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Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: A news item on BDR massacre



British-Saudi-ISI Link to Bangladesh Crisis Is Coming to the Fore

March 2, 2009 (LPAC)--Writing in the Kolkata-based daily The Telegraph on the background of the revolt in the Bangladesh Rifles border security, former Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Deb Mukherjee said, "Bangladesh Rifles has historical links to British days and is also proud of being the successor to East Pakistan Rifles, the first organized group to resist, at great cost, the rampaging Pakistani forces in 1971..."

As Lyndon H. LaRouche pointed out the massacre of Bangladesh Army officers was entirely orchestrated from London exactly the same way the attack on Mumbai, India was organized in late November last year. The Bangladesh Rifles personnel, some of whom were seen wearing the orange-colored bandannas of the British-based terrorist outfit, Hizb ut-Tahrir U.K., were educated at the Saudi- and Kuwaiti funded madrassahs and were linked to the British historically. This was the same combination that pulled the Mumbai attack.

It is also important to note that as Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair had opposed the banning of the Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain, despite demands to do so from the Conservative Party leadership. In addition, Blair allowed high-level government officials to contest in court the banning of the Hizb ut-Tahrir in European Union countries.

In addition, the Indian intelligence sources reported the first signs of a Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) footprint in the slaughter of Army officers that threw Bangladesh last week into a state of high crisis. These sources report that the preliminary interrogation of some of the rebels has thrown up the name of Salauddin Qadeer Chowdhury, a well-known shipping magnate and reportedly very close to the Pakistan military-intelligence complex, and the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). According to sources monitoring the situation, about 10 million taka have already changed hands to help the mutiny along. Chowdhury, a close associate of BNP leader Begum Khaleda Zia, was closely connected to the Chittagong arms drop case in April 2004, in which the arms were apparently intended for a secessionist group in the eastern Indian state of Assam, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). Salauddin Chowdhury, belonging to an old Chittagong family, has been close to Pakistan for decades.

It has also been widely reported earlier that the majority of the Bangladesh Rifles personnel were recruited from madrassahs in the earlier years and some of them belong to the Britain-headquartered terrorist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir. Thes madrassahs were funded almost always by Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.



On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Robin Khundkar <rkhundkar@earthlink.net> wrote:
 

To the Alochona Moderators

I second the sentiments proposed by Ms Majid. I have nearly stopped reading Alochona as it seems hopeless against deluge by the Munshi/Isha Khan clique.
Does Alochona want to be a TABLOID forum. I think it is question that seriously needs to be discussed by the average membership.
Robin Khundkar

-----Original Message-----
From: Farida Majid
Sent: Jul 28, 2009 1:00 PM
To: Alochona Alochona
Subject: A news item on BDR massacre

 
         Ever since the first shots were heard coming out from the direction of Peelkhana this forum was abuzz with Munshi, Bahar, Isha Khan and their ilk with anti-India propaganda and conspiracy theories involving imagined fingerworks of RAW/MOSAD/CIA. Munshi was then exposed quite convincingly by Shamim Chowdhury as one having cuddly connections with Pakistan Defense Forum and ISI.
 
         Here is another take on the BDR massacre.
 
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/9369
 
         I have no high hope of competing with the Munshi-Bahar liemongering machine in this or any other forum. The machine has a feral power that is hard to match. All I ask the moderator is to have a modicum of decency in allowing a small percentage of space for those conscientious voices that protest against the vicious lies.
 
         Thank you.
 
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Re: [ALOCHONA] A news item on BDR massacre



I also fully agree with right observation and comments of you and Mr. Robin Khundkar.
 
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On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com> wrote:
 

 
         Ever since the first shots were heard coming out from the direction of Peelkhana this forum was abuzz with Munshi, Bahar, Isha Khan and their ilk with anti-India propaganda and conspiracy theories involving imagined fingerworks of RAW/MOSAD/CIA. Munshi was then exposed quite convincingly by Shamim Chowdhury as one having cuddly connections with Pakistan Defense Forum and ISI.
 
         Here is another take on the BDR massacre.
 
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/9369
 
         I have no high hope of competing with the Munshi-Bahar liemongering machine in this or any other forum. The machine has a feral power that is hard to match. All I ask the moderator is to have a modicum of decency in allowing a small percentage of space for those conscientious voices that protest against the vicious lies.
 
         Thank you.
 
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[ALOCHONA] Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink



Pushing South Asia Toward the Brink

by Zia Mian

 

zia mian

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The contradictions and confusions in U.S. policy in South Asia were on full display during Secretary of State Hilary Clinton's recent visit to India. U.S. support for India, which centers on making money, selling weapons, and turning a blind eye to the country's nuclear weapons, is fatally at odds with U.S. policy and concerns about Pakistan.
 
By enabling an India-Pakistan arms race, rather than focusing on resolving the conflict and helping them make peace, the United States is driving Pakistan toward the very collapse it fears.

America's New India

In an op-ed in The Times of India just before the start of her visit, Clinton laid out U.S. interests in India. The first item on Clinton's list was "the 300 million members of India's burgeoning middle class," that she identified as "a vast new market and opportunity."
 
The emerging Indian middle class is large - for comparison, the current total U.S. population is also about 300 million - and greedy for a more American lifestyle. But the focus on India as fundamentally a market for U.S. goods and services, and a source of cheap labor for U.S. corporations, marks a remarkable shift. The United States and other western countries have traditionally seen India as the home of the desperately poor, deserving charity and needing development. But no more. Clinton's article made no mention of India's poor, which the World Bank recently estimated as including over 450 million people living on less than $1.25 a day.
 
India is also seen as a new emerging power of the 21st century, one that can be an ally of the United States and help it balance and contain the rise of China. Under the Bush Administration, in 2004, the U.S. and India signed an agreement called the "Next Steps in Strategic Partnership." To make India a fitting strategic partner, a senior State Department official later explained the U.S."goal is to help India become a major world power in the 21st century," and left no doubt what this meant, saying "we understand fully the implications, including military implications, of that statement."
 
India is seeking both to modernize and expand its military forces. It has dramatically increased its military budget, up over 34% alone this year. India now has the 10th-highest military spending in the world. It's becoming a major market for U.S. arms sales. U.S. weapons makers Lockheed Martin and Boeing have already racked up deals worth billions of dollars. But the real bonanza is still to come. India is said to be planning to spend as much $55 billion on weapons over the next five years.
 
But the big news of the Clinton visit was the announcement of an India-U.S. Strategic Dialogue. This will include an annual formal meeting of key officials, co-chaired by the secretary of State and India's external affairs minister, and including on the U.S. side the secretaries of Agriculture, Trade, Energy, Education, Finance, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and others. But given the difference in the power and range of interests of the two states, this will be no dialogue of equals. The process is intended to align Indian interests and policies in a wide range of areas with those of the United States.

Nuclear India

In her press conference with India's minister of external affairs, Clinton said, "We discussed our common vision of a world without nuclear weapons and the practical steps that our countries can take to strengthen the goal of nonproliferation." But there was no mention here of India's nuclear buildup, or of the United States asking India to slow down or to end its program. In fact, one would never guess from Clinton's remarks that India even had a nuclear weapons program. She seemed interested only in the prospect of U.S. sales of nuclear reactors to India worth $10 billion or more.
 
India is one of perhaps only three countries still making material for new nuclear weapons. The others are Pakistan and Israel (with North Korea threatening to resume production). India is building a fast-breeder reactor that is expected to begin operation in 2010 and is outside International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards. It could increase three- to five-fold India's current capacity to make plutonium for nuclear weapons.
 
India seeks to become a major nuclear power. On July 26, it launched its first nuclear-powered submarine. India plans to deploy several of these submarines. Last year, it carried out its first successful underwater launch of a 700 kilometer-range ballistic missile, Sagarika, intended for the submarine. India joins the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, and China in the club of those owning such nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered submarines. Israel is believed to have nuclear-armed cruise missiles on diesel powered submarines.     
 
India is also developing an array of land-based missiles. In May 2008, it tested the 3,500 kilometer-range Agni-III missile, which was subsequently reported to have been approved for deployment with the army, and is working on a missile with a range of over 5,000 kilometer. In November 2008, India also tested a 600 kilometer-range silo-based missile, Shourya. In 2009, India carried out several tests of its cruise missile, Brahmos, which the army and navy are inducting into service.
 
The U.S. silence on India's nuclear weapons and missile programs is all the more telling, given that it was the Clinton administration that proposed United Nations Security Council resolution 1172. In 1998, this unanimous Security Council resolution called on India and Pakistan to "immediately stop their nuclear weapon development programs, to refrain from the deployment of nuclear weapons, to cease development of ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons, and any further production of fissile material for nuclear weapons." The Bush administration ignored it. It seems the Obama administration will too.

Pakistan v. India

Pakistan was noticeable for its near absence from Clinton's agenda in India. It came up only in the context of the need to fight terrorism. Forgotten was the brute fact that India and Pakistan are straining harder than ever in their nuclear and conventional arms race. A Pakistani diplomat responded to the Clinton visit to India by telling The Washington Post that "What Hillary is doing there is probably again going to start an arms race." This race drives Pakistan toward collapse, the very thing the United States fears.
 
Pakistan is buying U.S. weapons as fast as it can, some paid for with U.S. military aid, with arms sales agreements worth over $6 billion since 2001, including for new F-16 jet-fighters. China, an old ally, is also supplying the country with jet fighters and other weapons. Pakistan is also boosting its nuclear program. It's building two new reactors to make plutonium for nuclear weapons. It continues to test both ballistic missiles and cruise missiles to carry nuclear weapons.
 
The principal U.S. concern about Pakistan, aside from the country falling apart and its nuclear weapons falling into the hands of Islamists, is the war against al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and in the border areas of Pakistan. It has been telling Pakistan to focus its military forces and strategic concerns on this battle, which requires moving more soldiers away from the border with India. The generals who command Pakistan's army were bound to resist such a redeployment. They worry about the new U.S.-India strategic relationship, and what it may mean for them when the war on the Taliban is over and the United States no longer needs Pakistan.
 
The Pakistani army, which rules the country even when civilians are in office, will not easily shift its view of India. The army and those who lead it see the threat from India as their very reason for being. The army has grown in size, influence, and power, to the point where it dwarfs all other institutions in society and would lose much if there was peace with India. But there is a personal dimension as well. The partition of the subcontinent 62 years ago that created Pakistan is in the living memory of many who make decisions in Pakistan. General Pervez Musharraf, who was chief of army staff before he seized power in 1999 and ruled for nine years, was born in India before partition. General Musharraf, along with the current chief of army staff, General Kayani, and others in Pakistan's high command, fought as young officers in the 1971 war against India. The war ended with Pakistan itself partitioned, as East Pakistan became the independent state of Bangladesh, with India's help, and 90,000 Pakistani soldiers captured by India as prisoners of war.
 
As Graham Usher notes in the new issue of the Middle East Report, before becoming president, Barack Obama seemed to understand that resolving the conflict between India and Pakistan was critical to dealing with the problems in Afghanistan and with the Taliban. In 2007, Obama claimed "I will encourage dialogue between Pakistan and India to work toward resolving their dispute over Kashmir and between Afghanistan and Pakistan to resolve their historic differences and develop the Pashtun border region. If Pakistan can look toward the east with greater confidence, it will be less likely to believe that its interests are best advanced through cooperation with the Taliban." There is little evidence that this view has yet informed U.S. policy.  

The Reality of Pakistan

In their rush to make money and to preserve American power in the world by crafting an alliance with India, U.S. policymakers seem to have averted their eyes from the reality that stares them in the face in Pakistan. In March 2009, the Director of National Intelligence summed up the situation in Pakistan:
The government is losing authority in parts of the North-West Frontier Province and has less control of its semi-autonomous tribal areas: even in the more developed parts of the country, mounting economic hardships and frustration over poor governance have given rise to greater radicalization...Economic hardships are intense, and the country is now facing a major balance of payments challenge. Islamabad needs to make painful reforms to improve overall macroeconomic stability. Pakistan's law-and-order situation is dismal, affecting even Pakistani elites, and violence between various sectarian, ethnic, and political groups threatens to escalate. Pakistan's population is growing rapidly at a rate of about 2 percent a year, and roughly half of the country's 172 million residents are illiterate, under the age of 20, and live near or below the poverty line.
Things have worsened since then. The Taliban is now seeking to escape U.S. drone attacks and major assaults by the Pakistan army in the Tribal Areas by taking refuge in the cities. There are already no-go areas in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, where the Taliban controls the streets. Meanwhile electricity riots have exploded in cities across the country, with mobs attacking public buildings, blocking highways, and damaging trains and buses. Each day seems to bring news of some new failure of the state to provide basic social services.
 
The Obama administration believes that an increase in U.S. aid to Pakistan can help solve the problem. The Kerry-Lugar bill (the Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act) approved by the Senate in June would triple economic aid to Pakistan to $1.5 billion a year for five years. But as the Congressional Research Service noted in its recent report on Pakistan, the United States has given Pakistan about $16.5 billion in "direct, overt U.S. aid" up to 2007. More of the same offers little hope for change.
 
A basic reordering of U.S. priorities in South Asia is long overdue. The first principle of U.S. policy in the region should be to do no more harm. This means it has to stop feeding the fire between India and Pakistan. Only an end to the South Asian arms race can begin to undo the structures of fear, hostility, and violence that have sustained the conflict in the subcontinent for so long. The search for peace may then have at least a chance of success.
 
Zia Mian is a physicist with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus.
 



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[ALOCHONA] Dhaka will urge no Barak irrigation project: Razzaq



Bangladesh will demand assurance from India that it will not implement any irrigation project which will divert water from the common river Barak, says the chief of the parliamentary team leaving on Wednesday to visit the site of the planned Tipaimukh dam. 

Abdur Razzaq, who will head the 11-member parliamentary delegation, told bdnews24.com on Tuesday that he would propose India carry out a joint study on the dam that Bangladesh fears will cause environmental damage in the downstream. 

The former water resources minister said as per the minutes of the joint rivers commission (JRC) meetings and a Bangladesh study on the proposed dam, if India solely implements a power project in Tipaimiukh, it would not harm Dhaka's interests. 
 
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[mukto-mona] Please shall be united for fighting against minority repression and state torture in Bangladesh.




Dear Sir/Madam,

Take my regards.

Minority repression and extra judicial killings has not stop in Bangladesh.  Minority repression is a common feature in Bangladesh. Almost every day here happening minority torture.  Ms.Radha Rani Halder (28) in Shoriotpur was gang raped recently. We knew our great patriotic journalist Manik Saha was killed by bomb attacked in 2004. Another honest journalist Diponker Chakraborty from Bogura was killed by terrorists. From Faridpur promising journalist Goutam Saha was killed. Principle Gopal Krishna Muhury was killed by gun shoot. As a Bangalee peoples everybody knows Purnima gang raped of in Sirajgonj. And it was the preplanned incidents. No actual investigation has happed and still not give punish to perpetrators of at least 15 indigenous community leader including Alfred Soren, Choles Richil murderer. 

We know in Bangladesh has no actual democracy, rule of law, education. Most of the peoples are living very poor situation. Gross problem is that, constitutionally Islam is the only one religion. But, in Bangladesh have living Muslim, Hindus, Christians and Buddhist.  Though, we had got secular constitution after independence led by father of the nation Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.   After the killings of Bongobondhu, General Zia and General Ershad were broken the main constitution.  

But why, now there is a Democratic government have. So, what and where is the problem to stop minority torture and extra judicial killings? Please let us to be united and fight and presser to the present government for stop minority repression and state torture. Otherwise, minority torture and state torture will not stop.

Regarding the minority and state torture watch these below links VIDEO documentary (natural).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xzaCRYCkqs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BthGnl-WEGo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnyyJHp3ET0

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With thanks,

Journalis, writer & HRD J. A. Akash

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http://www.humanrightstoday.info

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[ALOCHONA] Success of Nanak and Sadeq



Success of LGRD, WASA and DCC !
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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[ALOCHONA] What Bangladesh should do?



True but I guess you don't know that one of the big arguments against West Pakistan was in-equal distribution of wealth by quoting Average Per Capita difference between higher West Pakistani and lower East Pakistan Per Capita Income.
A Paki may ask, how come the gap has increased despite that no West Pakistanis are sucking blood of Bangladesh?
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Why is it this way?
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We can see, that Paki Per Capita had help of tons of US Aid Charity from 1980 to 1991 during Afghan JheaaD Days and then again from 2002 till now again because of Pakistan's cooperation with USA against Taliban.
Pak Per Capita Income had doubled between 2001 and 2007 not only because of Aid and Loan Charities but also because USA had provided over $ 100 billion worth of Export Concessions. Those Concessions caused Pak Exports to Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan more than .
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Pak Foreign Exchange Income used to be $ 7 billion and now its $ 31 billion.
Conniving, concieting, double-crossing Pakistan has been very lucky so far but its at such a cross-road that its dis-integration could take place now also.
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BANGLADESH's FAULTS:
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On the other hand, I think, stopping of English in schools has devastating effect on Bangladesh Economy. India has made tons of money in IT Sector and is still doing it, when in Bangladesh this Sector is not even at par with even much backwards Pakistan. Government has not tried to attract Foreign Investors or encourage Manufacturing Sector either to advance it.
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CONCLUSION:

Bangladesh must enter in to advanced Electronics manufacturing Sector because no underdeveloped country with some know-how can compete with her in low Wages now. Foreign Industrial Manufacturers and Investors must be attracted by the government just like China had in 1980 to get where China is now.    
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---  Abdul Mannan <abman1971@...> wrote:
>
> I am not sure what you want to prove with all these WB statistics. The
> bottom line is we are a proud independent nation  called Bangladesh, earned
> after so much of sacrifice, and fighting the occupation forces of Pakistan.
> Ask anyone here in Bangladesh we are much better off than the people of
> Pakistan in general. Just think of Swat. This is the beginning of the end of
> Pakistan. May be it will take10/15/20 years. We have our differences with
> India like any other neighbouring countries. In the end we try to find
> solution to such problems.
>
> Joy Bangla.
>
> Abman
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:56 AM, a ausal <ausal07@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Salam:
> >
> > According to the World Bank and UN Dataset (
> > http://earthtrends.wri.org/text/economics-business/variable-638.html), on
> > the basis of per capita GDP, a measure of income per capita, *during 1966
> > and 1970, Bangladesh was better-off ($106 to $129) than India ($90 to $111).
> > Even in 1975, Bangladesh income was $246 compared to Indian income of $158.
> > In 2008, *according to IMF,
> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29_per_capita>), Bangladesh
> > income/capita increased to $506 while Indian income/capita rose to $1016,
> > just double of bangladesh's income. Certainly Bangladesh, to some extent,
> > contributed to the income increase in India, particulrly contributing to
> > huge export earning derived from Bangladesh market. It is like British
> > income increaed by a rapid reduction of Indian income (primarily from
> > Bengal) during the earlier decades of the colonial period. See below the
> > numbers according to non-partial sources (UN, IMF, and World Bank).
> >
> >
> >                                   1966     1970    2008
> >
> > Bangladesh                $102       $129    $506
> > India                              90        111    1016
> > Pakistan                      120        168    1044
> >
> > *Pakistan's income/capita rose to $1044 in 2008 from $120 in 1966 and $168
> > in 1970.* *The income/capita gap between Bangladesh (East Pakistan) and
> > Pakistan (West Pakistan) was $18 in 1966 and $39 in 1970.* We have our
> > independence primarily for the income gap that existed between the two wings
> > of Pakistan. The income gap between Bangladesh and Pakistan kept on
> > increasing from $39 in 1970 to $538 in 2008 by close to 14 times.
> >
> > Our income/capita is only half of both Indian and Pakistani incomes. Please
> > note both India and Pakistan have ethnic, religious, and language problems.
> > But Bangladesh is free of these issues and it should be doing better than
> > India and Pakistan. Why our intellectuals even do not mention our expanding
> > gap not only with India but also *with Pakistan.* Please note that I have
> > not used data of India, Bangladesh or Pakistan sources.
> >
> > Congratulations to India for helping its own national interest in
> > liberating Bangladesh from Pakistani exploitation and enjoying Bangladesh
> > market!. Shukran,
> >
> > Ausal


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[mukto-mona] Historical one day series win for Bangladesh!



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Wednesday, 29 July 2009 04:22
106495২৯ জুলাই, বুধবার (আরটিএনএন)- ডমিনিকার উইন্ডসর পার্কে একদিনের দ্বিতীয় ম্যাচে আশরাফুল ও সাকিবের হাফ সেঞ্চুরিতে ঐতিহাসিক জয় পেয়েছে বাংলাদেশ। তিন ম্যাচ সিরিজের এক ম্যাচ বাকি থাকতেই তারা এ সিরিজ জিতে নেয়।


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[ALOCHONA] Jozz Miah, the Victim of BNP-Jamaat's Barbarism, is Now Freed



It is most certain that these criminal ex-CID officers during BNP-Jamaat rule were desperately trying to save a big FISH, a very big one. Without the order from the very top, they had no reason to divert the investigation and destroy the evidence. We also know that the BNP-Jamaat fanatics would love us to forget all the barbaric and terrorist activities of their time.


Source: http://www.bangladeshnews24.com/bhorerkagoj/newspaper/2009/07/28/news0522.php

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[ALOCHONA] Re: A news item on BDR massacre



To the Alochona Moderators

I second the sentiments proposed by Ms Majid. I have nearly stopped reading Alochona as it seems hopeless against deluge by the Munshi/Isha Khan clique.
Does Alochona want to be a TABLOID forum. I think it is question that seriously needs to be discussed by the average membership.
Robin Khundkar

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From: Farida Majid
Sent: Jul 28, 2009 1:00 PM
To: Alochona Alochona
Subject: A news item on BDR massacre

 
         Ever since the first shots were heard coming out from the direction of Peelkhana this forum was abuzz with Munshi, Bahar, Isha Khan and their ilk with anti-India propaganda and conspiracy theories involving imagined fingerworks of RAW/MOSAD/CIA. Munshi was then exposed quite convincingly by Shamim Chowdhury as one having cuddly connections with Pakistan Defense Forum and ISI.
 
         Here is another take on the BDR massacre.
 
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/9369
 
         I have no high hope of competing with the Munshi-Bahar liemongering machine in this or any other forum. The machine has a feral power that is hard to match. All I ask the moderator is to have a modicum of decency in allowing a small percentage of space for those conscientious voices that protest against the vicious lies.
 
         Thank you.
 
          Farida Majid


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[ALOCHONA] When Khaleda Zia ceded to the 'abdar' of madrassahs




          When Pakitani and Indian Muslim scholars, both Deobandi and Barlevi Ulemas of well-known madrassahs in their countries, are openly admitting about the weakness of the madrassah syllabi, saying that they do not provide students with adequate understanding of today's conditions and demands, should Bangladesh produce lakhs and lakhs of madrassah educated lads?
 
               Farida Majid



  08/29/2006 11:07
BANGLADESH

"Carte blanche" for madrassahs of extremism

Contrary to advice that calls for more checks and modernization of the curricula of Koranic schools, sometimes breeding ground for Islamic militants, Dhaka will confer diplomas equal to those of other private and state schools.


Dhaka (AsiaNews) – The government of Bangladesh continues to cede to pressure exerted by Islamic extremism that is becoming increasingly heavy in the lead-up to elections next year. The political alliance led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party of the controversial the Minister Khaleda Zia, has now decided to give official recognition to the Qawami Madrassah (Koranic school) certificate. 
 
 It was the prime minister herself who made the announcement at a meeting with leaders of different Islamist organisations.  "After an overall review, the government has decided to offer equivalent status of MA degree (Islamic Studies/Arabic Literature) to the 'Dawra' degree of Qawami Madrassahs."
 
Zia said she hoped students of these madrassahs would soon obtain deserved recognition of their studies with the cooperation of all and make the desired contribution to building the country.  The premier said the final step would be recognition of the "Fazil" diploma as a graduate course and the "Kamil" courses of the Alia Madrassah as a Masters degree.
 
Islamic radicals have long been demanding official recognition of age-old religious schools known as Qawami, but intelligence agencies claim they have been used to recruit and train new conscripts for terrorism and extremism.
 
The government decision follows agitation by several Islamic parties like the Islami Oikya Jote, a member of the government coalition. In all likelihood, the aim is to garner consensus in view of the general elections slated for next year.
 
Fundamentalists are cranking up pressure exerted on the central power base – a trend already noted by AsiaNews last year – in several civil sectors, chief among them that of education. The trend hides dangerous implications. Local analysts say the Qawami need legal recognition but "they refuse all administrative checks and monitoring of the curricula taught to students. Dhaka is thus giving these schools carte blanche to teach whatever they like how they like, and then they confer degrees exactly like those of state schools or private universities, which are subject to government controls!"
 
The provision goes in the opposite direction to that suggested by security experts, who called for more control over the activities and funds of the Qawami madrassahs after a wave of coordinated bomb blasts went off across Bangladesh on 17 August 2005. The most radical Koranic schools are funded by Saudi Arabia and conservative Islamic governments that want to lead Bengalese Islam back to orthodoxy.
 
Although analysts cannot give precise time frames, they say when the fruit of this education surfaces, the world could be faced with around 20 million youth formed in the fundamentalism of Koranic schools.

 
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=7058#


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[ALOCHONA] A news item on BDR massacre



 
         Ever since the first shots were heard coming out from the direction of Peelkhana this forum was abuzz with Munshi, Bahar, Isha Khan and their ilk with anti-India propaganda and conspiracy theories involving imagined fingerworks of RAW/MOSAD/CIA. Munshi was then exposed quite convincingly by Shamim Chowdhury as one having cuddly connections with Pakistan Defense Forum and ISI.
 
         Here is another take on the BDR massacre.
 
http://www.larouchepac.com/node/9369
 
         I have no high hope of competing with the Munshi-Bahar liemongering machine in this or any other forum. The machine has a feral power that is hard to match. All I ask the moderator is to have a modicum of decency in allowing a small percentage of space for those conscientious voices that protest against the vicious lies.
 
         Thank you.
 
          Farida Majid


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[mukto-mona] Re: Article on INDIA’S HYDRO-ELECTRIC PROJECT AT TIPAIMUKH AND THE HOT DEBATE IN

--- In mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com, "Bijon Sarma" wrote:
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TIPAIMUKH DAM : MR. MEER HOSSAIN'S RESPONSE AND MY SUBMISSION


Mr. Meer Husain, P.G., Environmental Geologist, Kansas, USA in his writing "India's Hydro-Electric Project At Tipaimukh And The Hot Debate In Bangladesh-A Response to Professor Bijon Sarma" (date : Monday July 27 2009), requested me, among others to review the article titled "Construction of Tipaimukh dam-A Threat to the national interest of Bangladesh", recently published in the NFB for a general idea about the advantages and disadvantages of hydro-electric dams". Accordingly I went through those. The advantages and disadvantages of hydro-electric dam as mentioned in the article are given hereunder. The bracketed and underlined portions are my (Bijon B. Sarma's) addition.
(Quoted from the article : Construction of Tipaimukh dam - A Threat to the National Interest of Bangladesh by Meer Husain, Ref: http://www.newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=274285
Monday July 13 2009).
ADVANTAGES :
01. Once a dam is constructed, electricity can be produced at a constant rate. (What an discovery ?)
02. If electricity is not needed, the sluice gates can be shut, stopping electricity generation. The water can be saved for use another time when electricity demand is high. The build up of water in the lake means that energy can be stored until needed, when the water is released to produce electricity. (This point is totally wrong and inapplicable in case of running rivers).
03. Dams are designed to last many decades and so can contribute to the generation of electricity for many years / decades. (Excellent advise to be given to the children).
04. The lake that forms behind the dam can be used for water sports and leisure / pleasure activities. Often large dams become tourist attractions in their own right. (Seems mockery in any serious discussion. These can never be the purpose of an expensive hydro-electric dam).
05. The lake's water can be used for irrigation purposes (Let the children know).
06. When in use, electricity produced by dam systems do not produce green house gases. They do not pollute the atmosphere. (Unnecessary. Such point may be raised when one is comparing a thermal and a hydro electricity plant).
07. Hydropower is a fueled by water, so it's a clean fuel source. Hydropower doesn't pollute the air like power plants that burn fossil fuels, such as coal, oil or natural gas. (Unnecessary, repetition and wastage of time to mention).
08. Hydropower is a domestic source of energy, produced locally near where it is needed. (Let the kids know).
09. Hydropower relies on the water cycle, which is driven by the sun, thus it's a renewable power source so long as the rain keeps falling on the dam catchment area. (Excellent information for the kids).
10. Hydropower is generally available as needed; engineers can control the flow of water through the turbines to produce electricity on demand. (Repetition. May be of interest to the kids).
11. Hydropower is not only a cleaner source of energy than oil but is it more cost effective as well. The most efficient coal burning plants are only able to convert around 50 percent of their energy into electricity, whereas modern day hydro power turbines convert up to 90 percent of their energy into electricity. (Should have been mentioned when asked about better option).
12. Hydropower can cost less than a penny per kWh (Kilowatt Hour) compared to fossil fuel power plants at around 2 to 3 cents per kWh. That may not seem like a big difference, but when factored out over a year and the millions of kW h's Americans burn, it adds up to a huge savings. (This calculation is USA based and has absolutely no value in India or Bangladesh).
13. Hydropower plants also have an added bonus as they create recreational opportunities for people as well as electricity. Hydro power dams provide not only water-based activities, but since much of the surrounding land is public they also encourage numerous other outdoor activities aside from boating, skiing, fishing, and hunting. (Repetition. Unnecessary).
14. Hydropower plants provide benefits in addition to clean electricity. Impoundments hydro power creates reservoirs that offer a variety of recreational opportunities, notably fishing, swimming, and boating. Most hydro power installations are required to provide some public access to the reservoir to allow the public to take advantage of these opportunities. Other benefits may include water supply and flood control. (Repetition. Unnecessary).

DISADVANTAGES :
01. Dams are extremely expensive to build and must be built to a very high standard. (The children should know).
02. The high cost of dam construction means that they must operate for many decades to become profitable. (Obvious, but why should one call it disadvantageous ? Who compelled you for quick profit ?)
03. The flooding of large areas of land means that the natural environment is destroyed. (Flooding of large land may happen when the land is plain. For this reason dams are constructed only in terrain lands, like Chittagong hill tracts, Tipaimukh etc.).
04. People living in villages and towns that are in the valley to be flooded, must move out. This means that they lose their farms and businesses. In some countries, people are forcibly removed so that hydro-power schemes can go ahead. (These are obvious. But these can be a subject of lesson for the students of elementary school and the NGO's who would find out ways of making money from it).
05. The building of large dams can cause serious geological damage. For example, the building of the Hoover Dam in the USA triggered a number of earth quakes and has depressed the earth's surface at its location. (In this age, all those who go for constructing dams know and hence consider points).
06. Although modern planning and design of dams is good, in the past old dams have been known to be breached (the dam gives under the weight of water in the lake). This has led to deaths and flooding. (Unnecessary point)
07. Dams built blocking the progress of a river in one country usually means that the water supply from the same river in the following country is out of their control. This can lead to serious problems between neighbouring countries. (Dams "producing hydro-electricity and blocking water" may be something new that the world has not yet seen).

08. Building a large dam alters the natural water table level. For example, the building of the Aswan Dam in Egypt has altered the level of the water table. This is slowly leading to damage of many of its ancient monuments as salts and destructive minerals are deposited in the stone work from 'rising damp' caused by the changing water table level. (It is the example of a very specialized case having no general implication).
09. Hydro power dams can damage the surrounding environment and alter the quality of the water by creating low dissolved oxygen levels, which impacts fish and the surrounding ecosystems. They also take up a great deal of space and can impose on animal, plant, and even human environments. (Good imagination).

10. Fish populations can be impacted if fish cannot migrate upstream past impoundments dams to spawning grounds or if they cannot migrate downstream to the ocean. Upstream fish passage can be aided using fish ladders or elevators, or by trapping and hauling the fish upstream by truck. Downstream fish passage is aided by diverting fish from turbine intakes using screens or racks or even underwater lights and sounds, and by maintaining a minimum spill flow past the turbine. (Theoretical importance only. Kaptai lake has defied it long ago).
11. Hydro power can impact water quality and flow. Hydro power plants can cause low dissolved oxygen levels in the water, a problem that is harmful to riparian (riverbank) habitats and is addressed using various aeration techniques, which oxygenate the water. Maintaining minimum flows of water downstream of a hydro power installation is also critical for the survival of riparian habitats. (Repeated)
12. Hydro power plants can be impacted by drought. When water is not available, the hydro power plants can't produce electricity. (New invention ? )
13. New hydro power facilities impact the local environment and may compete with other uses for the land. Those alternative uses may be more highly valued than electricity generation. Humans, flora, and fauna may lose their natural habitat. Local cultures and historical sites may be flooded. Some older hydro power facilities may have historic value, so renovations of these facilities must also be sensitive to such preservation concerns and to impacts on plant and animal life. (Repetition and unnecessary).
14. By 2020, it is projected that the percentage of power obtained from hydro power dams will decrease to around four percent because no new plants are in the works, and because more money is being invested in other alternative energy sources such as solar power and wind power. (Unnecessary).

As per Mr. Meer Husain's advise I went though the above article in order to have "a general idea about the advantages and disadvantages of hydro-electric dams". After I finished I could understand that these were written by a high school student accustomed to writing repeated, and at times unnecessary points to fill his answer sheet. Even though such answers may be "praiseworthy" for a student, mentioning these in a scientific article written by an Environmental Geologist is painful. It amused me to know that the answers were obtained from "Wikianswer.com". Even though I use it at times to see and enjoy, what others say, I never advise my student to believe in answers from such unauthentic and often doubtful sources, where computer-crazy boys are the "source of knowledge". I thank the boy giving the above answers, but I cannot do the same to an Environmental Geologist, using those in a serious article.

In the said article Mr. Meer Hossain also mentioned the example of failure of a dam on May 12, 2008 in the Great Sichuan Earthquake in China that killed 70,000 people and left 5 million homeless. The incident is of course heartbreaking. But no one would be astonished for its failure when they would know (quoted from Mr. Meer Hossain's article) : "The 511 foot high Zipingpu dam is(was) located (only) about 550 yards from the fault line and the epicenter of the earthquake was 3.5 mile away from the dam site." If the engineers commit similar blunders in Tipaimukh, there will be disasters. But I am sure, they are more intelligent and would collect information from better and authentic sources.
A country that goes for constructing a dam in its own land (at a distance of 150 kilometres from the border) knows how severely it will be affected due to its failure. It is now known to all that like Chittagong, the Sylhet-Monipur region also is earthquake-prone, and that during earth quake the vast water of the reservoir creates additional momentum. The engineers know these phenomenons much better. Also they know how to construct a befitting dam. If a country finds a potential site for producing hydro-electricity, in this age of science and technology, there is no reason to abandon the idea simply because "the region is earth-quake prone", specially when the appropriate solution is at hand. The efficient running of Kaptai project should act as eye-opener for all.


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