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[mukto-mona] FW: Why Mother Can Not See Her Child : Story Of Twins Seperated

Thanks a lot much revered Mr. S.A. Hannan for raising this shocking
issue before the world's civil society.

These nations teaches us- civility, human rights, ethics and
democracy. You call it Civility ? These are stone-age savage rules.
Mockery has a limit.

Please mail them a CD of English version of Holy Quran and ask them to
learn civility from Allah's(SWT) sublime teachings.

BarakAllahu feeq'

Azam Mahmood

On 11/22/09, S A Hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com> wrote:
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> Why Mother Can Not See Her Child : Story Of Twins Seperated
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> Daily New Age has reported that Lovely Mallick, the mother of
> joint-headed twins Krishna and Trishna who were separated at Melbourne
> Royal Children Hospital in Australia recently by sixteen surgeons and
> specialists after a marathon 29-hour operation, is now praying for her
> children. She says she wishes to see them once, just once. The twins
> were born on 22 December, 2006, at the Patients' Nursing Home at
> Phulbari Gate in Khulna city. Twenty-two-year old Lovely Mallick, a
> fourth year Diploma student of the agriculture course of Shaheed Flight
> Lieutenant Masud Memorial College at Keshobpur upazila headquarters in
> Jessore district, got married with her poor illiterate neighbour, Kartik
> Chandra Mallick, 30, of village Rongpur under Dumuria upazila in Khulna
> district in 2004. Poverty and the inability to foot the doctors' bills
> forced the couple to give the girls to an institution founded by Mother
> Teresa, Nirmola Shishu Bhaban, located at Sonadanga in Khulna city. 'The
> clinic's authority helped us to keep the babies healthy. After hearing
> about Mother Teresa's institution, I offered my children to its
> authorities in January 2007, just 16 days after their birth, assuring
> them that I would never want them back if they arranged proper treatment
> for them' said Lovely. 'I saw the news of their separation in a local
> newspaper on Wednesday, and I felt overjoyed that my children are still
> alive after the operation,' Lovely told New Age on Friday afternoon.
> Bursting into tears of both joy and sorrow, Lovely said that it was, of
> course, good news for her and her family, but she is sad that she could
> not see her babies since February 2007 after they were sent to
> Australia. But she cannot demand to see them as she had offered them
> unconditionally.
> We are surprised that Mallika can not get back her children.Why she
> should be asked to sign an agreement which is harmful mother's
> interest.This is not justified in morality.In the name of treatment to
> adopt a child and change his/her religion ( as is obvious) are
> offensive.It is strange Mother Teresa's organization helps in such
> agreements.We think mother in this case has the right to get back the
> child and Australian government should help her.An agreement made under
> duress can not be acceptable.
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[mukto-mona] Prayer on Eidul-Azha - Dr.M.K.Sherwani



November,21, 2009
 Prayer on Eidul-Azha - Dr.M.K.Sherwani
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May the reverential sounds of 'Allahumma Lab-Baik,
Once again shake the pillars of falsehood;
May the multitudes of believers around Allah's House,
Change the entire world into one human brotherhood.

May the glorious green dome of Prophet's  tomb,
Inspire in every heart, Allah's awe and fear;
May the clouds of discord and ill-will disappear,
With every throb of heart, and every faithful tear.
 May this pious festival of Eidul-Azha infuse,
Abraham's faith in every soul and heart;

May the Divine Will dominate our minds,

And purge our conscience of all sorts of dirt.

 May its blessings give moral and rectitude;

To  humanity to  overcome the present  turmoil;

May  the  blood from the slaughtered  animals,

Sow the seeds of peace and harmony in  the soil.

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 Dr. Mustafa Kamal Sherwani,LL. D.

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[ALOCHONA] RE: [khabor.com] Re: Re: Bangladesh/Failed/State



Saif, can you prove me that Mujib removed the word 'Muslim'. Ershad who ruled the Bangladesh for the longest time was trained in India for a year before snatching power. How can you call him anti-Indian when he called Pronob Mukharjee after the last election to get the presidentship. He maintained  a long good friendship with the leading Indian politicians. BNP which opened the market for Indian products, how can you call it anti-Indian.
In Dhaka, I have seen in  70s, 80s, 90s and still now the Tata buses (craps) at the government run BRTC. Whereas with the same money, they  could buy the Volvo buses. Don't tell me they were anti Indian. How many proofs do you need? None of the governments made any military or diplomatic efforts to get the 3 bigha when Mujib made 3rd amendment to the constitution to give a gift of Berubari to India.
I know your definition may be different. You may think giving gas, import everything from India, having no foreign policy like now, no defense force - keeping Indian forces in our land for our protection is not anti Indian. Selling Bangladeshi hilsha fish at subsidized price to India doesn't make you pro Indian while Bangladeshis buy the same fish for higher prices, it makes you a back-boneless toe sucker.
I don't have the newspaper but some of the major Indian newspaper claimed to have a RAW connection to Mujib's killing. The military men who killed Mujib were anti Pakistani pro Indian freedom fighters. Some of them had their  professional military courses in 73/74/75 in India.


--- On Thu, 11/19/09, SAIF Davdas <islam1234@msn.com> wrote:

From: SAIF Davdas <islam1234@msn.com>
Subject: RE: [khabor.com] Re: Re: Bangladesh/Failed/State
To: "shumon" <shumonoh@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009, 9:31 PM


Shuman> Can you provide any reference with respect to Bhashani removing the 'Muslim' from Awami Muslim League? I will be grateful. Here you go again. You are using your Islamic Logic again. If Raw had Mujib killed, how come for the next 26 years a anti-india government was in power in Bangaldesh?

 
 
 
 
 
 
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To: khabor@yahoogroups.com; alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: shumonoh@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:09:07 -0800
Subject: RE: [khabor.com] Re: Re: Bangladesh/Failed/State

 
Saif, Mujib didn't remove Muslim from Awami League, it was Bhashani who removed Muslim. You know what is your problem - your problem is to give credit to Mujib for everything, even if it requires you to distort the history. It wasn't sauds or Islamists who killed Mujib, it was a joint effort of RAW and secularist forces of Bangladesh who killed Mujib.. Do you see Islamic lifestyle in any of the killers of Mujib? The killers belong to inner circles of Mujib himself.

--- On Wed, 11/18/09, SAIF Davdas <islam1234@msn. com> wrote:

From: SAIF Davdas <islam1234@msn. com>
Subject: RE: [khabor.com] Re: Re: Bangladesh/Failed/ State
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Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 3:26 PM



Jamil Saheb>

Fact:   Mujib removed the word 'Muslim' from Awami Muslim League thereby giving it a secular character in 1949. Fact:  Six points was all about economic exploitation of East Pakistan by West Pakistan, nothing to do with religion. Mujib was a Nationalist. Islam rejects ideology of nationalism. When Mujib took power he immediately introduced secularism as a state principle. That hurt the feelings of Muslim majority in Bangladesh and the Muslim world at large--particularly the house of Sauds. Had Mujib declared Bangladesh a Muslim country, he would probably have been alive today. To understand this mind set one must study the history of Islam in the Indian Subcontinent. The defeated soldiers of Allah got the opportunity of life time when the brain-dead secular forces of scientific socialism unknowingly gave the opportunity to unite and overthrow the Mujib government. Zia changed the constitution by way of Fifth Amendment—established the rule of Allah---destroyed secular ideals and helped in establishing the Communal Republic of Bangladesh. Islam was saved from the Kafir and it became the State Ideology. In 1982, a most corrupt individual in the annals of history took power in Bangladesh . This slave of Allah surpassed even Zia in licking the boots of the Islamicists in Bangladesh . By way of 8th amendment he fulfilled the will of Allah and declared Islam the State Religion, thereby guaranteeing for himself 72 virgins in heaven. Have you forgotten what happened to that whiskey sipping madam? Who she went to bed with to become the prime minister? As the saying goes, the rest is history. To be sure, the other lady is no less corrupt. Her shameful record of sleeping with the slaves of Allah is surely turning her deep-at-heart- secular-father turning profusely in the grave.

 
SaifDevdas
islam1234@msn.com

To: khabor@yahoogroups. com
From: kaljatri@emailme. net
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:07:50 +0530
Subject: [khabor.com] Re: Re: Bangladesh/Failed/ State

 
WRT: http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/khabor/ message/25278

>Bongobondhoo's cherished dream of building the foundation of the
>nation on the >basis of a secular ideology, has gone up in the smokes.

   Let me give some bitter pills of truth here. As much I share with
   you the concern about "the proliferation of the Islamic extremism
   and fundamentalism" , I disagree that nation based on secular
   ideology was Mujib's cherished dream. Secularism was never a part
   of AL manifesto ever before independence. You will not find it in
   AL's 6 point programme that Mujib had always championed. The
   secularism clause was added by leftist student leaders of DUCSU
   during the student/mass movement prior to March 25, 1971.
   Secularism was a selling point then as both the Hindu and Muslim
   Bengalis had a common enemy in Pakistan. So sure it made political
   sense to Mujib to adopt secularism, although he did not himself
   initiate it nor was it his idea, as I mentioned above. In fact he
   never championed socialism either. Secularism and socialism were
   both imposed on the AL manifesto by the hot blooded leftist
   students. Secularism for them and Mujib was an idea that came from
   political expediency, not from heart. To justify a mass movenemt
   against Pakistan they had to adopt an ideology that went aainst the
   ideology that Pakistan symbolized. Hence secularism and socialism.
   I can bet my last dollar that had Pakistan been a strictly secular
   and a Soviet leaning state and exploited East Pakistan and
   dominated it like it did, then AL's manifesto would have been to
   end the evils of secularism and socialism, restoring the rule of
   Islam and free market. After all Sheikh Mujib was a devout Muslim,
   he always bragged about him being a Muslim and not fearing anyone
   except Allah (He used to state that in rallys to indicate he wasn't
   afraid of Pakistani police crackdown on him/AL). He also used to
   end his affirmations with Insha Allah. AL/Mujib must have felt bad
   for not being able to use Pro islam and pro capitalism slogan as
   thet had already been hijacked by the Pakis!, so they could not use
   those slogand to sell their cause against the Pakis to the mass.
   When the expediency dictates otherwise they will morph and adopt a
   different ideology. No wonder AL's motto now is Allahu Akbar now,
   and not too long ago they had allied with Khilafat Majlish (A much
   more radiacal Islamic group than Jamat). Here are some more bitter
   pills. If you think that Islamization had happened due to Mujib's
   elimination consider the following :

  1. It was Mujib's gov. established Madrasha Board and Islamic
  Foundation, Bangladesh Seerat Mission, allocated land for Tablig
  Jamaat at Tongi, handed over Kakrail Mosque and its adjacent lands
  to Tablig Jamaat and registered three acres of land to Baitul
  Mukarram mosque. (never happened under Pakistan before Bangladesh's
  indpendence)

  2. It was Mujib's gov. who enacted laws banning gambling at racecourse
     and import and sale of liquor. (Prior Pakistan gov never did this)

  3. It was Mujib's gov that aggressively pursued membership in OIC
     to boost it's image as a Muslim nation. He even offered Bhutto(An
     atheist albeit) a red carpet reception in 1974(The then Idina HC in
     Dhaka Subimal Dutta resigned in protest), SO he could get Pakistan's
     recognition, SO he could join OIC, SO he could project BD as a
     Muslim state.

  As J.N. Dixit mentions in his book "Liberation and Beyond" about
     Mujib:
     "He was also clear in his mind that the national identity
     of the newly created Bangladesh can be sustained only if the
     Muslim identity of Bangladesh forms a primary ingredient in
     Bangladeshi nationalism" (Quoted in the New Nation of 25 August
     1999)


Now consider the following about Hasina's AL. (If Hasina could do
these, imagine what Mujib would have done had he been alive today
considering 1-3 above, if he faced the same challenge to stay/grab
power):

  1. She bragged about all that mentioned in 1 above.
  2. After return to power in 1996, Hasina government allocated Tk 33
     crore 9 lakh for religious affairs against Tk 31 crore 35 lakh of
     previous BNP government.

  3. The number of gov enlisted Madrashas increased to 7146 during
     Hasina's Awami League rule from 5977 of BNP times.

  4. It is during the Awami League government that a welfare trust was
     constituted for Imams and Muazzins. Besides, a Madrasha Teachers
     Training Institute was established at Gazipur at a cost of Tk 1.37
     crore.

  5. She allied with Jamat prior to 1996 election to topple Khaleda Zia.
     Even in 1994 Al had accepted Jamat as a legit political group and
     sent AL presidential Noninee Badrul Hasan Choudhury to sit with
     Golam Azam for possible alliance against BNP. Motiur Rahman Nezami
     even apologized to the people in a meeting in Chapai Nababganj for
     having acted in cohort with AL against BNP in the past.
     (Prothom Alo Dec 12 1998) in a mass meeting. All these paved the
     way for and made it legit for BNP to ally with Jamat later in 2000
     election.

  6. She did nothing in 1996-2001 (no sign of doing that now either) to
     reverse the Ershad amendment of constitution declaring Islam as the
     state religion nor the Ershad's introdcution of Friday as a holiday,
     causing huge loss to busineeses dealing with export/import
     (Mounong Shommoti Lokkhonong). Not only that AL now has
    Allahu Akbar  as their motif slogan.


  - Jamil Asgor




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[mukto-mona] DOJ investigates ICNA Official's Past



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A former Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) president and secretary general is under federal investigation to determine whether he failed to disclose his history with a paramilitary group when he applied for U.S. naturalization.
Ashrafuzzaman Khan remains active with ICNA, which was founded to serve South Asian Muslims in the U.S. and follows the extremist ideology of the Jamaat-i-Islami, which advocates for revolution to create an Islamist state in Pakistan.
According to an online Bangladesh newspaper based in Washington, U.S officials wrote to Bangladesh's State Minister for Home Affairs in September requesting files related to Khan's role in a series of 1971 political murders. The bloodshed came during Bangladesh's fight for independence. The targets included university professors and a journalist. Khan is suspected of war crimes and of carrying out some of the killings. According to the News Bangla report:
"Ashrafuzzaman Khan's personal diary found in his residence contained the names of more than twenty Dhaka University teachers and staff. Also, the diary contained the names of a few other intellectuals who were either killed or who went missing in 1971."
Allegations about his role in the Bangladesh murders have dogged Khan for years. The government won't have to prove his guilt in order to try to strip him of his citizenship. It only must show he lied on his application forms when asked to list his past organizational connections. It has worked before.
The DOJ official making the request is Eli Rosenbaum, longtime director of the department's Office of Special Investigations who hunted Nazi war criminals in the U.S., often using deportation as a tool to send the accused back to their home countries to face justice.


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[ALOCHONA] Failed Years – 1972-75



Failed Years – 1972-75


A beautifully produced book based on his doctoral dissertation at Heidelberg University. It has a striking jacket and cover in deep red and black and is well presented.


The theme of Awami League (AL)'s failures and the failure of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman himself have been researched over many years, but then these in most cases have been vitiated by the pre-conceived perceptions brought in, hindering the process of a neutral scrutiny and an unbiased focus. Dr. Jamshed Chowdhury does not appear to have an axe to grind in reaching certain conclusions. As a thesis work it appears to have been a labour of love. Perhaps I did miss some nuggets. But the first reading did not reveal any definitive, or for that matter, clear verdict. The readers are left to do that on their own.

As a conscious, and not so conscious, witness of the events of the period under consideration, I do feel that two major strains in the post-Independence political development in Bangladesh deserve so much more attention and these are, one- while Sheikh Mujib might have realised that the over-whelming Bengali support for the cause of Independence was not so much of a total support for Awami League per se, but was an effective 'carte blanche' for his leadership of all Bengalis. That adulation was for the man and not for the party he led was not something the party-men could not relish.


This very crucial and finer point did not dawn on other AL leaders excepting possibly Mr Tajuddin Or if historic verdict suffers from an element of generosity, it might opine that the rest of AL high command chose to ignore it and deliberately, in the following years, attempted to hoist AL for obvious reasons on the nation It was a monstrous hypocrisy that the nation which had united irrespective of all the past differences and then current gargantuan problems facing the country to rebuild the economy and rekindle the hopes that initiated and sustained the liberation struggle, should have been shackled with AL rule and only a short time later, imprisoned in a one-party political dispensation .


AL and its short-sighted dwarfs thought they could overturn the popular will imbued then with their sacrifices many times over, No known, well placed AL leader had suffered any personal loss in the bloody war of Liberation Sheikh Mujib was safely away, his family lived safely in Dhaka, and the Theatre Road in Calcutta saw the Al leaders-in-exile not exactly in the thick of the battles that our valiant, often faceless fighters were engaged in some 100-odd kilometres away along the borders. This aspect must be brought out in the open in truth and without prejudice. Because, AL's leadership claims are entrenched in these months and in those events occurring between March 1971 and December, 1971.


In my view, only Mr Tajuddin had the capability and the courage to strike a different note on policy matters with Sheikh Mujib. Messers Mansur Ali and Qamruzzaman may have had some abilities, but their sense of getting into power was more acute than any ideal or principal-based stand that ought to have been taken in the crucial years before Baksal. Tajuddin in all probability became a hostage of loyalty to Sheikh and to his comrades. Tajuddin's monumental failure to rebel and all others' huge ability to 'kiss the ground' Sheikh walked on explain the disaster that befell the nation in August 1975. Army's intervention is only a tool, not a prime mover, not even a reason.

Any analysis of a historic episode will suffer from being static if there is no measurement done of the shadows cast or areas illuminated by all these events. AL and all other parties demonstrated the identical trait of a built-in failure, when, one- there are no dissenting voices, two, if there are, these are not heard with respect and patience, and third, like the Pharaohs the leaders abandon their trusted lieutenants and plot to empower their ill-gotten,

ill-prepared and totally irrelevant off-springs.


The 1975-onwards scenario in Bangladesh reveal those very characteristics that negate all the democratic norms and culture of governance of a modern, dynamic, ability-led, performance-oriented state. They violate openly all the values, they themselves shout about day in and day out, again publicly. No nation can and should, suffer such insolence of power and such flagrant disregard of people's will and welfare.

The second major point of constitutionality was the establishment of one-party state with Baksal. Political expediency apart, it was not, and it certainly could not be, the panacea AL and Sheikh Mujib were looking for evidently to tackle the rising problems for the government of the day. In fact, a party-less (disbanding AL) national Government under Sheikh Mujib could possibly have been a wiser, albeit difficult, solution. Though I strongly suspect it was AL and its failure to rise above self-and its failed leadership – that led to the irreversible process of disaster, decline and decay in Bangladesh. Instead of strengthening the democratic polity, and culture and institutions like multiparty system, cabinet form of government, freedom of press and speech, independence of judiciary, non-interference in the due conduct of administration, non-preferential treatment to AL and party activists etc., Sheikh Mujib all but wore the crown and sat on the throne as the unelected king of the country.


This brings in the legitimate question whether the AL victory in 1970 elections in Pakistan framework, could have been at all be valid as a continuing mandate in Bangladesh with its own constitution, for the declaration of one-party state in 1974. We need indeed to recall and emphasise that even the 1970 mandate was given in a multiparty elections.


Is the nation bound by an illegitimate, illegal and palpably unlawful act by a legal government who had not revalidated its mandate to govern as a party under the new constitution in the newly sovereign, independent state called the People's Republic of Bangladesh?


One of the unexplained phenomena of all times in Bangladesh relates to the total absence, absolutely so, of any public outpouring of grief, of protests, of condemnation on the gruesome elimination of Sheikh Mujib and almost the entire family on 15 August 1975. There was no visible reaction at least worth mentioning to this horrendous event within less than four years of his rule as he came in like a conqueror from exile to the obeisance of his party men and to the adulation of the people of Bangladesh still dazed and reeling from the nightmares that began on the 26 March 1971. What had happened and what had gone so wrong? Just some army men caught up in a frenzied mood brought about such a catastrophe is too simplistic an explanation and certainly not the real or the full one.


To my mind, many elements conspired right from the day one of our Independence. But was not Sheikh Mujib's then unbelievable popularity adequate to get around those long knives? While those evil forces were gathering strength, by the same token Sheikh Mujib's style of administration, his weaknesses, his pervasive guilt feeling perhaps in not really being there with the valiant forces and above all, his easy capitulation to his close advisers from the great Theatre Road sector, in not firmly announcing a national government, in giving reign to his sons and daughters' lust for immediate power and riches along with other relatives, sidelining wise and committed comrades like Dr Kamal Hossain, Kader Siddiqui and many other genuine, but out-spoken well-wishers, went on corroding the strength that could have otherwise been Sheikh Mujib's shield for physical and political survival. There were quite a few self-seeking civil servants whose counsel Sheikh Mujib listened to most of the time There were strings of sychophants, hangers-on and their cohorts who gained immensely through Sheikh Mujib's misplaced generosity and misuse of state patronage and funds.


And then of course his so-called stalwarts and followers banded in an almost obscene personal security apparatus called the Rakkhi Bahini alienated the regular Armed Forces and other law-enforcing agencies as much as it did the people at large. Such an illegitimate, personalised security arrangements did not, and never do, deliver – the 15th August massacre should be a living testimony to that to all. And it was apparent that there were no genuine regard and affection and if there were any, these also disappeared like mists in the sun, when their mighty leader had a mighty fall. Even all his 'Bhayera Amaar ' across the length and breadth of the country did not come out wailing at the great fall. This astonishing reaction, or more appropriately, the lack of it raises the fundamental question – Why? Reasons must be embedded in the way AL conducted itself, the way Sheikh Mujib distanced himself not only from all the pro-independence, proactive-forces, but also from the common people at large. The smoke from his most expensive brand Erinmore pipe tobacco created a veil across his eyes and his senses and he could not see the reality for himself, nor were his 'honourable' bandoliers were honest enough to keep him informed about the people and about their ever-growing problems and the rising tide of disenchantment through deprivation, neglect and unkept promises. All these led to the growing chasm between Mujib the people's leader and Mujib the Prime Minister and then also so swiftly, the President of a one-party state, banishing freedom of speech and thereby, banishing hope. And hopeless people do not have tears left to cry for others, even for their great fallen hero! To be Sheikh Mujib alone was not enough, 'I love my people and my people love me' type simplistic belief was certainly not the solution the nation was then literally dying for. A colossal black hole of utter disillusionment, hopelessness, and disgust had engulfed the nation .


In my view, the famine of 1975 despite sufficient stocks of food was the watershed, but the charge that ignited the explosion of mayhem and the public silence, was perhaps the huge, multi-layered, cream cake that was carried under the television coverage to celebrate Sheikh Mujib's birthday. The 'cake' travelled through the streets over the dead bodies and the dying ones in the realm to mark the birthday of the 'Bangabandhu'! All people do, and can, suffer only so much pain, but they still had some respect for the dead and they did not take out a cake on the 15th of August 1975.


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[ALOCHONA] President Sheikh Mujib’s Death:Tajuddin’s Prophecy




Abid Bahar, Canada

Tajuddin warned Mujib not to impose the one party system to have more power when he is already the most powerful person in the government. M. A. S. Molla records the Mujib-Tajuddin encounter from Abu Said Chowdhury records. Molla says keeping Mr Syed by his side Tajuddin told Mujib: "I think I must talk to you on some important matters. Some people encircle you in your office in a way that I would not have opportunity to talk to you there, and the environment there is also not congenial. That is why I am using this red telephone for the purpose. You are going to establish a one-party rule, but I told you many times about my reservation. Today I am registering my conclusive opinion. I do not agree to your one-party system. Please tell me why you should go this way."(1)

"Tajuddin listened for some time to what Mujib was saying. Then again he was speaking: "First, I am not convinced by your logic. Secondly, this is not my question. This is my statement. As the prime minister, you have enough power in your hands, and I think that you don't need to have a one-party system, or any other change like that. Thirdly, you and I together traversed the country for long 25-30 years, and there is no field or place where we did not go. There we delivered speeches hoping for a happy and prosperous country based on democracy. The democracy for which we talked so much will end through a single stroke of your pen, establishing a one-party system. I am very strongly disagreeing to your decision."(2)

This time Mujib got angry. Mr Syed wrote that Mujib's fury was heard even outside the telephone receiver. But Tajuddin calmly uttered: "By taking this step you are closing all the doors to remove you peacefully from your position. Mujib Bhai, the most unfortunate event will be that the bullet will not hit you alone. We shall also be killed and the nation will plunge into danger."(3)

It is now clear especially from Tajuddin and others prediction that behind the coup leaders was the shadow of a lingering fascism that certainly killed Mujib. The Shadow was Mujib himself. He was a power hungry man who inspired by the Indra Congress syndicate wanted everything for him even when he didn't deserve many of them. We know that intellectually he was not so bright. As simple as his hand-written Bengali correspondences in the archives were found to be full of syntax problems. He died 30 long years ago but during AL rule he is reincarnated over and again as the "Father of the nation." What is needed is to discount the shadow (fascism) the major killer in Bangladesh politics. The shadow is Mujib himself (the political actor and an abusive political father) the AL leadership continues to worship as the "Father of the Nation," a model of hero-worship used perhaps for the AL's symbolic ownership of the nation is a worrisome thing for a

future democratic Bangladesh. As like most fascist regimes, the AL leadership doesn't allow the investigation of its own misdeeds and doesn't tolerate opposition or even intellectual debates. New Age staff correspondent FM Masum was lately picked and beaten up by the Rapid Action Battalion in detention for more than 10 hours and a half.(5) "Even the military regime did not harass us as much."

References:

(1)M A S Molla,Tajuddin's prophecy, Daily Star, November 03, 2006 http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/11/03/d611031503110.htm; Abu Syed Choudhury, Tajuddin in Prothom Alo Eid issue of 2005

(2)Ibid

(3) Ibid

(4) N.M. Harun, The country is in a somber mood, Financial Express, http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=84535

(5) http://www.newagebd.com/2009/nov/06/nov06/xtra_inner5.html

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[mukto-mona] The verdict of the supreem court on Mujib case --Please have a look [8 Attachments]

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HI All ,

Please have a look on this historic verdict of the father of the
nation Mujib murder case.

Please not that I have warned the government about the chance to get
murdered of S Hasina. In previously quoting a confirmed intelligence
source before any Indian news paper published the news.

Quote from the news "The plotters' target is to destabilize the
country and bring down the present government, while the main target
is to kill the present Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, some of her
cabinet members, and a group of intellectuals. In doing so, when the
plotters come to power, the three different countries who are helping
them will get certain benefits from them."

Please see the news :
1. http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=291529


The new article William Gomes,
1. http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2009/11/21/english-and-imperialism-bangladesh
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[ALOCHONA] Charting a new Course in Bangladesh-India Relations:Challenges for Sheikh Hasina






THE Indian Foreign Secretary's visit ended positively for a number of reasons. She was upbeat about the forthcoming visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India next month. The fact that Nirupama Rao found time to meet Khaleda Zia and refrained from calling on the Army Chief that her predecessor had done added to the positive tone of her visit.

Clearly the Indian foreign secretary's visit was not intended to be one of substance. The Indian Foreign Secretary held official talks with her Bangladeshi counterpart. She also met Foreign Minister Dipu Moni and paid a courtesy call on the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She also called on Khaleda Zia, the Chairperson of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party. She did not give any reaction to the media except telling them that her visit was "significant" during which issues were discussed ahead of Sheikh Hasina's visit to India that she termed would be a "very important one".

The Bangladeshi Foreign Secretary addressed the media in depth. He said that Sheikh Hasina would start her three-day official trip on 19th December, flying to New Delhi from Copenhagen after attending the UN sponsored Conference on Climate Change. She will hold official talks that day with the Indian Prime Minister. She will also visit Ajmer Sharif and Kolkata. The Bangladesh Foreign Secretary said that three agreements would be signed during the visit related to legal matters in dealing with criminals and criminal activities. The Foreign Secretary hinted at an agreement on "mutual transit facilities" without giving details and also stated that a draft would be kept ready for agreement on sharing of Teesta waters but did not say for sure whether it would be signed. He also said that India agreed to allow Bangladesh rail transit to Nepal following up on the land connectivity it had agreed to give during the visit of the Bangladesh Foreign Minister. Bangladesh Foreign Secretary also spoke of the need to remove "cobwebs" in Bangladesh-India relations to understand each other's position in a transparent manner so as to make joint efforts to resolve them.

The Foreign Secretaries, their upbeat stance notwithstanding, side-tracked some of the major issues that have stood in the way of Bangladesh-India relations developing into a mutually beneficial one as geopolitical realities should have dictated. Bangladesh's concerns over sharing of the waters of the common rivers; demarcation of the maritime boundary; trade imbalance and on the Indian side, the issue of land transit (now being called connectivity), security were not addressed in the meeting of the two top diplomats as priority agenda items for the Bangladesh-India summit level talks. This leaves doubt whether any agreement would be reached on such vital issues when Sheikh Hasina goes to New Delhi. A senior Foreign Ministry official also told the media that agreements on reducing the trade gap and on land boundary issues were also unlikely during Sheikh Hasina's visit.

Expectations have been high in Bangladesh following AL's massive election victory and the return of Congress in India with an equally strong mandate that Bangladesh and India would resolve some of their longstanding issues given the historical close relationship between the two ruling political parties. The visit of the Indian Foreign Minister and the Indian Foreign Secretary in February and April this year, however, raised questions instead of raising optimism. The Bangladesh Foreign Minister's visit in October also did not focus on the major issues. The talks between the two foreign secretaries also have not given much cause for hope because the issues they have discussed in preparation for Sheikh Hasina's visit have not focused on those that have held up friendly relations between the two countries for nearly four decades. In fact, the main obstacle that has held up bilateral relations to grow in strength, namely the negative mindset on either side, is coming into play once again for reasons that are hard to understand as both sides seem inclined towards putting into the back seat the major contentious issues.

Neither side however gains anything by keeping the major issues unresolved. There are in fact no "cobwebs" in Bangladesh-India bilateral relations because the unresolved issues are as transparent as daylight where both sides know that the "cobwebs" are there because of the lack of political will to deal with them. Sheikh Hasina should use her visit to India to appeal to her hosts for a change in the Indian mindset. In Manmohon Singh, India has a leader who has the vision to rise above the negative mindset and is capable of acting with vision that does justice to India's status as a regional leader in world politics. It is to him that Sehikh Hasina must register the issues of water sharing, trade, Tipaimukh, harassment over the issue of illegal migrants, and the maritime boundary.

Sheikh Hasina must also meet Sonia Gandhi for her support because her influence on the incumbent government is unquestioned. While meeting her, she should keep in mind that one of the few Indian leaders who tried to improve Bangladesh-India relations without considering reciprocity was Rajiv Gandhi. He made a historic visit to the cyclone-devastated Urichar to show solidarity with Bangladesh at times of distress. Rahul Gandhi whose importance in the ruling party is second to none should be another politician that Sheikh Hasina should meet. Recently, Rahul Gandhi has stated his opposition to river linking projects in India, an issue with which Indian diplomats and bureaucrats have kept Bangladesh on the tenterhooks. She should thank him for that stand to get a commitment from India against river linking which would help brighten the gloomy background of Bangladesh-India relations.

The signing of the three agreements on the table would hardly make Sheikh Hasina's visit a success. Its success would be determined by what commitment she can get on the Tipaimukh issue that many in Bangladesh believe would be disastrous for the country; on sharing of the water of the common rivers where abandoning the river linking idea by India would help the cause of the visit; on stopping the Indian campaign about 20 million illegal Bangladeshis; on giving Bangladesh better trade deal; and assurance to negotiate on the maritime boundary fairly. India could accommodate all these without causing its national interests any harm. To Bangladesh, these commitments would mean a major breakthrough in achieving its national interests. These commitments would also allow Bangladesh to follow up positively on Indian connectivity request, security concerns, and use of Chittagong port.

The question now is will Sheikh Hasina be able to show the political will needed to make her visit a watershed in Bangladesh-India relations if India shows the wisdom to so do? She may not because her greatest drawback in succeeding with her forthcoming trip to India will be in the nature of the country's domestic politics. The massive majority with which the AL won the last election notwithstanding, India knows too well that without a clear indication of bipartisanship from Bangladesh, any concession that it would choose to make would be opposed by the opposition and any reciprocal gesture that Bangladesh makes would be impossible to implement. At this stage, the bipartisanship necessary to convince India is an unimaginable proposition. Therefore the "cobwebs" may linger on the canvas of Bangladesh-India relations a little while longer and Sheikh Hasina's visit may be just another one made by a Bangladesh Prime Minister to India.

The writer is a former Ambassador to Japan and Director, Centre for Foreign Affairs Studies.

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[ALOCHONA] Refusal of Indian visa



Refusal of Indian visa

Dr. A.T.M. Zafrullah Chowdhury-Trustee, Gonoshasthaya Kendra


Mr. Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty
High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh
High Commission of India November 12, 2009
House #2, Rd. # 142 Kartik 28, 1416
Gulshan 1, Dhaka.


Dear Mr. High Commissioner,

Subject: Refusal of Indian visa


I had applied for an Indian visa to speak at the plenary of the 5th South Asian Conference on Trade and Development: Globalization and Public Health: Key Issues and Policy Options on 23rd & 24th November, 2009, and for a transit visa to go to Cuba via India. Therefore, I applied for a one year multiple entry visa for India on 22nd October 2009 with all supporting documents. On 5 November 2009, my passport was returned without a visa and no reason was given. I am writing this letter to bring the details of the matter to your attention to redress the harassment by Indian visa office.

Since 1972, I have never been refused a visa to India. In the past, I either had a one year or a six month multiple entry visa to India. My last visa was a six months multiple entry visa. This visa expired on 2nd August 2009 (Visa No. AC 798830).

On 3rd November 2009, I was asked to meet with your visa officer, Mr. Somnath Halder at noon. Mr. Halder took me to meet another officer who introduced himself simply as 'Kumar' and asked me whether I was present at a conference organized by the Commonwealth Secretariat in July this year at Dhaka Sheraton Hotel. There was a file in front of Mr. Kumar. When I said yes, Mr. Kumar looked at the file said "you are the only one in that meeting, who spoke against Indian interest." In reply, I repeated to him what I had said at that open discussion at Session IX: Transit in South Asia on 8th July 2009.

I said in the said meeting that India having a $ 7 billion business in Bangladesh with Bangladesh having less than half a billion dollar export to India would naturally have to see in what way providing transit to India would benefit Bangladesh. Neither Nepal nor Bhutan are being given a similar transit facility by India to use Bangladesh's seaport. I had also said that what India was asking amounted to a corridor rather than transit. Bangladeshis living in an enclave of Dohogram Angorputa near the border have to live practically in curfew conditions as they are not being given 24 hours corridor facility through Tin Bigha.

Moreover, the six eastern states of India adjacent to Bangladesh's eastern border are plagued by security problems requiring a large military presence. Therefore, we have to be careful about a corridor between the rest of India and its eastern states. Moreover as a small neighbour with a huge trade deficit, we expect that India as the bigger neighbour to show magnanimity by allowing direct trading facilities with the seven eastern states. The Tripura government had wanted to buy our pharmaceutical products but could not because they are not permitted to do so without central government approval. During the discussion on the Asian Highway I had suggested that the Asian Highway through the sub-continent should be such that Nepal, Bhutan, China and Myanmar can all join.

I further stated in the meeting that we remain grateful to India for their help in our independence war and cherish that relationship. India too has to be careful not to do anything that may appear otherwise.

Furthermore, I tried to tell Mr. Kumar that I have travelled to India on over 100 occasions since 1972 and on one occasion, the then Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh, came to Savar Gonoshasthaya Kendra after 10 pm to stamp my passport for a visa and requested that I take the flight the same night so that Mr. Rajiv Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, could meet me on the following day to discuss the proposed Indian Drug Policy.

Mr.Kumar interrupted and said, "You are against India's transit through Bangladesh, but you want transit through India." I clarified that I was not seeking transit through India to go to another part of Bangladesh. On the contrary, I was applying for a visa to attend meetings in Cuba and Delhi. Surely an individual's attendance at professional meetings is a different matter altogether from India seeking a corridor through Bangladesh to transport goods from Central and Western India to North Eastern states of India.

Mr. Kumar abruptly cut short our discussion. When I asked about the visa, he said that he will put the matter to higher authorities and asked me to take delivery of the passport on 6th November'09 which was a Friday! I requested for the passport to be returned sooner. My passport was returned on 5th Nov'09 evening. I was not issued a visa and no reason was given.

I would like to highlight several disturbing points with regard to the denial of visa. First, such conduct is unexpected from the "world's greatest democracy," and the land of Gandhi and Nehru. Surely, India, which was a beacon of hope against British colonization, and a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement of the 1970s, cannot today stand against freedom of speech simply because it is deemed against some Indian bureaucrats' and politicians' desires. Second, such conduct is a harassment of Bangladeshis seeking visa for legitimate reasons. Third and finally, the denial of visa had both financial and professional impact on me. I had to reroute my ticket, and hence had to pay a hefty fee to the airline. I also lost the opportunity to exchange views with my colleagues at the CENTAD meeting in Delhi.

I write in anticipation that the Indian High Commission will give me an explanatory response regarding the denial of visa.


Sincerely yours,

(Dr. A.T.M. Zafrullah Chowdhury)
Trustee, Gonoshasthaya Kendra
Public Charitable Trust
Bangladesh Passport: E 0148896
Issued in Dhaka on 10th May 2009
Expire 9th May 2014
E Mail:lamia@uoregon.edu

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