effect on the
> international image of the nation or the
> Sinhalese ethnic group. In fact the Muslim Gulf
> Arab even helped to found a an airline and hotels
> to help tourism!
>
> Nepal's brutal ethnic and class war has been spared
> adverse news coverage, especially in British
> dominated media, because Britain employs Gurkha
> mercenaries in its army.
>
> Afghanistan is spared all the cliche in use for
> Bangladesh. Almost every Bangladesh story filed by
> Reuters, AFP, AP carries the same insulting/
> demeaning sentence/s. Remarkably, such stories are
> republished verbatim without any rewrite! This is
> the simpleminded and naive Bangladesh elite we have
> in control of our destiny.
>
> India, with all the tragedies and brutalities its
> numerous ethnic, caste and religious groups suffer
> daily is the lucky country. It's the darling of
> international media, including Arab run media.
>
> Islamic Republic of Pakistan (Republic of Pakistan
> ended in 1971 when 3 million Bengali people were
> killed in retaliation for electing a Bengali
> leadership to run the state, long run for the
> Punjabi Army) has been the luckiest country of all.
> It is a state which exists for an Army and an ethnic
> group. The state has been both the installer of
> fanatical talibans using Saudi aid and then become
> an active killer of the very same Pathan talibans
> by the thousands when it was politic.... It's
> dominant population can play the Islamics and the
> moderate or even atheist depending on the who has
> come forward with the latest tranche of Dollars. One
> remarkable feature is the active manner its
> advocates at home and abroad have close ties with
> the the military families.
>
> Today, as on so many other occasions, the Sheikh of
> Qatar's Al Jazeera has been running disparaging
> reports on Bangladesh. Hana G?, the reporter, showed
> the world viewers very distressing pictures of
> people suffering in hospitals, Dhaka as a bleak
> place, repeated that Dhaka was the 2nd most
> polluted, that Dhaka is going to be a dead place....
>
> One has to ask why is no one objecting to the
> demeaning pictures of people of Bangladesh and the
> place called Bangladesh in most of Sheikh of Qatar's
> news channel? How is it possible for a foreign news
> channel to just walk into a hospital or a bustee in
> Dhaka. How often have you seen pictures of bustees
> in Karachi?
>
> I know some of my Bengali people will say to me it
> does not matter. Sadly it matters. And it matters
> even if your nation has three Nobel Prizes: Tagore,
> Sen, Yunus. A Gujarati or a Tamil may not have Nobel
> Prize winner but they will claim Sen and Tagore; and
> shine in the glory. What does it matter an Arab or a
> German can tell one Indian from another. BUT THEY
> ALL CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INDIA AND
> BANGLADESH. Get it? No!
>
> One last point. Transparency International labeling
> is a libel and a lie against our nation. Bangladesh
> is not even the 40th poorest. And Dhaka is not the
> 2nd most polluted. Let's now get Bangladesh critics,
> academics, diplomats and media to analyse the spread
> of falsehood against an entire nation.
>
>
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