Dear Alochok Mahathir
In Bangladesh what is usual is often what is worst and what is usual requires the greatest spotlight.
AL's general secretary continues to refer to foreign enemies without naming them. Two weeks ago, in the first BDR gathering since 25/2 the BDR generals referred to foreign enemies without naming them. BNP would do the same.
We are such a respectable nation. If we knew which country had dropped a nuclear bomb on us we would be too polite to refer to that country in our complaints. Assuming we'd complain!
Internally, and even more bizarrely, we like to refer to 'certain quarters'. Certain quarters! Certain idiots!
Our soldiers are useful thousands of miles away because over there they know who the enemy is! Back home everyone is walking around wondering 'Ke marlo? Ke korlo?'....... for decades!
Look at the the silence of our Foreign Minister at the plight of Aung San Suu Kyi! Hey guys! May be if we all keep very quiet Burma will think India is it Western neighbour!
So here is the government saying it has foreign obstacles to the trial of people contributed to the murder of lacs of our people!!!
Some government! Some independence!
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Mahathir of BD <wouldbemahathirofbd@...> wrote:
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> Bangladesh is the seventh largest country in the world . Do we Bangladeshi realize that ?
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> --- On Mon, 8/24/09, Ezajur Rahman <ezajur.rahman@...> wrote:
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> From: Ezajur Rahman <ezajur.rahman@...>
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Quarters at home, abroad trying to block war crimes trial: AL
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 5:17 AM
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> The ruling Awami League general secretary, Syed Ashraful Islam, on Wednesday conceded that the government was facing obstacles â€" both from forces at home and abroad â€" to its initiatives to put the war criminals on trial but stopped short of naming the quarters.
>    ‘We are aware that some quarters at home and abroad are trying to block trial of the war criminals but I do not want to disclose their names at the moment…We are trying to overcome the barrier,’ he said at a discussion at the National Press Club.
>    Sampradaikata, Jangibad Birodhi Mancha organised the discussion on ‘Militancy and present Bangladesh : our responsibility’, presided over by professor Ajay Roy.
> Â Â Â Ashraf, also the LGRD and cooperatives minister, said the government would be able to overcome the obstacle when there was a consensus among the countrymen over the issue. Ashraf urged the pro-liberation political parties, young generation, different organisations and professional bodies, media, civil society and people from all walks of life to mobilise public opinion for trial of the war criminals.
>    Reiterating the government’s stand on the issue, the AL leader said trial of war criminals was the party’s election pledge and the government had allocated Tk 10 crore for the process in the budget.
>    Ashraf said the government had no alternative to holding war crimes trial and that the first session of the ninth parliament had passed a resolution paving the way for trial of those who had been involved in various war crimes during the war of independence in 1971. ‘The people also gave their mandate for trial of the war criminals in the December 29 parliamentary polls,’ he said.
>    ‘The government is trying to mobilise opinion both at home and abroad in favour of holding war crimes trial but only the government’s initiatives are not enough in this regard and all will have to come forward in support of the initiatives,’ he said.
>    ‘Trial of the war criminals is not the government’s own demand, it is the demand of every man of conscience…’
>    Ashraf said the Sector Commanders’ Forum, an organisation of the sector commanders of the 1971 war of independence, had mounted a campaign over the issue before the elections but now they were silent. He urged the forum to resume their activities.
> Â Â Â He also called on Sampradaikata o Jangibad Birodhi Mancha to organise discussions in every district to mobilize public opinion in this regard.
>    The discussion was also addressed by Dhaka city AL general secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, AL’s health and population affairs secretary Badiuzzaman Bhuiyan, Gana Forum leader Pankaj Bhattachariya, Workers Party leader Bimal Biswas, Bangladesh Economics Association general secretary Abul Barakat, Dhaka University professor Syed Anwar Hossain, Swechchhasebak League leader Pankaj Devnath, rights activist Rokeya Kabir, retired major general Amin Ahmed Chowdhury and Dhaka Reporters Unity general secretary Pathik Shah.
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