The moral, political, and financial corruption in NGOs is a global infectivity, differing only in degree from country to country. In numerous instances, politicians and NGOs instead of monitoring each others activities are often working for mutual financial solidarity.
NGO mischief had reached such a height in Kenya that the government finally dissolved the NGO council in 2005.
In Macedonia, tragically, individuals like doctors, dentists, lawyers and professors find that their NGO winnings often trump the compensation offered from their own specialized professions. Indeed, there's little incentive for Macedonians to expose NGO corruption, because they often profit from it.
In Bangladesh, as in other developing countries, the behavior of politicians and many NGOs reveal a common trait--one that's contemptuous and troublesome.
Addressing the June 26 convention of NGOs titled, 'Institutional Good Governance of NGOs', attended by over 400 NGO representatives, TIB Chairman Professor Muzaffer Ahmad and CTG Adviser Rasheda Chowdhury presented a scornful report about the NGOs in Bangladesh.
They reminded them of their lack of transparency, accountability and practice of good governance. The concerns are that many NGOs have been operating more like family businesses (as in Macedonia)--some of which even procure funds for the same project from multiple foreign donors.
Prof. Muzaffer reminded them that their high interest micro-credit loans are deteriorating poverty among the poor instead of alleviating it and in many cases, transformed many previous poor progressively even more vulnerable to poverty. Instead of making them financially self-reliant micro-credit made the poor perpetual borrowers while NGO owners are bulking their personal bank accounts with unaccountable money.
While challenging these NGOs, the TIB chairman elucidated the numerous failings or willful dereliction of their obligations. He reminded the NGOs that they did little or nothing:
• Against eviction of indigenous people from their ancestral lands;
• To deter encroachment on rivers and 'khash' lands;
• To reverse pollution of rivers, and lakes and other water ways through industrial waste;
• To modernize the field of agriculture for betterment of the farmers;
• To reverse poverty deterioration brought about by high interest loans to the impoverished.
These failings defy the relevance and the very existence of many NGOs in Bangladesh. Naturally one would wonder why the government has allowed the mushroom growth NGOs and let them operate as they wish--unregulated and devoid of transparency and accountability.
The answer became obvious when the TIB Chairman implicated that many NGOs have been serving the partisan political interest of the party in power.
Here comes the common trait of both politicians and NGO owners as noted earlier. Politicians exploit and deceive the same people, whose interest they were elected to serve. NGOs also deceive the same people for whom they exist and draw funds from foreign donors.
While NGOs have emerged to recompense for potential shortfalls of both government and businesses, it is, nonetheless, illusory to ascribe them as perfect institutions. If corruption can be rampant in the market and the public sector, why NGOs should be considered immune to that menace?
Any conjecture that people working for NGOs are more ethical and "better" than people engaged in other activities and that they're not driven by vices such as "greed" or "profit motivation" found in business and politics is flawed.
Their goals may differ, but their approach to problem solving is inhibited by the same rules of the game as in society at large. In his 1990 book, "Institutions, Institutional Change and, Economic Performance", Nobel Laureate economist Douglass North refers to these rules as institutions and divides them into formal and informal institutions.
Professor North argues that formal institutions are coercive and imposed by the state as opposed to informal institutions, which are voluntary codes of conduct within a given society. Corruption arises as a result of deficiencies and/or a lack of efficient enforcement in formal institutions.
In the words of the 18th-century philosopher Adam Ferguson, "…where power is already established, where the strong are unwilling to suffer restraint, or the weak unable to find a protection, the defects of law are marks of the most perfect corruption" (An Essay on the History of Civil Society, 1767).
The recent indictment of the Proshika chairman Kazi Faruque Ahmed, his son Rubayet Ahmed for misappropriation of huge funds is an example of the failure of "informal institutions" brought about by lack of enforcement of formal institutions.
Another NGO that should draw ACC's attention for investigations is Tangail based UBINIG and Prabartana. UBINIG, established in 1984, is run by husband and wife --Farhad Mazhar and Farida Akhtar.
UBINIG's 'Nayakrishi Andolon" is essentially a frozen in time primitive method of agriculture. Farad's - inefficient and primordial rural employment program, selective openness of Bangladesh economy in a globally integrated market, and exchange rate determination (in particular currency depreciation) is premised on flawed economic arguments and defies the logic of laissez faire based market economy.
But what UBINIG is doing isn't the reason it should be investigated. UBINIG's managing director Farhad Mazhar's political connection, business practices, and possible tax evasion is questionable.
• What was his connection with former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia?
• What was the purpose of his accompanying Khaleda Zia to her China trip?
• What kind of activities he was associated with Tareque Rahman as Tareque's de facto adviser?
• More importantly, does he pay taxes from running business under the name Prabartana (since its formation in 1989)?
• Who pays for Farhad's frequent foreign trips?
Most NGOs are run as non-profit entities. But under the cover of an NGO, Prabartana sells shares, apparels, and agricultural produces which are produced on Farhad's agricultutal estate (like a state within a state) following the methods of Nayakrishi Andolon. There is also a ready to eat food cafeteria which operates like any other business.
So it's a legitimate question to ask if Prabartana and any other NGOs engaged in production and sales, pay taxes from its profits like all other businesses. If not, then obviously these businesses enjoy an undue tax subsidy from the government-- an unfair and non-competitive business advantage compared to other businesses selling similar and substitute products.
Don't forget, enjoying a tax subsidy may equivalently be interpreted as if Prabartana collects taxes from the people to run its business and boost profits.
A 2003 United Nation study titled "The 21st Century NGO" found that many NGOs that receive tax payers' money through political channels are inclined to rent seeking behavior and often involve in corruption.
Farhad Mazhar considers Nayakrishi Andolon his legacy and in the process has been exploiting the poor farmers to lead a life style he couldn't afford otherwise. Shouldn't he stop further experimentation since Nayakrishi Andolon has remained nothing more than an expanded experiment even after nearly 25 years of its existence?
-------------- Dr. Abdullah A. Dewan is Professor of Economics at Eastern Michigan University
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India's RAW strictly abides by tactics taught by Chanakya 2500 years ago. 'Arthashastra' gives copious lessons how Chanakya used to overcome his foes through deceit, guile and hypocrisy. Soon after birth of Pakistan, Indian propaganda spearheaded through internal subversive forces within Pakistan and its foreign allies was unfolded to sow the seeds of dissension and disruption in Pakistani society and to weaken its foundation based on religion.
East Pakistan was chosen as the primary target for subversion and eventual absorption. It provided a fertile ground to achieve its ends since lot of groundwork had already been done prior to 1947. They took 24 years to wean away the people of East Pakistan from the concept of united Pakistan and to make them look towards India – their erstwhile tormentors – to help them gain independence.
Having reaped rich harvest in 1971, RAW is continuing to follow the same themes and techniques against all its neighbors.
Strategically, India supports and spreads the idea of secessionist bodies in Pakistan. She is leaving no stone unturned to promote dissension and animosity among different communities inhibiting Pakistan and thus destabilise Pakistan politically and make it economically and militarily weak. Her psychological experts employ themes for Sindhi, Punjabi, Pathan, Mohajir, Baluchi and Saraiki audiences separately. At the same time, they endeavor to destroy the moral fibre of Pakistani society and to move them away from religion towards Epicureanism. Availability of vulgar Indian movies in our video shops together with net cafes providing pornographic films and obscene musical TV programs are polluting the minds of our younger generation and have affected our moral values.
After 1971, India focused her attention towards Sindh, where her psychological operators are hell-bent to create a situation akin to erstwhile East Pakistan. Hanging of ZA Bhutto in April 1979 and its emotional impact on the people of Sindh was exploited to the hilt to create hatred against the army and Punjab. RAW provided all out support to Al-Zulfiqar led by Bhutto sons and later to the MQM's militant wing to take control of Karachi through terrorization and to employ tactics similar to Awami League to create a state within state. Mrs Indira Gandhi supported the MRD movement in Sindh in 1983 which kept simmering till 1985 and call for Sindhu Desh grew louder. Rural-urban divide in Sindh was skillfully widened.
India also maintained contacts with NAP (now ANP) leaders because of their historical softness towards the Congress and also kept instigating former Soviet Union and Afghan government to keep the issues of Pakhtunistan and Greater Baluchistan alive. Once India entered into a strategic partnership with USA after 1990, she intensified her propaganda against Pakistan on the issues of cross border terrorism into occupied Kashmir, drug peddling and on nuclear proliferation with a view to declare it as a terrorist state. The main purpose behind propaganda warfare was to hide her unchecked atrocities against hapless Kashmiris in IHK and to put Pakistan on the defensive. Unable to cope with freedom movement in Kashmir, she accused Pakistan of waging a proxy war and blamed certain Jihadi organizations involved in terrorism and sponsored by the ISI.
For the consumption of her home audience and for the younger generation in Pakistan, Indian psychological wizards kept feeding them on the platitude that Hindus and Muslims were living together in peace and harmony until the British inspired gambit divided them. They guilefully conceal the facts of history that in actuality the Hindus entered into an unholy alliance with the British to bring down the fortunes of the Muslims. They are trying to assert that the founders of Pakistan were misled into making an error of judgement, which must now be corrected.
They conveniently forget that till as late as 1946 the founder of Pakistan was in favour of united India and it was the Indian Congress leaders that thwarted all attempts towards conciliation.
India did not reciprocate Jinnah's call for burying the past and to live as friendly neighbors. It had become abundantly clear from the attitude of the Indian leaders that they had agreed to the partition with a heavy heart and nurtured a fond hope that sooner than later it will return to the Indian fold.
In order to subvert Pakistan ideologically and culturally, India has developed her electronic and print media and psychological warfare in a big way and is currently using these weapons adroitly and achieving good results. Peace agreement signed in January 2004 provided an excellent opportunity to India to carryout cultural invasion and make deep inroads into Pakistan's liberal sections of the society. Artists, film actresses, singers, models, fashion designers, sportsmen, west lovers are cultivated through regular exchange of cultural and musical programs and fashion shows. Most of our private TV channels have come under the influence of Indian culture as a result of which obscenity has sneaked into each and every home.
India's major target audience is the youth of Pakistan, which is channelled towards life of comfort and pleasure. The element of hostility is being gradually removed from their minds by stating that the Pakistani leaders have unduly inflamed the animosity between the two neighbours out of political expediency. Own pseudo intellectuals and paid writers are helping them in presenting a soft and friendly image of India. Political figures are cultivated and made India friendly. Such guileful invasions of the minds could have drastic effects on the new generation.
The Indian RAW in cahoots with the Mossad, MI-6 and CIA based in Kabul after 9/11 has very cunningly exploited the existing vulnerabilities of our socio-politico-economic life and created cleavages in the society. They have common interests to wean the people of Pakistan away from religion.
There is a widely held view in Pakistan that the growth of militancy in Fata and insurgency in Baluchistan together with spate of suicide bombings in Pakistan are a handiwork of Indo-US-Israeli nexus based in Kabul which is indulging in dirty tricks to destabilise Pakistan politically and cause economic deathblow to Pakistan so that its nuclear assets could be hijacked. It is most unfortunate that today Pakistan despite being a nuclear power is feeling so weak that it is accepting blatant intrusion of foreign powers without a whimper.
Our rulers are least concerned about sabotage and subversion activities of RAW despite having irrefutable proof of its involvement in Baluchistan, FATA and in Swat. They feel shy of even naming the involved agency what to talk of launching a protest. On the other hand, any act of sabotage taking place in India is promptly placed at the doorstep of Pakistan even without carrying out preliminary investigations. It had carried out the biggest ever troop concentration along our border in December 2001 on the uncorroborated allegation that Pakistan had a hand in terrorist attack on Lok Sabha. Even Karazi gathered courage to accuse Pakistan of supporting cross border terrorism and openly threatened to send his troops into Fata to combat Pakistani Taliban.
While we are being slowly bled to death, it is to be seen how the new leadership reverses the trend of docility towards intrusive foreign powers which miss no opportunity to inflict destructive blows upon the federation of Pakistan. Pakistan is not weak; it is our weak-willed leaders that had wilted under pressure after 9/11 and ever since have made Pakistan vulnerable to foreign subversion. Alas! So far the PPP leaders appear to be following the old policy of appeasement of Musharraf. They have hardly taken any note of blatant attack on a security check post in Mohmand Agency and repeated incursions of US drones into our tribal belt. Defence Minister helplessly bleats that nothing can be done. The ones who have the guts to fight them back are being hounded as terrorists and killed.
Asif Haroon Raja is a defence and political analyst based in Rawalpindi and author of several books
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I wrote that I wish the next elections are free and fair. All well-wisher of Bangladesh, national or foreigner, expect that and pray for that. What is wrong with that? Why are you so skeptical about it? Seems you have lost all hopes that BNP will come back to power. You may be right in your assessments because even persons like you realize that the present voter list with all its flaws is much more accurate than the previous ones. CTG and election commission, with all the follies they have committed, are neutral even with your perspective, all BNP muscle power is in jail or on run and money-power is not going to be effective that much. Above everything, the party is broken in pieces. Moral of the grass root level workers has never been that low in the history of the party. I pity and please accept my sympathies
I ALONG WITH ALL WELL WISHERS OF BANGLADESH, IRRESPECTIVE OF THEIR PARTY AFFILIATION, IF THERE IS ANY, HOPE AND PRAY THAT NEXT ELECTION SHALL BE FREE AND FAIR. (Should I exclude some, but not all, BNP supporters from well-wishers of Bangladesh list?) We can always hope for the best. In addition, I wish and pray that we, irrespective of our party affiliations, if there is any, learn to respect the election results. Is anything wrong if I hope and pray for that? Is anything wrong if I expect the new Government, who may ever it is (even BNP), runs the trial on liberation of Bangladesh war criminals.
As you have said and I digest your words, I may be a low-grade person. Not only future history but also the present happenings in Bangladesh shall exhibit the respect the President of the country is enjoying. So biased were his decisions towards BNP as CA of CTG that even the advisors nominated by BNP resigned from his cabinet. You may be a very high-grade person (typical BNP and Jamaati), but as a low-grade person like me, my advice to a high-grade person, like you, is to stop using un-parliamentary words. Learn to respect others and respect others opinion. The whole world is neither BNP supporter nor BNP beneficiary. People do understand what is white and what is black.
I hope I have not made you bitter. Sorry if I had but the truth is bitter.
Shafiq Ahmad
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Sajjad Hossain <shossain456@...> wrote: > > No. I do not have any personal reason. Netheir any of my family members nor I was a 1971 Razakar . I am either a Awami Razakar of 1986 and 2008. I am just vocal of Awami Bhondami. Why did they not raise the issue of trial of the war criminals with the CTG during the dialogue? > > Regading Awami Leage going to power. You are living in a "fools paradise". The MUA and FUA have not seized power to install Awamis in power. If you think so, it is certainly a "Day Dream". Just watch the events in the next few months. > > About free and fair election. Ha, ha,ha.............................. You just made me laugh. > THE NEXT ELECTION WILL BE MOST EVER RIGGED ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF BANGLADESH. Period. But the Awamis will stamp it as free and fair. Because do not have any other choice. They signed the "Daskhot" to free their Great (?) Leader Sheikh Hasina. > > When you talk about the President, you show some respect. Do not demonstrate yourself as a low grade person. But you just did. This has been a Awami habit of dis-respecting anyone does not fulfill the Awamis evil desire. Remember what you did to Former President Justice Sahabddin Ahmed? When the level of insult went beyond the limit, he just wrote one page in the Newspapers and threatened to open the can of worm regarding the Awami conspiracy during the 2001 election and afterwards. > > SH > Toronto > > --- On Sun, 7/6/08, shafiq013 shafiq013@... wrote: > > From: shafiq013 shafiq013@... > Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Trial of War Criminals and Awami 'Bhondami' > To: alochona@yahoogroups.com > Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 1:49 AM > > > > > > > Dear Mr. Hossain > > You seem very vocal against Bangladesh Awami League (BAL) and parties > calling for the trial of war criminals. Any personal reasons? You are > too hypothetical. If BAL comes to power. If there is trial of war > criminal. If father-in-law of Sk. Hasina's daughter is tried or not. > (If he was a war criminal). How are you so definite that BAL will > loss in next elections? There were no opinion polls nor for that > matter, was any survey conducted. You forgot we are not in January > 2007. The extended age limit of the chief justice has no effect on > making a CTG. Very unfortunately, but Justice Aziz who did everything > not for election but for selection(should I call it rigging)does not > head the election commission anymore. Last, not the least, > Mr.Yesuddin does not enjoy the privilege and power of CTG. > > Personally, I do not have a choice who comes to power in next > election, but I wish and pray that the coming elections are free and > fair. I wish and pray that is no use of muscle power and black money. > I wish and pray that only honest persons are elected as MPs. Not as a > kin of a freedom fighter but as a very conscious citizen of > Bangladesh, I expect and wish who so ever comes to power conducts > trial of war criminals. For all Bangladeshis (except for few who have > personal reasons), enough is enough. Sorry if affects you personally > but it is the call of the day. > > Shafiq Ahmad > > --- In alochona@yahoogroup s.com, Sajjad Hossain <shossain456@ ...> > wrote: > > > > > > 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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You yourself are disrespecting by using the terms MUA and FUA all the times, and giving advise to others about showing respect to the spineless President. Why? Because he was originally put in that place by the Hawa Bhaban cliques to act as a puppet? Sounds like super BHONDAMI to me. Do you really think yourself as a high grade person?
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Sajjad Hossain <shossain456@...> wrote: > > No. I do not have any personal reason. Netheir any of my family members nor I was a 1971 Razakar . I am either a Awami Razakar of 1986 and 2008. I am just vocal of Awami Bhondami. Why did they not raise the issue of trial of the war criminals with the CTG during the dialogue? > > Regading Awami Leage going to power. You are living in a "fools paradise". The MUA and FUA have not seized power to install Awamis in power. If you think so, it is certainly a "Day Dream". Just watch the events in the next few months. > > About free and fair election. Ha, ha,ha.............................. You just made me laugh. > THE NEXT ELECTION WILL BE MOST EVER RIGGED ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF BANGLADESH. Period. But the Awamis will stamp it as free and fair. Because do not have any other choice. They signed the "Daskhot" to free their Great (?) Leader Sheikh Hasina. > > When you talk about the President, you show some respect. Do not demonstrate yourself as a low grade person. But you just did. This has been a Awami habit of dis-respecting anyone does not fulfill the Awamis evil desire. Remember what you did to Former President Justice Sahabddin Ahmed? When the level of insult went beyond the limit, he just wrote one page in the Newspapers and threatened to open the can of worm regarding the Awami conspiracy during the 2001 election and afterwards. > > SH > Toronto > > --- On Sun, 7/6/08, shafiq013 shafiq013@... wrote: > > From: shafiq013 shafiq013@... > Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Trial of War Criminals and Awami 'Bhondami' > To: alochona@yahoogroups.com > Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 1:49 AM > > > > > > > Dear Mr. Hossain > > You seem very vocal against Bangladesh Awami League (BAL) and parties > calling for the trial of war criminals. Any personal reasons? You are > too hypothetical. If BAL comes to power. If there is trial of war > criminal. If father-in-law of Sk. Hasina's daughter is tried or not. > (If he was a war criminal). How are you so definite that BAL will > loss in next elections? There were no opinion polls nor for that > matter, was any survey conducted. You forgot we are not in January > 2007. The extended age limit of the chief justice has no effect on > making a CTG. Very unfortunately, but Justice Aziz who did everything > not for election but for selection(should I call it rigging)does not > head the election commission anymore. Last, not the least, > Mr.Yesuddin does not enjoy the privilege and power of CTG. > > Personally, I do not have a choice who comes to power in next > election, but I wish and pray that the coming elections are free and > fair. I wish and pray that is no use of muscle power and black money. > I wish and pray that only honest persons are elected as MPs. Not as a > kin of a freedom fighter but as a very conscious citizen of > Bangladesh, I expect and wish who so ever comes to power conducts > trial of war criminals. For all Bangladeshis (except for few who have > personal reasons), enough is enough. Sorry if affects you personally > but it is the call of the day. > > Shafiq Ahmad > > --- In alochona@yahoogroup s.com, Sajjad Hossain <shossain456@ ...> > wrote: > > > > > > 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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In addition to US-Israel-India axis, this report also supports the UK-France-Germany-Italy-Russia-.......Mexico.....Ghana axis against Bangladesh. How could Mr. Zoglul Husain miss that? Every nation except Saudi, Pakistan and Taleban-Al Qaeda-Harkatul Jihad axis is conspiring against Bangladesh. Because BNP-Jamaat could not hold their "shader" election on Jan 22, 2007.
Saber Hossain Chowdhury supposedly joined Lord Avebury in this huge conspiratorial meeting, but yet Sheikh Hasina has been warning her party officials about him since Jan 11, 2007 and she has been ignoring him every possible way. Let alone talk to him, she would not even look at him. So much for so many childish conspiracy theories. We need to grow up and go beyond that level.
The murids will never talk about the real US conspiracies against Bangladesh during the 1971 liberation war - militarily, financially and morally supporting the murderous and rapist Pakis, and after the war - the murders of Bangabandhu, his and other families and four national leaders in prison in 1975. The murids will never mention how their Peers were installed in Bangladesh and who were instrumental behind that or what connections their Peers had with CIA-Nixon-Kissinger.
I also believe in real conspiracy against Bangladesh, but it has been constantly the evil axis of US-Saudi-Pakistan for the last 37 years.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bd_mailer@...> wrote: > > Zoglul Husain writes: > > This report supports the conspiracy of the US-Israel-India axis against Bangladesh. Lord Avebury is a conspirator against Bangladesh and Saber Hossain Chowdhury joined him in his conspiratorial meeting. There were also a few in the meeting who opposed the conspirators. > > --- On Sat, 7/5/08, Isha Khan bd_mailer@... wrote: > > From: Isha Khan bd_mailer@... > Subject: The unnoticed emergency:How Bangladesh's generals get away with it > To: dhakamails@yahoogroups.com, notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com, alochona@yahoogroups.com, mbimunshi@..., zoglul@..., rehman.mohammad@..., abidbahar@..., khabor@yahoogroups.com > Date: Saturday, July 5, 2008, 3:40 AM > > > > > > > > The unnoticed emergency:How Bangladesh's generals get away with it > > From The Economist print edition Jul 2nd 2008 > > IN TERMS of foreign press coverage per head of population, probably no country in the world gets as raw a deal as Bangladesh. It has some 150m people. Yet if it features in the international media it tends to be either as the scene of an appalling natural disaster—flood or cyclone—or as the crucible for one of the great experiments in microcredit. > Its politics tend to be ignored. This is surprising, since it is a bastion of moderate Islam, which, like other moderate Muslim countries, such as Pakistan and Indonesia, has been prey to an extremist fringe. > > India accuses it of harbouring groups plotting secession in its north-eastern states and, at times, of training terrorists who mount attacks elsewhere in India.Outside the subcontinent, however, few pay much attention. This is just as well for the "interim" administration, which took power in January 2007 with the backing of the army. The state of emergency it imposed then is still in force. This has allowed for some outrageous abuses. > > According to Odhikar, a Bangladeshi human-rights group, 68 people died in extrajudicial killings (often called "crossfire") in the first half of this year. Torture is endemic. The government also quietly adopted a new counter-terrorism ordinance last month, without debate. Human Rights Watch, a research and lobbying group, says it violates fundamental freedoms. > > Last month, after the breakdown of talks between the government and the political parties on the election promised for December, about 28,000 political activists were detained. The country's 68 prisons are designed to hold 27,368 people, but they were crammed with 87,579 prisoners in late June, according to the government. Some convicted prisoners are being freed prematurely to make room for these unconnected—and uncharged—political detainees.. > > There two main reasons why all this is so widely overlooked. The first is that when the army intervened in January 2007, most Bangladeshis were relieved (as were aid donors). The two main political parties—the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and the Awami League—seemed incapable of managing an orderly transfer of power. So the voices that might draw attention to the government's abuses have been muted. > > Secondly, the previous, BNP-led, government did not like the foreign press, and made it very hard for journalists to visit. It succeeded in removing Bangladesh from the international news agenda. > > A modest attempt to draw attention to Bangladesh's predicament was staged on June 27th in the unlikely setting of the House of Lords in London. In the Moses Room, dwarfed by the huge painting of the Old Testament prophet bringing God's laws down from the top of the mountain, Lord Avebury, a British peer, chaired a seminar on "political dialogue and the way forward to elections" in Bangladesh. > > Since Britain is both the former colonial power and has around 250,000 citizens of Bangladeshi origin, it is not surprising that its parliamentarians should take an interest in the country. Indeed, it is perhaps more surprising that the seminar was sparsely attended. > One speaker, Saber Hossain Chowdhury, an Awami League leader, professed to see light at the end of the tunnel. The League is about to re-enter talks with the government. There seems a good chance that local and parliamentary elections will proceed. > It is hard, however, to see how they can be free or fair, while emergency rule in still in place. The seminar adopted a unanimous resolution calling for an immediate end to the state of emergency. > > Naturally, this was not widely reported. > > http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/asiaview/displayStory.cfm?story_id=11659880 > > >
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Would you please send me your article and the font to my personal account ( cahrbak_bd@yahoo.com )? I would like to take a look to solve the problem, if any. I will send the pdf of your file to Prof. Ajoy Roy.
Regards Avijit
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I concur with most of Engr. Rabiul Alam's observations and comments. He has, however, missed mentioning one supremely important component in the repetitive pattern of military dictatorships establishing new political parties as decoys of democracy. And that is Islamization of the political foundations of Bangladesh. The current trend is no exception to the nefarious rule.
Military and the destruction of the secular nature of the 1972 Constitution of Bangladesh have gone hand in hand. This destruction of the Constitution has been ourageously illegal! There is no "law" in the constitution that is called Martial Law.
Please read the following excerpt from Judgment issued on 29th August, 2006, High Court Division by
Fifth Amendement (Act 1979) validated all illegal acts of the usurpers under the clout of Martial Law not only changing the basic structure as well as the character of the Constitution in its totality but rather, uprooted the Constitution; it was no amendment in the eye of law, but destruction of the Constitution altogether, as such, ultra vires to the Constitution.
Please remember, nay, memorize these lines.
Farida Majid
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How dare you talk against daughter of our Father (except mine; I have my own father) of the Nation? Do you know what might happen to you after a few months when BAL will be power? They will unleash RAB to put you in cross-fire or send Taher, Shamim Osman, Altaf Golondaj, Zainal Hazari to teach you a lesson. So be careful.
She is not corrupt at all. Others are corrupt? Tariq Zia; He looted hundreds of thousands of dollars from Bangladesh. He ruined Bangladesh's economy. Turned Sonar Bangla into a "Moru Bangla". He must be punished. His entire spine must be broken into pieces.
SH
Toronto
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From: Md. Aminul Islam <aminul_islam_raj@yahoo.com> Subject: [ALOCHONA] CHI CHI HASHINA , ATOBORO CHOLONA ? To: alochona@yahoogroups.com, sonarbangladesh@yahoogroups.com, WideMinds@yahoogroups.com, notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com, banglarnari@yahoogroups.com, dahuk@yahoogroups.com, khabor@yahoogroups.com, chottala@yahoogroups.com, vinnomot@yahoogroups.com, notunbangladesh@yahoogroups.com, faruquealamgir@yahoo.com, ayubi_s786@yahoo.com, javediqbalkaleem@yahoo.com, dreamer_hillol@yahoo.com, chena_kew@yahoo.com, bdmailer@gmail.com, diagnose@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, July 6, 2008, 11:43 PM
dear all,
Ex prime minister Sk Hasina is now in London on a family tour ,she wiil also go to Finland.Great lesure for great jonodorodi netri .She is very well with son, daughter, sister grandson and grand daughter and other relatives.She enjoys it.
She is abroad for treatment.BUT?
What about the other leaders? Has she any sympathy for others?
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Frankly speaking if the trail was conducting that was a good sign for the people of Bangladesh but unfortunately it will never happen even if any political party who is vocal to this issue comes to power (due to int. pressure).
Look at Middle East they are after only Bangladeshi for any loop & in KSA no children over 18 (Boy or Girl) can not stay with parent (applicable to Bangladeshi's only prooves are there) they are to leave the country with final Exit. These are the impact of the issue raised back in BD.
Actually I blame the AL & Sk. Mujib for pardoning these criminals as the right preserved to them who are victim not to the state especially for this sensitive issue. As a fact we could shape the issue when it is hot. To be practical now these people have huge supporter from the new generation (otherwise how they are elected) those who do not have the knowledge of their deed & they are fanatic. We cannot get rid of this without motivating them. To be realistic it is a huge job that could be done that time (after independence) within few days or months.
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com > From: shafiq013@yahoo.com > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 08:49:51 +0000 > Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Trial of War Criminals and Awami 'Bhondami' > > Dear Mr. Hossain > > You seem very vocal against Bangladesh Awami League (BAL) and parties > calling for the trial of war criminals. Any personal reasons? You are > too hypothetical. If BAL comes to power. If there is trial of war > criminal. If father-in-law of Sk. Hasina's daughter is tried or not. > (If he was a war criminal). How are you so definite that BAL will > loss in next elections? There were no opinion polls nor for that > matter, was any survey conducted. You forgot we are not in January > 2007. The extended age limit of the chief justice has no effect on > making a CTG. Very unfortunately, but Justice Aziz who did everything > not for election but for selection(should I call it rigging)does not > head the election commission anymore. Last, not the least, > Mr.Yesuddin does not enjoy the privilege and power of CTG. > > Personally, I do not have a choice who comes to power in next > election, but I wish and pray that the coming elections are free and > fair. I wish and pray that is no use of muscle power and black money. > I wish and pray that only honest persons are elected as MPs. Not as a > kin of a freedom fighter but as a very conscious citizen of > Bangladesh, I expect and wish who so ever comes to power conducts > trial of war criminals. For all Bangladeshis (except for few who have > personal reasons), enough is enough. Sorry if affects you personally > but it is the call of the day. > > Shafiq Ahmad > > > > --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Sajjad Hossain <shossain456@...> > wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > [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.comYahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alochona/ > > <*> Your email settings: > Individual Email | Traditional > > <*> To change settings online go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alochona/join > (Yahoo! ID required) > > <*> To change settings via email: > mailto:alochona-digest@yahoogroups.com > mailto:alochona-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > alochona-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >
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Due to an editing error, the June 26 article "Most 'primitive' four-legged animal described" stated that early animals made a major transition "from land to sea." The shift was actually the other way around. World Science apologizes for the error.
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Here's a partial list of press coverage received by the Coalition Against Genocide letter sent to the US State Department on July 1st 2008. It has been covered by over two dozen respectable news outlets, including all major Indian newspapers and at least three news wire services. In addition several national television channels from India are also covering the story.
Ahmedabad, July 2 (IANS) While Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's
supporters in the US have invited him for a world Gujarati conference
in August, activists have urged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
not to grant him a visa given the allegations of rights violations
against him. In a petition, 25 organisations of non-resident Indians
under an umbrella group, Coalition Against Genocide, have told Rice:
"It has come to our attention that Narendra Modi is once again
planning to apply for a visa to enter the US."
"We urge the State Department not to allow Modi to enter the country
under any conditions, as the circumstances under which he was denied a
visa in 2005 remain largely unchanged, and the minority communities in
his state continue to face systematic human rights violations."
Modi was denied a visa to visit the US after he was accused of turning
a blind eye to the communal violence in Gujarat in which at least
1,169 people, a majority of them Muslims, were killed, according to
the official figures.
The letter dated July 1 states: "The US should not unwittingly be the
platform from which these unrepentant and yet ascendant forces in
India exploit the opportunity to rally the support base among Indian
diaspora communities and raise international legitimacy and standing."
Pointing out that "not only was Modi responsible for the deaths of
over 2,000 Muslims and the displacement of 200,000 more, but six years
after the Gujarat-state sponsored violence", it says: "The Muslim
community in Gujarat is subjected to a devastating economic and social
boycott, institutionalized at every level."
Modi, along with a number of prominent Gujarati leaders, has been
invited to attend the three-day second world Gujarati conference,
called Chaalo Gujarat, organised by the Association of Indian
Americans of North America (AIANA) and to be held in Edison in late
August.
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