I wonder who was spreading rumors against the Army? Wasn't it your writting below Mr. Shamim?
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date Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:35 AM
subject [Diagnose] BDR Mutiny: Condolence, Questions and Concerns
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BDR Mutiny: Condolence and Questions
Shamim Chowdhury
Maryland, USA
The Bangladesh Rifles HQ rebellion that shook the nation was devastating and will have long chilling effect on the entire nation, especially, on countries two top tier national security operatives Bangladesh army and Bangladesh Rifles.
I pay my deep mark of homage for those civil and security personnel who died in this tragic incident and pray for quick recovery of those who suffered injury in this deadly brawl between two historically connected organizations.
I condemn all killings that took place on both side and sincerely hope Prime Minister Amnesty will not give comfort and immunity for the killers. To take flaming situation into its grip and control and let the tragic deadly event not rolling further, newly formed political government has taken the precise decision to declare general amnesty which covers those who took part with the rebellion probably for reasons beyond control or humanly frustration out of long deprivation but not in act of murder.
My hats off to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her cabinet and senior leaders of Bangladesh Awami League and its alliance. Prime Ministers sincere effort and magnificent statesmanship saved the nation from a deep crisis.
However the crisis is not over yet. Especially when human tragedy of this magnitude takes place there is always a chilling after effect. I appeal to government to keep their eyes and ears open and take measures to prevent any backlash that might follow the tragedy. It's been reported in the press that army is increasingly pressuring Bangladesh government to allow army personnel to go inside BDR head quarter after BDR surrendered their arms.
As one human tragedy is unfolding, another is in making. Right after the rebellion, army officer's family members were in desperate move to get information on displaced officer's fate. Now, similarly family members of thousands of BDR soldiers frantically are trying to locate their loved ones. The nervousness has been in the rise in last hour (BD time 11:30 AM, Feb 27th) after army troops and tanks deployed inside the BDR HQ.
Nation pray (as we find no one to trust among security personnel) this army deployment will not create another human heartbreaking tragedy. Reportedly army Chief Gen. Moeen went inside BDR HQ around noon time.
Now as the stress is little on the loose side we need to investigate why things went into rampage, who is responsible, why now and what will happen next. At some point the nation must come to a position and demand to have a comprehensive judicial inquiry not just on this particular mutiny but all defiance and rebellion that took place since the emancipation.
To stop this blood shed for once and all a white paper should be published letting the people know how many rebellion happened from 1972 to till this last one. How many officers and soldiers been killed, how many been executed after summary trial, number of injured, number been discharged. Most importantly who are those who worked behind the back drops of all these mutiny and benefited from?
Nation's nerve is worn-out and no longer accepts information black out in the name of national security. What security, when arms bought with our money is used to kill our elected presidents? Army which suppose to stay in cantonment will role out their tanks and armored vehicle into capital in short intermission to occupy the government pulpit.
People of Bangladesh has seen too much of blood shed in last 38 years. Mutiny among armed security forces are like monsoon which can not be avoided. Nature (climate) brings the monsoons down pouring rainfall, similarly the character of our armed forces mindset which derived from Pakistani repressive colonial mentality brings the down pouring of unavoidable blood shed repetitively. For the first time nation witnessed the spillover of that militant mentality of Bangladesh army contaminated BDR, question which one is next!
Regrettably, power hungry Bangladesh military brass never understood the backlash which can come beyond their imagination. History repeated itself again and again, nevertheless military leaders never ever took lesson out of repeating history. Bangladesh military personnel been used like condom for the benefit of generals and their stooges for too long time. For them, just like the rubber condom, human life also has no value after been used. Always killing was justified among Bangladesh army, killers was not just pardoned but rewarded. Gen. Zia and his top brass even illegally amended the sanctified constitution to protect the killers and awarded indemnity.
Bangladesh army as an institution did not bring single perpetrators to justice from its organization for committing heinous crime like murder in last 38 years if the person or persons murdered are civilian. Armed killers of Bangabandhu and his family, national leaders in jail and countless civilian politicians and their family members was pardoned and awarded with high position in foreign mission for their accomplishment which lead them into power. Today, the Frankenstein they created is hunting them down, whom to blame other then themselves!
Today when Sheikh Hasina, daughter of Bangabandhu in power as Prime Minister and their officers died in their own people's hand, tanks are rolling to empower investigation and prevent further escalation of violence, but when Bangabandhu died it was their tanks rolled to protect the killers. Probably this is the distinction between darkness and enlightens, truth and travesty
Bangladesh Army is under siege to some dangerously corrupt ambitious army officers.
I do not want to sound anti military being son of a military personnel, but can any one tell me how many good deeds Bangladesh military has exhibited comparing to their bed deeds since independence? Sometime one might wonder whether they are foe or friend to the people of Bangladesh or the country! This can not be tolerated any longer.
Especially in last two years, their top commander's criminal insensate mind did not have any compunction on building lavish golf courses and indulge into corruption in highest order when the people of the country had to go through severe food crisis. Their extravagant life style, palaces in DOHS, luxury cars and mind boggling corruption made people think negative about Bangladesh military as an organization. Instead of a place for patriots it turned into a den of scandalous general's hunting ground to get trophies.
Gen. Moeen U Ahmed is personally responsible for what happened in Dhaka, Pilkhana BDR headquarter. I have even doubt whether disgruntle DGFI had any role in it or not. Gen. Moeen U Ahmed should resign from his position of army chief immediately taking his sky high command failure. This man, Gen. Moeen U Ahmed compared Bangladesh politics with derailed train but never saw complete demolition of train that he is driving now and passenger since 1975
There should be a thorough judicial investigation on what happened not just in last couple of days but to unearth stories behind the stories. Unearth names and organization (there must be some one behind this) who is responsible for this heinous killing in BDR HQ. We can not accept that all these heinous killing happened just because of some disgruntles BDR personnel, NO NO, that can not be true. YES, mutiny happened and overwhelming ordinary BDR soldiers joined the mutiny out of sheer frustration over officer's brutality, injustice, corruption and disgraceful act. But murder and destruction in this scale can not be done by some leaderless disorganized BDR personnel. Some one must be behind this monumental crime, framed and financed the entire episode, who they are? What was their mission? Are they insider or outsider? Government must find out no matter what it takes for the sake of the nation and their stability.
Nation feel somewhat relieved, the mutiny is over and hope there will be no further escalation on any side. All threats will be removed and normalcy will return. Because of electronic media revolution, people of Bangladesh have witnessed unfolding stories as they were played out. Capital city was almost in close down mode
To prevent such painful death and destruction in future, government must enact an especial parliamentary committee which will review all military and civil security agencies service manual to remove any rules contrary to human dignity and rule of law.
Mindset of Bangladesh military officers must need to change to reflect that they are neither commanding a mercenary force nor outdated repressive colonial forces.
DGFI, NSI, Military Field Intelligence, Detective Brunch (DB Police), Special Brunch and all other civil intelligence agencies need to be restructuring from bottom up. BDR mutiny once again provides solid evidence on how disgracefully they failed this time likewise other dangerous time the nation went through since independence. These intelligence units, especially DGFI Political Wings scandalously put all of its energy, time and money against or in favor of political entity to satisfy military rulers since its creation on late seventies. Without any doubt, DGFI political wing is responsible for all undemocratic move and disfranchising institution of democracy in Bangladesh.
Parliament must enact and pass law disbanding political wing of military intelligence outfit DGFI and make sure this entity can not be misused against civil authority by ambitious generals in future.
All defense garrisons should be removed from the center of the city as soon as possible. Therefore, Dhaka Cantonment and BDR head quarter must be removed and resettled in reverse direction at least 50 miles away from the capital city.
May almighty save our nation from further escalation of tension and from dangerous guild of troublemaker who plays with the life of civilian and military personal indifferently.
Sincerely
Shamim Chowdhury
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Shamim Chowdhury" <veirsmill@...> wrote:
>
>
> The entire nation is mourning the colossal loss of life and human
> tragedy for those who survived. We pay our deepest respect to fallen
> officers and soldiers. The loss is so huge and irreparable, so much
> destruction took place in day and half is unthinkable. Nation lost its
> finest officers and the wall of distrust between two most prestigious
> organizations is now impassable.
>
>
>
> As day pas by and we get more information on what exactly happened
> inside BDR HQ, one can no longer call it mutiny, revolt or uprising.
> This was pure anarchy by a bunch of criminal.
>
>
>
> In our long nine months liberation war we lost 55 officers but in just
> day and half we lost hundreds. So many kids lost their father, so many
> of us lost their beloved husband, proud parents lost their beloved kids.
> Nation has not seen so many kids becoming orphan, wives becoming widow
> overnight.
>
>
>
> One may have genuine grievances against another but the cruelty that
> been displayed is no match. I am sure this cannot be work of BDR as a
> hole. There must have some group worked with a grand plan to destabilize
> our nations security. Bring two closely netted organizations into fierce
> front fight using their grievances. Question is who they are. We know
> how the terrorist outfits such as JMB or HUJI used poor uneducated
> peoples grievances evoking Holly Quran and Islam We must go to the
> bottom of this and find it out. Nation has lost thousands of soldiers
> and officers in the hands of conspirators for 38 years. This blood shed
> must end for once and all.
>
>
>
> We also have to look after ordinary BDR personnel's welfare so that
> another human tragedy does not unfold. We are also proud of BDR, which
> guards our nation's boarder and works as the first defense line for
> our nation. BDR played a major role in our war of independence standing
> next to Bangladesh Army. We must find ways to bring back the glory and
> trust between this two interdependent organization not just for their
> sake but also more importantly for the sake of nation security.
>
>
>
> Those who we fought together to liberate this country from the
> occupational forces of Pakistan must come together and forget their
> bitterly past and start a new journey. Tragedy always brings one closer
> to another and allows us to revisit our self and accept the mishaps in
> our life and take measures to correct. Time has come, it is already late
> but we must not miss this chance for rebuilding our trust.
>
>
>
> We pray to almighty for awarding eternal peace for martyred officers and
> soldiers and grant strength to bereaved family members to face the
> unbearable loss.
>
>
>
> Sincerely
>
> Shamim Chowdhury
>
> Maryland, USA
>
> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "M. M. Chowdhury \(Mithu\)"
> <cgmpservices@> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I like to condemn this Army killing a heinous crime from the bottom of
> my heart and this killing does not justify anything regardless any
> disagreement between BDR-Army. I am personally sad to lose one of my
> friends (Major) in this killing. I like to emphasis that only good
> thing we can do now is to stop spreading the rumors that we don't know.
> Our enemy will look for people who like rumors and spread it which can
> create confusion and problem for Bangladesh.
> >
> > Everybody has their own opinion but for the sake of Bangladesh, you
> better stop your opinion until we hear from the investigators what
> actually happened and who are behind it. I still believe that Army has
> good networks to find what happened and who were behind it.
> >
> > I also like to stress that our hatred among us has helped to increase
> the fire in this situation. And this might create more hatred among us.
> This is the only thing that I have been trying for the last 4 years to
> stop the hatred among Bangladeshi. If you are really care about
> Bangladesh, you have to stop hatred to others regardless his or her
> party affiliation. We can have disagreement in ideology but we should
> not have disagreement in national interest and conspirators look for our
> disagreement to advance their goals in Bangladesh.
> >
> > To create an friendly environment, I was criticized from both BNP and
> AL, or even from few CTG supporters in Bangladesh and Abroad. If I
> point out BNP failure, I was called a CTG & AL supporter, if I point
> out an AL failure, I was called a BNP supporter, if I point out a CTG
> failure, I was called a BNP supporter. This kind of hate mongering in
> Bangladesh and abroad has to be stopped. This is gone for too long in
> Bangladesh and Abroad and we need unity regardless if you are AL or BNP
> supporters.
> >
> > Let's pray for out lost souls and pray how we can unite to move this
> country forward. This loss may not be recovered but we can help to stop
> the rumors to recover from the future loss in Bangladesh both
> emotionally and economically.
> >
> > I also think that we should support democratic AL Govt to move forward
> and make them successful. I will be the one again to criticize AL if
> they fall behind to meet Bangladesh goals. Any Govt will work best when
> we general people work as a Watchdog to look after national interests
> regardless our party affiliations.
> >
> > God Bless Bangladesh and help poor people in the upcoming economical
> storm.
> >
> > Regards,
> > M M Chowdhury (Mithu), USA
> > www.changebangladesh.org
> >
> >
> >
>
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