Thursday, June 4, 2009

Re: [ALOCHONA] Diplomats complain of crimes in city

Din Bodol Hoyechey! Hurrah!

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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Diplomats complain of crimes in city

Diplomats complain of crimes in city

Foreign diplomats in Dhaka have expressed their deep concern over the increasing number of criminal activities by which the diplomats, their family members and foreigners are being affected mainly in Gulshan and Baridhara roads.

They have requested Bangladesh authorities to take urgent measures to provide for appropriate security in the areas where those incidents are taking place frequently.Sources in the police said rampant incidents of mugging are taking place all over the city from evening to midnight and muggers are using private cars and vans in most of the cases..

"It is a social problem which we have to contain through patrol and raid," said a police official, adding, "As foreigners reside and stay in Gulshan and Baridhara areas, groups are active there to mug them for making quick cash and snatch other valuables."

Swiss Ambassador Dora Rapold, who is also the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, wrote to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the first week of May informing that foreigners and diplomats, especially the women, are being victimised of mugging and other crimes.

"There seems to be a pattern to the incidents that expatriates, particularly females, are made target. The fact of the use of firearms and knives in the incidents is extremely worrying and it has led to serious injuries to the victims in some cases," said the letter.

It also gave a list of criminal incidents in which diplomats and citizens of different countries were victimised since January 2009. The list also contained criminal reports provided by different embassies.

Citing an example it says, on January 29 a Spanish woman was attacked while in a rickshaw at Road No. 96 in Gulshan-2. A man came out of a car and grabbed her handbag. She fell to the ground and suffered injury that required medical treatment.

In another incident, the letter mentions that a EU-commission member was robbed at Road No. 104 while riding a rickshaw. Miscreants from a white Toyota Townace came out with a big knife and demanded all belongings.

It further says, another EU-commission member was robbed by five men. The miscreants came from a minivan and took away all the valuables from him.Chief of Protocol of the foreign ministry Brig Gen Abu Sayed Khan later wrote to the joint secretary (political) of home ministry Md Nurun Nabi Talukder to take urgent steps for improving law and order situation in the diplomatic areas.

"Such incidents are damaging the country's image. Thus, it has been urgent to improve law and order situation in the areas," he said.The joint secretary (political) could not be reached for comment as he is now outside the country.

AKM Hafiz Akter, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police for Gulshan zone, claimed that crimes like mugging have come down following their intensified drives and patrols in Gulshan and Baridhara areas.

"We have also received the letter, which was sent to the foreign ministry. We have deployed civil patrol teams after getting the letter. The teams are capturing muggers and seizing vehicles," he told The Daily Star yesterday.He said the muggers become active with private vehicles after the evening and swoop on people whenever they get scope. Police seized two private cars in the area on Monday night, he added.

In the wake of rising number of mugging and extortion incidents in the capital, the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been making special drives all over the city but it makes little difference as the menace still continues.

http://www.thedaily star.net/ newDesign/ news-details. php?nid=91134

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[ALOCHONA] Ineptitude marks governance

IMPLOSION IN HOME MINISTRY

Ineptitude marks governance

M. Shahidul Islam

The lust for power absorbs a multitude of aberrations; ineptitude is certainly not one of them. Yet, since assuming power on January 6, the Awami League-led Government has shown signs of incompetence in almost every aspect of governance, resulting in casting the nation into what one might call a state of 'managed anarchy'.

That ongoing anarchy is characterised not only by the sharp deterioration in the law and order situation and the seeming indecision in matters involving vital national interests, ardent Bangladesh observers think the AL-led regime has so far shown no principled stand on any major policy matter. They say the regime is deeply engrossed in chasing oppositions and in crisis management, instead of managing cohesively the governance as per priorities dictated by national, regional and global compulsions.

   The ongoing chaotic state remains manageable mainly due to the grace and magnanimity of the ordinary people who have become used to blaming the destiny instead of their Government for their miseries..
   Stranded millions
   One of the latest evidence of such widespread incompetence emerged in the submerged coastal belts of the nation where over 2.5 million people are languishing for nearly two weeks without any relief or rescue mission reaching to evacuate them to safer destinations. Ironically, the magnitude of the devastation caused by cyclone Aila was first trivialised by the country's weather department and then deliberately overshadowed by the Government with the publication of a probe report of the BDR mutiny the same day (the Anisuzzaman report) that shed no additional insight into the carnage than what people already knew. Critics ask why the report's publication could not wait a day or two to allow the media to portray the true extent of the Aila devastation? Was it a ploy to divert public attention?

May or may not be. But the economic miseries of the Aila victims having imposed an additional budgetary pressure of over Taka 1500 crore at the least, the upcoming budget is destined not to sprout the expected greeneries on the recession-struck economic lawn, unless both politics and political economy are blended together soon with the exigencies of geopolitical challenges that the nation faces in the regional and global fronts.
Implosion in Home Ministry

Observers say the disgraceful chaos witnessed inside the country's Ministry of Home Affairs concerning State Minister of that particular ministry, outspoken Tanjim Sohel Taj, owes much to the Government's cavalier outlook towards geopolitical matters, especially since the BDR rebellion of February

25-26, due to the border force being under legal jurisdiction of that Ministry.

Despite there being reports of his tendering resignation to the PM, a sordid spectacle of 'we don't know' confused people further, and, it came from his immediate boss, Sahara Khatun, who choose to keep the nation in a state of suspense for over 30 hours. Even if that version is accepted, what is the explanation for Mr. Taj being absent without leave for nearly 30 hours, something never heard of in the history of governance in this land or elsewhere.

National security concerns
The debate over Taj's reported denouement does not end there, however. Reliable sources say Sohel Taj has been at loggerheads with his boss, Sahara Khatun, for nearly 6 weeks due to his dissent on a number of issues which he disliked. They say the latest row between the two Ministerial personalities surfaced with the decision at the PM level to expose the former bosses of the DGFI and the NSI by entangling them with the Chittagong arms recovery case, and in the manner it is being done.

Sources say Sohel Taj did want the case to be investigated and tried, but not by exposing vital national security principles of the nation, especially since the arrest of the two Director Generals two weeks ago. He is learnt to have opposed the virtual trial in camera of the two former spy bosses and the deliberate exposure to the media of what they say -- or not say -- to police or the court; something unheard of anywhere in the world.

The arrest and quizzing of the two former DGs of the NSI has astonished many political observers and nationalistic icons. They consider the ongoing melodrama as a foreign-instigated scandal to denigrate and humiliate Bangladesh's standing among nations and ask: "If the PMO office and the top bosses of the DGFI and the NSI were really involved in the Chittagong arms hauling incident, how the hell police managed to bust the cache?"

One former military colleague of Brigadier General (retd) Rahim said angrily, and, on condition of anonymity: "Rahim stood first in the Higher Secondary Examination (HSC) of 1973 among all students of science group in his Education Board. He's not an ordinary fellow. Men like him choose to serve the nation not to be humiliated like this by leaders who perhaps failed even to secure an admission to any of the country's universities. Someone is taking this nation to a dangerous ride at the instigation of foreign master(s)."

BDR probe

Whether Mr Sohel Taj does empathise with such sentiments is a different matter. But sources say the other major bone of contention between the two bosses of the Home Ministry stemmed from the BDR rebellion probing.
Meanwhile, people close to the State Minister say he is fervent, zealous, patriotic and highly sensible to untowardly interventions in his routine works. In recent days, he is learnt to have encountered pressures from senior colleagues in the cabinet who wanted to save certain political personalities from the ruling party and turn the direction of the BDR rebellion case towards implicating some leaders of the BNP by any means. This Mr. Taj found depraved, immoral and unbecoming to his status of office.

   Yet, as the scope seems wide open to move either way -- the army investigation having reportedly named some ruling party leaders while the Anisuzzaman commission, deliberately following the army report, having implicated former BNP-MP Nasiruddin Pinto for allegedly aiding and abetting the fleeing of the rebels -- Mr. Taj did not like the over-politicisation of an issue bearing enormous national security implications, hence his decision on June 1 to quit the job.

   Trial before CID probe?
   The ongoing debate over Taj's return to the assignment notwithstanding, the forthright State Minister is learnt to have become increasingly fearful of mishandling the BDR rebellion trial and has become worried about the methods and modes in which the reconstruction of the border guard forces is being crafted with foreign advice. Despite there being recommendations in the army-conducted report (as well as in the Anisuzzaman-led report) to undertake further investigation to ascertain external linkage to the rebellion, the PM is learnt not to have consented to complying with such recommendations.

Not only that. Trial of 37 BDR members is slated to begin in a Sylhet court on June 7 while the trial proceedings of another 275 BDR men are in progress in the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court in Bandarban. Sohel Taj is leant to have argued why all those trials are underway when the main probe report from the CID is yet to be finalised and, neither the Government, nor the Parliament, has taken any final decision with respect to whether the trial would take place in civil or military court.

Close friends of Taj meanwhile have added much more to shed further light into the ongoing implosion within the Home Ministry. They say that he is highly intelligent and farsighted, and, the recent move by the Government to remove all weapons and ammunition from various BDR armories to the nearest army camps was a decision which he strongly opposed. The decision has left more than 37 spots of sensitive, vulnerable border outposts without any prospect of reinforcement of weapons, if needed.

   Taj also resented the mass arrest of over 3,400 BDR men from all around the country, which indicated that the entire BDR fo rce faces disintegration soon, without any viable replacement having been organized to guard the country's over 4,200 km borders with India, and another over 340 km with Myanmar.

   Smuggling spree?
   Despite the prevalence of such a fractured state of national security and the instances of smuggling at the Indo-Bangladesh borders assuming a new height in the wake of serious economic crisis in India, the Government seems least pushed by such compulsions and their implications vis-୶is the regional and global developments in the economic and geopolitical fields. Few facts might help the economic mandarins and the policy makers of the nation in grasping how badly the regional trends will impact Bangladesh in coming days.
   Indian ministry of commerce and industry said on June 2 that the country's exports in April fell by 33.2 per cent on an annual basis to $10.7 billion (Rs 50,290 crore), which is higher than the 33 per cent drop in March. This has resulted in further yawning of trade deficit from $4 billion in March to $5 billion in April. As exports contribute to 16 per cent of India's GDP, more influx of smuggled Indian goods into Bangladesh is feared in coming days due to Indian producers' desperate bid to survive in business amidst the ongoing recession which seems to further worsen.

As well, the recent spike in oil price will balloon the cost of import in both countries while Indian exporters will love to divert - legally and illegally - towards Bangladesh whatever consumer goods can possibly be consumed by 140 million Bangladeshi consumers.

Added to the huge fiscal deficit of the Indian central Government (data released on June 1) that rose by more than two-and-half times from a year earlier ( to Rs 330,114 crore, or 6.1 per cent of the GDP), Dhaka needs to quarantine its economic house to avoid the Indian contagion, not integrate with it further. And, that reason alone should suffice to justify why not to dismember the entire BDR at the risk of endangering the physical and the economic security of the nation.

http://www.weeklyholiday.net/front.html#01

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[ALOCHONA] This Govt will not try the war criminals : Goyeswar Chandra Roy

This Govt will not try the war criminals : Goyeswar Chandra Roy

http://shaptahik.com/new_details.php?news_id=1812

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[ALOCHONA] Re: Tipaimukh Dam/Cachar Plain Irrigation Project: A Complicated Interna

Please take me off of your listserv. If I want to read your comments, I will read them in the forum.

Thanks in advance,

Cyrus

From: Jafreen Zahid <zjafreen@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 6:40:13 PM
Subject: Tipaimukh Dam/Cachar Plain Irrigation Project: A Complicated Interna

In response to Farida Majid's message in alochona where she wrote: The Dreaded Dadas are likely to travel by train to Toronto and convert all the B'deshi Muslims in Canada by the process of 'suddhi'.

My response: If Farida's dreaded dadas' purification mantra is uthara geetha's revelation: those who are ignorant and low in knowledge see him in idols and search god in idols and worship the idols then don't you think, the suddhification shit would become valuable and the poor farida might be reincarnated without a butt-hole?

IRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alochona/message/13721

Alochona had not published my response as of yet to Farida's provocative assertion that must be repudiated in every where you find these information terrorist like her. So I have decided to share my opinion to other forums to share my sentiments or to realize what Alochona as a open forum is trying to portray to her members when moderators do not allow others' fitted responses where it deserve. Such one-sided approaches from a forum must be taken into consideration of what are their objectives and what are they trying accomplish by being one-sided demoralizing and dehumanizing messages is being allowed by the RAW terrorists disguised in Muslim names.

It is my personal observation of the forum Alochona's moderators might have been deeply involved in the massacre of BDR's officers and are taking side with those terrorists. They are heavily involved in anti-Islam and anti-Muslim activities as I have been sending messages with a few different email addresses without approving mine but they do publish Farida's twisted interpretation or SaifDevdas's provocative misinterpreted version of Koranic verses. That's not fair and such practice must be stopped. As for that purposes, I m availing myself to make awareness to others about their deep rooted intention and effects are taking roots subliminally.

I am as a member of the said forum remind all of you to be fair and balanced so that all foster healthy humane environment for all of us, not just for the few chosen ones. If any one of you involved in doing i.e., take side with one group/sect over another, then you guys must be labeled as terrorist well dis-information terrorist.

As I'm not asking any favor from moderator nor do I ask them to muzzle up as i understand everyone have their right to free speech (including me - why do you deny mine) to query and to raise questions of anything given topics deemed necessary to foster healthy debate to increase our knowledge of any subjects. I m not asking any especial treatment nor favor as Alochona seems to provide for their RAW agents to say or write whatever the hell they want. These cowards of Alochona's moderators must be exposed, so that shame and humiliation may change their behavior.

If the Alochona's moderators put reliance on "RAWist pressure" in Dhaka or anywhere else that without providing our views on what Farida wrote as a psychological warfare to dehumanize us then i think this is another miscalculation at that particular end. That's the only weapon RAWist agents like farida has cowered herself to depict BALs into believing their strategy to achieve their objectives and BAL has followed their footprints ever since 1947.

We have to sent in an unequivocal message to these RAWs terrorists that we do understand their heinous game plan as they follow Zionist protocols to enslave us in every directions. Please read a book: "the history of a lie" written by Nilus in 1905 and this book is free and can be download from archive.org or scribd.com.

BAL is using the same Zionist tactics since 1952 clandestinely by naming 21 Feb instead of 13 Falgun and other areas successfully. We have to expose them slowly but surely one day at a time openly by educating them. Truth must be prevailed as always.

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Re: [ALOCHONA] Tipaimukh protests politically motivated : Indian HC

If the Indian HC doesn't like our protests, he can go back to his motherland! We stand against India's continued control of water sources that affect our lives.

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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Tipaimukh protests politically motivated : Indian HC

Tipaimukh protests politically motivated : Indian HC

Indian High Commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty questioned the wisdom of Bangladeshi experts speaking against India''s Tipaimukh dam as he said they don''t have basic data about the scheme and that they are raising voice getting "politically motivated",( UNB)

"Your experts don''t have basic data--some of them, I am afraid, being politically motivated. They are raising the issue for other reasons," Pinak told reporters in reply to a question regarding the planned Tipaimukh barrage over the common river Barak while emerging from a meeting with Foreign Minister Dipu Moni Wednesday.

He said the matter of Tipaimukh was not discussed Wednesday at the meeting but "we have provided information, whatever available, to Bangladesh side."

The Indian envoy reasserted that Tipaimukh is not a ''water-diversion' ' project but a ''hydroelectric project'', and both Bangladesh and India would be beneficial from the mammoth project. He said traditionally the project will generate electricity which can be shared, if possible.

"After the use of water for generating electricity, it would flow back into the river and flow its natural course," he told the journalists, explaining their design of the dam.

Pinak further said the project would also help in controlling floods as, during rainy season, a lot of water rolls down the rivers and cause floods in downstream areas of Bangladesh.

He further noted that if it makes some control of rivers, it would also help supply more water into rivers in the lean season when flow of water is scanty.

The Indian High Commissioner said they offered Bangladesh team to visit the Tipaimukh barrage project site to see themselves what is happening. He said they would provide all available information about the dam to the team.

Replying to a question about detained Indian national Daud Merchant and his associate Zahid, he said they might seek consular access for the detainees as they are Indian nationals.

The Indian diplomat said he mainly discussed with Foreign Minister Dipu her visit to India on invitation from the new Indian External Affairs Minister, SM Krishna.

He handed over the invitation letter to Dipu Moni today.

They also discussed and decided to sit again for making detailed plan for visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India.

http://www.newstoda y-bd.com/ frontpage. asp?newsdate= #19712

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[ALOCHONA] Tipaimukh Dam/Cachar Plain Irrigation Project: A Complicated Interna

IRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alochona/message/13721

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[ALOCHONA] First Agenda Fullfilled by BNP-Jamaat Govt - Help Tarek Zia Steal 12 Crore

Friday, June 5, 2009

Tarique's firm got dubious waiver of Tk 12cr interest

Staff Correspondent

Dandy Dyeing Ltd owned by ex-premier Khaleda Zia's elder son Tarique Rahman got a waiver of interest worth Tk 12 crore on bank loans within a week after the BNP-Jamaat coalition assumed power in 2001.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith disclosed it in parliament yesterday in a written answer to a query of Awami League (AL) lawmaker Muhibur Rahman Manik of Sunamganj-4.

The Bangladesh Bank waived Tk 12.16 crore in bank interests to Dandy Dyeing Ltd on October 16 after the BNP-led alliance assumed power on October 10, 2001.

Tarique, former senior joint secretary general of BNP and also a director of the company, exerted influence over the then government through the controversial Hawa Bhaban.

Source: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/print_news.php?nid=91291

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Re: [ALOCHONA] National anthem mandatory in madrassahs

'The portrait of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the nation, will also need to be hung in all educational institutions'

What a stupid idea it is!

You can never buy respect by force.

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[ALOCHONA] A few afterthoughts of President Obama's speech in Cairo

President Obama delivered his long awaited speech in Cairo, Egypt early this morning, calling for a "new beginning" to relations between America and the Muslim world and seeking to emphasize the common ground and shared values between the two.

• Areas of Agreement: The president has built his political and policy successes on the idea that even among those who disagree most vehemently, there is a kernel of common ground that can be found and built upon. Obama has used this approach to effectively address major hot-button issues like race and abortion stateside, and put it to use again this morning by working to convince the Muslim world that its own values are not so different from those of America. Early in the address, Obama noted that "all of us share common aspirations" including the desire to "live in peace and prosperity" and to "love our families, our communities and our God." He added: "These things we share. This is the hope of all humanity." Obama's entire political career -- from his time in the legislature to his short stint in the Senate and then the 2008 campaign -- is defined by this "more light, less heat" approach. It's worked for him so far but convincing the Muslim world to trust America and vice versa is a much thornier task than even turning down the volume on the abortion debate.

• Laying Down a Marker: At 6,100 total words and 55 minutes long, this was a speech meant for history not for the moment. Put another way, Obama's speech today was meant to lay out his broad philosophy about the future of American-Islam relations -- from dealing with terrorists, to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the possibility of a nuclear Iran -- rather than offer a series of specific proposals about how to create a better and deeper understanding between the two sides. It's an approach Obama has used before on domestic issues: he has laid out the same sort of non-specific vision for the economy and national security in lengthy speeches on each subject in recent months. Perhaps seeking to pre-but his critics, who have latched on to the idea that Obama gives good speech but his actual policies are either vague or wrongheaded, the president said today that: "Recognizing our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people." The goal of this speech -- and the others like it Obama has given -- is to set a general course on the direction of relations between America and the Muslim world without offering specific instructions on how to get from point A to point B. Obama believes that on the most difficult of issues -- foreign and domestic -- that rolling out specifics on the front end gets in the way of true compromise and forward movement. That approach will be tested domestically on health care this fall.

• A Confident President: Given the level of mistrust toward Islamic countries within the United States, delivering a speech in Cairo in which the president said he saw it as his "responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear" shows the level of confidence he has in his ability to persuade. It's almost impossible to imagine a president -- even Obama -- giving this sort of speech within a year (or so) of running for reelection, not because the content was that controversial (it wasn't) but rather because it gives political enemies lots and lots to shoot at on a very controversial subject. But, riding high in job approval ratings, trusted by broad swaths of the American public and three and a half years from his 2012 re-election race, Obama felt confident enough in his standing to deliver a speech that he knows will be picked apart and analyzed by political friends and foes for years to come.

• Breaking from the Past: Knowing how unpopular former president George W. Bush's approach to foreign policy was in the Muslim world, Obama sought to make clear that his administration was taking firm steps to offer a clean break from the ways things had been done. While calling the terrorists attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 an "enormous trauma" for the United States, Obama added that the "fear" and "anger" it provoked "led us to act contrary to our traditions and our ideals." Obama also referred to the war in Iraq as a "war of choice" (contrasting it with the conflict in Afghanistan) and added that the Iraq situation should serve as reminder to American of the "need to use diplomacy" and "build international consensus" to solve conflicts. The message was clear: I am not George Bush and it is a new day in how America views its roll in the world.

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[ALOCHONA] BD News - Bangla Army has new Chief

Lt Gen Mubin new army chief

Thu, Jun 4th, 2009 4:51 pm BdST

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http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=86222&cid=3

Dhaka, June 4 (bdnews24.com)—The government has named Principal Staff Officer of the Armed Forces Division Lieutenant General Muhammad Abdul Mubin as new army chief.

General Mubin will replace General Moeen U Ahmed, who on April 6 last year had his service extended by a year. The extension that took effect from June 15 last year ends on June 13.

Mubin, former GOC of 24th Infantry Division in Chittagong, was made PSO to the Armed Forces Division exactly a year ago on June 4, 2008 in a major reshuffle of top army posts.

A close associate told bdnews24.com that General Mubin's family and friends were calling and visiting to congratulate him on his new assignment.

Gen Mubin made a nationwide televised statement on the night of on Feb 27 to clarify that the 'general amnesty' the government had declared during the Feb 25-26 BDR mutiny did not mean that rebel BDR border guards involved in killings, arson and other crimes would be forgiven.

bdnews24.com/sm/pc/mhc/rah/bd/1652h.

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[ALOCHONA] Budget Made Easy

Dear Members,

Please read my article on 'Budget Made Easy' published in today's issue of Naya Diganta:

http://www.dailynayadiganta.com/2009/06/04/fullnews.asp?News_ID=148635&sec=6

It is also available at:

http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=863

Best regards.

Ahsan Mohammed

http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/articles/ahsanmohammed/

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Re: [ALOCHONA] Indian BSF erects fence along Tin Bigha Corridor

Where the hell is our foreign minister and what the hell is she doing?

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Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 6:31:45 AM
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Indian BSF erects fence along Tin Bigha Corridor

Indian BSF erects fence along Tin Bigha Corridor

BDR has protested the BSF fencing saying it breached a decade-old agreement between Bangladesh and India.India' s Border Security Force erected barbed wire fencing overnight along the two sides of the road of the Tin Bigha Corridor that provides the Dahogram-Angorpota enclave's link to the Bangladesh mainland, officials said on Saturday.

Bangladesh Rifles Patgram company commander Subedar Hamidul Islam said the BSF erected the fence through Friday night on the road which Bangladeshis use for travel to and from the enclave surrounded by Indian territory.

Saiful Islam, chairman of the Dahogram-Angurpota enclave, a union that belongs to Lalmonirhat district, said the residents were angry with the fence. BDR has protested the BSF fencing saying it breached a decade-old agreement between Bangladesh and India.

Islam said he led a company commander level flag meeting with the BSF on the Tin Bigha Corridor on Saturday. On protests from BDR at the meeting, the Indian border guards said the fence was built on directions from "higher authorities" .

"The BSF has breached the 1974 pact by erecting the fence along the Corridor," said Hamidul.

Signed in 1974, the Tin Bigha Corridor agreement came into effect from 1992, allowing Bangladesh the corridor of land through which Bangladeshis can freely move between the Dahogram-Angurpota enclave and the mainland during the day.

http://www.theindep endent-bd. com/details. php?nid=127939

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[ALOCHONA] Rater Zonaki - Hypocrisy of mourning in Bangladesh

Hypocrisy of mourning in Bangladesh

By Rater Zonaki

June 03, 2009

UPI Asia Online

http://www.upiasia.com/Human_Rights/2009/06/03/hypocrisy_of_mourning_in_bangladesh/5407/

(Rater Zonaki is the pseudonym of a human rights defender based in Hong Kong, working at the Asian Human Rights Commission. He is a Bangladeshi national who has worked as a journalist and human rights activist in his country for more than a decade, and as editor of publications on human rights and socio-cultural issues.)

Hong Kong, China — The husband of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Dr. M. A. Wazed Miah, passed away on May 9 at the age of 67. Wazed Miah, whose reputation as an eminent nuclear scientist went beyond his family's political spectrum, had been suffering from heart problems, diabetes and other ailments for the last few months.

The death of a loved one is always sad for family members, relatives, friends and well-wishers. Wazed Miah surely had a large number of well-wishers at home and abroad to mourn his death. Many Bangladeshis as well as foreigners expressed their sorrow and condolences after learning of his death.

However, it is not clear how many among those who sent condolences in fact had motives other than the sense of great loss felt by the family.

In the weeks since Wazed Miah's death, a segment of the country's politicians, including top policymakers, have been busily using this opportunity to participate in mourning rituals almost every day. Ministers, parliamentarians, senior government officials and public servants have been mourning in public under the banners of various sociopolitical and public institutions.

It appears that the death of a relative of the most powerful person in the government has created an opportunity for political parties – especially the Bangladesh Awami League, the current ruling party – to compete with other parties in displaying their shock and grief. Many leaders hope to get their names in the prime minister's good book by arranging "mourning" activities across the country.

In the midst of this political mourning, Cyclone Aila struck the coastal and southwestern parts of Bangladesh. At least 150 people died as high waves surged onshore from the Bay of Bengal, and the homes of tens of thousands of people were destroyed.

Thousands of people, who have been homeless since the cyclone hit on May 25, are suffering without food or drinking water, as corruption competes with relief work in the affected areas. The people who lost loved ones in the cyclone have had no chance to mourn their deaths.

Only victims living in easily accessible places are getting small quantities of relief on an irregular basis. However, the government has been serious about creating video footage of relief distribution to a small group of affected people, in an attempt to show the nation that it is taking care of the victims – which is an untrue picture of a painful reality. The government keeps promising the affected people that it will help them.

There are many people in Bangladesh who have been unable to properly mourn the deaths of lost relatives. These include victims of extrajudicial killings by state law-enforcement agencies. When the Rapid Action Battalion, the police and the armed forces kill people, they have only to label them "criminals" – even though they died without trial for their so-called crimes.

In such cases, law enforcers routinely intimidate family members of those who are killed, warning them not to tell anyone, especially human rights defenders and journalists, about the death. In most cases the perpetrators also cordon off the home and burial place of the deceased, barring relatives from speaking out.

Out of more than 1,000 such cases, not a single one has been investigated by a credible authority since the practice of extrajudicial killings was adopted. Ironically, the government keeps pledging to stop extrajudicial killings and bring the perpetrators to justice, claiming "zero tolerance" for this particular practice.

Still, the ruling political party – which cannot create a stable society in which ordinary citizens can mourn their dead – remains busy mourning the death of the prime minister's husband. This marathon mourning by political leaders is nothing but hypocrisy; it contributes nothing to a nation and people that have so many urgent needs.

The politicians should realize that the practice of extrajudicial killing, which has been institutionalized by successive governments regardless of their political and non-political identities, should be resisted and prosecuted. And if people are killed under unfortunate circumstances, their relatives should be allowed to conduct mourning rituals without intimidation.

Unfortunately this does not happen, because the relatives of victims of extrajudicial killings cannot benefit the politicians as a powerful person like the prime minister can.

All the institutions related to the rule of law – the police, criminal investigators, prosecutors and courts that try criminal cases – lack credibility in Bangladesh. State institutions have been surviving on arbitrariness and impunity instead of equality and justice. The people do not trust these institutions. Thus, what the Bangladeshis really have to mourn is the death of rule of law in the country.

If the leading politicians are not inclined to share in this mourning, they have two options. They can think about how to bury the institutions, so there is no question of legality. Once they have established unhindered lawlessness, the citizens will no longer expect lawful actions in the country.

The other choice is for the government to think about reforming the rule-of-law institutions into genuine, functioning bodies that the people can trust. This has long been an urgent task for the nation.

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[ALOCHONA] Indian dam will create regional chaos

Indian dam will create regional chaos

Dhaka, June 3 (bdnews24.com)—Bangladesh and India will face instability if the latter goes ahead with its construction of Tiapaimukh dam and other proposed hydropower projects in the region, said the head of an environmental forum on Wednesday.

"India is planning to generate around 50,000 megawatts electricity by building dams across 48 different rivers in its seven northeastern states," said Mozaffar Ahmad, president of Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon (BAPA).

"They aim to export power," he said. "But the entire region will face chaos with the construction of dams across the rivers."

Speaking to reporters at a round table on Climate Change and People, Mozaffar said: "The rivers of Bangladesh will dry up during winter and overflow during the monsoon with the construction of Tipaimukh dam."

The former president of Transparency International Bangladesh stressed the need for raising public awareness about the negative environmental impacts.

Referring also to infiltration by Indian separatists into Bangladesh territory in the past, he said," We will also fall into a volatile socio-political crisis if the proposed dam is constructed."

He said, BAPA would launch a movement against the Tipaimukh dam.

Citing the example of displaced people during the construction of the Kaptai dam for power generation in Bangladesh, he said: "Similarly, the people of northeastern India are also protesting against the construction of the Tipaimukh dam."

Indians against it too

The Action Committee Against Tipaimukh Project (ACTIP) in India comprises academics, politicians, students and around 20 influential socio-political organisations.

They fear the dam will bring more miseries than benefit to most people and severe damage to the environment.

The project will be one of the largest hydroelectric projects in eastern India to date and will be located 500 metres downstream of the confluence of the Tuivai and Barak rivers in Monipur, near the Mizoram border.

'India won't hold back water

Meanwhile, Indian high commissioner to Dhaka, Pinak Ranjan Chakrabarti, said Wednesday that although India will have sole control over water flow at the proposed dam site, it will not hold it back.

The flow of river water and flood control will remain in the hands of India, he told reporters after a courtesy call with communications minister Syed Abul Hossain at the ministry.

But, he said, Tipaimukh dam is a hydro-electric project that will generate electricity from the flow of water, and then will release the water back.

India expects to generate around 1500 megawatts of hydropower from the project, which concerns many in Bangladesh as three rivers—the Surma, Kushiara and the mighty Meghna—lie downstream of the proposed dam.

Experts say it will reduce the natural monsoon flood patterns of the Sylhet region adversely affecting cultivation and livelihoods in the area on a vast scale.

They also fear India could hold up water flow during the dry season.

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