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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

[ALOCHONA] To doubt freeness, fairness of local govt polls than not

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More reasons to doubt freeness, fairness of local govt polls than not

The claim of the chief election commissioner and a couple of advisers to the military-controlled interim government that the elections on Monday to four city corporations and nine municipal corporations were 'free' and 'fair' and provided justification for holding the parliamentary polls under a state of emergency is only predictable. Their claim only lends credence to the suspicion that the incumbents went ahead with the local government elections to bolster their arguments that withdrawal of emergency is not a precondition for free and fair parliamentary polls. What was rather disappointing, albeit not quite surprising, was the overzealousness of a section of the so-called civil society, including some media organisations, to project the 'freeness' and 'fairness' of the city corporation and municipality polls. Such overzealousness may have been prompted by the absence of violence and the reasonable turnout of voters, but was, we are afraid, misplaced.
   There are, we believe, more reasons than one to believe the elections were neither free nor fair. First, election and the state of emergency are mutually exclusive; while the former is a manifestation of free thinking and freedom of expression, the latter officially restricts the people's fundamental rights to freedom of thought and expression. The state of emergency, restrictive and repressive as it is, also generates a pervasive sense of fear. In all likelihood, such fears have played on the people's mind, at least at the subconscious level, when they exercised their right to adult franchise.
   Second, the fairness of the elections is also questionable. In the absence of one of the two major political camps, the city corporation and municipality elections degenerated into virtually a one-horse race and were hardly representative in nature. Participation by all competing political camps not only enhances the credibility of the elections but also guarantees fairness of the electoral process. Besides, the Election Commission lamented, three weeks or so prior to the elections, that its endeavours to free the elections from all sorts of irregularities and influence might go in vain because of shady activities of some field-level officials of the civil administration.
   Third, while the commission and the government have used the 'clean chit' given by the elections observers to substantiate their claim that the city corporation and municipal elections were 'free' and 'fair', it has emerged that the election monitoring exercise was itself questionable. There are allegations that credible election monitors were given a cold shoulder by the field-level election officials and, in many cases, not afforded adequate access to the polling centres.
   Added to these, lengthy process of checking, flawed electoral roll and confusion over the use of national identity cards tested the voters' patience at some places, indicating that the commission's preparation, in terms of personnel and logistics, may not have been foolproof.
   Overall, there are very few reasons for the Election Commission and the government to think that Monday's elections were 'free' and 'fair' or that the elections were conducted efficiently. There are even fewer reasons for them to think that the city corporation and municipal polls provided a justification for the general elections to be held under a state of emergency. Of course, they may try to hold the general elections with the state of emergency in force; however, such elections would be far from credible and, most importantly, may not facilitate the democratic transition the people aspire for.

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[mukto-mona] Re: CEMB Oct Conference: Political Islam, Sharia Law, and Civil Society

WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/49302

I wish I were there. Among others, Richard Dawkins and Taslima
Nasrin! Seems like "shona-y shohaga".

Very proud of you all, fear-free liberated souls! You are much beyond
being ex-muslims. You are the light bearers into darkness. So when I
see/hear ex-muslims, somebody sings within me, "abaar tora manush
Ha" - (why be ex-muslim, be human again).

Tistarbahe

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[ALOCHONA] Bangladesh: National Interest Group Report - April-July 2008

Bangladesh: National Interest Group Report - April-July 2008

The report has been developed in the context of the national interest of Bangladesh. From the last three decades we see the foreign intervention in our local politics, policy making and govt. decision making has been tremendously increased. Now day the current role of ambassadors and high commissioners has become visibly dominant in our local politics that made the civilians as well as the intellectuals of Bangladesh more warred about national sovereignty and foreign policy codes. National Interest Group is publishing this report in responses of the high demand and the country. This report will be circulated among the different stake holders in the different level of the Nation. we hope that we can generate a collective awareness about this matters so that we can start a productive discussion to ensure the accountability, transparency and a strong foreign and state policy of Bangladesh accordingly.

Advent of two new doctrines called `clash of civilization' and `war against terror' have further jeopardized the political existence of these states. In both cases Islam has been particularly targeted as a religion `breeding terror' and Muslims as poor and impoverished population easily drawn to terrorist outfits. It has become a major challenge for the people of Bangladesh to demonstrate their commitment to liberty, social and economic justice and democratic state building in such a hostile global and regional environment. The sole global super-power has unilaterally taken the role of judge, jury and executioner in their relentless hegemonic pursuit to create so-called `new world order'. United Nation has been relegated to the role of abettor to any adventurous scheme taken by United States. As a result, the world has become less secured for geographically smaller and militarily weaker countries like Bangladesh. India's sole desire to control their backyard, reduce Bangladesh to serve its political, military and economic interest has reinforced by the new global alliance with USA and Israel and is being consolidated through various economic, security, defence and most importantly, nuclear deal.
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National Interest Group
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  • National Interest Group Report aug 2008.doc
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    [ALOCHONA] CHT Commission co-chair Lord Avebury arrives today


    Chittagong Hill Tract Commission (CHTC) Co-chairman Lord Avebury arrives in the city today to hold introductory discussions with key stakeholders and settle the Commission's programme.

    The CHTC, composed of experts from inside and outside the country, was formulated to promote respect for human rights, democracy, participatory development and land rights in the CHT area.

    The CHT Commission will also examine implementation of the CHT Peace Treaty of 1997.
    The Commission members will also visit CHT and meet tribal leaders and the local administration.

    Lord Avebury is expected to meet high-ups of the caretaker government, including chief adviser, army chief, civil society representatives and political party leaders.

    Other members of the Commission are Sultana Kamal, co-chair of CHTC, Victoria Tauli Corpus, CHTC member from the Philippines, Sara Hossain, member, Shapan Adnan, member, M Zafar Iqbal, member, Tom Eskildsen, Jumma Net Japan representative, and Chris Erni, IWGIA representative.

    Prior to his visit to Bangladesh, Lord Avebury, also chairman of International Bangladesh Foundation and vice chairman of All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group, visited the historic Brick Lane Mosque in the heartland of the Bangalee community in London on Friday.
     

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    [mukto-mona] Terror of Sharia in Iran-worst human right record in Middle East..




    August 6, 2008

    Islamic Shariah Fascism in Iran

    by A.T.

    It is early dawn as seven young men are led to the gallows amid shouts of "Allah Akbar" (Allah is great) from a crowd of bearded men as a handful of women, all in hijab, ululate to a high pitch. A few minutes later, the seven are hanged as a mullah shouts: "Alhamd li-Allah" (Praise be to Allah).

    The scene was Wednesday in Mashad, Iran's second most populous city, where a crackdown against "anti-Islam hooligans" has been under way for weeks.

    Five convicted criminals are hung in Mashad, Iran, on Wednesday Aug. 1, 2007. The Mashad hangings, broadcast live on local television, are among a series of public executions ordered by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last month as part of a campaign to terrorize an increasingly restive population. Over the past six weeks, at least 118 people have been executed, including four who were stoned to death. According to Saeed Mortazavi, the chief Islamic prosecutor, at least 150 more people, including five women, are scheduled to be hanged or stoned to death in the coming weeks.

    The latest wave of executions is the biggest Iran has suffered in the same time span since 1984, when thousands of opposition prisoners were shot on orders from Ayatollah Khomeini.

    Not all executions take place in public. In the provinces of Kurdistan and Khuzestan, where ethnic Kurdish and Arab minorities are demanding greater rights, several activists have been put to death in secret, their families informed only days after the event.

    The campaign of terror also includes targeted "disappearances" designed to neutralize trade union leaders, student activists, journalists and even mullahs opposed to the regime. According to the latest tally, more than 30 people have "disappeared" since the start of the new Iranian year on March 21. To intimidate the population, the authorities also have carried out mass arrests on spurious grounds.

    * According to Gen. Ismail Muqaddam, commander of the Islamic Police, a total of 430,000 men and women have been arrested on charges related to drug use since April.

    * A further 4,209 men and women, mostly aged between 15 and 30, have been arrested for "hooliganism" in Tehran alone.

    * The largest number of arrests, totaling almost a million men and women according to Mr. Muqaddam, were related to the enforcement of the new Islamic Dress Code, passed by the Islamic Majlis (parliament) in May 2006.

    * Most of those arrested, he says, spent a few hours, or at most a few days, in custody as "a warning." By last week, 40,000 were still in prison.

    * Of these, 20,363 men and women are held on charges related to violating the Islamic Dress Code.

    * According to the Deputy Chief of Police Gen. Hussein Zulfiqari, an additional 6,204 men and women are in prison on charges of "sexual proximity" without being married.

    The wave of arrests has increased pressure on the nation's inadequate prison facilities. At a recent press conference in Tehran, the head of the National Prisons Service, Ali-Akbar Yassaqi, appealed for a moratorium on arrests.

     

    * He said Iran's official prisons could not house more than 50,000 prisoners simultaneously while the actual number of prisoners at any given time was above 150,000.

    * Mr. Yassaqi also revealed that each year on average some 600,000 Iranians spend some time in one of the 130 official prisons.

    Since Mr. Ahmadinejad ordered the crackdown, work on converting 41 official buildings to prisons has started, with contracts for 33 other prisons already signed. Nevertheless, Mr. Yassaqi believes that, with the annual prison population likely to top the million mark this year, even the new capacities created might prove insufficient.

    There are, however, an unknown number of unofficial prisons as well, often controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or militias working for various powerful mullahs. Last week, human rights activists in Iran published details of a new prison in Souleh, northwest of Tehran, staffed by militants from the Lebanese branch of Hezbollah. According to the revelations, the Souleh prison is under the control of the "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenehi, and used for holding the regime's most "dangerous" political foes.

    The regime especially fears the growing free trade union movement. In the past four months, free trade unionists have organized 12 major strikes and 47 demonstrations in various parts of the country. They showed their muscle on International Labor Day on May 1 when tens of thousands of workers marched in Tehran and 18 provincial capitals. The regime retaliated by arresting scores of trade unionists and expelling many others.

    * According to Rajab-Ali Shahsavari, leader of the Union of Contractual Workers, 25,795 unionists have been fired since April. He estimates that now over 1,000 workers are losing their jobs each day, as the regime intensifies its crackdown.

    Worse still, the number of suspicious deaths among workers has risen to an all-time high.

    * According to Deputy Labor Minister Ibrahim Nazari-Jalali, 1,047 workers have died in "work-related accidents" since April. Labor sources, however, point out that none of the accidents have been investigated and, in at least 13 cases, the workers who died may have been killed by goons hired by the regime.

    * The biggest purge of universities since Khomeini launched his "Islamic Cultural Revolution" in 1980 is also under way. Scores of student leaders have been arrested and more than 3,000 others expelled.

    Labeling the crackdown the "corrective movement," Mr. Ahmadinejad wants university textbooks rewritten to "cleanse them of Infidel trash," and to include "a rebuttal of Zionist-Crusader claims" about the Holocaust. Dozens of lecturers and faculty deans have been fired.

    The nationwide crackdown is accompanied with efforts to cut Iranians off from sources of information outside the Islamic Republic.

    * More than 4,000 Internet sites have been blocked, and more are added each day.

    The Ministry of Islamic Orientation has established a new blacklist of authors and book titles twice longer than what it was a year ago.

    * Since April, some 30 newspapers and magazines have been shut and their offices raided. At least 17 journalists are in prison, two already sentenced to death by hanging.

    The regime is trying to mobilize its shrinking base by claiming that the Islamic Republic is under threat from internal and external foes. It was in that context that the four Iranian-American hostages held in Tehran were forced to make televised "confessions" last month about alleged plots to foment a "velvet revolution."

    * Over 40 people have been arrested on charges of espionage since April, 20 in the southern city of Shiraz. Khomeinist paranoia reached a new peak last week when the authorities announced, through the Islamic Republic News Agency, the capture of four squirrels in the Western city of Kermanshah and claimed that the furry creatures had been fitted with "espionage devices" by the Americans in Iraq and smuggled into the Islamic Republic.

    Mr. Ahmadinejad likes to pretend that he has no worries except "Infidel plots" related to the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions. The truth is that, faced with growing popular discontent, the Khomeinist clique is vulnerable and worried, extremely worried. The outside world would do well to carefully monitor and, whenever possible, support the Iranian people's fight against the fascist regime in Tehran.

    Iran today is not only about atomic bombs and Iranian-American hostages. It is also about a growing popular movement that may help bring the nation out of the dangerous impasse created by the mullahs.

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    Iran hangs 29 people,

    August 2008:
    Iran has hanged 29 persons in Tehran;  people convicted of fictitiuos drug trafficking, murder and rape charges. The hangings brought to about 150 the number of people executed in Iran so far this year.

    International human rights groups have accused Iran of fascist Penal laws, torture-induced-confessions, unjust mullah-langroo courts, faulty and arbitrary juridicial procedures, and of making excessive use of the death penalty for minor offenses, mostly in order to spread terror and fear in the Islamic fascist Iran.

    The Rome-based Hands Off Cain, which campaigns to stop the death penalty, said last week that at least 355 people were put to death in Iran last year, compared with 215 in 2006, while 250 have been executed this year uptill now.. The group said the actual figure may be even higher because Iran does not publish official statistics on the number of executions.

    Iranian rights activists said earlier this month that authorities have sentenced eight women and one man convicted of adultery to death by stoning, soon to be brutally executed..

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    FW: [ALOCHONA] Re: [chottala.com] Ph.D.


    This issue has really gone too far. Is there really any merits of all talks (good or bad) about someone's (Netri or whatever) honorary Ph. D. degree? How we are contributing in nation building being engaged in such low issues.
     
    Folks, please take a minute and go through my list below:
     
    (1) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) degrees are not all alike.
    (2) In American and Canada, a graduate students have to pass graduate level courses (core & optional) worth 100 or more credits (again different for semester and quarter systems).
    (3) To pass qualifying examinations.
    (4) To do research and write a dissertation.
    (5) A committee approves the Ph. D. degree upon fulfillment of all requirements. It takes usually 4 to 5 years to complete the degree.
    ________________________________________________________________
    (6) In England, Europe, Australia, and in many other countries, passing graduate level courses are not required.
    (7) They just do research and write the dissertation or doctoral thesis.
    (8) Ph. D. Degree is awarded upon acceptance of the the dissertation or doctoral thesis.
    ________________________________________________________________
    (9) These are some of the processes how Ph. D. Degree is awarded to the STUDENTS.
    ________________________________________________________________
    (10) However, many universities around the world, in almost all countries, the Ph. D. degree is awarded as honorarium too.
    (11) These are not real degree, these are honorary degrees only.
    (12) In all Universities, the professors have to have a Ph. D. Degree in order to teach higher level courses, and to be tenured in the tenure track positions, towards going to be the full professor.
    (13) However, honorary Ph. D. degree holders are not considered in any Universities to do professorship, in the subject, to which Ph. D. degree is awarded.
    (14) Honorary Ph. D. Degree can not be pursued, passed, asked for, or bought (as some people suspect).
    (15) This is entirely on the evaluation of the University, based on some remarkable and observable merits of the candidate, on which he/she is honored by awarding a honorary Ph. D. degree.
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    (16) I am absolutely not the member of any political parties, and certainly not, of Awwami League. But I am sure, Sheikh Hasina did not have to pay any money to earn all these honorary Ph. D. Degrees. She must have some qualities, political or otherwise, that became evident to these University administrations, and thus she were awarded these Ph. D. Degrees. IT SHOULD BE GREETED RATHER THAN DENOUNCE, BY ALL (FRIENDS & FOES).
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    (17) I just don't understand, why we are crying so much, with some false reasoning. WE MUST HAVE BEEN BAFLED SOMEWAY.
    (18) We had better be educated, before opening our mouths, and to cause sore of this immense measure.
     
    Thanks for the patience.
     
    Best Regards,
    K. Raisuddin






    To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
    From: imaamc@gmail.com
    Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:12:31 -0400
    Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: [chottala.com] Ph.D.


    Her name should be included in Guinness World Records ( http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ ).
    Another thing: Govt. should form an Inquiry Committee about the public money misuse for Ph.D. degrees purchase.
     


     
    On 8/1/08, Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com> wrote:
    In fact Hasina got(managed/bought ????) in all 13 Ph.D's. The octogenarian sub assistant leader of BAL Zillur
    Rahman
    once said boasting in the Mohan(?) Shangshad that his netri is so busy in the welfare of the "Apamor Jonoshadharan" so she refused many many dozens of  offer of Ph.D to her . 

    Bangladesh is the luckiest country to have had such  a erudite,prudent,knowlesgable,highly educated,dozens of Ph.D holders leader. The other countries must be jelous not to have such PM. As some of the PM's great great grand grandma or grandpa was Thief,begger(the Austrailian PM),or even one could not cross high school and was bus conductor (John Major,UK).

    GOODS LUCK  BANGLADESH.

    JUGEY JUGEY JENO EROKOM KANDARI POW TAHOLEY AR  1/11 ER OBHABH HOBEY NA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    Faruque Alamgir

    On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:47 AM, shahid <shahid@merimo.net> wrote:



    Subject: Ph.D.

    FYI:

    "Many Universities are offering Ph. D. degree to me but I could not
    avail
    these because I have shortage of time" said by ex-Prime Minister of
    Bangladesh and Bangakaonna Sheikh Hasina. During her 5 years reign, she
    obtained nine Ph.
    D. degrees from various universities of the world. In fact, by obtaining
    nine Ph. D. degree, she set up an world record. It is believed that
    there
    is no such person in the world who could be able to obtain nine Ph. D.
    degree in his life time. Sheikh Hasina, who is a graduate of Dhaka
    University, didn't complete her Masters degree but now she became the
    richest person in the world in context of having Ph. D.

    Last two years, a team of the Government officials was assigned to
    contact
    various universities of the world for finding any scopes to obtain Ph.
    D.
    degree for Sheikh Hasina. Thanks to almighty, they were able to manage
    following degrees for her:

    1. Doctor of Science: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibar Rahman Agricultural
    University, Bangladesh.
    2. Doctor of Laws: Boston University, USA.
    3. Doctor of Laws: Waseda University, Japan.
    4. Doctor of Liberal Arts: University of Albertay, Scotland.
    5. Doctor of Literature (Deshikottom): Bishwabharati, India.
    6. Doctor of Laws: National University, Australia.
    7. Doctor of Laws: Dhaka University, Bangladesh.
    8. Doctor of Laws: Catholic University, Belgium.
    9. Doctor of Human Letters: Bridgeport University, USA.

    Sheikh Hasina somehow managed nine Ph. D. degrees without suitable
    academic
    background but she spent millions of poor people's money for traveling
    various countries to collect her degrees. It is also rumored that she
    spent
    huge public money for purchasing most of the Ph. D. degree she obtained.
    Wastage of poor people's money for obtaining useless degrees is not
    acceptable. We demand proper investigation of such unethical activities of
    the past Awami League Government.




     






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    RE: [ALOCHONA] Kuwait - Nurul Kabir said it all

    Mr. Mahthirofbd,
     
    I am sure you do not know enough about the arabs. I would request you to try to be with the arabs and learn more about them from within. You will find enough people who had the physical experiences about them. You will be surprised and will definitely withdrew your advice of teaching me how arabs are and what they do. Are you reading the postings or the newspapers what Kuwait is doing to poor muslims from Bangladesh? This is an issue that people know now because it happened suddenly too much there. In some lower scales, these thing sare happening, there always.
     
    Yes, arabs treat poor muslims. What is the ultimate aim of the help? Not for any other reasons, but to get an edge and slowly by slowly to suck into the tents of the radicalism.
     
    They do not even pay the right wage when they pay the poor muslims. They just give alms (vikka). All over arab lands, they pay at least 3 times more to non-muslim whites, for the same jobs. 
     
    Who says we do not treat our poor relatives? I am sorry to say, you must be a different Bangladeshi. I always got extreme helps from my relatives and neighbors, and in return, I try to do the same. Can you tell me why do I write in the forums on Bangladeshi issues? Do I get paid by someone? or from somewhere? or with an ambition of being rich doing politics? Certainly, not. I do not get a benefit of one penny.  Of course, it will be my benefit, if any of my thoughts work better for Bangladesh, and the people of Bangladesh be benefited.
     
    Thanks to who helps during the disasters. Not only the arabs, many other countries did help. That is another way of influencing and achieving their ultimate Wahhabian goals. Have you ever seen Village politics? It is like that.
     
    It seems that they were at least succeded to influence you. I am sorry to say it, otherwise, I am sure, you would not make such comments.
     
    Do you know that in the entire arab lands, they employ many many more non-muslims than the muslims and with higher wages. All they do for muslims are nothing but giving (Vikka) alms. They openly address all bangladeshi and Pakistani muslims  as "MISKINS". Would you consider it as the great honor for your muslim brothers, from another muslims?
     
    No more I want to say on this issue. I would really appreciate if you personally study and collect data on this issue and decide whatever you like. I am only sorry that I could not take your advice and agree to what you said in your posting. You need to try to find more truths by yourself on this issue.
     
    Thanks and have a great day.
     
    Very Respectfully,
    K. Raisuddin






    To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
    From: wouldbemahathirofbd@yahoo.com
    Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 04:35:19 -0700
    Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Kuwait - Nurul Kabir said it all


    Mr. Raisuddin, i feel to write some thing, not to defend the arabs. But to bring human nature to your nature.
     
     How do we treat our poor relatives  and rich relatives and neighbours?.
     Similarly , arabs treat poor muslims.
     
     By the  way, do you know who made the biggest donation  during the sidr ? who  fulfilled their promise?
     
     
     If don't know, then brose the newpapers around the sidr time.

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    http://www.microscopiceye.blogspot.com/


    --- On Mon, 8/4/08, Kajimel Raisuddin <Kraisuddin@hotmail.com> wrote:
    From: Kajimel Raisuddin <Kraisuddin@hotmail.com>
    Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Kuwait - Nurul Kabir said it all
    To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
    Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 10:00 PM

    Just not kuwait, all arab countries are alike. Arabs made transition from donkey to mercedez. All guest workers, except white skins, are miskin to them. In the world history, arabs introduced the slavery in the world. Arabs gangs would go to Africa and catch people like bird hunting, wpould bring back to european slave traders to send ultimatelu to America and other countries. Nonme of the arab originated riligions prohibited slavery, rather it was readily introduced in the society. In the name of battle or war they would go to weaker neighborhoods, catch all men to make slaves, and delcare all women, children and wealth as "Gonimoth". Women, children and wealth would distributed among the members of the raiders.
     
    That blood still flows in the vein of all arabs. Today they treat the non-white foreign workers as their slaves, buying thousands of women through gang-ship, from poor countries like Bangladesh, to use in their HARAMS. Arab Camel Juckeys are steeling smaller children through gangs, from the poor countries, and using as sex tools. And on the other hand, spending enormous money, by sects like Wahabbis, in less fortunate muslim countries, like Bangladesh, to Mosques, Madrasas, and to extremists, with a view to spreading their extremism.
     
    They are only fortunate because they have oil. Otherwise, from humanitarian viewpoint, they are still like animals. What we can expect from them?






    To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
    From: haquetm83@yahoo. com
    Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 22:18:32 -0700
    Subject: [ALOCHONA] Kuwait - Nurul Kabir said it all


     

    New Age Edirorial

     

    Editorial
    Criminal indifference (4.08.08)

    The photograph front-paged in New Age on Sunday, of a Bangladeshi worker deported from Kuwait showing the marks of injury that he sustained in police action and torture by his employers, reveals more than the despair and desperation of an individual. It exposes the feudalistic mindset of the Kuwaiti society where, seemingly, the relationship between the employers and the employees is not based on mutual recognition and respect but defined by domination – physical and financial – of the former over the latter. It also bears testimony to the military-controlled interim government's failure to stand by our overseas workers and to stand up against the violation of their rights as migrant workers by their Kuwaiti employers and as human beings by the Kuwaiti authorities.
       The series of events that unfolded over the past week should leave no doubt in anyone's minds that the Bangladeshi workers have been doubly denied – first by their Kuwaiti employers and then by the Kuwaiti authorities. It is also obvious that the workers took to the street on valid grounds. That their demand for higher pay and improved working condition was justified has been amply proved by the Kuwaiti government's subsequent decision that the private sector has to increase the minimum wage for workers to 40 Kuwaiti dinars per month and foot their insurance, housing and health expenditures. Deplorably, however, the Kuwaiti security and law-enforcement authorities came down hard on the workers for taking to the street, picking them up from their residence, torturing them and bundling them into homebound planes.
       The harsh treatment meted to the protesting workers suggest that the Kuwaiti authorities are yet to graduate from their medieval mentality, into recognising the migrant workers as partners in development, not paid-up slaves, so to speak, and that they have little regard for the international conventions that guarantees migrant workers protection from any forms of discrimination and rights violation. Perhaps they forget the fact that the modern Kuwait they so eagerly showcase to the rest of the world has been built on the blood and sweat of the migrant workers, especially from the South Asian countries.
       What is even more deplorable is the utmost indifference and, needless to say, ineptitude with which the interim government of Bangladesh has handled the issue thus far. Over and over, the incumbents have displayed what may be called its inherent apathy, if not antipathy, to the working class. For example, one of the first few things that it did upon its assumption of office was to remove makeshift shops from pavements and roadsides in the capital, thereby making thousands of people jobless overnight. Thus, when the foreign secretary issued a veiled threat to the workers in the wake of their demonstrations in Kuwait, we were outraged but not surprised.
       It is common knowledge that our workers get no redress for the exploitation they are subjected to in many countries because of the government's and the overseas missions' failure to protect their rights. In this case as well, the government has hardly taken any effective step to ensure that the deported workers, who number almost 500 by now, are adequately compensated. Such indifference borders on the criminal.
       The government should, therefore, immediately demand of the Kuwaiti authorities for compensation for the deported workers. It should also take up the issue with the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations, as, evidently, the rights of the deported workers were violated on more counts than one. Besides, it should move for a resolution by the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation denouncing the incident; after all, not only Bangladeshis but workers from other South Asian countries have also been subjected to deprivation and denial of rights in Kuwait. As both Bangladesh and Kuwait are members of the Organisation of Islamic Conferences, the incumbents should also lodge a complaint with the OIC.

     


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    Angry BCL activists vandalised the Dhaka University
    Vice-Chancellor's office and set up a fire in protest
    against the re-arrest of BCL General Secretary Mahfuzul
    Haider Chowdhury Roton soon after his release from
    Mymensingh Central Jail yesterday. Bangla
     

     
    Students burn furniture in front of the Dhaka University VC office yesterday, protesting the arrest of Chhatra League leader Mahfuzur Haider Chowdhury
     
     

    Bangladesh Chhatra League activists damage vehicles on the Dhaka University campus on Tuesday, demanding release of the organisation's general secretary Mahfuzul Haider Chowdhury Roton. — New Age photo

     
     
     
     
     
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    Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: tata's withdrawal - i am not sure.................

    I dont know the complete demand of Tata which may be illogical. But the demand of gas is not illogical.
    Think from your side. If you are an investor in industries you must need power.
    Tata did not want electrical power which is very unstable in bangladesh. They wanted gas.
    If you want to make a deal you must specify for how much year you are going to give gas. For tata it was 20 years.

    IF YOU WANT TO RUN A HEAVY INDUSTRY YOU CAN NEVER RUN WITHOUT HEAVY ELECTRICITY OR GAS.

    FYI, tata is not only interested in bangladesh. They are willing to expand their capacity. So they are setting up more steel plants all over the asia.

    See from wikipedia

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Steel

    "Tata Steel has set an ambitious target to achieve a capacity of 100 million tonne by 2015. Managing Director B Muthuraman stated that of the 100 million tonne, Tata Steel is planning a 50-50 balance between greenfield facilities and acquisitions

    • Tata Steel has lined up a series of greenfield projects in India and outside which includes [8]
    1. 6 million tonne plant in Orissa (India)
    2. 12 million tonne in Jharkhand (India)
    3. 5 million tonne in Chhattisgarh (India)
    4. 3-million tonne plant in Iran
    5. 2.4-million tonne plant in Bangladesh
    6. 5 million tonne capacity expansion at Jamshedpur (India)
    7. 4.5 million tonne plant in Vietnam (feasibility studies underway)"


    It is our failure if we cannot join this adventure just for our bad bureaucracy.
    If we have real trouble in gas then it is okey.


    2008/8/5 mahathir of bd <wouldbemahathirofbd@yahoo.com>
    If Tata could be logical and did not make mama'r barir abdar of gurantee of gas for 20 years, that would be good for Bangladesh.
     

     If any conglomerate think of investment in Bangladesh, they must investigate the fact of tata's withdrawal. they will find the illogical demand of tata.
     
     If any other conglomerate don't invest in bangladesh with such silly excuse, then we really don't need such investor.
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    --- On Mon, 8/4/08, Adhiraj Bose <swarnayogi@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
    From: Adhiraj Bose <swarnayogi@yahoo.co.in>
    Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: tata's withdrawal - i am not sure.................
    To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
    Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 4:01 PM

    Mr.Iqbal I dont understand your fears regarding indian conglomerates in
    this regard. The Tata's billion dollar investment was supposed to be
    the country's largest foreign investment till date. Economists in
    Bangladesh have clearly lamented the withdrawal of this investmemt plan
    saying it will be a clear deterent to any further investment in the
    country. th withdrawal of this particular investment will not mean the
    end of the world for fdi in bangladesh but the obvious reaction would
    obviously be in the negative to such a withdrawal by a large
    conglomerate. Here is what the Daily Star had to say in this regard.
    http://www.thedaily star.net/ story.php? nid=48382


    --- In alochona@yahoogroup s.com, "Md. Shamim Iqbal" <shmm777@... > wrote:
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    > i am not sure why am i happy to know about this withdrawal. may be
    its because of the fear i have in mind about indians. since our
    Independence they did little for us (if i have missed any) and
    continuously putting us behind. $ 3 bn is a big fdi for us but as far
    as we came to know, it was a one sided proposal. another 'east india
    company' may be. we should not respond to such proposal(s) from now on.
    >  
    > people of bd learned lesson from 'kafco' experience, so we are
    getting aware of our rights, now we need to propagate this awareness to
    other sectors to prosper ourselves.
    >





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    Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: [chottala.com] Ph.D.

    Her name should be included in Guinness World Records ( http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/ ).

    Another thing: Govt. should form an Inquiry Committee about the public money misuse for Ph.D. degrees purchase.

     



     
    On 8/1/08, Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com> wrote:

    In fact Hasina got(managed/bought ????) in all 13 Ph.D's. The octogenarian sub assistant leader of BAL Zillur
    Rahman
    once said boasting in the Mohan(?) Shangshad that his netri is so busy in the welfare of the "Apamor Jonoshadharan" so she refused many many dozens of  offer of Ph.D to her . 

    Bangladesh is the luckiest country to have had such  a erudite,prudent,knowlesgable,highly educated,dozens of Ph.D holders leader. The other countries must be jelous not to have such PM. As some of the PM's great great grand grandma or grandpa was Thief,begger(the Austrailian PM),or even one could not cross high school and was bus conductor (John Major,UK).

    GOODS LUCK  BANGLADESH.

    JUGEY JUGEY JENO EROKOM KANDARI POW TAHOLEY AR  1/11 ER OBHABH HOBEY NA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    Faruque Alamgir

    On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:47 AM, shahid <shahid@merimo.net> wrote:



    Subject: Ph.D.

    FYI:

    "Many Universities are offering Ph. D. degree to me but I could not
    avail
    these because I have shortage of time" said by ex-Prime Minister of
    Bangladesh and Bangakaonna Sheikh Hasina. During her 5 years reign, she
    obtained nine Ph.
    D. degrees from various universities of the world. In fact, by obtaining
    nine Ph. D. degree, she set up an world record. It is believed that
    there
    is no such person in the world who could be able to obtain nine Ph. D.
    degree in his life time. Sheikh Hasina, who is a graduate of Dhaka
    University, didn't complete her Masters degree but now she became the
    richest person in the world in context of having Ph. D.

    Last two years, a team of the Government officials was assigned to
    contact
    various universities of the world for finding any scopes to obtain Ph.
    D.
    degree for Sheikh Hasina. Thanks to almighty, they were able to manage
    following degrees for her:

    1. Doctor of Science: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibar Rahman Agricultural
    University, Bangladesh.
    2. Doctor of Laws: Boston University, USA.
    3. Doctor of Laws: Waseda University, Japan.
    4. Doctor of Liberal Arts: University of Albertay, Scotland.
    5. Doctor of Literature (Deshikottom): Bishwabharati, India.
    6. Doctor of Laws: National University, Australia.
    7. Doctor of Laws: Dhaka University, Bangladesh.
    8. Doctor of Laws: Catholic University, Belgium.
    9. Doctor of Human Letters: Bridgeport University, USA.

    Sheikh Hasina somehow managed nine Ph. D. degrees without suitable
    academic
    background but she spent millions of poor people's money for traveling
    various countries to collect her degrees. It is also rumored that she
    spent
    huge public money for purchasing most of the Ph. D. degree she obtained.
    Wastage of poor people's money for obtaining useless degrees is not
    acceptable. We demand proper investigation of such unethical activities of
    the past Awami League Government.


     


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