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Sunday, February 8, 2009

[ALOCHONA] Gen Moeen, DGFI, outfit of Dark Age: Democracy under Attack

As fittingly pointed out by Rashed Khan Menon, Abdul Jalil and many other politician, business personal, member of civil society, journalists, teachers in reference to a dangerously harmful organization of Bangladesh military intelligence unit called DGFI, which got its schooling from its predecessor a notorious organization in south Asia naming ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) of Pakistan.

 

Similar to his uniformed, booted, gun blazing, tank-riding predecessors Gen. Moeen also came to power in January 11 of 2007 along with his comrades in crime with ambition to control the politics of Bangladesh and to settle him to the throne of power. However, unfortunate for him but fortunate for the nation he could not sustain his grip in power for too long for few reasons.

  • One, the change in world politics, where it is very difficult for a uniformed bayonet charging men to get approval from international power brokers.
  • Secondly, his civil associates and military co-conspirator locked into power battle.
  • Thirdly, Gen. Moeen and his associates failed to construct political collaborators wing called Kings Party similar to what Pakistan army did by creating collaborators called Razakar during liberation war of Bangladesh.

 

Along with many other complicatedness and the previously mentioned reasons Gen. Moeen and his collaborators could not produce the chicken out of the egg they laid on 1/11/2007, therefore, they had to take a hike out of power once they found egg got rotten and there is no chance to get the chicken ever again.

 

Now after twenty-five months of him (Gen. Moeen and his collaborators) settling in power all magical illusion evaporated and real face of his regime is coming out for scrutiny. He himself foolishly pitched the ball after publishing his book to self-portrait him as male Joan of Ark who saved France from England, in his case saving Bangladesh.

 

We as a nation regrettably has seen fair enough share of military vandalism creating wrack of political institutions, complete destruction of constitution, mockery of controlled democracy, smack over human right in the name of salvaging sovereignty and establishing peoples rule.

 

We have seen Field Marshal Ayub Khan (1958-1969), Gen. Yahya Khan (1969-1971), Gen Ziaur Rahman (1975-1981), Hossain Mohammad Ershad (1982-1990) and lastly Gen. Moeen (2007-2009) until January of this year iron handedly ruling the country where all civil and human  rights was curtailed in the name of salvaging sovereignty and establishing peoples rule.

 

Altogether people of then Pakistan (East-West) and now Bangladesh had to go through TWENTY NINE years military or semi military rule out of FIFTY TWO years since 1947 separation of undivided India. FIFTY-TWO minus TWENTY-NINE, therefore the country was under civil rule for only TWENTY-THREE years. Even out of Thirty-Seven years of independent of Bangladesh, the country was under direct or indirect military rule for over Sixteen years. Nevertheless, when it comes to failure that the country had to endure, military outfits out rightly puts all blames unto civil political government. I agree that people of Bangladesh is not in a mood to spare politicians after having extremely dreadful experience under civil political rule. Nevertheless, military rule cannot be judged as alternative to elected civil political rule.

 

There is no doubt after coming across at all the glinting data available in hand for last many decades which indicate chiefly blame goes to unlawful military rulers who ruled the country on and off for grueling long twenty nine yeas. These adventurous military rulers never allowed the elected civil political government to settle and democracy to be institutionalized.

 

Military dictator used ISI during Pakistan and DGFI during Bangladesh to intimidate, torture, torment and bully politics, politician, media, civil society, Bureaucrats, civil law enforcing agency, civil courts to construct devastating Authoritarian Rule.

 

Time has come; a new era is ahead where demand for War Criminals came into light after thirty-seven years. Demand for judicial/parliamentarian probe into killers of democracy is also very powerful demand of the day. We must bring those perpetrators held responsible for using our military and its intelligence wing DGFI for contending to power.

 

Military rule cannot be alternative to civil rule. Military must remain completely under elected civil authority at any cost at any given time. We must stop calling army, which sides with unlawful military dictators as patriotic force. We must acknowledge that military personal that sides with unlawful military rule over elected governments are nothing but traitors and their acts are treacherous. We must encourage all ranks and files in the military to overpower any treacherous move by ambitious generals and their collaborators to control people of Bangladesh.

 

Everyone must understand if the heads does wrong then the entire body gets the shake. If AL or BNP heads do wrong then the entire party has to take the blame and suffer then why not army takes the blame when their heads and their collaborators kill our presidents, leaders in jail, housewives in their bedrooms, underage children begging for life, unborn children in their mothers womb.

 

If military can take control of elected civil government for their perceived failure then why not citizens of the country take control of the military cantonments for treachery led by their heads?

 

If the military intelligence DGFI can blindfold politicians unlawfully and whisk them away for torture then why not civil government order its legally recognized police authority to lawfully arrest those culprits and bring them to justice? How far the nation has to cry for justice and the army authority will hide their faults?

 

People of Bangladesh demands everyone will straightened their acts, politicians will come out and take responsibility for their misdeeds and military leaders will come clean and stop murderous adventure. Bloodshed and bloodbath must STOP on all side.

 

Nation has seen the long procession of politicians, civilians, teachers, journalists, businessman going to jail under military rule, some rightfully for their ghastly deeds but many for making the couch less throne for military dictators to stretch out. Time has come to see procession of military personal going to jail who committed crime since the emancipation of Bangladesh. We pupil learned one thing in last two years no one is indispensible no matter how powerful they are, we want to see that remains true under civil government.

 

Bangladesh Army, which fought the battle of liberation to free the country from the clutches of military rulers of Pakistan, cannot and shall not turn into a den of ghostly Pakistan and give rebirth of Ayub-Yahya regime. Policy of ISI of Pakistan cannot and shall not be the policy of DGFI of Bangladesh.

 

Sincerely

Shamim Chowdhury

Maryland, USA

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Menon slams Gen Moeen, DGFI
 
 
Sun, Feb 8th, 2009 11:49 pm BdST
Dhaka, Feb 08 (bdnews24.com)— Army chief Gen Moeen U Ahmed and military spy outfit DGFI came under heavy fire on Sunday from yet another MP who demanded a parliamentary probe into allegations of torture brought by fellow politicians.

"Following in the footsteps of Pakistan's ISI (Inter Services Intelligence), the DGFI created an information wing through which it controlled the TV stations and other news organisations," Workers Party's Rashed Khan Menon told parliament.

"Through its political wing, DGFI tried to control politics; tried to form (new) political parties; tried to form a king's party; sought to create division within political parties in the name of reform," Menon said.

"Has Bangladesh been turned into Pakistan?"

Menon did not spare Gen Moeen.

"The army chief wrote in his book that the people wanted to see the army in power. The army took over with a civilian façade. Their real face was exposed a few days later.

"That it was an army-controlled government has never been disputed by anyone.

"We have seen poor people suffer. We have seen prices of commodities soar. They wanted us to change our food habit. (Former BNP finance minister) Saifur Rahman told us to eat cabbages. And the army chief wanted us to eat potatoes," Menon said.

He said the DGFI tortured Abdul Jalil, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, Obaidul Quader and M K Alamgir in its custody.

Speaking in parliament last week, Jalil and Alamgir both alleged torture in the DGFI custody.

They later appeared on TV talk shows to charge the spy agency with mistreatment of politicians. Alamgir was particularly scathing about the agency, and even named senior army officers who were allegedly involved.

"We must form a parliamentary committee and take action against DGFI now," Menon told deputy speaker retired colonel Shawkat Ali, who was in the chair when the MP spoke.

"They carried out activities against politics in the guise of an anti-corruption drive," he said.

"We don't want to keep validating such activities in future on the ground of the 'doctrine of necessity'. Parliament will decide how the country will be run," Menon said, referring to the law minister's recent remarks.

Shafiq Ahmed said Thursday that the so-called doctrine of necessity would force parliament to validate the military-installed government's actions.

Menon said he backed the minister, but for one last time.

Home minister Shahara Khatun, Ruhul Amin Hawlader, Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin, Nazrul Islam Babu, Golam Moula Roni, K M Khalid, Sadhan Chandra Majumder and Moazzem Hossain Ratan also spoke on the president's speech.

bdnews24.com/krc/sum/ma/2335hrs
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