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[ALOCHONA] Dhaka yet to decide on India transit issue

Dhaka yet to decide on India transit issue New Delhi is likely to seek transit from Dhaka for goods movement from one part to another through Bangladesh during the scheduled visit of India's external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee to Dhaka on February 9.Diplomatic sources on Thursday told New Age the government was yet to decide whether to respond positively to India's proposals, covering both land and waterway, especially for the movement of goods from Kolkata to India's north-east. Officials in Dhaka, however, observed Bangladesh could not allow Indian any transit, despite New Delhi's pressure, for certain factors such as lack of infrastructure and logistics, absence of in-depth assessment of possible gains from such an 'economic issue' and its impact on internal security. The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance was, however, hopeful of getting a positive response as the Awami League-led alliance assumed office with an overwhelming majority in the December 29 general elections.Apart from seeking transit, Mukherjee will focus on strong cooperation between the two next-door neighbours on counterterrorism, said diplomatic sources. As for much-talked-about issue of providing India with transit, officials in the foreign ministry said they were preparing their papers on the issue, with explanations of various points.As for gesture Dhaka may have in connection with the issue, a high ministry official evaded a direct reply, but hinted the issue would be discussed thoroughly before a positive response could be formulated. 'As for India's proposals, we need to asses the benefits from such propositions and get the final approval of the government for signing agreements with India, also keeping in mind the political implication,' said the official.He said in the current mechanism, the government needs to get opinions of several ministries, including foreign, commerce, shipping and communications, in such cases. Another official of the ministry said the foreign ministry was involved in the preparation of its position. But the final decision might be made at the political level.He said, 'As India has proposed to use various modes of transit, we are working on that basis.'The official said Indian had last floated the proposal on August 20, 2007 when New Delhi proposed a five-year deal on the regulations of passenger and cargo traffic between the two countries. In the draft, New Delhi proposed allowing Indian goods vehicles and container cargoes to enter the Bangladesh territory through the Benapole land port and again enter Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram in India through the Bangladesh border points at Tamabil, Bibirbazar and Khagrachari. http://www.newagebd.com/2009/feb/01/front.html

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Re: [ALOCHONA] That's the designation that made Joy a wealthy person during 1996-2001 and is now making him wealthiest

This is ok. Bangladesh is very unforgiving place. Joy should know. --- On Thu, 1/29/09, Wohid <bidrohee@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Wohid <bidrohee@yahoo.com> Subject: [ALOCHONA] That's the designation that made Joy a wealthy person during 1996-2001 and is now making him wealthiest To: "Alochona" <alochona@yahoogroups.com> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 10:56 AM U.S. Bangladesh Advisory Council and Johns Hopkins University, SAIS – South Asia Studies cordially invite you to a panel discussion on The Bangladesh Elections and Beyond: Democracy, Security and Development Wednesday, January 28th 5:00-7:00 PM Nitze Building, Kenney Auditorium 1740 Massachusetts Ave NW Following the recent, historic elections in Bangladesh, all eyes on South Asia now focus on the future of its democratically elected regime led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. While the elections, with a record seventy percent turnout, were the most free and fair in the nation's history, questions have been raised on future prospects of democracy, security, and development in Bangladesh . We will be joined by leading experts as they discuss these questions and provide their commentary on Bangladesh's future. Featured panelists: Joshua T. White: 2009 election observer, PhD candidate, SAIS Sajeeb Wazed: Advisor to H.E. The Honorable Sheikh Hasina Dr. Imtiaz Habib: Board Member, U.S. Bangladesh Advisory Council (USBAC) Peter M. Manikas: Senior Associate, Regional Director for Asia, National Democratic Institute (NDI) Special Guest: H.E. Humayun Kabir, Ambassador of Bangladesh to the United States R.S.V.P. to Rahul Madhavan at southasia@jhu.edu or by calling (202) 663‐5722 Light refreshments will be served The U.S. Bangladesh Advisory Council is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization working to strengthen the relationship between the United States and Bangladesh. More at www.usbac.org  The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) | The Johns Hopkins University, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington D.C., 20036 |  p:  (202) 663‐5722 | f: (202) 663-5723; e: southasia@jhu.edu

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[mukto-mona] Gaza Holocaust - The difference between holocaust and Holocaust

What Israel with the tacit approval of George Bush did to innocent people of Ghaza by indiscriminate bombardment and use of chemical weapons has surpassed the Nazi atrocities during world war 2. While rest of the world condemned  Israeli brutalities US did not and gave support to ceasefire after much death and destruction under pressure of Muslim allies. US on previous 36 or so ocassions had vetoed UN resolution condemning Israel for excesses during last 4 decades.. Holocaust, originally means, a religious rite in which an offering was entirely consumed by fire. In current usage, holocaust refers to any widespread human disaster, but due to Zionist propaganda as the term Holocaust (with capital H) it means the almost complete destruction of European Jews by Nazi Germany  In 1938, following the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a young Jew, all synagogues in Germany were set on fire, windows of Jewish shops were smashed by angry mobs just like what happened in Pakistan after assassination of BB. German Government arrested many Jews to hunt down the group that had plotted the murder. Laws against Holocaust denial Holocaust denial is illegal in a number of European countries: Austria (article 3h Verbotsgesetz 1947), Belgium (Belgian Negationism Law), the Czech Republic under section 261, France (Loi Gayssot), Germany (§ 130 (3) of the penal code) also the Auschwitzlüge law section 185, Lithuania, The Netherlands under articles 137c and 137e, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland (article 261bis of the Penal Code). In addition, under Law 5710-1950 it is also illegal in Israel. The Faurisson affair is a term given to an academic controversy in the wake of a book by Robert Faurisson, a Holocaust denier. He asserted that Jewish accounts of Holocaust were exaggerated just to gain sympathy of the West and to wash out hatred of Christians prevailing over several centuries.  The scandal largely dealt with the inclusion of an essay by Noam Chomsky, Some Elementary Comments on the Rights of Freedom of Expression, as an introduction to Faurisson's book. Responding to a request for comment in a climate of attacks on Faurisson, Chomsky defended Faurisson's previous writing (though not his claims) on free speech grounds. His defense was the target of subsequent accusations by various academics and groups. The accusations claimed that his defense went beyond free speech arguments and included defense of Faurisson's work, as well as seeking to discredit Chomsky by claiming a deeper philosophical and political association between him and Faurisson.''''''' In December 1978 and January 1979, Robert Faurisson, a French professor of literature at the University of Lyon, published two letters in Le Monde claiming that the gas chambers used by the Nazis to exterminate the Jews did not exist. As a result of a TV interview, he was found guilty of defamation and incitement to racial hatred and given a suspended 3-month prison term, and a 21,000-franc (€3,200) fine. In addition he was ordered to pay for the reproduction of the judgement in national newspapers and television. This latter requirement was dropped after he appealed [2].     "I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers or even denial of the Holocaust. Nor would there be anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the claim that the Holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously so, by apologists for Israeli repression and violence. I see no hint of anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson's work." (quoted in Noam Chomsky's Search for the Truth) Arif N. Khan http://www.netvert.biz/wordpower http://profiles.yahoo.com/ank2000pk PS. Please endorse a copy of your comments on my post to ank2000pk@yahoo.com

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[mukto-mona] On Friday, the 5th November 1948, a member of the Constituent Assembly of India

On Friday, the 5th November 1948, a member of the Constituent Assembly of India put a Motion to postpone the consideration of the Draft Constitution

                         

I would like to mention some extracts from the speeches made by the Hon'ble Members of the Constituent Assembly of India on Friday, the 5th November 1948, regarding the motion of an amendment for consideration of the Draft Constitution to be postponed by Seth Damodar Swarup:-  

 

"Shri Damodar Swarup Seth (United Provinces: General):*[Mr. President, with your permission I want to place this amendment before the House: Whereas the present Constituent Assembly was not elected on the basis of adult franchise and whereas the final constitution of free India should be based on the will of the entire people of India, this Constituent Assembly resolves that while it should continue to function as Parliament of the Indian Union, necessary arrangements should be made for convening a new Constituent Assembly to be elected on the basis of adult franchise and that the Draft Constitution prepared by the Drafting Committee be placed before it for its consideration and adoption with such amendments as it may deem necessary."

 

"Sir, the first characteristic which a constitution-making body of a free country should possess is that it should be able to claim that it represents the will of the entire people of that country. Sir, with your permission I would put it to the Honourable Members present in this House whether they can sincerely claim that they represent, in this House, the entire people of India. I can emphatically say that this House cannot claim to represent the whole country. At the most it can claim to represent that fifteen per cent of the population of India who had elected the members to the provincial legislatures. The election too, by virtue of which the members of this House are here, was not a direct one, they are here by virtue of an indirect election. In these circumstances, when eighty-five percent of the people of the country are not represented in this House and when they have no voice here, it will be in my opinion a very great mistake to say that this House is competent to frame a Constitution for the whole country. Besides the representative character of the Draft Constitution that is being placed before the house, we have also to consider its nature. We see that the Constitutions of United States of America and Britain have been copied in this Constitution. Some articles have been borrowed from the Constitutions of Ireland, Australia and Canada. A paper has rightly remarked that this is a slavish imitation of the Constitutions of these countries. Sir, the conditions that prevailed in America, Britain, Canada or Australia do not obtain in our country."

 

"I want to ask whether there is any mention of villages and any place for them in the structure of this great Constitution. No, nowhere. The constitution of a free country should be based on 'local self government'. We see nothing of local self-government anywhere in this Constitution. This Constitution as a whole, instead of being evolved from our life and reared from the bottom upwards is being imported from outside and built from above down-words. A constitution which is not based on units and in the making of which they have no voice, in which there is not even a mention of thousands and lakhs of villages of India and in framing which they have had no hand, - well you can give such a constitution to the country but I very much doubt whether you would be able to keep it for long."

 

"The Union that would have been formed in our country in this way, would not have required so much emphasis on centralization as our learned Doctor Ambedkar has laid. Centralization is a good thing and is useful at times but we forget that all through his life Mahatma Gandhi emphasised the fact that too much centralization of power makes that power totalitarian and takes it towards fascist ideals. The only method of safeguarding against totalitarianism and fascism is that power should be decentralized to the greatest extent. We would have thus brought about such a centralization of power through welding of heart as could not be matched anywhere in the world. But the natural consequence of centralising power by law will be that our country which has all along opposed Fascism - even today we claim to strongly oppose it - will gradually move towards Fascism. Therefore, Sir, I want that this House should seriously consider these matters. This is not an ordinary matter. We should not treat this constitution-making as a light and playful business. On the contrary it is a step pregnant with historic consequences. After hundreds, nay, thousands of years I would say, and it would be no exaggeration to say so, that in the history of India it is for the first time that we have this opportunity of framing the Constitution of the whole of India. Therefore no amount of thought we can give to this Constitution can be too much. We may be told and we have been told that let this Constitution be adopted, for the assembly, elected on adult franchise provided therein, would be quite competent to effect the necessary amendments in it."

 

"But Sir, when the Constitution is once framed, there will be legal difficulties in amending it. Moreover it would be no matter of pride for us that a task of such importance in the history of India, which we are expected to complete, should have been left half-finished by us to be completed by others. The coming generations will only deplore such a course of action on our part. Therefore if we take into consideration the unrepresentative character of the Draft Constitution that is before us and its nature and structure, we come to the conclusion that it is not in harmony with our present conditions, our culture and our customs. Therefore it is necessary that we should postpone its consideration for the time being and should form a new Constituent Assembly on the basis of adult franchise so that it may go through this constitution, consider it and amend it where necessary. Till the formation of this new Constituent Assembly the present Constituent Assembly can function as the Parliament of India. We do not want that there should be any delay in this. No doubt we have taken two years to do this work and we might take an year or so more but one or two years are nothing in the life of a nation. So long as this Constitution is not finalised we can continue to function as we have been doing so far. As I have said we are going to frame the Constitution of United India; it should be a new and ideal Constitution."

 

"Today after India has attained freedom it is not necessary for me to tell you that the world is looking up to India. It expects something new from India. At such a times as the present one it was necessary that we should have placed before the world a Draft Constitution, a Constitution, which could have been taken as an ideal. Instead we have copied the constitutions of other countries and incorporated some of their parts and in this way prepared a Constitution. As I have said, from the structure of the Constitution it appears that it stands on its head and not on its legs. Thousands and lakhs of villages of India neither had any hand nor any voice in its framing. I have no hesitation in saying that if lakhs of villages of India had been given their share on the basis of adult franchise in drafting this Constitution its shape would have been altogether different. What a havoc is poverty causing in our country! What hunger and nakedness are they not suffering from! Was it not then necessary that the right to work and right to employment were included in the Fundamental Rights declared by this Constitution and the people of this land were freed from the worry about their daily food and clothing? Every man shall have a right to receive education; all these things should have been included in the Fundamental Rights. But, Sir, I need not say anything else except point out that even Honourable Dr. Ambedkar has had to realize and has also admitted in his speech that many objections have been raised in regard to the Fundamental Rights. Not withstanding the reasoning of the learned Doctor, I find it difficult to accept that the Fundamental Rights and other rights are one and the same thing. I understand that Fundamental Rights are those rights which cannot be abrogated by anybody - nay, not even by the government. One can be deprived of these rights only as a punishment for an offence, awarded by a Court of Law. But if the Fundamental Rights were to be at the mercy of the government, they cease to be Fundamental Rights. Sir, what I mean by all this is that if the thousands of villages of the country, the poor classes and the labourers of India had any hand in framing this Constitution, it would have been quite different from what it is today."

 

"With your permission, therefore, Sir, I would appeal to the House that, treating this Constitution not as ordinary but as a historical document, they should give proper consideration to it. And I would appeal to you, sir, that consideration of the Draft Constitution be postponed for the present and the country be given an opportunity to express itself so that the Constitution that may be framed may really be a democratic Constitution. With these words I close my speech on the amendment."

 

"Prof. Shibban Lal Saksena (United Provinces: General):Mr. President, Sir, Seth Damodar Swarup's amendment should not be dismissed so lightly as my Honourable friend Shri Balkrishna Sharma has done. We ourselves, when the Cabinet Mission were in India, wanted that this Assembly should be elected on adult suffrage; but the Britishers never wanted election on adult suffrage. They forced on us this method of election. If they had acceded to our demand, we would have been elected on adult suffrage. Seth Damodar Swarup knows full well that the Congress party which is in the majority in this House, would have welcomed it. The issue which he has raised is a fundamental one and we must all admit that an Assembly elected on adult suffrage would be the real Constituent Assembly, though I am sure a large majority of these same members would be again returned."

 

"Sethji has also raised other issues. He has said that this Constitution does not give any voice to the villages. He is thinking of the Soviet Constitution. Mahatma Gandhi's own Constitution, of which an outline was given by Shri S. N. Aggarwal, was also based on village republics or village panchayats, and I think we shall have to discuss this point carefully when we come to that aspect of the Constitution. I was pained to hear from Dr. Ambedkar that he rather despised the system in which villages had a paramount voice. I think we will have to amend that portion properly. This Assembly is now entering upon its task and is fully entitled to change the entire Constitution. Sethji has today given his amendments and we shall be very glad to discuss them. I do not think that Sethji is alone in the views he expressed. We must not dismiss these things with the lightness with which my predecessor has dismissed them. In this Assembly we must discuss every aspect of this Constitution with seriousness and everybody must be treated with respect. Other things which he has said, can also be discussed at the proper time. He has said that there is no provision in this Constitution for Local Self Government in units. It is an important thing which must be included in the Constitution and at present there is this omission in the present Constitution."

 

Milap Choraria

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[mukto-mona] Mojaheed hints at apology, defends role

Mojaheed hints at apology, defends role     Sun, Feb 1st, 2009 1:03 am BdST Dhaka, Jan 31 (bdnews24.com)—A senior Jamaat leader has rejected 1971 war crimes charges against the party, saying a political party cannot be criminally charged for its political stance. "This (opposing the independence of Bangladesh) was a matter of a political decision," secretary general Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed said in a TV interview Saturday. "This cannot be treated as a war crime," Mojaheed, who served as a cabinet minister in the BNP-led 2001-06 coalition government, told Channel One. "None of us were involved in activities that are defined as war crimes," the Jamaat leader said. Mojaheed hinted that a formal public apology for the party's 1971 role was likely, however. "We have made (apologetic) statements on various occasions before," he said. "If necessary, if we feel it necessary that we need to speak again, come up with a clearer statement, we will give one." The Jamaat leader put stress on the phrase—"if we feel it necessary", and repeated it. He said: "The political decision could have been wrong, but there was nothing criminal about it. "And it was not just us, Jamaat-e-Islami that opposed (the liberation war), others did too. The Muslim League did," said Mojaheed, clearly on the defensive. http://www.bdnews24.com/details.php?cid=3&id=75215&hb=0 Related Videos: Thuh!!! Rajakar Thuh!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQYRlgLLOHE Razakars Enemies of Bangladesh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzgIfidLE5A&feature=related The War Crime Evidence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGuQU641Rd8

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[mukto-mona] Struggle for Justice - Afghan Bride Deceived by Indian Army officer

Struggle for Justice by Deceived Afghan Bride Resonates in India
By Rama Lakshmi
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, January 31, 2009; A08
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NEW DELHI -- Twenty-year-old Sabra Ahmadzai finished her final high school test in Afghanistan, took out a bank loan and then flew to India on the last day of November. She came to look for an Indian army doctor who she said had deceived, married and then abandoned her in Kabul, making her an object of shame and ridicule.

In India, Ahmadzai's journey has become a rallying point for young women across college campuses who find in her a source of inspiration to question powerful hierarchies of traditional societies. The students in three universities in the capital are trying to set up a "Justice Committee for Sabra" by enlisting eminent lawyers, retired judges, professors and independent activists.

The first thing Ahmadzai did in India was confront her husband in front of his first wife and children. But Ahmadzai did not stop there. She also filed a police complaint and challenged the Indian army, meeting with government officials, women's groups, human rights organizers and student activists. She says her mission is to see her husband, Maj. Chandrashekhar Pant, punished under Indian law prohibiting bigamy.

Pant was stationed at the Indian medical hospital in Kabul and married Ahmadzai two years ago. The ceremony was held 20 days before he returned to India, she said.

He later called Ahmadzai to inform her that he was already married and had two children.

"I had nothing else but anger when I left Kabul. I did not know a single person in India," said Ahmadzai, her close-set eyes darkening as she recalled her troubles.

She sat in the office of the students union of New Delhi's prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University, under a large poster with the words, "Oppression is your privilege, protest is your right."

"But now so many Indians see my fight as theirs," she added. "I want him behind the bars of a jail so that no man ever attempts this again with any other woman in the world. My family trusted him. He not only cheated me, but broke their heart, as well. My family has been ostracized in Kabul because of this shame."

Pant did not respond to multiple text and telephone messages requesting comment and does not have a lawyer representing him publicly.

Ahmadzai carries her nikaah nama, or marriage certificate, and a compact disc of photographs and video clips of her elaborate Kabul wedding, attended by about 700 people. "She is battling the power structures in both Afghanistan and India. She is an inspiration for all of us here," said Sucheta De, 25, a geography student who is a counselor at the student union. "What we women regard as our personal struggle is often a political struggle against dominant social structures."

Ahmadzai worked at the Indian hospital in Kabul as a part-time interpreter for the equivalent of $150 a month, while attending school in the afternoon. She said she had learned Hindi from the popular Bollywood movies in her middle-class home.

Pant, who was her boss, approached her family three times with his marriage proposal, Ahmadzai said. When her mother sent him away because he was not a Muslim, he returned with a priest pledging to convert from Hinduism to Islam, she added.

"I did not love him. He was my boss and twice my age. But the elders and the priest said, 'We have given our word and cannot take it back,' "she recalled "he had won their hearts by treating sick children of my relatives, too. They liked him. I followed their wishes obediently."

Pant changed his name to Himmat Khan, and called her "Cat" in Hindi, she said. But after less than three weeks of married life, she said, Pant told her that the army was sending him back to India and that he would return for her. Ahmadzai said she received three calls in six months and the last one, in the middle of 2007, was an "unimaginable blow." "He said: 'Sabra, you are young, beautiful; you should remarry. I have a wife and two sons here in India,' " she recalled.

Then the taunts began. People in Kabul jeered at her. "If I spoke ill about him, it was like slapping my own face. So I kept quiet," she said. "Women said that I was a stigma on earth and should take poison and die. The local boys harassed me and shouted that they are ready to marry me for 20 days, too. I decided to come to India to confront him."

She pledged her uncle's ancestral land for a bank loan, collected her savings and went to India with her mother. From New Delhi, she took a bus to meet Pant in the Himalayan town of Pithoragarh, where he is stationed.

"I told him to come to Kabul and divorce me in front of everybody," Ahmadzai said. "It is better to be divorced than abandoned in my society."

Pant refused to accept her or divorce her, offering her money instead, she said. Enraged, Ahmadzai filed a police complaint. Overnight, her cause was adopted by local activist groups. A signature campaign began. Women and students waved placards and protested in support of her, and blocked traffic for five hours demanding that Pant be punished. Ahmadzai addressed the crowds. The city's newspapers splashed her story on their front pages. Ahmadzai's mother fell sick and returned to Kabul, but Ahmadzai came to New Delhi and met the home affairs minister and the National Commission for Women.

Earlier this month, Gen. Deepak Kapoor, the Indian army's chief of staff, told reporters that army officials are looking into Ahmadzai's allegations.

Pant could face charges of bigamy and changing his religion without the army's permission, transgressions that could result in expulsion from military service. Under Indian civil law, Pant could face seven to 10 years in prison for bigamy, if convicted, according to Ravinder Singh Garia, Ahmadzai's attorney in New Delhi.

Police in Pithoragarh said they have registered Ahmadzai's complaint but have not filed charges against Pant because the case involves actions allegedly committed abroad and because the army is conducting a probe. "Our inquiry is in progress," Kapoor said. "If he is found to be at fault, we will not hesitate at any point to take action."

But, the army chief added, there was a discrepancy in the dates. "She said in her police complaint that her marriage took place in December," he said. "But as per our records, the major was there in Afghanistan from January to November."

Ahmadzai said the army interpreted the date incorrectly from the Islamic Afghan calendar date she gave in her police report.

Her supporters say that Pant should be tried in a civilian court.

"The army can punish him, but it cannot give her justice. Only a civil court can," said Mobeen Alam, 30, a doctoral student and joint secretary of the Jawaharlal Nehru University student union. "If the army is indeed conducting an inquiry, why have they not contacted Sabra to record her version?"

Ahmadzai's appointments in New Delhi are now managed by the university students in the sprawling campus that is the font of India's liberal politics. She communicates with her family daily on Google Talk, sits in on films and debates the Israeli war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Ahmadzai now says that if her case drags on, she may try to enroll in an undergraduate course. "I do not know how long my struggle will go on," she said. "At least I will have a degree while I wait for justice."

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[ALOCHONA] Fw: RE: The month of mourning

--- On Sat, 1/31/09, Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: YES. The writer is on the right track. Although he has not mentioned the genocide in 1971, instigated by the US, to the readers of the Dawn, he has made the right approach. How about posting the article to the Rupee News, who do not seem to understand the reasons why the people of Bangladesh wanted independence from Pakistan? The Rupee News look at it only from the perspective of Indian manipulation, which the Pakistan government should have known from the beginning any way and, things being so, they should have refrained from  oppressing the people and from serving the selfish and criminal interests of the Pakistani zamindars and generals at the cost of the national interest.    Has the situation in Pakistan or Bangladesh improved? ALAS, NO! And so we have a job to do. To thwart the aggressions of the imperialists, the hegemonists and their lackeys both in Pakistan and in Bangladesh, we have to organise the people in national resistance.   Thank you Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:13:35 -0800 From: bd_mailer@yahoo.com Subject: The month of mourning To: zoglul@hotmail.co.uk; mbimunshi@gmail.com; rehman.mohammad@gmail.com; mahmudurart@yahoo.com; farhadmazhar@hotmail..com; adelm@uapb.edu; premlaliguras@hotmail.com; dhakamails@yahoogroups.com; khabor@yahoogroups.com; alochona@yahoogroups.com; bdresearchers@yahoogroups.com; bangla-vision@yahoogroups.com; mouchakaydheel@yahoo.com; janashah_1@yahoo.com; jason@prio.no; odhora@yahoogroups.com; ayeshakabir@yahoo.com; sayantha15@yahoo.com; shahin72@gmail.com; ghazala.khi@gmail.com; minarrashid@yahoo.com; history_islam@yahoogroups.com; jangoonetilleke@aol.com; editorazad@gmail.com; newtimes47@gmail.com The month of mourning By Amar Jaleel December comes with a sharp reminder of the tragic events of 1971 The month of December, since 1971, reminds us of our loved ones and friends in East Pakistan who were separated from us as a result of painful and lamentable political events systematically nurtured for 24 years from 1947. My generation is eyewitness to the treacherous conspiracies West Pakistani politicians hatched during civilian and military rule against the Bengalis that ultimately compelled them to opt for parting of the ways. The conspirators had their vested interests in masterminding the separation of East Pakistan. "Why would some of the politicians desire separation of East Pakistan from West Pakistan?" This is a valid question that is bound to lurk in the mind of those born after 1958, the year General Ayub Khan took over the country and gave fickle-minded Pakistanis first taste of Martial Law. In the chain of events the Martial Law changed hands in 1968, giving General Yahya Khan an occasion to rule the restless country. By the time people born in 1958 were 13 years of age, Pakistan disintegrated in December 1971. East Pakistan became Bangladesh. West Pakistan was given the name of Pakistan. It is unfair to expect from a child of 13 to retrace the complex political problems Pakistan was beset with that compounded under Martial Law from the year 1958. The State-controlled electronic media bombarded the masses in West Pakistan with disinformation about the situation in East Pakistan. Based on the malicious information, the 13-year-old boy would conveniently recall that the disgruntled elements with the assistance from India succeeded in separating East Pakistan from West Pakistan. The misleading information made inroads in our history, found a place in it, and it is taught to generation after generation since the catastrophic parting of the ways between the brothers in 1971. Huge trees do not grow overnight. The seeds of separation for reaping the harvest in 1971 were sowed in 1948 within one year of the coming into being of Pakistan. Separated by a thousand mile Indian territory, East Pakistan nurtured a homogenous population of 45 million, and West Pakistan's heterogeneous population was 30 million. The Central (Federal) Government consisting of handpicked favourites utterly failed in maintaining parity between the two wings of Pakistan. The constitutional proposals and the provisions of Liaqat Ali Khan in 1950 earmarked 200 seats each for East Pakistan and West Pakistan in the Lower House, and 60 seats each in the Upper House. It was a violation of the provision of the number of seats in the lower and upper houses on the basis of population. Liaqat Ali Khan's constitutional proposals ignored Bengali, the language of an overwhelming majority, and proposed Urdu for becoming the state language of Pakistan. It opened the two-year-old wounds of the infuriated aBengalis. Early in 1948, Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, then Governor General, in his address to the nation said, "Urdu and Urdu alone shall be the state language of Pakistan." Here, I would like to speak briefly about Urdu, and then return to our subject of discussion today, parting of the ways. Urdu a phenomenon, a prodigy is a charismatic language. It is soft and poetic, and draws you naturally. You feel cosy and comfortable in its fold. It refuses geographic confinements. It takes wings to distant places, and alien cultures, and is welcomed. It is amazing that a vast majority of writers and poets in Urdu belong to other linguistic nationalities in Pakistan, India, and else where in the world. Unfortunately, Urdu was hijacked by the Muslim League in early 20th Century, and was ruthlessly exploited for political purposes. The language of love and romance was used as a weapon in Pakistan movement. Urdu, the language of India, (at times called Hindustani) was relegated. Urdu became the language of the Muslims who were bent on seeing the break-up of India with a piece of it going to the Muslims for a separate homeland. They succeeded in their mission. The Muslim League became the ruling party in Pakistan. The idiosyncratic rulers immediately put Urdu in conflict with the popular Pakistani languages, Bengali, Sindhi, Pashto, Balochi, and Punjabi, and made it controversial. The rest is history. The attitude of the centre remained the same towards the Bengalis who were enlightened, intelligent, scholarly and artistic in their approach to the realities in life. The West Pakistani jagirdars, sardars, choudhries, and the waderas were no match for the professors, intellectuals, thinkers, scholars and the artistes from East Pakistan who sat with them in the National Assembly. What perturbed the rulers was that the population of East Pakistan was more than the cumulative population of the four provinces in West Pakistan, Punjab, Sindh, NWFP and Balochistan. Bengalis refused to be bulldozed by the federal government. They fought for their legitimate rights, language, proportionate share in the government, jobs, equity and shifting of the National Assembly and the State Bank to Dhaka. The Bengalis suspiciously viewed the influx of investment of the wealthy West Pakistanis in East Pakistan. They feared if not resisted, the West Pakistani billionaires would purchase the land and the resources of the East Pakistan. To quell the Bengalis, the rulers used brute force against them. The force was met with force. India conveniently stepped in. The Muslim League for the second time in history succeeded in the break up of their own country. http://www.dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/061210/dmag2.htm Share your photos with Windows Live Photos – Free Find out more!

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[ALOCHONA] Re: Has Bangladesh become hell already?

Dear Alochoks

Has Bangladesh become a hell already?

It has always been hell in at least the mildest sense of the word.

And BNP complaining about AL before even addressing their own issues
is just symptomatic of our CHORITHRO.

We should talk more about CHORITHRO and KASLOTH and SHOBAB.

But we are cowards.

And after I got involved in our organisational dynamics I understand
why we are cowards on this subject. And I understand why so many
good people just give up and turn away from caring.

EY DESHEH KUNU DEEN KICHU HOBEH.

Any idea how many good Bangladeshis think this?

Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Ahamed Uddin <awuddin@...> wrote:
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> Dear Sir (mahathir of bd):
>  
> My father use to me tell me a story about "Sheyal" (cunning Fox).
The story is that a Sheyal used to complain to his king that
everytime he gets out of the jungle for food many people come to
kill him with "lati chota" (OR logi boita) by saying "I do not know
any SHALA but every SHALA know me".  We used to laugh listenning
this.... 
>  
> Your story below tell me too many things. Number one how old are
you? your first line gives the answer. It further tells me probably
you got a job (or some other kind of benifit) during BNP regime thus
you behimently oppose CA and now AL. Be constructive sir. Other wise
I believed your mask with the name "mahathir of bd" make no sense -
just like a Sheyal I mentioned.
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> Woakil
> Uni of Hull
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> --- On Thu, 1/29/09, mahathir of bd <wouldbemahathirofbd@...>
wrote:
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> From: mahathir of bd <wouldbemahathirofbd@...>
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Has Bangladesh become hell already?
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com, chottala@yahoogroups.com,
khabor@yahoogroups.com, dahuk@yahoogroups.com,
sonarbangladesh@yahoogroups.com,
notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com, "Amra Bangladesi" <amra-
bangladesi@yahoogroups.com>, reform-bd@yahoogroups.com,
tritiomatra@yahoogroups.com, history_islam@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 4:15 PM
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> One of my friends who is servering as civil servent  for about 7-
8 years were trying to for higher study aborad.
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>  Though he was science graduate and  had another masters from
arts faculty of DU, he was trying  to study administration related
subject.
>  
>  But after upzilla election ,  he is restless to  leave the
country ,even thinking to study in subject related to his bio-
science  graduation .
>  
>  After upzilla election, he wrote to me that he had to pass a
terrible situation durig this election int he greater Mymensingh .
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> But  after  parliamentery election he was certifying it as fair.
He was not worried  at all as  he is totally professional, non
partisan(as far i know)after joining the administration.
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> অতীতে বাংলাদেশের স্বার
্থ বিসর্জন দিয়ে হলেà¦" আলীগ
ভারতের সাথে যেসব চুক্তি কর
েছে তার কà§&lsqauo;নটাই দাদারা
বাস্তবায়ন করেনি । ভারতের
সাথে আলীগের চুক্তি মানেই
বাংলাদেশের স্বার্থ বিসর
্জন নয় কি ?সর্বশক্তি দিয়ে
প্রতিরà§&lsqauo;ধ করা কি নাগরিক
দায়িত্ব নয় ?
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[ALOCHONA] Re: Jalil alleges DGFI torture, demands probe

Dear Alochoks

Poor Jalil.

For me.. Life is cheap at the bottom. Let it be cheap at the top -
even if only for 2 years.

The only difference with Jalil is that he is a famous politician.

Yawn. We will tend to talk about his human rights and civil rights
under an undemocratic government. Yawn. The common man has no civil
rights or human rights under a democratic governmnet. Yawn.

Tell it like it is:

He was not able to get more from the deals made between AL and the
CTG. If he was General Secretary of AL now he would have been part
of the best deals and not complained.

Hey Jalil. You are free. You are sick. Leave your case in the hands
of all your 'loyal' comrades in the current government. And just try
to retire before you die.

Lets move on to more controversial and topical issues...

Like seating arrangements in Parliament...

Sigh...

Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Shamim Chowdhury <veirsmill@...>
wrote:
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> Dhaka, Jan 29 (bdnews24.com)—Awami League general secretary Abdul
Jalil MP on Thursday came down hard on the military spy agency DGFI,
alleging torture and demanding that its activities be restricted
only to defence forces.
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> "We have fought for human rights. But we have an agency which
fails to treat human beings with dignity. The name of this agency is
DGFI," Jalil said, speaking in parliament.
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> "It makes fun out of politicians and undermines them. They do not
care about anyone," said Jalil, who alleged officers of the
Directorate General of Forces Intelligence arrested him blindfolded
and detained him for five days.
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> "I do not want to talk about the kind of torture that I went
through during my interrogation," Jalil said.
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> "I demand punishment to those who interrogated me unlawfully—so
that such incidents do not happen in future," he said, demanding a
parliamentary probe to investigate the torture done to him by the
DGFI members during the state of emergency.
>
> "I propose formation of a parliamentary probe body headed by the
speaker to find out those responsible," Jalil said.
>
> "They did not give me the respect I deserve as a politician, a
former minister and freedom fighter," he said.
>
> "I was humiliated by the release of a CD (containing the audio
record) of my interrogation."
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> "The CD was released to create misunderstanding between me and the
(now) prime minister. It was claimed that I spoke against her."
>
> In a voice choked with emotion, the former cabinet minister
said: "At the age of 70, I have been dragged far off my normal track
of life. I want justice."
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> He said he was detained on May 28, 2007 and taken away blindfolded
from his Mercantile Bank office. He said he spent five days on
remand.
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> "While in jail, I was made to pay for my medicines. I had to pay
LabAid (Hospital) Tk 19 lakh as charges and Tk 5 lakh as medicine
expenses.
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> "They made me fall sick through the interrogation. Again, they
forced me to pay for the medical expenses," said Jalil.
>
> The Awami League general-secretary also demanded removal of
chairman of the Anticorruption Commission Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury
for his alleged partiality in investigating corruption charges.
>
> "He is partial. He asked for my wealth statement, but did not ask
Syed Iskander (brother of BNP chief Khaleda Zia) who plundered
people's money."
>
> The Awami League frontbench MP, who was given floor to speak on
the thank-you motion for President Iajuddin Ahmed's speech, said "I
cannot thank the President. Rather I am in favour of his
impeachment."
> He burst into tears as he finished his speech. Rashed Khan Menon
MP of the Workers Party went over to the AL leader and consoled him.
>
> The leader of the House, prime minister Sheikh Hasina, was not
present when Jalil spoke.
>
> bdnews24.com/krc/sum/rah/2305hrs
>
> WARNING: Any unauthorised use or reproduction of bdnews24.com
content for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited and
constitutes copyright infringement liable to legal action.
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