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Rogue mentality of seizing freedom of pen Sunita Paul April 16, 2009 Following publication of my previous write up titled ´Buying Morality with Money´, I am continuing to receive several mails from various people, which I have decided to share with my readers. On April 13, 2009, a person named Jahangir wrote, "Why you are in dirty propaganda against the only secularist party in Bangladesh? Are you the new partners of anti liberation forces? You are unnecessarily trying to label Awami League as conspirator of the BDR mutiny. But, in fact, due to proper and timely initiative of Sheikh Hasina, who won several honorary degrees from world-class institutions as the ´Daughter of democracy´, lives of at least twenty thousand people were saved during the BDR mutiny. If the Prime Minister did not take timely steps of political settlement of the situation, Bangladesh Army was already destroyed. Stop this nonsense propaganda." On the same day, another person named Abul Kalam Azad wrote in a mail, "By publishing this report captioned ´Buying morality with money´, you are putting your own integrity into question. Stop this! Otherwise, we shall request all those news sites and newspapers to stop publishing your articles terming you as partners of Islamic militants. Do you know, such articles are benefiting extremist Islamic and anti Bangladesh parties like BNP and Jamat? Please stop writing on BDR issue now and help the secular government in Dhaka. Please do not cause further harm to Awami League." On April 14, which coincided with the Bengali New Year, I received a most interesting mail from someone, who is a former ambassador of Bangladesh. In this mail, he wrote, "Dear Ms. Paul, please accept our heartiest greetings on the august New Year in Bengali calendar. Hope, this mail will find you in Great Spirit and health. "I have been reading your vigorous articles and opeds published in several newspapers in the world on contemporary Bangladesh political situation. Your interpretation on the recent massacre inside the Bangladesh Riffles headquarters is surely not within the line of truth. It rather serves the purpose of anti-Bangladesh elements and vested interest groups, mostly Islamic fundamentalists, war criminals as well as enemies of secularist forces. Taking the advantage of your writing, many pro-radical newspapers in Bangladesh are reproducing news and commentaries projecting you as a friend of Islamic extremists and anti liberation as well as anti secularist forces. "Let me take the opportunity of informing your good self that the present ruling party or any of its leaders had no hand behind the BDR massacre. It was rather a pre-planned brutality of the anti Bangladesh forces who oppose our great war of liberation and the secularist ideology of Awami League. "I have gone through some classified documents related to the BDR massacre from the investigation files of probe committees, which evidently show that, mostly Jamaat and BNP leaders were behind this massacre. Some derailed army officers, who were present at the Sena Kunja, during meeting with the honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, crossed the minimum level of disciplined behavior and it was an extreme audacity with the leader, who enjoys support of millions of people in Bangladesh. You must have learnt about this meeting, contents of which were leaked by some rough intelligence officers within Bangladesh Army through YouTube and other websites. "Being a journalist in world´s largest democracy, hope, you will stop writing in favor of the Islamic extremists and anti-secularist forces and tell the truth to your readers about the actual crime and the culprits. This will help you in regaining your image, which has been greatly damaged in recent days due to wrong perception you are having on the BDR massacre. "Moreover, for the sake of national security, Bangladesh government may enforce ban on the online editions of those newspapers publishing your write ups, if you will not please start writing and reporting the truth. For such gracious help, not only Awami League and the present government shall be grateful but, we shall even be ready to duly compensate your valued cooperation in due course of time." I really could not believe that someone could be so much aggressive in writing to a foreign journalist with such indirect threat of putting ban on the newspapers publishing my articles. There are also numerous propaganda against me and efforts to stop publication of my works in the global media. Moreover, there is naturally a question in my mind. How the former ambassador, who evidently supports the ruling party in Bangladesh, could ever go through the "classified documents related to the BDR massacre from the investigation files of probe committees"? If an individual like him could ever have an access to such documents, what about those influential ministers, who even are holding the ´controlling rope´ of these committees in their hands? What about if the actual report shall be buried with a fictitious and manufactured probe report? Now, let me also expose several propagandists who are continuing maligning acts against me with the goal of stopping my pen. But, let those agents of the culprits note with certainty that, in my career of few decades, no such obstacles could ever stand as blockade to my efforts in publishing the truth. Some of the people term me as a ´plagiarist´ whiles some as ´fraud´ or ´liar´. Why? Just because, I am not bowing down to the immoral proposal by the ruling party in writing in exchange of money. These blogger are hired ´web terrorists´ of the ruling regime in Dhaka. But, please, let me ask them to respond to any of the points raised in my articles, if they truly are human beings, instead of continuing bad-taste propaganda against me. A blogger named ´Dr´ Habib Siddiqui in his blog questioning as to how being a deaf and dumb I interviewed someone, saying, "So one wonders how a born deaf and dumb conducted her interview of Mr. Huq, unless this was done via email exchanges!" I feel shy for these senseless people! In his posting he although said, the interview could be taken through email, why he raised the question of how a deaf and dumb could interview someone? Is this just for assassinating the character of a journalist? This man, although being an anti West as well as Christian and Jew hater is licking feet of the Western people for surviving. This is very strange how such elements are tolerated in the Western society! Siddiqui in this posting said, "Sunita claims that the Hasina government is pushing the country to a one-party rule. I personally would like to believe that the current government is serious about multi-party democracy and won´t do anything utterly stupid. Sunita's attempt suggesting otherwise is ignoble and nothing short of fear-mongering and creating an environment of confusion, mistrust and panic that would only weaken our national fabric. We can´t afford it. Not now anyway." I will request him to read my article carefully to understand what I wanted to say. Does he remember the black rule of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by forming BAKSAL? This was a cause of the tragic consequence of this great man´s life. And no doubt, some sycophants and lapdogs like such Siddiquis were misleading him. He even refers to a false blog which was created using my name and I have repeatedly written against this blog. Now, I can almost guess, some notorious web criminals like him were behind creating this blog. The ruling party in Bangladesh is continuing offensives against me through some blogger as well as trying to allure me with immoral proposal of writing in exchange of money as per ´order´ of Bangladesh Awami League! If the ruling party is really sincere to let me put my pen to other topics from the BDR massacre issue, then they should immediately release the probe report and begin trying the killers, collaborators and conspirators of the massacre. Unless justice is done to the members of those murdered army officers and those violated females, I will not stop continuing my writings. It does not matter how ferocious the Awami League activists or their lapdogs continue to assassin my character or even attempt to shut my voice. As I always said, Awami League does not believe in freedom of expression. And, here are the most naked examples of their intolerance and extreme audacity. I am not against Awami League anyway, but certainly against their all forms of misdeeds, as I had always been against the misdeeds of BNP government. http://www.americanchronicle..com/articles/view/98680 |
Chatra League again : BCL Factions Clash Barisal Medical College shut indefinitely
The SBMC academic council after an emergency meeting asked the students of all five hostels to vacate the dormitories by yesterday morning and postponed all examinations until further notice. Sources said the two BCL factions -- one led by SBMC unit BCL president Abu Jafar and the other by BCL leader and Intern Doctors' Association president Ramiz Ahmed and BCL leader S M Sayem clashed on the campus at about 9:00pm Thursday night. Rabiul Islam, a student of 35th batch and a supporter of Jafar group, was allegedly abducted by the rival group. Didar, Saif, Tanvir and Al-Amin belonging to the same group were injured in the clash.The SBMC authorities called in the police to bring the situation under control. Jafar blamed the rival group for creating chaos on the campus and accused it of abducting Rabiul. However, BCL leader Ramiz denied the allegation of abducting any of their rival group members.He alleged that the members of the rival group ransacked eight rooms of Zamilur Reza Pappu Hall and the college library. Ziaur Rahman Zia, city BCL convener, told The Daily Star that all activities of SBMC BCL unit had been suspended a month ago and the BCL has no liability for the recent incidents. Hayatul Islam, assistant commissioner of Barisal Metropolitan Police, said a general diary has been filed by Rabiul's roommates Mehdi, Tanvir and Shahin with the Kotwali Police Station in connection with the incident He said the police are trying to find out the whereabouts of the abducted student. Prof Md Abu Taher, acting principal of SBMC, told The Daily Star that the SBMC authorities were reported about the abduction of a student Barisal City Corporation Mayor and city AL Convener Shawkat Hossain Hiron told The Daily Stat that the law enforcers have been asked to take action against anyone trying to hamper the law and order and educational environment on the campus. http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=84454 http://prothom-alo.com/index.news.details.php?nid=MjMyMDA= |
The BDR carnage and intelligence failure
Major General M.A. Halim psc (Retd)
THE tragic incidents that took place in Pilkhana on 25th of Feb 2009, where
fifty-eight army officers were brutally killed, was one of the most
heinous crimes beyond anybody's comprehension. Such brutal and
merciless killings are very seldom.
We know of the carnage of cruel and barbaric rulers and kings in the past, we also know the atrocity of Pakistani soldiers during our Liberation War, but the scale is not even near to what these mutineers have done to our beloved officers who lived through thick and thin with their troops. They not only killed the officers they went further to mutilate the dead bodies
and disposed the bodies most unceremoniously in drains and gutters.
The
initial media reporting was in support of mutineers. They were
telecasting mutineers upholding the genuineness of the mutiny, for they
have enormous grievance against Army officers deputed to BDR. Our media
failed to give the real situation of Pilkhana whereas people got news
of what was actually happening through international media. What were
their grievances? Were these grievances genuine? Did they really want
to solve the problems? If they really wanted to, they would have kept
the officers as hostages and gone for negotiation. But here in this
case no officer was held hostage, they killed all available officers in
Peelkhana and asked for negotiation. This was a fake negotiation only
to avoid punitive action for unpardonable offences they already
committed.
The nature and the characteristics of mutiny is that
the mutineers always have a genuine and noble cause; they hardly
involve in such immoral act of killing and looting. This was a very
well coordinated plan with the aims primarily to demolish the force's
strength and unity and ultimately hit the very foundation of our
national security and sovereignty by weakening the country's defence.
The
BDR crisis was not handled very prudently. It is not known if the stock
of the situation regarding the safety of the officers and their family
were taken before declaration of general amnesty, although by then the
international media was telecasting updated BDR incident. Even after
the declaration of general amnesty on 25th Feb afternoon, the mutineers
did not lay down their arms, nor did they surrender. The public were
unaware of any deadline given to the mutineers to surrender. The
mutineers kept on carrying out the massacre till the morning of 27th
February. They, however, put an additional demand on the evening of
25th February that amnesty to be passed in National Assembly and a
gazette to be published to this effect.
In handling such crisis,
the handler must be intelligent, knowledgeable and capable of handling
such crisis. But here, in case of Pilkhana, an inexperienced person and
unfamiliar to such crisis was sent. Questions are being also raised
regarding intelligence. It can't be said surely whether it is an
intelligence failure or command failure. We have to wait till the
investigation is completed. But failure to gather intelligence is not a
new phenomenon, especially if it is ill equipped and ill organized. The
Twin Tower blast, Mumbai terrorist attack, 17 August grenade attack and
bomb blast in sixty-three districts of Bangladesh, all are cases of
intelligence failure. However, intelligence organizations will not have
any excuse if they fail to find out the cause and the perpetrators
after the occurrence of the incident. Immediately after the occurrence,
they should take control of the situation and try to identify the cause
and who are behind it. They should also carry out thorough study of
their failure and identify the weaknesses and take a remedial measure.
Three
committees so far have been formed to unearth the fact as to how it
happened and who were behind the planning and execution. Foreign
intelligence experts are also in the country to lend their expert hand
in the investigation process. These experts will not go beyond
providing technical assistance for obvious reason. Therefore, we have
to rely on our investigating team and keep our fingers crossed. It is
very important to find out who are the real perpetrators behind this
heinous act. The investigating team should be upright and they should
not have any weaknesses or emotions regarding the investigation. The
whole nation is eagerly waiting to know the outcome of the
investigation.
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Disturbing developments around BDR probe YET another soldier of the Bangladesh Rifles died on Thursday in questionable circumstances. According to the official statement, Havilder Kazi Saidur Rahman of 13 Rifles Battalion was admitted to the BDR hospital early in the morning when he complained of chest pain but, as his condition deteriorated, he was referred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where on-duty doctors declared him dead on arrival. The BDR director general was quoted in a leading newspaper as saying Saidur 'died of heart attack'. However, the relatives of the deceased alleged that he died because of torture and that several injury marks had been found on his legs and knees. It is disquieting that not only have 12 soldiers died since the February 25-26 rebellion at the BDR headquarters but also the authorities have sought to explain away almost all the deaths in a similar fashion. http://www.newagebd.com/edit.html#1 |
Shooting for US-based Bangladeshi independent filmmaker Anwar Shahadat's debut full-length feature "Ustagarer Talika" (Circumciser's Tally) is near completion. The shooting began on March 2 in Nangalkote, Narayanganj and Kaikarten Bazar, Sonargaon.
The film narrates the valour of a circumciser, Motaleb Karigar, who saved many Hindus at his village during the Liberation War. Motaleb lied to the occupying Pakistani soldiers that there are no Hindus in his village as all of them converted to Islam during the riots of 1947. The officer in charge remarks that Motaleb's claim is "very interesting" and wants to see the tally of the Hindus who had converted.
Staying up the whole night, Motaleb and his wife Gul Bahar carefully devise a fake list of the names.
In sovereign Bangladesh, Motaleb's act of benevolence remains unrecognised until an NGO worker Nupur comes to the village conducting a research on the sacrifices and contributions of each citizen during the Liberation War. Nupur meets Motaleb -- now a decrepit old man. While reminiscing the war days, Motaleb sheds light on the ups and downs of his profession, his youth, his marriage and his profound love for his wife. Eventually, he opens a wooden box and brings out the list that saved many lives.
Shahadat is also the cinematographer and editor of the film. The film is in Bengali with English subtitles. The editing will be completed in the U.S. The director hopes to release the film towards the end of this year. Afifa Khanam and Shafiq Rahman are the executive producers of the film.
Jayanta Chattopadhyay plays the protagonist Motaleb Karigar. Rokeya Prachi plays the role of Nupur. The cast also includes Rani Sarkar, Sushma, Shoma and Babu.
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Orissa: Tragedy Continues
Ram Puniyani
The after-effects of the anti Christian violence (2007) in Kandhamal district of Orissa are not over, so to say. Recently the Archbishop Cheenath of the state said that the elections in the Kandhmamal district should be postponed as the refugees living in the camps are not able to return. The reason is that many of them who returned were threatened by the local Bajrang Dal workers and associates. They were told to renounce Christianity, convert to Hinduism pay the fine, withdraw the cases and vote for the candidate who they will be told to, obviously BJP candidate. Many of those who tried to return with such hostile conditions awaiting them if they return, came back, some to the camps others to unknown destinations.
Meanwhile BJP candidate of the area, Ashok Sahu, when he came to know about his likely arrest for ?Hate speech? first absconded for few days and then was arrested just three hours before the campaign was to be over (14th April 2009). He told his followers to keep calm; else the elections will be postponed, as being demanded by the Archbishop.
One also recalls a similar situation in the post Gujarat violence. There, while state Government claimed that normalcy has returned, the Chief election commissioner James Michael Lyngdoh was visibly upset when he saw the condition of the Muslims living in the camps and their inability to be able to be part of the electoral process.
In Orissa the violence has taken a heavy toll of the amity of the region. The violence which began August 2007 continued till December. It resulted in death of close to 6-7 hundred Panos (Christians) and 90 Churches, 100 other Christian institutions were destroyed. The pretext was that Swami Laxamananand, the VHP swami working in the area has been murdered by Christians. At the same time the Maoist group claimed that they own the responsibility for the act. Since some pretext was needed to launch the attacks, the claim of Maoists was not considered and the VHP, BJP and company kept harping that it is the Christians who have committed the crime. As such the matter is tragic but simple. Who so ever has committed the crime should be punished. Why the whole Christian community has to be targeted and attacked for the act of some group or an individual.
Since at that time BJP was part of the ruling coalition it had its way. The death procession of swami was taken through a long circuitous route. The idea was to communalize the atmosphere in maximum area. This again is quite akin to Gujarat. After the Godhra train tragedy the dead bodies were taken in a procession to Ahmedabad, with VHP, BJP workers shouting provocative slogans. The whole hell was encouraged-permitted to be unleashed. Here also a long route was deliberately taken and police and other state authorities acted as the bystanders when the mayhem broke out. Surprisingly the VHP?s Praveen Togadia was permitted to go to the area while the Central Minister of State for Home affairs was not permitted to visit the area.
The violence in Kandhmal is a case of how communal forces can divide and come to dominate, become strong through orchestrated violence. The Kandhs, (Adivasis) are close to 50% of population, and dalits, most of them Panos are 16.9%. Kandhs and Panos are the two major communities in the area. The remaining 30% are called Oriyas, since they don?t speak the languages of these two major groups, the local Kui language. These are from various urban regions, traders being a big chunk of them.
The Kandhs, Adivasis were mainly food gatherers. Panos were landless outcastes who came to hills in search of livelihood, close to two centuries ago; Kandhs put their land at the disposal of Panos, since Kandhs themselves were not into agriculture. Panos came as servile labor. The communalists have propagated that Panos are grabbing the land of Kandhs. Kandhs come under the schedule Tribe category while Panos are dalits.
Today Kandhs own close to 9% of land, while the traders, Orriyas, control much more of Adivasi land. The major land grab from Adivasis has been by traders, but no agitation has ever been done against that by the RSS affiliates.
Many of these dalits took to Christianity and many of them benefited due to education, and the consequent jobs. As noted they also came to posses some land over a period of time, still their land holding is much lesser than that of Non local Orriyas. A massive propaganda has been going on in the area that Panos have grabbed the Adivasi land that they are trying to manipulate caste certificates to take advantage of status of ST's. As a matter of fact both the Kandhs and Panos speak Kui. State has declared ST category for Kui?s, due to which some Panos also got some ST concession, it has not been a deliberate act.
These two issues were exploited by the VHP, Bajrang dal people who have been spreading the Hate against Christians in the area. It is important to note that Christian missionaries have been working in the area from over two centuries. Missionaries never used violence for conversion, while the RSS affiliates have resorted to all sorts of intimidation to convert them to Hinduism through newly invented conversion rituals. And asserting their political definition of Hinduism, they say that Adivasis are Hindus, who have drifted away due to allurement, so Adivasis coming to Hinduism is not conversion but a Ghar Vapasi, ?return home? for these misguided ones?.
Swami Laxmananand came here from last few decades and began his campaign of Hate against minorities. The result is there for all to see. The report on Kandhamal violence has recently (March 2009) been published by various human rights organization, ?From Kandhmal to Karavali: The Ugly Face of Sangh Parivar?. It points out ?that the violence was committed by Sangh Parivar organizations, mainly Bajrang Dal?police watched benignly as the arson took place in public. The ideology and organization of their mentor RSS pervades in the media?the press has reported the violence in the manner that put the onus on victim, they were at fault and had it coming? (page 3) what is spread to create hate is the distorted version of country?s history and the false hood about our society.
Today we are witness to the process where by people like Asok Sahu have not only spread their political tentacles through ?Hate Other? ideology, but also that they are violating the laws of the land for their political benefit. Tragically the distorted version of History has been one of the main weapons of the social common sense, which forms the base of communal violence. One hopes that in due course society and all those concerned with preservation of plural values not only look at the immediate causes of Hate other ideology, but also the deeper propaganda against the minorities widely prevalent through various organizations practicing politics.
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100 Days of Vicious VengeanceAuthor: M.T. Hussain Propaganda for 100 days Crushing Poverty Cereal price down Production incentive lost Unenlightened feudal mindset Vengeance rooted back Politics for avenging father's blood Kill ten for one Taka 50,000 advance for killing Khaleda Orchestrated game for her father's 'killers' Humbug about war crimes trial 25-26 February BDR massacre Khaleda's Moinul Road Residence 100 days of vicious vengeance http://www.untoldfacts.com/bangladesh/100-days-of-vicious-vengeance/ |
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh is developing a health care network for the poor in his country that will operate at low cost using mobile phone technology. Yunus is working with U.S. medical experts to help Bangladeshi villagers transmit their medical information to doctors in far-away cities for better treatment. Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for setting up a bank in his native Bangladesh to provide small loans to impoverished women to help them to become entrepreneurs.In recent years, he has expanded the work of his Grameen Bank to focus on improving health care for the 40 percent of Bangladeshis who live on less than a dollar a day. On a visit to Washington this week, Yunus told an international health conference that Grameen Health, an affiliate of Grameen Bank, has 51 clinics that offer low-cost treatment to villagers who pay an insurance premium of just $2 a year. But he says many doctors who run the rural clinics want to stay only a few months before returning to the cities, which forced him to rethink the operation. "One of the alternatives we decided on finally is that maybe we should not even try to bring the doctors in the village. And that is what we now are working on - redesigning the system," he said. Yunus says he is working with U.S. medical experts to create health care centers that allow villagers to transmit their medical information over the Internet using cellular telephones to a far-away doctor's computer. "He can see it on the screen and decide what the advice should be in this particular case and pick up the mobile phone and tell the health management center what is the next step to take, what precautions, whatever advice they have," he said. Yunus began his partnership with the U.S. health care providers last September to help to make his Bangladeshi clinics more cost-efficient and self-supporting. One of his partners, Pfizer - the world's biggest pharmaceutical maker - is helping to evaluate Grameen's health care delivery systems. Another is General Electric, the world's top maker of medical imaging devices such as ultrasound machines. GE is working with villagers to make diagnostic equipment less complex and easier to carry to people's homes. And the Mayo Clinic, a leading nonprofit medical provider, is training village doctors and nurses how to use state of the art medical equipment. Yunus says another way to make his health care network sustainable is to encourage Bangladeshi women to train as nurses and become part of the Grameen health care system. "In Bangladesh, we are in a very strange situation where there are three doctors per nurse because the shortage of nurses is so big. So we thought we could turn it around. You have plenty of girls with good quality education. We can run them through the nursing colleges, and they become good health care workers and they will fill up the gap," he said. If Yunus's health care system succeeds in Bangladesh, he says he hopes the model can be replicated to help millions of people throughout the developing world. http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-04-16-voa3.cfm |
A famine breaks out in 1974 which is viewed as the direct result of inefficiency and corruption by politicians and civil servants. The 1974 famine was not an isolated incident, but instead part of a long trend in corruption in Bongobondhu Seikh Mujib's Administration following its independence from Pakistan. Possibly over a million people died in the Bangladesh famine of 1974, from July 1974 to January 1975, although the Bangladesh government claimed only 26,000 people died. The 'Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League' was the political amalgmation of the Awami League with the Krishak Sramik Party that supported President Mujibur Rahman in governing Bangladesh. All other political parties were outlawed at the time, and the period from 1973 to 1975 in which BAKSAL existed, was seen as a one-party dictatorship. The BAKSAL dissolved after Rahman's assassination on August 15, 1975, and the KSP and League became independent political parties. The party advocated state socialism. |
Recession starts to hit BangladeshNews Report
The World Bank (WB) has said that the current economic situation in Bangladesh is stable, but this cannot be taken granted as the country has started experiencing backlash of global recession. Communicated By: www.changebanglades h.org From: M. M. Chowdhury (Mithu) <cgmpservices@ yahoo.com> |