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Saturday, January 9, 2010

[ALOCHONA] Indian BSF kills two more Bangladeshis :814 killed on border during last 9 years



Indian BSF kills two more Bangladeshis :814 killed on border during last 9 years
 
The killing spree of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Bangladesh border continues unabated despite India's repeated pledges to stop such killings. Two more Bangladeshi citizens were killed in separate incidents along Benapole and Chapainawabganj border early Saturday. Of the two, one was beaten to death and another was shot dead by BSF.

With them three Bangladeshis were killed by BSF in first nine days of 2010 taking the total number of deaths from January 1, 2009 to January 9, 2010 to 89.

The number of Bangladeshis killed by BSF during the nine years period from January 1, 2000 to January 9, 2010 stands at 814. BSF also injured 857 and abducted 897 Bangladeshis in the same period.

According to UNB News Agency, a Bangladeshi cattle trader was beaten to death by BSF along Benapole border early Saturday. The victim was identified as Hazrat Ali, 30, son of Jahur Ali of Harishchandrapur village under the port thana. BDR and local sources said the BSF personnel from Pipli outpost beat Hazrat Ali mercilessly while he was returning from India with cattle, leaving him dead on the spot.

Another UNB News says: A Bangladeshi farmer was shot dead by the members of Indian Boarder Security Force (BSF) along Simnagar border in Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj Saturday morning. The victim was identified as Manirul Haque, 25, of Tarapur Mollapara in the upazila.

The killings of unarmed Bangladeshis by the BSF on the border are continuing in clear violation of the spirit of good neighborliness as well as international law and despite repeated pledges by the Indian authorities to stop it. In every meeting between BSF and BDR and also between the higher level officials of the two countries, the Indian side assures that killing of Bangladeshis by its forces on the border would come to an end immediately. But this pledge is seldom implemented.




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[ALOCHONA] Revisiting some facts of our liberation war



Revisiting some facts of our liberation war
 

By Nazrul Islam

It is important that we know or research to know the truth of our liberation war especially in December month of each year to honor the victim of the genocide.

Our liberation war occured in the midst lot of confusion when bengali were attacked viciously unprepared by the Armed forces of Punjabi Pakistanis lead by Bhutto and some unscrupulous Paki Generals .

It will not be fair to say that Sk Mujib lead the liberation war and that AL were the leading party who initiated it.

Ofcoarse for obvious reasons India sponsored AL and help them to organise a interim Govt with many infamous clauses like defense and Foreign service to be handled by India.

Many knows those clauses which were approved by AL leaders like Tazuddin , Nazrul Islam.

India intensionally choosed this sold leaders to be in the front representing the interim Govt instead of more qualified leaders of the East Pakistan.

Following event if someone peruse carefully would reveal the perspective of the our leaders at that controversial juncture.

1970 the Parliamentary election took place 3-4 months after the decades worst flood amounting to around 50k people dying there was a proposal for the postponement but for some reason poor peoples misery was not a consideration for the then popular AL.

Please note Moulana Bhasani the most respected popular and senior leader of the time did not participated in that election although he was a pioneer of the two nation theory of Pakistan.

Regarding the claim by the AL leaning intellectuals unification of the national leaders or the nation by Sk Mujib at that time was evidently not true.

Reason of non participation was that Bhasani did not believe in any election under military rule which was against the wish of AL,possibly a great mistake by Bhasani to let AL take a responsible in determining the faith of then East Pakistan.

AL election manifesto was the famous six point where there was no mention of a separate state but a confederacy with independent economy , currency etc very much within the constitution of the country acceptable by the EC and military Govt of Yahya Khan.

Although please note according to reliable source ,Mujib was even ready to give up 6 points if given the PM position of Pakistan.

Election was held finally on 1970 and AL was voted to victory by 70% voter turn out wothout ofcoarse Bhasani NAP's participation whose prominent leader and General secretary Mashuir Rahman Jadu Mia the ex deputy leader of the parliament would have come out successful from his constitution in Rangpur.

We have seen after the election of 1970, how these leaders of fame were kept out of focus during the lib war, Bhashani was in house arrest all leftist and prominent national leader with at least better IQ and statesmanship then Mujib was chased out of India by the RAW forces.

However we have seen the event after the election taking a very unexpected turn to the worse.

Unfortunately we were represented by no other than a illiterate and hypocrite 3rd grade leader cum agitator , the reason we suffered the massacre unprepared.

Yahya Khan was almost ready to hand over power to Mujib who wanted to be the PM of Pakistan but Bhutto objected and wanted otherwise.

His reasoning was that according to the contract prior to election Majority in either wing doesn't doesn't qualify the party to rule the entire two wings, the contract Mujib signed before the election rather stupidly ignorantly .

So the bargain begin and Mujib with majority was not a favorite to Pak Punjabi General to become the PM.

The infamous Larkan conspiracy decided to attack on the innocent Bangalees of East Pakistan, Mujib was in contact with all these criminals Roa Forman Ali , Bhuuto , Yahya khan etc possibly was only thinking about himself and his dear family including our present PM .

It was not unexpected from a leader like Mujib who jumped into 1970 election campaign instead of standing by the side of the flood affected Bangalis.

It is also a fact that during the entire 9month liberation war when Mujib was in Paklistan Jail , Mujib family was in safe hand of Pakistan Govt and received monthly expenses regularly.

The various books and history in the traditional media is yet to reveal the truth as they were sponsored by anti state forces.

Distortion of history is a crime which maybe a hobby of Hasina and her sycophants but should be rejected and punished by our patriotic neutral estsablishment.

BNP has so far failed to represent the nationalistic forces and it is for thier failure that the rejected AL with its criminal activities has come back to power twice.

Pakistan Army and some prejudiced Punjabi who have considered us inferior because of our darker skin colour or shorter hieght and perpetrated the heinous crime of killing and torture during the 1971 war , are enemy of humanity and should be brought to justice today even after 38 yrs, that should be the resolution of every year for the patriotic Bangalees.

War criminal trail which Sk Hasina and her associates are conspiring to initiate, will only undermine and protect those low life Pakiistani Army Generals involved in the genocide and promote her rejected father's image who with deeper research might be revealed as one of the war criminal for his irresponsible and controversial action .

AL has to answer the nation for establishing fake history of liberation war.

Nazrul Islam, Bangladesh
E Moil : nazrul7@yahoo.com
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=300277



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[mukto-mona] Pak Deception



 
Turkman writes---"Now what I want to know is, how come Bangladesh can not come up the kind of Scam Pakistan has? Why Pakistan, with a lot lower Literacy Rate can come up with such a grand idea, how come B.D. can't? Why Bangladeshis have to go the hard way and make an honest Living?
 
Turkmanjee> When we run out of ideas, for our survival, we will go to any length, including murder.  Options of deception for the Bangladeshi's are not available at this point in time in history as we have not been endowed by our creator with a hot geo-strategic location. Rest assured, we Bangladeshi's have earned a master's degree in the art of deception, and a PhD in the art of corruption--yes that includes the corruption of our soul. 
 
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Please, please. Try to understand Hadith of our Prophet ...!
When we are powerful, we are supposed threaten all countries that if they do not convert to Islam or start paying us Protection Money (Jiziya), we, the Wrath of Allah would attack them, slaughter them, loot them and convert them in to our Slaves.
.
Policy of Moslim countries, when we are not 'Powerful' to collect Protection Money?
"Lie low and become Beggars. Live off Charity of Aid and Loans of rich Countries but keep hating them constantly and keep blaming them for all your failures"
.
* Now Pakistan has come-up with a new idea, ...
When we are not powerful, we would build Atomic Bombs and blackmail the world that "You saw, what we help Al Qaeda do. Unless you give us enough Charity of Aid and Non Refundable Loans, we would let Taliban take-over the country and Pakistan would become a Permanent Sanctuary of Al Qaeda so, give us generously or there would be Nuclear 9/11s in all your countries".
.
Pakistan is very successful in this. Pak GDP had become as low as Bangladesh's in 2001. Pakistan's ISI helped cause 9/11 ($ 100,000 Money Transfer to 9/11 JehaaDis had been tracked down to an Army General of ISI) to change fate of Pakistan. By 2007...
* Pakistan's Per Capita Income had doubled.
* Export Concessions provided by USA and her Allies raised Foreign Exchange Earnings from $ 7 billion to $ 23 billion in 2007.
* Pak Foreign Exchange Reserves that were not even half billion dollars had jumped to 17 within next 2 years and are still around 15.
* Pakistan started receiving tens of billions in Loans on the top of that.
* Pakistan has received $ 12 billion in Aid Charity and there's another about $ 10 billion more in the pipeling.
.
Now what I want to know is, how come Bangladesh can not come up the kind of Scam Pakistan has?
Why Pakistan, with a lot lower Literacy Rate can come up with such a grand idea, how come B.D. can't?
Why Bangladeshis have to go the hard way and make an honest Living?
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[ALOCHONA] Re: [Dahuk]: গজলডোবা ব্যারাজের প্রভাব : লালমনিরহাটে তিস্তা শুকিয়ে খাল



Foreign Countries or rather Donors are all aware of the present state of affairs between Bangladesh and India wherein they residing here gets sufficient proof of all the obstacles created by India to establish a good relation; for instance they are aware of the present situation up on the North  areas where land is drying due to Farraka barrage; killings at the  border areas by BSF(statistical recording of Home Minister's statement in Parliament is there)-- then why the International Community  not putting pressure on India to lay off or solve problems amicably ?
The recent JRC meeting produced no concrete results but mentioned to Press/Media that "we have in this meeting narrowed down differences";but they couldnt decide on any agenda for Hasina and no discussion has been made on water sharing and Tipaimukh but possibly on water dredging and river cleaning for which India would give money as they have given to build road from Ashuganj to Tripura border; but on what basis this money was given;Loasn without interest? or if interest how much? why should we Citizens have to pay though our tax money for benefit of India???? Is it they demand these things because of assistance rendered during war? War was assisted by both Russia and India;Russia as per agreement supplied the Arms and ammunition and training plus built pressure in UN for release of Mujib- in return for this assistance they have already earned enough money by clearing the Chittagong port areas from mines done by Russia; India collecting most arms and equipments left by Paki Army ; collecting money as rent for two broken aircraft given etc etc. and helping with Russian expertise to build all culverts and bridges destroyed during war and most of all Indira Gandhi won her elections which she wouldnt win as her image was very low- winning the war help to enhance her image--Indians happy that Pakis defeated.
So now why shouldnt International Community that played an important role for Dec 2008 elections be now playing an equal part to put pressure on India not to pressurize Hasina with demands that Citizen of Bangladesh without knowing full details or their gains and loss wouldnt agree to give away for free just because India assisted in war.
What can we do to draw this International Communities attention to all these wrong demands? Please think and offer me your comments.
Thank you and waiting for reply from all.
Badrul Islam

--- On Fri, 1/8/10, Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Dahuk]: গজলডোবা ব্যারাজের প্রভাব : লালমনিরহাটে তিস্তা শুকিয়ে খাল
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Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 7:30 PM

Friends
 
It is useless to expect an iota of love for our soil from the HINDU   STAAAANI paa chata  BAAL govt. So, the jhuri(basket) of bestial HINDU     staaaaaaaan will always be filled as usual as gift from all BAL led goivt. to their mentor.
This gift started from their father mujib who surrendered sovereignty of Bangladesh by handing over BERU  BARI to HIBNDU   STAAAN as if it was his mujib's fathers property ????????????
 
This time the BAAAAL is 100% indebted since the election Drama that was master minded by  HINDU   staaan thru the bastard  PINAIIIIIIIIIKKKKKKAAAAAAA the CP n KP
and made unbelievable Jatra result.
 
People of Bangladesh should be awaken before it is too late to confront the bestaial Bastard HINDU   staaaan n it's hegemonist evil plan though forging a rock like unity to defend :
 
THE HARD EARNED SHADHINATA BY OCAN OF BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS FROM THE EVIL  bal  N it's kutta jibis n Dad HINDU       staaaan.
 
 
Faruque Alamgir
 


 
2010/1/8 Salahuddin Ayubi <s_ayubi786@yahoo.com>
Our PM is going to return home with mere  promise of dealing with Teesta treaty at a later date. Till that happens our land will inch towards desertification.
 
                   Ayubi

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Subject: [Dahuk]: গজলডোবা ব্যারাজের প্রভাব : লালমনিরহাটে তিস্তা শুকিয়ে খাল

 

গজলডোবা ব্যারাজের প্রভাব : লালমনিরহাটে তিস্তা শুকিয়ে খাল

হাসান-উল-আজিজ, লালমনিরহাট

 

 

স্রোতস্বিনী তিস্তার বাংলাদেশ প্রবেশপথে ভারতের গজলডোবায় ব্যারাজের প্রভাব পড়ছে লালমনিরহাটের পরিবেশ ও কৃষির ওপর। এ অঞ্চলের ওপর দিয়ে বয়ে যাওয়া খরস্রোতা ছোট-বড় প্রায় ৩০টি নদী এখন মৃতপ্রায়। তিস্তার পানি ভারতের একতরফা প্রত্যাহারের ফলে নদীপাড়ের পরিবেশ গেছে পাল্টে। পানির অভাবে তিস্তা সেচ প্রকল্প পড়ে গেছে বিপর্যয়ের মধ্যে। পানির তীব্র সঙ্কটে নদী তীরবর্তী এলাকায় কৃষিজমিতে দেখা দিয়েছে সেচ সঙ্কট।
এদিকে ঢাকায় তিস্তার পানিবণ্টন চুক্তি নিয়ে দু'দেশের সচিব পর্যায়ের দু'দিনের বৈঠক শেষ হলেও এর সাফল্য নিশ্চিত করতে পারেননি প্রতিনিধিরা। অনিশ্চিত হয়ে রয়ে গেছে দীর্ঘ প্রত্যাশিত তিস্তার পানিবণ্টন বিষয়টি।
তিস্তা ব্যারাজ পানি উন্নয়ন বোর্ডের রেকর্ড থেকে জানা গেছে, তিস্তার পানি বর্তমানে সর্বকালের সর্বনিম্ন স্তরে নেমে গেছে। পর্যাপ্ত পানিপ্রবাহ না থাকায় শাখা নদীগুলোও মরে যাচ্ছে। গজলডোবা ব্যারাজের কারণে শুধু নদীগুলোই মরছে না, তিস্তা নদীবেষ্টিত লালমনিরহাট, কুড়িগ্রাম, নীলফামারী ও রংপুর জেলায় মরুকরণ প্রক্রিয়া শুরু হয়েছে। দেশের বৃহত্তম তিস্তা ব্যারাজ সেচ প্রকল্প অকার্যকর হয়ে পড়েছে। হাজার হাজার একর ফসলি জমিতে অত্যাধুনিক প্রযুক্তি ও পাম্প ব্যবহার করেও সেচ দেয়া সম্ভব হচ্ছে না। এ অবস্থার পরিবর্তন না হলে ২০২০ সালের মধ্যে এ অঞ্চল মরুভূমিতে পরিণত হওয়ার আশঙ্কা করছেন পরিবেশবিদরা। শুষ্ক মৌসুমে পানির অভাবে তিস্তা অববাহিকার লাখ লাখ মানুষের জীবনে বর্তমানে নেমে এসেছে হাহাকার। আগের চেয়ে এ অঞ্চলে বৃষ্টির পরিমাণও কমেছে অনেক। শুষ্ক মৌসুমে ভারত পানি প্রত্যাহার করে নেয়ায় প্রতিবছর এতদঞ্চলে দেখা দিচ্ছে খরা।
১৯৮৩ সালের জুলাইয়ে এ ব্যাপারে বাংলাদেশ-ভারত মন্ত্রী পর্যায়ের বৈঠকে তিস্তার পানিবণ্টনে চুক্তি হয়। সেই চুক্তি অনুযায়ী তিস্তার পানি শতকরা ৩৬ ভাগ বাংলাদেশ, ৩৯ ভাগ ভারত এবং বাকি ২৫ ভাগ সংরক্ষিত থাকার কথা। চুক্তির পরপরই তিস্তা ব্যারাজ প্রকল্পটি অকার্যকর হয়ে পড়ে। সেচ প্রকল্পের উপকৃত এলাকা ৭ লাখ ৫০ হাজার হেক্টর জমি। ইরিগেবল এরিয়া (কৃষিযোগ্য জমি) ৫ লাখ ৪০ হাজার হেক্টর, প্রধান খাল ৩৪ কিলোমিটার, শাখা খাল ২৭৫ কিলোমিটার, সেকেন্ডারি খাল ১ হাজার ৪৫০ কিলোমিটার, টারশিয়ারি খাল ২ হাজার ৭২০ কিলোমিটার, নিষ্কাশন খাল ৫ হাজার কিলোমিটার, জলকাঠামো (ইরিগেশন স্ট্রাকচার) ১ হাজার ৫১২ কিলোমিটার, ড্রেনেজ স্ট্রাকচার ২ হাজার ৩২০টি ও টার্নআউট ১৫ হাজারটি নির্ধারণ করা হয়।
সংশ্লিষ্ট সূত্রে জানা গেছে, ভারত তিস্তা ব্যারাজ এলাকায় ১শ' কিলোমিটার উজানে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের জলপাইগুড়ি জেলার গজলডোবায় একটি বাঁধ নির্মাণ করেছে। এর গেট রয়েছে ৫৪টি। দৈর্ঘ্য ৯২১.৫৩ কিলোমিটার। এ বাঁধ নির্মাণ করে ভারত ২ হাজার ৯১৮ কিলোমিটার দীর্ঘ খালের মাধ্যমে ১ হাজার ৫শ' কিউসেক পানি মহানন্দা নদীতে প্রবাহিত করছে। তিস্তা-মহানন্দা সংযোগ খালের মাধ্যমে ভারতের জলপাইগুড়ি, দার্জিলিং, পশ্চিম দিনাজপুর, কুচবিহার ও মালদহ জেলায় সেচ সুবিধা দেয়া হচ্ছে। পানি সমস্যা সমাধানে ১৯৮২ সালে ভারতের তত্কালীন সেচমন্ত্রী কেদার পাণ্ডে বলেছিলেন, তিস্তার পানি হিস্যার ব্যাপারে আমরা দু'দেশ কাছাকাছি এসেছি। এরপর দীর্ঘ ২৮ বছর পার হলো কিন্তু কাছাকাছির পরিবর্তে দিন যত যাচ্ছে, দূরত্ব ততই বৃদ্ধি পাচ্ছে।

 







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[mukto-mona] RE: Regional Trade



I agree with the ideas of Mr Nizam on regional trade in a 'borderless' subcontinent.
 
Dr Abu Sayeed

Khurram


--- On Thu, 1/7/10, Nizam Ahmad <nizam_moer@sky.com> wrote:

From: Nizam Ahmad <nizam_moer@sky.com>
Subject: RE: Brain Dead Muslims
To: "'Pelican Infotech'" <pelicaninfotech@yahoo.com>, "'SAIF Davdas'" <islam1234@msn.com>, "'zoglul'" <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk>, "'Khabor'" <khabor@yahoogroups.com>, mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com, "'banglanari'" <banglarnari@yahoogroups.com>, abdul_momen@hotmail.com, "'abdullah'" <abdullayusuf@yahoo.com>, "'abid'" <abidbahar@yahoo.com>, "'abusayeeddr'" <abusayeedr@yahoo.com>, "'Afroj Jahan'" <shurovies.coll@gmail.com>, "'afsarbhai'" <afsar_hossainbd@yahoo.com>, afsaruddin2000@yahoo.com, "'Alamgir'" <malamgir1@aol.com>, "'Alochana'" <alochona@yahoogroups.com>, "'anis90'" <anis90242@yahoo.com>, anisahmed63@yahoo.com, axabi11@yahoo.com, "'avijit'" <avijit_dev@yahoo.co.in>, "'ben'" <ben_inda@yahoo.com>, beautyanwar@hotmail.com, "'dabir'" <md.dabiruddin@yahoo.com>, "'delwar'" <delwar98@hotmail.com>, "'Devdas sarkar'" <dsarkar1@hotmail.com>, "'Dr.Prem'" <premd11@aol.com>, farhadmazhar@hotmail.com, "'Farid'" <akhtergolam@gmail.com>, "'hannan'" <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com>, hares.sayed@dc.gov, himu.rozario@comcast.net, "'iftikhar'" <hnhtex99@yahoo.com>, inara_islam@hotmail.com, "'inayat'" <minayet@yahoo.com>, "'jamil'" <kaljatri@emailme.net>, "'javed'" <javediqbalkaleem@yahoo.com>, "'jiban'" <imrulalqays@gmail.com>, "'Joytichottopadhay'" <jchatto@gmail.com>, "'kamal'" <kamal4000@yahoo.com>, khalidhasan@hotmail.com, khandaker.a.mansur@census.gov, "'khurshid'" <mirza.syed@gmail.com>, "'lal'" <lalhgehi@yahoo.com>, "'mmozumder'" <mmozumder@doeal.gov>, "'Munir'" <captmunir@gmail.com>, "'Nizam'" <nzh.biman@gmail.com>, "'onasis'" <cdm@dhaka.net>, wellnwell@gmail.com, turkman@sbcglobal.net, "'asghar'" <msa7011@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 2:17 PM

You can begin with SAARC that visualised free movement of goods between the seven member countries by 2003!

In a borderless economy, we would be traders not beggars. The small trader can compete with the big Moslem or Hindu trader. The small could be the 'giant killers'. In entrepreneurship, size is not strength. It is the power of ideas.

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Pelican Infotech [mailto:pelicaninfotech@yahoo.com]
Sent: 07 January 2010 10:15
To: Nizam Ahmad; SAIF Davdas; zoglul; Khabor; mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com; banglanari; abdul_momen@hotmail.com; abdullah; abid; abusayeeddr; Afroj Jahan; afsarbhai; afsaruddin2000@yahoo.com; Alamgir; Alochana; anis90; anisahmed63@yahoo.com; axabi11@yahoo.com; avijit; ben; beautyanwar@hotmail.com; dabir; delwar; Devdas sarkar; Dr.Prem; farhadmazhar@hotmail.com; Farid; hannan; hares.sayed@dc.gov; himu.rozario@comcast.net; iftikhar; inara_islam@hotmail.com; inayat; jamil; javed; jiban; Joytichottopadhay; kamal; khalidhasan@hotmail.com; khandaker.a.mansur@census.gov; khurshid; lal; mmozumder; Munir; Nizam; onasis; wellnwell@gmail.com; turkman@sbcglobal.net; asghar
Subject: Re: Brain Dead Muslims

 

 

what economic border are u visualising brother ...??. How can u have such between ONE HINDU ECONOMIC GIANT and two other beggar countries???? .. both Muslim countries???


From: Nizam Ahmad <nizam_moer@sky.com>
To: SAIF Davdas <islam1234@msn.com>; zoglul <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk>; Khabor <khabor@yahoogroups.com>; mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com; banglanari <banglarnari@yahoogroups.com>; abdul_momen@hotmail.com; abdullah <abdullayusuf@yahoo.com>; abid <abidbahar@yahoo.com>; abusayeeddr <abusayeedr@yahoo.com>; Afroj Jahan <shurovies.coll@gmail.com>; afsarbhai <afsar_hossainbd@yahoo.com>; afsaruddin2000@yahoo.com; Alamgir <malamgir1@aol.com>; Alochana <alochona@yahoogroups.com>; anis90 <anis90242@yahoo.com>; anisahmed63@yahoo.com; axabi11@yahoo.com; avijit <avijit_dev@yahoo.co.in>; azad <pelicaninfotech@yahoo.com>; ben <ben_inda@yahoo.com>; beautyanwar@hotmail.com; dabir <md.dabiruddin@yahoo.com>; delwar <delwar98@hotmail.com>; Devdas sarkar <dsarkar1@hotmail.com>; Dr.Prem <premd11@aol.com>; farhadmazhar@hotmail.com; Farid <akhtergolam@gmail.com>; hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com>; hares.sayed@dc.gov; himu.rozario@comcast.net; iftikhar <hnhtex99@yahoo.com>; inara_islam@hotmail.com; inayat <minayet@yahoo.com>; jamil <kaljatri@emailme.net>; javed <javediqbalkaleem@yahoo.com>; jiban <imrulalqays@gmail.com>; Joytichottopadhay <jchatto@gmail.com>; kamal <kamal4000@yahoo.com>; khalidhasan@hotmail.com; khandaker.a.mansur@census.gov; khurshid <mirza.syed@gmail.com>; lal <lalhgehi@yahoo.com>; mmozumder <mmozumder@doeal.gov>; Munir <captmunir@gmail.com>; Nizam <nzh.biman@gmail.com>; onasis <cdm@dhaka.net>; wellnwell@gmail.com; turkman@sbcglobal.net; asghar <msa7011@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thu, January 7, 2010 1:12:31 PM
Subject: RE: Brain Dead Muslims

Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan need an EU type 'economic borderless' Union, but not one currency as recommended by Dr. Yunus, to end all hatreds, wars, and suspicions between each other that militarised boundaries commonly create.

 

Nizam

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: SAIF Davdas [mailto:islam1234@msn.com]
Sent: 07 January 2010 06:57
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Subject: Brain Dead Muslims

 

 

West produces Churchil, Roosevelt , Washington and Lincoln--we produce Saddam, Ahmedinijad, Jinnah, Maududi, Yahiyaa, Gaddafi, Faisal and Zia! BNP and Jammatees belligerence, bellicosity, obduracy, and intransigence, reminds me of Saddam's stand against mighty America . Raw created JMB? Mossad created Hujji? It is India who engineered 1/11? Folks this is what I call Muslim logic 101. O brain dead Muslims--what ails you? Where has your brain traveled? Aren't we surrounded on all sides by the mighty India ? Isn't India in a thousand time better position to hurt our interest, than we are in, to hurt their interest? This week, the American military has announced its plan to move our military bases from Okinawa after 67 years of occupation. Immediately the Japanese prime minister sent a letter of protest to Obama!! Intelligent and wise Japanese don't want us to leave! Brain dead Muslims can never fathom this logic. For our survival, isn't every single thing--including egg, meat, and onion coming from India ? Aren't their more Muslims living in India than Bangladesh and Pakistan combined? Isn't Islam's shining city on the hill Pakistan a failed state? Didn't the Muslims kill more Muslims than Hindus ever did in the last one thousand year? O' how we Muslims love to commit suicide! The rightist politicians in Bangladesh are deeply suspicious of India 's grand game plan and are deeply paranoid about it. Their allies, the Jamaatis, have grandiose ambitions to re-create the Glory days of Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi and establish the Khilafat on the soil of Subcontinent one more time. Intellectual and moral Bankruptcy of our anti-India posture is truly prosaic and myopic at best. The US , the Russians, and the EU have already conceded the hegemony of India in South Asia . The Indian's have setup naval bases in East African territories of Madagascar , Mozambique , Seychelles , and Mauritania . Mauritius offered its Agleam Islands to India on a 100 year lease term ostensibly for development as tourist destinations. The navies of five countries - India , Singapore , the United States , Japan and Australia regularly participate in naval exercise in the Bay of Bengal . To its west, India has been holding joint naval exercises in the Gulf of Oman , the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea with such countries as Oman , Iran and France . Only the militant Pakis and we think otherwise on this very vital issue. The Indians, armed with the largest Scientist force in the world, are beating the hell out of the Americans in every field. In last five years, more than Three Million Indians left USA for lucrative jobs in India . Doesn't common sense dictate that we the Bangladeshis also recognize this reality and act accordingly? After Mangle Pandey's revolution against the British in 1857---the wise Hindus, decided to beat the Brits by obeying them and learn from them. As a result, the British built the finest engineering schools in India ---owing to that, India landed on Moon in 2008! Back then, the Muslims listened to Deobandis and Brelevis---not that Kafir Sir Syed Ahmed Khan---with devastating and disastrous far reaching consequences for the Muslims of the world! Islamic history of last 1000 years is replete with these militant voices. How very sad and unfortunate indeed. Will we Muslims ever learn? 
SaifDevdas
islam1234@msn.com 


Hasina's visit to hegemonic India

 

Thursday January 07 2010 08:34:21 AM BDT


 

London 6 January 2010. Hasina is due to visit India on 10 January, her 12th foreign visit in as many months since she assumed office on 6 January 2009, in her second term as Prime Minister. But this is her first visit to India in her second term and it is meant to be a significant one, as splashed in the Indian media.

Whenever there is a high-level meeting between Bangladesh and India, many people delve into history and remember India's 'help' in our independence war. Indeed, according to the hopes of many, after our independence, the two countries should have become very friendly in a win-win relationship. But, as a matter of frustration for them, it was not to be! The stumbling block in this regard has been India's intransigence, chauvinism and obduracy in their uneven and unjust dealings with Bangladesh for their mad pursuit of establishing hegemonism over Bangladesh and exploiting it ruthlessly, which is typical of all imperialist and hegemonist powers.

Unlike the gullible and the direct- and indirect beneficiaries of hegemonic influence and favour of largesse, the others ponder about the nature of Indian 'help' in 1971 and many have good realisation of it. India helped Bangladesh by way of achieving their own targets. India actually helped themselves! The stark reality is, India did not join the 1971 war from any humanitarian considerations. And the fact is: We wanted independence for one reason, but India wanted to divide Pakistan for another reason, - not only to divide Pakistan, they wanted to reduce Bangladesh to the status of occupied Kashmir, as they still do, given an opportunity.

We must remember that within its own territory, India slaughters literally hundreds of thousands of Muslims, other non-Hindu religious groups, Dalits, minority nationalities, etc. as a method of mindless, brutal and callous suppression, in order to sustain the vicious rule of the coterie, which is in power. This kind of government cannot have any conscience or humanitarian feelings or mutually beneficial considerations. With a friend like the present hegemonic India, who needs enemies?

As to the relationship between Bangladesh and India, we are all for good relations as much as we are for good relations with other countries. But it is impossible to normalise our relations with India unless and until it gives up its hegemonic ways. In order to do that, India must compensate us for the desertification and other damages caused to Bangladesh by Farakka barrage and their other structures on 53 of the 54 common rivers. They must get out of South Talpatti. They must stop arming and training the Shanti Bahini in CHT, the 'Bangabhumi' claimants in the south-west and they must dismantle the terrorist training camps along the borders. It is also thought that the JMB was created by RAW, and HuJI-B by Mossad for their ulterior motives. It is also thought by many that it was an Indian commando, which perpetrated the BDR massacre at Peelkhana with the complicity of a small section of the BAL, a small section of the government and the traitor Moeen U and a few of his military associates, in order to destabilise and control our defence. If these allegations are true, India must stop these evil practices and compensate for the damages caused.

To establish good relations, India must stop twisting Bangladesh Government's arms for corridor to Seven Sisters States by distorting the Asian Highway and making us travel through Seven Sisters States to reach Myanmar, instead of through Teknaf. They must stop pressurising the government for use of Chittagong port, Ashugang river facility and railway lines from Chittagong to eastern India, etc. They must refrain from conspiracies to occupy our offshore areas and from plundering our national resources, etc. They must remove the hindrance to bilateral trades so that Bangladesh can reduce the huge gap and deficit in its trade with India. They must solve the enclave problems and the border problems, which should not take such a long time. As a matter of fact, India deliberately did not ratify the very first treaty signed between Bangladesh and India, which was the Mujib-Indira Treaty signed in 1974. While Bangladesh ratified the Mujib-Indira treaty shortly after it was signed in 1974 and promptly handed over Berubari, but India, even after 25 years, has neither ratified the treaty nor honoured its obligations, including transfer of Tin Bigha. We are thus dealing with a party, which never keeps its promises.

They must stop the killings of unarmed villagers along the border perpetrated by wilful contravention of the Geneva convention, the figures of killing produced by the HR organisation 'Odhikar' are about 100 a year since 2000. These brutal killings need to be raised very strongly in international forums by our governments i.e. to take strong action against Indian hegemonism. Indeed all the governments of Bangladesh, so far, soft-pedalled on bilateral issues between Bangladesh and India, because of, possibly, surreptitious Indian bankrolling to relevant quarters and may be also because of international influence favouring India, while India has stubbornly remained hell-bent on their hegemonic ambitions and their acts over Bangladesh.

Under these circumstances, the five or so agreements, which Hasina is likely to sign with India in her upcoming visit, would give total advantage to India at the cost of our national Interest. Clearly, India wants to establish control over our power sector and energy sector, our telecoms sector and our transport sector for their advantage in trade and military considerations. They also want to bind us on financial loan in order for their benefits on their pet projects. Hasina's intended talks on Teesta barrage seems to have failed to make a headway at secretary level. On the other hand, no amount of India's assurance will persuade Bangladeshis that the Tipaimukh hydel project and the Fulertal barrage will not do any harm to Bangladesh. They will have devastating effects, exactly as there were by Farakka and Teesta barrages.

Before her visit, Hasina seems to have been instrumental in handing over ULFA leader Arabinda Rajkhowa and a few of his colleagues, with herself by being under the uncanny spell of Indian government's black arts and with an overt intention to please India and earn their trust. The people of Seven Sisters helped us in our independence struggle, but Hasina betrayed them in their independence struggle against Delhi. She could have simply asked the ULFA leaders to quietly leave Bangladesh, or do something else, if she felt she was under pressure.

It is India, who with the backing of the US and their allies, engineered the vile conspiracy of the so-called one-eleven 2007 and it is these powers again who also engineered the sham stage-managed election of 29 December 2008 to bring to power a puppet regime in order to serve their evil interests in Bangladesh, and as a matter of fact, it is a blatant attempt to subjugate Bangladesh, etc., etc.

Unless these problems are sorted out, there cannot be any good relations between India and Bangladesh. We will not surrender our independence and sovereignty to India, or to any other power. We want concrete solutions to the concrete problems.

We should actually build peaceful resistance at grass roots levels against Indian hegemonism. There is absolutely no space for glossing over the problems and over the persistent hegemonic conspiracies by India. How many lackeys of India within Bangladesh are bankrolled by India? How many of the media? How many government officials, NGOs, business people, professionals, etc?? And for what reasons???

Many call Hasina's present (not her previous government where she was duly elected in the acceptable election of 1996) government a puppet regime, run by powers from outside the border. If on her forthcoming visit to india she sells out national interest to satisfy these foreign powers, then the people will have no other alternative except for taking to the streets and developing peaceful resistance. The people of Bangladesh will never surrender to the hegemonists, whatever backing they might have from their international allies and their lackeys within Bangladesh.

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Dhaka, Jan 9 (bdnews24.com) – The Border Security Force (BSF) of India on Saturday morning killed two Bangladeshi cattle traders on Chapainawabganj and Benapole borders.

Benapole local authorities said Bangladeshi cattle trader Hazrat was beaten to death by BSF on the Goga Harishchandrapur border at Benapole.

Goga union parishad chairman Mafizur Rahman said BSF personnel arrested Hazrat early on Saturday while he was crossing the border after buying cattle from India.

After killing him they took away Hazrat's body, Rahman said. It was yet to be recovered.

Chapainawabganj BDR officials said BSF gunned down another Bangladeshi cattle trader Manirul Islam, 23, on Saturday morning on the Shingnagar border at Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj.

39 Rifles Battalion's operations officer Major Nazrul Islam said Manirul died on the spot as BSF open fired on him at around 7am near the main border pillar 172 on the Shingnagar border.

Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawans recovered the body of Mainul at 11.30am.

BDR has sent BSF a letter protesting the incident.

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MUJIB'S LOST PAGE


Abid Bahar

 

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman the great leader of Bangladesh was never a studious person. He preferred to hear things about history from the wiseman around him. However, to avoid hearing different people saying different things, immediately after the independence, he asked a known historian to write the Bangladesh history in two pages. As instructed the historian began with his thesis saying: "Bangladesh is defined by India and Pakistan." Bangabandhu couldn't understand the meaning. He asked Moni Singh the wiseman around him to explain the sentence. Interestingly, the article gave the example of Bhasani who it said in 1947 fought against joining with India and refused to stay with Pakistan in 1971.

 

The author identified Bhasani as an example of an independent minded Bangladeshi. Moni Singh being a pro-Indian and anti Pakistani politician, finding Bhasani's name on it and negative things about Indian hegemony and the Farakka dam, quickly hid the page under the sofa. Moni Singh began explaining to Mujib the atrocities committed by the Pakistanis while Mujib was in Pakistan. During the session, Mujib once in a while lost his concentration by noticing only one page in Moni Singh's hand because he knew there was another page and interrupted him to ask about the other page. Moni Singh said in reply, "No, I only found one page."


 Mujib began to read the only one page whenever he had time to read. He began to read it as if like a page from the Holy book, the page saying we are defined by Pakistan. But he always knew that there was another page that was there. Every morning he read the only page and looked for the other page.


Moni Singh once in a while visited Mujib to check his devotion to the page. In the absence of the lost page, Mujib began propagating only against Pakistan to define Bangladesh. One day Ziaur Rahman paid a visit to Mujib's house and found a full page hiding under the sofa; which says Bangladesh is defined by India. He read the material and left it where he found. Mujib found it the day before his assassination and called Bhasani to explain how Bangladesh is defined by India.

 

Bhasani said, "We are an independent country with our history evolved from being part of Bengal. Then West Bengal led by its Hindu majority joined with India and Muslim Bengal joined with Pakistan. Mujib said in reply, "Yes, that is why lately when I finish my speech with joy Bangla, my people don't applaud." At the Dhaka university campus speech next day, he decided to say "Hoda Hafez" for "Joy Bangla." But it was too late.


What were the materials written on pages of history? Like it or not, it was about the soul-searching of Bangladesh people about the important elements of their history. The author of the article began to explain why in 1947 East Bengal didn't join with India and why East Bengal also refused to stay with Pakistan in 1971; the reason behind it were the two important identities of Bangladesh (1) The liberal Sufi religious identity of the majority people(2) Its language Bangla identity of the majority people. The equation of the two makes Bangladesh as a country of majority Muslim Bengali people. This identity makes them different from both India and Pakistan. We were known as the East Bengalis or Mujib just called it "Bengalis."


In the independent Bangladesh during Mujib's time tribals complained that they could be Bangladeshis but not the Bengalis. Zia to include the tribals and Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist renamed the previous ethnic Bengali identity (Bengali) to its evolved new territorial identity and he called them the Bangladeshis.


True, when the soul searching is done we are reminded that we are different from the Indians that put fence to divide the Bengal, built dams to control the rivers entering Bangladesh. In the pre partition time, Hindu zamindari oppression against Muslim peasants led to the rebels like Titumir Shariatullah and the others responsible for East Bengal to join with Pakistan and conversely we are defined by Pakistan that reminds us the genocide committed by the Pakistani military rulers. Thus, Bangladeshi's identity is as if like the two sides of the same coin: its religious identity and its linguistic identity.

 

In the mean time, like Mujib, Moni Singh also died and the story of the lost page was never raised to Hasina. Lately Hasina following the Indian pattern wanted to remove Bangladesh's religious identity and to turn Bangladesh into a secular state (Dharmohinota) Professor Talukdar Moniruzan pointed out that such measures would cause the loss of Bangladesh's religious values of tolerance needed in a democratic system. True, Bangladesh is known to treasure the great tradition on Sufi Islamic values of tolerance and liberalism. Hasina only fearing the backlash figured it to be unwise to hurt the sentiment of the people so she left it alone but never bothered to find her father's lost page of history.


( Professor Abid Bahar Ph.D. teaches in Canada and wrote several books on Burma and Bangladesh)


 




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--- On Sat, 1/9/10, Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
Thank you, Isha Khan, for digging out and forwarding this piece, published today typically in the Hindu.  Haroon Habib has tried to give a reply to my viewpoint titled 'Hasina's visit to hegemonic India' published on 7 January 2010 in the NFB (http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=299827 ).
 
He has quoted, without mentioning my name or referring to the article, many lines of my viewpoint in many places of his piece, in order to try and refute my views and please his masters in India, and looks as though to please especially his bosses in the BJP and other Hindu fundamentalist camps, as the selection of the newspaper suggests. I have also seen a couple of other articles trying to refute my views without reference to my article, both in India and in Bangladesh.
 
However, the patriots of Bangladesh will unite and fight resolutely against the political, economic, cultural and now veiled military aggressions of India in Bangladesh.
 
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:26:56 -0800
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Subject: Future of India-Bangladesh relations
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Future of India-Bangladesh relations
 
Haroon Habib


INDO-BANGLA RELATIONS: An economically strong, secular and democratic Bangladesh is crucial for New Delhi and the rest of the region.
 
Sheikh Hasina, who started her second term as Prime Minister of Bangladesh on January 6, 2009, is due to visit India from Sunday. This is her first visit to New Delhi during this term, and it is expected to be a significant one.
When Ms Hasina became Prime Minister in 1996 (she held office till 2001), her Awami League had a thin majority in Parliament, and her government had many limitations. She came to power after two decades that followed the bloody changeover of 1975. Despite those limitations, her government took some remarkable steps vis-À-vis India. Overall, it tried to reverse certain post-1975 political trends and to rejuvenate the pro-liberation spirit that was needed badly for a secular polity in a country that had seen the planned rehabilitation of the so-called 1947 spirit by a set of military and pseudo-democratic rulers.
During that tenure, the Awami League-led government signed the historic Ganga Water Treaty. It also paved the way for the return to India of thousands of Chakma refugees from Tripura with the signing of a landmark accord that ended decades of tribal insurgency in the border region. Then, it sent a firm signal to insurgents operating all across northeastern India, many of whom, as claimed by India, enjoyed sanctuary in Bangladesh. These steps were not easy to take, and indeed constituted a test of courage and conviction for the government.
This time, too, the government of the grand alliance led by the daughter of the slain founding father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is not without its limitations. But its leadership is now more experienced. It won a landslide in the December 2008 elections, and secured a two-thirds-plus majority in Parliament. This enabled Ms Hasina's government to amend the Constitution and bring about certain changes that it felt were needed to initiate a new journey that Bangladesh needs to undertake in order to get back on the right track.
Having achieved independence from Pakistan in the aftermath and as a consequence of the devastating war of 1971, Bangladesh did not get adequate time to consolidate itself and put itself on a firm democratic footing. India helped the Bengali freedom fighters to a great extent, and finally formed a joint military command after Pakistan attacked its soil. But that remarkable and historic achievement failed to deliver the expected outcome fully, probably due to a certain lack of alertness, a premature sense of euphoria or a misreading of the feelings of the forces that were defeated.
At the high-level meetings between Bangladesh and India over the next few days, particularly of the heads of governments, important bilateral aspects that will have a historical resonance are bound to come up. But the domestic context of the visit is unlikely to remain unnoticed.
Bangladesh is now ruled by secular democratic forces, known as the 'pro-liberation' forces. But the forces which opposed independence from Pakistan and which developed a solid economic foundation and organisational base over the past few decades, have now become quite alert and aggressive. They have been quickly joined by some elements — who were direct beneficiaries of the 1975 changeover and who ruled the country for 30 out of the 39 years of its political existence — and have unleashed a propaganda war.
The fundamentalists and the local versions of the Taliban do not want Bangladesh to remain friendly with India; to them India is "the enemy state." But why is the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which is but a mixture of soft Islamists, fundamentalists and former communists, singing a similar tune?
When the national media projected the Prime Minister's visit to India optimistically — as an opportunity to begin a new era and resolve certain outstanding issues — Begum Khaleda Zia, BNP chairperson and chief of the four-party rightist alliance in which the Jamaat-e-Islami plays a pivotal role, posed an open challenge to the government. She stated publicly that should Ms. Hasina conclude an honourable deal with India, she would be welcomed with garlands on her return. If, on the other hand, she failed to protect the 'national interest,' her path would be strewn with thorns.
This is an open challenge posed before the one-year-old government, which has ensured that the war criminals found guilty for their role during the liberation war against Pakistan face trial. The Supreme Court recently upheld the death sentence to the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
There are several issues on the table in the context of Ms Hasina's visit. It is all right to analyse them ahead of the summit, but it will be wrong to give the impression that any lack of progress in solving them in a single visit will constitute failure. To imply that even a meeting with the Indian leader could somehow lead to an eventual surrender of national interests is equally fallacious.
Post-1975, the definition of patriotism changed in Bangladesh. Originally, it was the Bengali freedom fighters and their local collaborators on the warfront who were called "patriots" along with the vast majority of people who helped to fight the war against the Pakistan Army. But the history of the independence struggle was re-written, rather distorted, by a set of military and pseudo-democratic rulers. Fortunately, Bangladesh now looks forward to removing the distortions as a younger generation of Bangladeshis seeks to know what really happened.
The Khaleda Zia-led combine, which will soon be under the command of her controversial son Tareq Rahman — he is now in London and faces multiple corruption charges — did not perhaps notice the changed national mood. As Ms Hasina prepared to go to New Delhi, the Leader of the Opposition chose to question the patriotism of even the people who belong to the ruling party, forgetting that patriotism is not the monopoly of any single group or party.
Whenever such a top-level meeting takes place, the mainstream media delve into history and recall India's support to the cause of Bangladesh's nationhood. It is yet another irritant Begum Zia and her alliance have been destined to suffer. It is a matter of history that India sheltered 100 million refugees from the former East Pakistan when the Pakistan Army began a genocidal war against unarmed civilians, and also extended significant support to Bangladesh's war that finally culminated in the creation of a new country.
However, the historic relationship did not develop as it was meant to. Bangladesh faced its first shock in August 1975 with the assassination of Mujibur Rahman. With state power vested in the military and pseudo-democratic rulers for two decades, Bangladesh found a new ethos that practically negated the secular spirit of 1971. India, too, underwent transformation on multiple fronts. Therefore, while history provides a vital thrust, India and Bangladesh must practically resolve the issues that have confronted them, and seek to put their relations on a solid foundation.
Since India is a big neighbour, some psychological impact on both sides of the border is inevitable. When the post-1975 situation influenced a section of Bangladeshis to look back at the "spirit of 1947," which actually ran counter to the spirit of the war of liberation, Dhaka-New Delhi relations faced many obstacles. While this was against the will of many Bangladeshis, the protagonists of the "spirit of 1947" did succeed in influencing a section that would strongly argue that the stumbling blocks were mainly India's "intransigence, chauvinism and obduracy."
Bangladesh covers a relatively small territory. But it has enormous potential and considerable strategic significance. Close relations with India to resolve all major irritants should be a key requirement for it to make a new beginning. Despite having been in office only for a year and despite the fact that the adversaries of the pro-liberation spirit are more powerful than ever before, the Sheikh Hasina government has shown considerable courage and conviction to free its soil from anti-India activity. Many would, therefore, hope for suitable reciprocal gestures to strengthen the polity.
An economically strong, secular and democratic Bangladesh is crucial for New Delhi and the rest of the region. A democratic and secular India, and Bangladesh, that has started its renewed march towards a stable democratic polity despite the muscle flexing by some extremists, should work together for a stable South Asia.
(The writer, who was involved in Bangladesh's freedom struggle, can be reached at: hh1971@gmail.com)
 
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