India sending military peace mission to Bangladesh? What a sick and cynical joke! Ha! Ha!
We have not forgotten the nightmare of Indian military peace mission to Sri Lanka. If the lackeys of India within the government and the administration proceed with that, then the people will have no other alternatives left, except for fighting it out. While we hope for the best, we must be prepared for the worst.
Please note the following lines in the Indian report below:
"In the proposal that is now being considered -- because the Bangladesh Army does not trust the Bangladesh Rifles and the Bangladesh Rifles has no confidence in its officers of the Bangladesh Army -- an Indian agency is offering to take over the responsibility."
Is there a clue about the BDR mutiny in this? So, can we not ask: Who done it?? Did you notice as the BDR mutiny flared up, how promptly India sealed the borders and ordered their BSF to be battle ready with red alert and with everybody accounted for, how quickly they mobilised their 'black cat' special elite forces along the borders and how quickly Pranab Mukherjee phoned Hasina and offered any help that could be asked for, military, financial, etc.?
Terrorism in Bangladesh? HuJI-B is suspected to have been organised by Mossad, and JMB is suspected to have been organised by RAW, while most of the grenades, huge amounts of explosives and bomb making equipment came from India, much of it produced in Indian government factories. The quantity is so large, that it is difficult to believe that an organisation like raw was snoring while smugglers were at it. Reasons for creating terrorist organisations? Excuse for military intervention to subjugate Bangladesh.
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From: MBIMunshi@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:19:28 +0600
Subject: [bd_journalists] India offers to send peace mission (OVER OUR DEAD BODIES!)
Indian peace mission signal
SUJAN DUTTA
New Delhi, Feb. 26: India is offering to send a peace mission beyond borders to give security to the Calcutta-Dhaka- Calcutta Moitree Express on an explicit request from Dhaka in the wake of the mutiny by soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles, highly placed sources in New Delhi have told The Telegraph.
As of today, the Moitree Express that runs between Calcutta and Dhaka is suspended — it runs between the two capitals on Saturdays and Sundays — because of the BDR uprising. Indian and Bangladeshi armies are currently engaged in a first joint training mission in Jalpaiguri for two weeks since February 22.
Yesterday, as two Indian goods trains that make a daily run to Darshana in Bangladesh to transport essential commodities were to enter Bangladesh, there was no one available at the BDR outposts beyond the border pillar to open the massive iron gates that would allow the trains into Bangladesh. The commanding officers of the BDR — actually army officers — had to clang open the gates themselves.
Since Sri Lanka, such a venture to Bangladesh would be the first international bilateral peace mission by India. The Indian Peacekeeping Force of the army to Sri Lanka got embroiled in a tragic war and was aborted at enormous cost to life and limb.
In this instance, India is considering paramilitary forces such as the Central Reserve Police Force, the Railway Protection Force or, if Dhaka agrees, even the Border Security Force, with the exclusive mandate of escorting the trains, protecting passengers and preventing damage to engines and rakes of the goods trains.
The train from Calcutta crosses the border after Gede in Bengal, passes through a metal carriageway, at the entrance for which the gates are opened by the Border Security Force on the Indian side, rolls over the tracks on no-man's land, still through the metal cage at the end of which huge gates are opened by personnel of the Bangladesh Rifles for the train to enter into Bangladesh.
At this point, the security of the train is handed over from India's Railway Protection Force to its Bangladeshi counterpart and for the border security to the Bangladesh Rifles.
In the proposal that is now being considered -- because the Bangladesh Army does not trust the Bangladesh Rifles and the Bangladesh Rifles has no confidence in its officers of the Bangladesh Army -- an Indian agency is offering to take over the responsibility.
For the UPA government in New Delhi and Sheikh Hasina's government in Dhaka, it is a grand statement that local disputes will not be allowed to take bilateral and cultural linkages hostage. Pranab Mukherjee and Sheikh Hasina, personal acquaintances themselves, are understood to be considering the move seriously.
They have concluded it is not worth shutting down the train that has meant so much when it was opened on Poila Boishakh last April.
It also is an eloquent illustration of Manmohan Singh's message to neighbours that India is willing to give friendly countries a stake in its development. The train is popular with Bangladeshis many of whom visit India for medical care.
Last year, there was a move from a hawkish section of the establishment in New Delhi to stop the train altogether when police alleged the hand of elements of the Harkat ul Jehad Ul Islam, based in Bangladesh, in blasts in Hyderabad. But a determined officer in Dhaka and the ambassador there put up a strong defence of continuing with the service.
Of the 538 km between Calcutta and Dhaka, 418 km is in Bangladesh and 120 km is in Bengal (India) but the symbolism it covers is greater than the distance.
http://www.telegrap hindia.com/ 1090227/jsp/ frontpage/ story_10599074. jsp