Daily Online Alochona: Jul 5, 2008

Saturday, July 5, 2008

[mukto-mona] Attn. Mr Sankar Kumar Ray

WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/48958

Dear Mr. Ray,

I received your articles on S. N. Ray, but could not open the Bangla article (in two parts) because of software problem. So please send those bangla articles in xxx.pdf format, or else you can send english version which we will translate in bangla. (better in pdf format.

I am sorry giving you trouble, regards
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Ajoy Roy
7th July�

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[ALOCHONA] Nursing In Tatters

Nursing In Tatters

Nurses missing in nursing

No recruitment in public hospitals in 5 years

Courtesy New Age Daily Star 6/7/08 Mahbuba Zannat

Firoza, a 22-year-old burn patient, was screaming in pain when the ward assistant (Aya) was changing her bandages. The aya was removing the gauze mercilessly from the wounds on her chest, hands and abdomen; she was never trained for this and had many other things left to do.

Trained nurses usually do this job in hospitals of Bangladesh but as there are very few nurses, the ayas do it alone.

"As the number of nurses is inadequate here and they are busy with other work, it is the norm here that the ayas would change the bandages in exchange for Tk 100," said a relative of a patient complaining to The Daily Star correspondent about nurses' poor quality training, behaviour and non-cooperation.

However, doctors and nurses defended themselves saying that their inadequate numbers hinder good services to patients. The doctors and nurses also talked about the nurses' not getting promotion and the lack of quality training for them.

Recruitment of nurses in public hospitals is halted for last five years. In 2003, 1,034 nurses were recruited and since then no recruitments were made even though every year around 1,200 nurses graduate from government nursing institutes and approximately 10,000 nurses are unemployed at the moment.

"Here we do not get a nurse to give saline to a patient when we need them to do it," said Project Director of Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Shamantalal Sen adding that if the shortage of nurses continues, patients will die without getting proper care. He said it is not possible to provide good service to 234 patients on an average day at the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit with only 31 nurses.

It is very difficult to provide good service to such a large number of patients with only two nurses per shift working in one section of the unit, he said.

The unit has seven sections and at least 7-8 nurses are required per shift in each section to provide a reasonable service to patients, nurses told The Daily Star adding that the situation gets even worse in the afternoon and night shifts when only one nurse is available in a section.

They said 20 nursing posts are now vacant under the project as the decision of appointing nurses is not getting the go-ahead from the secretary concerned.

Around 2,000 patients receive in-door treatment at the 1,700-bed DMCH on an average day but only 559 nurses are there to take care of all patients including at the operation theatres, emergency wards and the out-door section, DMCH sources said.

It is a common scene across the country as the government remains quite indifferent to nursing issues, they said.

"As there is no strong professional body of nurses, their demands are often unmet. At the same time there is a lack of political will in developing nursing service in the country," said AM Zakir Hussain, former director of Primary Healthcare and Disease Control. He said posts have been created for doctors even at union levels but no nursing posts were created during the last five years.

Since most nurses come from less privileged class of the society, the level of their self-esteem is often low and their remuneration package is also not satisfactory, which are enough to hinder good nursing service in this country.

Division among the nurses is also an issue because of which their lone association has been inactive for long.

The Directorate of Nursing also has to work under pressure from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, which does not allow the nurses to have their own independent body.

According to the report of Bangladesh Health Watch titled "The State of Health in Bangladesh, 2007", the country lacks at least 2.80 lakh nurses. The number of doctors is almost double the number of nurses, which should be the other way around.

The number of registered nurses is only 22,555 and the nurse to population ratio now stands at 1:6342, according to Bangladesh Nursing Council (BNC) reports.

The international standard for nurse to patient ratio for general patients is 1:4 and for critically ill ones it is 1:1, which is not attainable under the present socio-economic condition of Bangladesh.

The 46 government nursing institutes along with 19 private institutes allow 2,280 nurse aspirants a year to study for diploma in nursing, which is quite insufficient, sources say.

Promotion of nurses is also very slow and a nurse has to stay many years just being a senior staff nurse before getting a promotion.

"It creates dissatisfaction among the nurses and gradually they lose their interest in work. A sense of deprivation among them is one of the main reasons behind the deteriorating service," said Deputy Registrar of Bangladesh Nursing Council Suraiya Begum. She said last year around 125 nurses were promoted after a long wait.

Even though the population and the number of patients have increased significantly, the number of nurses and nursing supervisors have not increased at all, she went on to say.

According to the Directorate of Nursing, there are 729 posts of nursing supervisors and 153 of them are vacant since 2006.

A proposal was made in 1999 to create 800 new posts for nursing supervisors and the authorities had agreed to it but it is yet to materialise even though eight years have gone by.

Based on an ordinance, the Bangladesh Nursing Council (BNC) has been operating for more than 58 years and there is no distinct regulation at all for this autonomous body. It even lacks the manpower to take necessary action against any wrongdoings of nurses, sources said.

Similarly, Directorate of Nursing neither has a complete structure nor the manpower. It has been running for the last 16 years with workforce sent there on deputation. It also does not have a fully-fledged director but an acting director.

Promotion process is so sluggish at the Directorate of Nursing that many retire soon after getting the post of acting director of the directorate. In 2004 Khadijatul Kobra went into retirement only after working three months as the acting director of the directorate.

Even though the National Plan of Action in 1994 recommended complete independence of the directorate, no steps were taken in the last 14 years to this end.

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[ALOCHONA] Palbasha Siddique :Minneapolis teen is up there with Madonna and Mariah

Palbasha Siddique :Minneapolis teen is up there with Madonna and Mariah

By CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER, Star Tribune

When Palbasha Siddique starts her senior year at Minneapolis' Southwest High School, she'll have quite a story to tell about what she did on her summer vacation.

Palbasha Siddique , Star Tribune

"I was waiting for something like this to happen for a long time," said Siddique, 17, a Bangladesh native who lives in northeast Minneapolis and can now be heard singing around the globe.

Siddique owns the ethereal voice heard in a new YouTube-buoyed video clip that, as they say in these Internet-trendy times, has gone viral. It's called "Dancing" (or: "Where the Is Matt?"), and it's nothing but footage of one guy randomly dancing in the streets with people all over the world.

That's all it takes nowadays. "Dancing" has now been viewed 4 million times on YouTube and is being watched (and praised) by web-surfers from all over the world.

Meanwhile, the song from the video, titled "Praan" (Bengali for "life"), has shot up to the top 10 of Amazon's soundtrack downloads over the past week and is also in the top 100 of all its MP3 downloads."It's up over Madonna and Mariah Carey," Siddique said with a giggle.

The international aspect of "Dancing" is as much a sign of the Internet's power as is the immediacy of it. Siddique was only first contacted by the makers of the "Dancing" video a month ago.

She came to their attention thanks to an earlier video clip posted on YouTube of her singing for Minneapolis station KFAI-FM. They flew her and her mom to Los Angeles in mid-June for one day of recording, and within days of their return, the clip was up and running."Palbasha was the consummate professional, perfectly in-pitch and absolutely belying her age," said Garry Schyman, the Los Angeles composer who arranged the recording.

Traveling with a camera

A music writer for TV and video games going back to his work for "The A-Team," Schyman is also a friend of Matt Harding, the star and creator behind the "Dancing" clip. Harding, 31, essentially got rich as a video-game creator in Seattle and started traveling the globe -- with a video camera and one not-so-elegant dance style. "Matt is like one big serendipity magnet, and obviously this has been rather serendipitous for Palbasha," Schyman said.

Siddique's life was already eventful by the time she moved to Minneapolis at age 10.Her father is a general in the army in Bangladesh, a country torn by civil war and famine in the 1970s. When he transferred to another war-torn post in Sierra Leone, the rest of the family moved for safety reasons to Minneapolis, where her older brother was already studying at the University of Minnesota.

"Education is very big in my family, and that is one of the reasons we stayed here," said Pablasha, who earned a scholarship to MacPhail Center for Music and became active in her schools' choirs and theater programs.

She studied at MacPhail for four years and worked with the Children's Theatre Company one season. She is more focused on academic studies now, though, transferring to Southwest from DeLaSalle High School this year on her way to becoming a Harvard law student, she hopes.

"Even when she was young, she was always poised and calm and hungry for success," said Jeanie Brindley-Barnett, a vocal instructor who taught Siddique for four years.

Brindley-Barnett recalled escorting Siddique to a Twins game at age 11, when she was invited to sing "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch. "The whole family was there, dressed in their beautiful Indian garb inside the Metrodome," she said. "It was a proud day."

Star search for Bengali singer

The music in the "Dancing" video is a far stretch from "God Bless America." In her native tongue, Siddique sings the song based on a poem by Nobel Prize-winning Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore called "Stream of Life." Harding and Schyman were specifically looking for a Bengali singer to interpret the lyrics, which Siddique said translate to lines about "how music keeps us all alive and keeps us awake."

"To be honest, I didn't really see anything amazing about" the video at first, Siddique said. "It seemed kind of silly. But when it came together with the music, it does convey a message that we are all the same. That struck me, and that's what's touching so many people."

Siddique was paid a flat fee of $1,000 to sing for the clip and will not make any royalties from the Amazon sales. Schyman justified it as "good day's pay for a musician."

Said Siddique, "I'm not sad about that, because there is no other way I could have gotten this much exposure."She has already done a few print and TV interviews. There's murmurs that Oprah might want to include the clip on her show. Either way, Siddique already has a busy summer lined up.

On Thursday, she was in Dallas to sing at a Bengali-American convention. On Friday, she was to fly to Bangladesh and stay for two months. Her father is there, and she goes every summer, but this year will be different: She is competing in an "American Idol"-like TV competition called "Close Up 1."

Siddique was already entered in the Bengali contest before the "Dancing" video broke big, but she believes the exposure could help her make it further in the competition. "If I last longer than two months, I will have to figure out what I want to do with my studies here," she said. "I think I can make it that far."Presumably, those of us without Bengali TV can watch her progress on the Internet.

Two song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30WtsZBfJ4s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM7ajRUMs9c

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/m...iled:Homepage:8

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[ALOCHONA] Trial of War Criminals and Awami 'Bhondami'

Bangladesh Awami League (BAL) has been very vocal about trial of the 1971 War Criminals. They together with their boot lickers-Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (GADANIC) and Sector Commanders Forum have been pressing hard the CTG to try the war criminals. However, did you notice since the release of Sheikh Hasina from the Jail and BAL's 180 degree 'digbazi' to join all elections under the CTG, voices of these people who have been aggresively pursuing the trial of war criminals are fading away? I can guarantee you, you will not hear anything in the coming months as long as the BAL is in the election trail. If the BAL would lose the Election (which definitely they will), there will be a 'Gono Adalat' in January or February (in the winter, it is good becase of cool weather and there is an opportunity of wearing Indian woolen Shawl) in the Ramna again. The BAL will use this card against the new government to score some points. All these are political Dhandabazi and Vondami. They never wanted any trial of war criminals. If this time they do it from their heart, the BAL will have to try Father in Law of Sheikh Hasina's daughter who was a 'Markamara' Razakar (War Criminal) in Faridpur during 1971.

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[ALOCHONA] Turkman and Confused Heart

My comments are inserted below.

mufassil islam <mufassili@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Mr. Turkman:

Alas. Your thoughts and your 'self singing lores of gone by good old days' of your family is untraceable in history.

TURKMAN: Oh yeah, mention of Prince Khairuddin in by Molaana Mohmmad Hussain AzaD's famous book 'Qasusol HinD' is not traceable. In Calcutta the Mansion of Shah Bakhtiyar is un-traceable. In Rajshahi, no record can be found, who was the Council League National Assembly Member. Please stop communicating with me because purpose of your posts is to just put me down and make yourself look like a complete Ass. I can't keep communicating with an Ass like you. Good Bye ...!

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Your thoughts and your ways of understanding is diluted to the level of utter confusion to yourself and others. Deamnding to know who you are - is our right as readers here in Alochona Online as often you have claimed to be a Muslim - and you claimed your children to be in your words 'Al Hamdulillah' Muslims but yet you tried to draw our attention over and over again to the the fact that we should be ashamed of being Muslims and you have over and over again pointed to the superiority of the West in all levels. Ofcourse we have the right to know who you are to understand your background and your level of knowledge. I am still very sure about the conclusion I had drawn about you earlier - you suffer from identity crisis and a mixture of diluted education. Your claim of being a scientist does not prove anything. You wake up in the morning and look at the mirror and think - one more generation and no one will recognise your progeny to have had a tant skin ever or to have had migrated from the East. Your conclusion about people like me to want to see harm befall you - is utterly funny and a dog-gone conclusion (as you Americans say) and that allegation is not going to work with me when I am internationally well known for being an honest and peace-making broker. I will not stand here with my fingers tied and eyes shut and watch you hurl abuses to my and my nation's forefathers for their religious faith and liberty struggle. I will use law and all my academic and intellectual power to stop that. If I have had your details - you can rest assure that a legal notice would have reached your doors and we can figt it out at Courts. Want to have the challenge? Come on - give me your deatils - don't hide like a coward. I will stop you with the law of the West. My life is crystal clear - if I am wrong - I am man enough to accept my faults.

You sang the song of your forefathers' struggle in 1857 - listen brother - I don't want to sing the song of my family as you can read that from various sources. But I know the history of 1857 from all major sources - even though your forefather's name does not ring a bell - yet if thy had struggled and suffered for their contribution in 1857 - God bless them - a struggle which you stampeded by saying the British should have stayed back for longer - until we had learnt Democracy. Shame on you!! Do you think your forefathers would have been proud of you?? Shame on you. We have had suffered enough.

The rise of British power in the early 17th century and the rise of Europe do not conclude them to have had human rights. I keep on telling into your apparent deaf ears -

a. I do not accept that Europe was more advanced than Muslim world until 16th century in any field - if you disagree - produce your evidence; Human Rights? My dear man - I am an expert in that field. England have had chopped their King's head for religion before that. The Bill of Rights still is upheld in UK where the King is always a Christian King? Laugh. Human Rights? No female rights to vote or even own property in UK until the 18th century. Want more examples? You are stupidly ignorrant.

b. Muslims fell into loss in economic and scientific development as your Western powers were ruling and chaining Muslim nations and selling them off to America and other powers as slave traders during this so called rise of Europe's era. Human Rights?? Yes we were writing philosophy and practising love whilst Europe was abusing us at the instructions of the Pope to Christianise the world.

Come on - give me examples - not conclusions and family galores.

Do you know the history of human rights??? Democracy??? Democracy does not work for pooer countries like us - we need the rule of the intellectual - we need a third way. How? We have to find a way. Our failure to find a third way does not mean - Democracy has to be conclusively final. Democracy did not work in Europe and America until they were poor as well - and still democracy does not work there. Talk to Amnesty International who think US is the worst Human Rights abuser and talk to 'Stop the War Coalition' who think Tony was a War Criminal. Talk to scholar Muslims who think Saddam was not a Muslim at all. Why we have police states?? Why do you think? To make it easy for the so called super powers to rule us with a stick...to make sure ordinary people are not heard. To make sure that at G8 - the African farmers cannot demand equal and fair value for the coffee. So that mass legitimate movements are nibbed in the bud.

Only a distorted and idiot like you will never understand.

Allah says in Sura Taoba verse 127:

And whenever any Sura is sent down, they begin to look at on each other. Whether any one watches you? Then they turn away. Allah has turned away their hearts, because they are a people who do not understand.

Peace be upon your confused and closed heart.

Mufassil Islam
Human Rights Advocate

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: turkman@sbcglobal.net
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:28:24 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Seeking Knowledge from Turkman's posts?

Sir,

When Moslim lands were freed by Colonial Empires, Literacy Rate of those countries was not at par with advanced countries of Europe or Japan. Do you think, this is not true?

I don't care to know, what your opinion is about the question above but I know, ordinary Moslims had no idea, what the hell is Democracy since they had always lived in a Police State run by a Colonial Empire.

Moslims had no idea, what Civil Liberties and Human Rights meant because there was no such thing that had ever existed in any Islamic Empire before take-over their lands by Europeans. Moslims in almost all of Moslim Countries still don't know, what Civil Liberties and Human Rights mean even more than half a century after freedom from Europeans.

You call me an idiot but please tell me, if Moslims really know, what Civil Liberties and Human Rights are, why the hell almost all Moslim Countries are Police States?

My family was not Chamcha of British Empire. My Ancestor was the richest Prince of Moghual Empire Prince Khairuddin, who had sold all his Assets to finance the 1857 War against the British. After our Rebellion against 25,000 Britishers was shot-down by over-whelmingly Punjabi Recruits from Punjab, we were defeated. He was succumbed to wind Bed Strings with Jute in British Jail with his soft hands.

He was later poisoned to death by the British, while still in Jail because he was still considered as a thereat to British Empire in India. The British had later tried to compensate our family by lure of Pensions and we had considered that money our insult. Nobody from our family had accepted British Pensions.

Not all of us but my father later rose to become a Billionaire of India and had supported a socialist patriot Sobhaash Chandre Boas (a Bengali) instead of Gandhi (a fake) but he was no match for Multi Billionaire of those days, MoTi Lal Nehru the father of Jwaahar Lal Nehru so, Mr. Boas had resigned after being elected President of Congress Party, defeating Gandhi in open elections since my father could not support the whole Congress Party Salaries and Nehru had stopped bank-rolling Congress.

It really hurts, when ignorant people like you do not know, who the hell I am and accuse me of not me being a Chamchaa but even my ancestors. Was Tipu Sultan a Chamcha of British also?

Well, inter-marriages caused his grandson to be a part of my family and this is why I ended up in East Pakistan because half of them were there though rest of them remained in Calcutta. Do you know, who always which Anti Ayub Council League Member won National Assembly seat in Rajshahi District and his mother owned hundreds of acres of Tea Gardens in Sylhet until CIA with replacing the Ballot Boxes had made him lose to Awami League candidate?

He was my cousin. He was never a Chamcha of Ayub or Yahya and when people, who lived on his Estate free learnt that he had lost election, they were in front of his house crying and telling him, there must be a fraud because all of them had voted for him. Diversity of Politics can make patriots become Treasonous only in the most corrupt countries of the world. Can such a thing happen in the Western World?

In West Pakistan, our other part of family fought for freedom of masses also but were defeated by Punjabis and almost all of them were assassinated. Thanks for calling me a Chamcha, when 2 Assassination Attempts have taken place against me and I do not have a Phone in my own name and neither I do my Internet address. I have to keep moving every two years so your JehaaDis can not learn, where I live and I guess this is now a part of Islam to secretly assassinate, whoever your Molllaas order. Is this real Islam, sir?

I'm not scared of dieing. I'm only trying to live for people, who live-off me because I know, nobody would be taking care of them after you guys assassinate me. Allah tell us to fight against Evil and you are the Satanic Evil to me. You hate me, the only Major Moslim Inventor that has a major Invention since 1200 A.D. but I guess, I'm no more a Moslim anyway so you should not claim me as a Moslim Inventor. You people hate Education and

Science anyway and your record of blowing-up schools in Afghanistan and Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan is a proof of that. You have thrown Acid on the faces of Female Teachers of Schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Is this what Islam that is against Chamchas like me is all about?

Is this your Human Rights Activities are all about propogating B.S. against the West and ignoring, what you brothers do in Moslim Countries?

May Allah give you a better sense ...!

mufassil islam <mufassili@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Mr. Turkman:

I am surprised at the strength of your innovativeness in finding ways to degrade our religion, colour, sovereignty and dignity. I don't understand how much mentally sick someone can be in their understanding to write things and suggest issues which are as appalling as the things you write/suggest. I am sure that your knowledge of our history is based on Satellite History Channel where you are spending a lot of time and you really did not have any education or history lesson in your academic life in Bangladesh - even at early stage. You claimed to have become a Mufti at 16 and yet I am sure you are one of the breeds of our unfortunate nation who are shamelessly hypocratic and Mir Jafor. How dare you suggest that the liberated or independent nations should have been ruled for longer. People like you are the hypocrats who supported the British in their killings of Indian Sub Continental people in 1757 and 1847 and people like you became their chamchas. Who helped the Americans when the British left them and when they were utterly poor in the early 19th century? Who helped the British when during Queen Victoria's time 'pick-pocketing' was a crime punishable by hanging? Which super power should have helped them? Only idiots like you have the gutts to talk like this.

With this letter I request the Moderator of this Online Service - to take care and not to allow publication of issues which are questionably abusive towards our hard earned independence - from Pakistan or even from the British. This is not freedom of speech by any terms. This is an abuse of a right to speak.

Mufassil Islam
Human Rights Advocte

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[mukto-mona] E Coli threat

Mr Mehul Kamdar deserves high appreciation for exposing how rightwing Christians are fascistic towards science. I have circulated it to a few scientist friends.

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RE: [ALOCHONA] Re: two children - ha .. ha ..

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com

Aminul Shab,
If u think it is "Faka Mathe Goal "by AL, what was the 22nd January Election? BNP was tried to same thing by useing YesUddin.That time u was lauging now we r laughing.The different is President Yesuddin was appointed by BNP but present CTG is not appointed by AL.

You guy always find a secret Conspiracy in AL. People of BD knows very well who made secret conspiracy in 1971,1975, 1991,1996(Feb)2001 and latest 22nd Feb.2006.

We believe Begum Kheleda is trying to be again "Aposh-heen-Netree".She should know,
the situation of 2008 is not like as 1986 or 1988.

Like AL Leader Shakh Hasina,Govt. proposed same offer to Kheleda,but she do not accept it by keeping her son Tarek in Jail.It is like as "Mama barir Abdar."

Thank you very much to AL leadership for participating all election,it is da only way to withdrawal emergency and stablish a democratic govt.by the leadership Shekh Hasina.

Jai Bangla

J.Chowdhury

On 7/3/08, Sadia Hassan <hassansadia05@yahoo.com> wrote:

Yes, If Hasina has been so clean she also could have demanded her treatment in Bangladesh. She has abondoned her country, party, and compatriots to live in the cosy american home.The Awami Rajakars have big mouth and no brains but all brawns. Their murderous face was disclosed when they beat a person to death during the anti government agitation.

The time has come for strengthening the national institutions so that pre-emergency senerio is never repeated. The AL, BNP, Jammat, JP rajakars all should face the tune of justice for corrupt and anti state activities.

Sajjad Hossain <shossain456@yahoo.com> wrote:

Sorry you are a new generation of Awami Razakar. For being a Razakar, you did not need to cooperate with Pakistan. Razakar is one who lives in Bangladesh, eates in Bangladesh and work against the interest of Bangladesh. Awami Razakars are pro-indian who have sold the interest of Bangladesh to India. They are also cooperating with pro-Indian CTG FUA and Desher Daroan MUA. When Indian leaders address Sheikh Hasina (at that time Sitting Prime Minister) as Chief Minister of Bangladesh, she did not have the guts to protest.

I am not sure of 12,000 crore brought back. I heard of 500 crore. But had they brought back that mch money why the CTG FUA announced a deficit budget? The Country should have been floating on money. How much did you score in arithmetics in school? I am pretty sure your entire generations did not see that much money. Those money (if brought back) looted by the Awamis. Aktaruzzaman Babu, Shamim Osman, Sheikh Rehana-why are they hiding in USA and Canada? If they are clean, OK go back to Bangladesh.

Note new Awami Razakars, Bangladesh does not any agreement with either Malaysia or singpore to bring back any money.

--- On Mon, 6/30/08, J.A. Chowdhury <Chwdhury@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: J.A. Chowdhury <Chwdhury@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Re: two children - ha .. ha ..
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, June 30, 2008, 2:58 AM

I know some RAJAKARs who feel comfort to introduce themself as BNP supporter.In reply of my one writting this guy asked me/told me, he is neither AL supporter nor BNP supporter.But again and he proved that he is a BNP Rajakar's strong supporter.He has soft feelings BNP Jammat news paper n Tarek Coco.Yes I am talking about SH who feel shame to introduce himself as one of the strong supporter of BNP Jammat.

a few days earlier finance Adviser told Jurnalists,they have brought back TK 12,000 core from abroad.These money are now deposited in Bangladesh Bank.He did not said any name of whome belonging these money, I am sure the woner of these money are Tarek Babor and Mamun.These money collected only from 2 countries Malaysia and Singapore.

Rgd

J.Chowdhury

> To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
> From: m_musa92870@ yahoo.com
> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:36:36 +0000
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: two children - ha .. ha ..
>
>
> Do you think the BNP/Jamaat mouthpiece newspapers that you read have any
> credibility? The vast majority don't use them as toilet papers either.
>
> --- In alochona@yahoogroup s.com, Sajjad Hossain <shossain456@ ...> wrote:
> >
> > Look ignorant CTG supporters. When both Tareq and Coco were arrested
> healthwise they were OK. Now doctors confirmed that Tareq was hit by
> something heavy that broke his spinal cord. Coco is virtually dead in
> the Gulag of CTG and desher Daroan Gen Moeen Uddin Ahmed.
> >
> > Those newspapers are Awami mouthpieces. They do not have any
> credibility. I even do not use them as Toilet Paper. They said Tareq
> looted TK. 190,000 crore. Where the money? Did CTG find any trace of
> that money?
> >
> > SH
> > Toronto
> > --- On Wed, 6/25/08, musasarkar m_musa92870@ ... wrote:
> >
> > From: musasarkar m_musa92870@ ...
> > Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: two children - ha .. ha ..
> > To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
> > Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 12:41 PM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Interesting article on Tarek's sickness:
> > http://www.thedaily sangbad.com/ index.php?
> news_id=9797&nature=1&cat_id=1&date=2008-06- 25
> > --- In alochona@yahoogroup s.com, M Zaman zaman8156@ .> wrote:
> > >
> > > The Fakrudding Government tortured two children of Begum Zia in such
> a way that rest of their lives they would be bed-ridden or in the Wheel
> Chair (SH).
> > >
> > > Oh ... No ...
> > >
> > > These two grown ups are no children!
> > > They are minions - unleashed and unhecked.
> > >
> > > They definitely are not "Faltu Looke".
> > > They are "Kuti-Kuti-Poti" sons of a former general who used to wear
> "Chera Genji".
> > > They were the self-anointed "Raj-Puttur" of an ex-PM who treated the
> country like a "Jomidari" ..
> > >
> > > If only 10% of what is reoprted in news papers are correct, they
> deserve no wheel chair either ...
> > >
> > > Sorry Mr. SH, I am not very concerned about the fate of two rotten
> Raj Puttur.
> > >
> > > Well, they had their days - is nit it?
> > >
> > > M. Zaman
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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[ALOCHONA] Even all telephone connections were kept inoperative during the conference.

News analysis:Shadowy conference at Wilton Park

Hasanuzzaman Khan

The Government is yet to issue any statement on the policy conference on Bangladesh held at Wilton Park in southern England on June 23 and 24. The two-day conference brought together a diverse group of representatives from the Bangladesh Government, political parties, and civil society organisations to discuss the future of democracy in Bangladesh.

A similar conference was held at Harvard in the US a couple of weeks ago. Political observers are dismayed that certain quarters are trying to determine our future in the lecture halls of Wilton Park or Harvard or in the lobby of the House of Commons..

Out of fifty conferences scheduled to be held at Wilton Park, the conference on Bangladesh is the only one that deals exclusively with the internal affairs of the country. It is aimed at giving a global implication of the issue of disrupted democracy in Bangladesh. Political observers wonder whether the issue of temporary disruption of democracy in Bangladesh has become a global issue.

The name Wilton Park is not familiar in Bangladesh. It has featured in media reports here for having organised the conference titled 'prospect of democracy in Bangladesh, ways and means to strengthen it on June 23 and 24.'

Wilton Park was set up in 1946 as a part of an initiative inspired by then British PM Sir Winston Churchill to help establish democracy in Germany after the Second World War. It is an academically independent agency of the UK's Foreign Ministry, which brings together decision makers and opinion framers from around the world. The Wilton Park Conference was designed to facilitate discussion among leading Bangladeshi players on how democracy can be strengthened.

Eight representatives from five political parties - Awami League, BNP, Jatiya Party, Jamaat-e-Islami and Bikalpa Dhara joined the Wilton Park conference besides dignitaries from international organisations. Among the politicians Dipu Moni and Saber Hossain Chowdhury of Awami League, Mofazzal Karim of BNP reformist faction, Barrister Abdur Razzak of Jamaat-e-Islami and Mahi B Chowdhury of Bikalpa Dhara participated in the conference. The Bangladeshi politicians confided to this correspondent that transition to democracy was the theme of this conference. It was also aimed at building a political consensus among the Bangladesh politicians with a view to restoring democracy in the country.

Besides, former diplomat Faruque Chowdhury, economist Rehman Sobhan, political Scientist Dr. Raunaq Jahan, Dr. Iftekaruzzaam of TIB, economist Dr. Atiur Rahman, political scientist Dr. Dilara Chowdhury of Jahangir Nagar University and Journalist Mahbubul Alam were among the participants. Widower Rehman Sobhan (about 80) and virgin Dr. Raunaq Jahan (65) attended reportedly as newly married couple.

Political developments in Bangladesh have evoked keen interest among development partners. Donors often remind that future relationship with them will be dictated by how things shape up politically in Bangladesh.

Major themes of discussion at the conference were: democratic reform and anti corruption drive, political reform, democracy and good governance and development. Included also were topics on the past performance of the parliament and the post election scenario. About 906 conferences have so far been held in Wilton Park exclusively on Bangladesh. The latest conference was the 39th in last six months.

Wilton Park conferences are exclusive deals. The delegates are to stay in the Wilton Park Hall and remain out of reach of anybody from outside. The delegates are advised not to disclose anything to the media about the topic of the discussion or the contents thereof. Dr Dipu Moni of Awami League said, something sensitive relating to Bangladesh was discussed in the conference, which were tabooed not to be disclosed to media. Even all telephone connections were kept inoperative during the conference.

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[ALOCHONA] A stupied idea-balance of power’ between the top constitutional positions – president and prime minister

Balance of power between president and prime minister means dual leadership. Dual leadership never works. there are lots of such example in the history . it brings instability. so it is an stupid idea from our Susils and generals.

we must resist at our level best to implement such nonfunctional and ineffective leadership on our country.

balance of power between prime minister and parliament may be best solution,restriction of prime ministers power by the parliament will bring desired change.

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Re: [mukto-mona] Moyeen & jago bangladesh

WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/48687

Dear Dr. Musharraf and Habib
I agree to Mr. Habib that a party like Jago Bangladesh can never give us a true democracy. They never can stop the tradition of cult of personality, but they can increase it though. Why ? This has to be explained. None of us want cult of some personality. But befor that , we have to define which is cultism, which is not. What the cultism derives from ? Does this happen suddenly ? No. The bottom line here is a true democratic culture that does no exist in Bangladesh. But, why. Many of those who are crying about these(I am also cent person sympathiser of their concerns), and are writing article or column about these, they often forget the historical perspective for the reasons of these present scenario. They often forget or want to forget that Bangladeshi Army establishment had been in power almost 16 years in Bangladesh. During that time, they destroyed all the democratic institutions of the country. They did not let the political culture to grow up.
Conscious people know that when Zia was in power, he started the evil politics of breaking the main stream parties and creating some domestic pet parties. Actually, this process started with Ayub Khan, who created Convention Muslim League. We know the consequence of Convention Muslim Leage. Jago Bangladesh and Progressive Democratic Party are that kind of domestic pet parties. Any truely conscious person knows that they are being backed by this govt. Several incidents in the daily newspaper evidence the goverment's favor to these parties. The intention is very clear.
Zia had done this. Ershad had done the same thing. Can we get true participatory and decentralised democracy from parties who are born the colaboration or patronization of army bureaucrats and who have no base or relation in the grass root level ?
Hypothetically, if this govt. is able to break and attract some groups from the mainstream parties and use them to compete against the big parties in the election in order for implementing so-called 'reform' or ending 'cultism', will these broken big parties and rootless parties like Gonoforum, PDP be able to form a strong govenment ? No. That will be a very weak govt which can either die very soon or they will not be able to contribute in any important policy making matter. And this will be the Military establishment who will be playing the key role from behind. What will be the consequence ? We are seeing this at this moment. This govt. already has taken decision for coal-mining with open-system method and going to give permission to the forign company, without any parliamentary procedure; already has given permission for dimensional land survey to foreign company even it is unlawful. These are the examples of
unaccountability-same thing will happen when a weak govt. will be formed by some rootless parties who will be brought to power by the help of army.
Mr. Musharraf was concerned about cult of personality. But, we have to think also how can we solve this. There is no short-cut solution for this, as the problem had been created in a long term process. The army and civil bureaucrats and businessmen had been coming in politics for long time, the students were corrupted by the army intelligence. Instead of going in movement for a scietific education policy, for the real issues of students, or for combatting against commercialisation of education or so on, the student leaders are involved in partisan politics or for politics of taking over tenders by force. These staff had been started and taught by Zia and Ershad and millitary intelligence . Now this military bureaucrats are involved in destroying our forest wealth and other resources, thus selling the country-the purpose what they were broght for by the foreign powers.
Engr. Rabiul Islam, New York

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RE: [ALOCHONA] Turkman the Trickman

Dear Mr. Turkman:

In short - I meant - saudi Arabia has the lowest crime rate in the world according to all major sources of world recognised reports - including agencies who has thoroigh accesses in all levels - including - Amnesty International, US State Department of Justice and Human Rights Watch and even AFP. Pls refer to their websites. If we don't accept any of them - then we have to rely on hunches and hypothesis - do we want to? As a lawyer - I always rely on data and references. By the way the definition of un-natural death - means the death wahich was caused by criminal act or accident - not the re4sult of natural causation.

Sincerely,

Mufassil Islam

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: kareem871@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 05:25:44 +0000
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Turkman the Trickman

Dear Mr. Mufassil Islam,

I follow your postings with interest but there is something in your last letter that caught my attention. You said,"in case of Saudi Arabia where the un-natural deaths of women are astonishingly much lower than even USA, UK or any of the Christian or Non-Christian countries".

Would you please care to clarify three basic things:

1. What precisely constitutes "unnatural" death?
2. What is the source of such an assertion. I find it highly improbable that Saudi Arabia publishes data on female homicides.
3. If "USA,UK or any of the Christian or Non-Christian countries" are excluded which countries remain?

Thanks for your time,

Sincerely,

Reza

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: mufassili@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:36:28 +0000
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Turkman the Trickman

Dear Mr. Turman/Trickman:

Greetings. You might have sighed a relief thinking that I have had overlooked your last two letters. Well as you can see, I did not. I do not understand what is the problem in your assessments and related understandings. You are an obvious derogated Islam hater who wears a hypocratic musk of a Muslim and ends with emperor Akbar's Allah Akbar at times and claims to be a Muslim yet write issues to which you are yourself utterly confused.

I think I requested you to men tion references in your mentionings and not to use tricking out of context misquotes. It is true that in an overall world data - the female birth rates are much higher than males in the world (CIA Fact File) but that does not mean all the countries will have to have female birth rates higher than males. In poor countries like Bangladesh, Angola and others - the women folk lack contraceptives and safe birth facilities and maternity care which results in higher female deaths - pushing the female population lower but you cannot say that in case of Saudi Arabia where the un-natural deaths of women are astonishingly much lower than even USA, UK or any of the Christian or Non-Christian countries. They simply have to have less female births. Are you trying to say Saudi Arabia has more female deaths from national and social deaths than many other countries? You are crazy if you think this is the case in world's lowest crime rate nation. But I do not support many of their human rights issues which are also not Islamic in the true sense. But what has that got to do anything with female deaths???? You have wildly mentioned some develioped Christian countries but why not take the examples of African nations? Female deaths are much higher among war-torn AIDS inflicted non-Islamic countries where rapes flare???

About Pakistan condemning China: I am confident that you do not have the basic understanding about International Law. A nation will condemn and call the diplomat of another nation if the other nation holds any view governmentally or might have taken up a new view which affects the basic existing and well documented views of both countries upon which the bilateral ties are bound. That's why I do not support that the Denmark Government had to apologise for the cartoons as they never supported the cartoons but they could have brought criminal charges for incitement of communal violence by the cartoonists. I hope you remember the Christian outcry after the screening of 'The Last Temptation of Christ' and the burning of Cinema halls in Latin America. In UK, when Salman Rushdie was knighted the basic view of the so called secular Government was questioned and that is the reason it was debated in the Pakistani parliament. Alas if you could realise these basic norms. (Read: William Stark's Interntaional Law).

I request you to reveal your real name and to refrain from using several names in several of your letters as you have already tried in vain several times with your apparent lack of knowledge in almost every field.

Sincerely,
Mufassil Islam
Human Rights Advocate
President and CE: Law Offices of Islam and Associates
UK, Singapore, Nepal, Australia, Bangaldesh, India

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Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:06:52 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] India baby girl deaths increase

I knew Sikhs and Moslims in that part of India did not want daughters because their white and fair complexion daughters were being kidnapped very young and some were running-away with dark-skinned Hindu Boys, after they grew-up but had no idea the Male-Female ratio of the whole region was 30 Girls to 100 Boys.

Its not true that India's Average Ratio is supposed to be 95 Females to 100 Males. Females are always born 105 to 100 Males in the world. According to UNO Statistical Data following are the Female Population ratios to every 100 Males in countries of the our region:

Pakistan 93, India 94, Sri Lanka 103, Maldives 95, Nepal 102, Bhutan 89, Bangladesh 95, Burma 102, China 94, Thailand 105, Cambodia 105, Indonesia 100.

27.55 % of Non Moslim Countries or territories show Female Population at least equal to male population or lower but 70.45 % of Moslim Countries show the same. All White Countries have higher Females population than Males.

Countries and territories with most Females to 100 Males:

Falkland Islands 122, Palau 120, Montserrat, Estonia, Ukraine, Latvia 117, Russia 116, Belarus, Lithuania, Armenia, Netherlands Antilles 115, Georgia, Lesotho 112, US Virgin Islands 111, Hungary 110, Hong Kong, Macao, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Aruba, Puerto Rico 109. (No Moslim Country)

Countries with least Female Population to 100 Males:

UAE 48, Qatar 49, Kuwait 67, Bahrain 75, Oman 79, Saudi Arabia 82. (All Moslim)

. Isha Khan <bd_mailer@yahoo.com> wrote:

India baby girl deaths increase

There is a cultural preference for male children in India

The number of girls born and surviving in India has hit an all time low compared to boys, ActionAid says.
A report by the UK charity says increasing numbers of female foetuses were being aborted and baby girls deliberately neglected and left to die.
In one site in the Punjab state, there are just 300 girls to every 1,000 boys among higher caste families, it says.
ActionAid says India faces a "bleak" future if it does not end its practice of cultural preference for boys.
Girls 'condemned'
ActionAid teamed up with Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to produce the Disappearing Daughters report.
More than 6,000 households in sites across five states in north-western India were interviewed and statistical comparisons were made with national census date.

The real horror of the situation is that for women avoiding having daughters is a rational choice

Laura Turquet, ActionAid

Under "normal" circumstances, there should be about 950 girls for every 1,000 boys, the charity said.
But it said that in three of the five sites, that number was below 800.
In four of the five sites surveyed, the proportion of girls to boys had declined since a 2001 census, the report said.
The research also found that ratios of girls to boys were declining fastest in comparatively prosperous urban areas.
ActionAid suggested the increasing use of ultrasound technology may be a factor in the trend.
The document says that Indian woman are put under intense pressure to produce sons, in a culture that predominantly views girls as a burden rather than an asset.
It says many families now use ultrasound scans and abort female foetuses, despite the existence of the 1994 law banning gender selection and selective abortion.
The charity also blames other illegal practices - such as allowing the umbilical cord to become infected - for the growing gender imbalance.
"The real horror of the situation is that, for women, avoiding having daughters is a rational choice. But for wider society it's creating an appalling and desperate state of affairs," Laura Turquet, women's rights policy official at ActionAid said.
"In the long term, cultural attitudes need to change. India must address economic and social barriers including property rights, marriage dowries and gender roles that condemn girls before they are even born.
"If we don't act now the future looks bleak," Ms Turquet said.
Some 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in India in the past 20 years, the British medical journal the Lancet has said.

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