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[mukto-mona] Re: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BANGABANDU AND BANGLADESH



Dear Belal Bhai, I have read many of those writings of Mr. Abid Bahar whom I thought must have come from some part of Pakistan who himself or close ties in the family has great vengeance against Bangladesh and Sheikh Mujib for separating Pakistan the dreamland of Muslims. I thought it must be work of some stick-in-the-mud Pakistan lover who is waging proxy war and have taken paid or unpaid stewardship of eastern command since their eastern commander Gen. Niazi with ninety five thousand Paki soldiers soiled their pant and surrendered to Joint forces.

 

However, today Mr. Abid revealed a great story of his participation in our struggle of liberation. It is possible though hard to believe someone who fought against Pakistan as his enemy now selling Pakistani version of propaganda about Bangladesh and its founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

 

Nevertheless, though I am surprised with the revelation of him as freedom fighter but not completely baffled. Belal Bhai do you know why? Immediately some names came to my mind who joined our liberation war but perhaps not for the same reason as majority of our freedom fighters did. These handful people proved to be backstabbing even during our struggle and made efforts to make connection with then Pakistan military government through American embassy and other means. Many of them where forced to join the struggle, as there were no alternative, some of them where forced to back off from crossing barricade (Agrabad commercial area) on their way to serve Paki military aggressors in Chittagong port.

 

We all know about traitor Khondoker Mushtaque and many of his associates. After killing the Father of the Nation perhaps for a moment Mushtaque though he is going to be replacing Mujib, perhaps he will be called Bangabandhu as well, instead Mirzafar found his sole mate Mushtaque hundreds of years apart to be called traitor as well.

 

Abid Bahar and his kinds of PhD holders are restlessly writing against Mujib and his political philosophy only to prove their unscholarly work is insufficient to defeat Bangabandhu who is no less powerful away then alive.


Regards
Shamim Chowdhury
Maryland, U.S.A.


--- In sonarbangladesh@yahoogroups.com, abid bahar <abidbahar@...>
wrote:

Dear Belal Beg:
First Happy New Year to you and to the rest of the readers.
I would like state to you that the premise of my research is that
fascism is against any democratic development. It doesn't allow
opposition to its ideas and it uses violence in politics.Please check
the Italian and the Spanish variety.Surprisingly Mujib had somuch
similarities with those.  It works on the concept of ownership/
father and its followers as the children concept. My research was
specifically about Mujib's use of violence in politics which we have
seen led to further bloodbath to his own death and the unrest/ anger
still continues. If circumstances made him a statesman he would be a
Nelson Mendala or Gandhi who would have preched reconcilliation and
nonviolence in Bangladesh politics. But Mujib's upbringing made him a
musleman and the killer of Bangladesh's infant democracy. .In dealing
with this topic I have used examples, references, and the necessary
online liks, reading questions for further research. But unlike a
regular book here
I have used a nontraditional approach: a book of pictures/ I
have used illustrations.But this is not altogether uncommon in the
West. 

As you have noticed I was clearly against Mujib's brand of South
Asian Fascism which I can predict it will continue to hunt Bangladesh
for years to come. He was truly a very powerful fascist. We should all
be against irrationalism, an academic responsibility Drs or Mr/s alike.
So in no way attacking fascism is unethical. On record I was a
once a devotee of Mujib, later on of Moni Sing Communist Party
supporter. I went to India on foot for 17 days for trainning crossing
the Chittagong Hill Tracts to Mizooram. Several times I was about to be
killed by the razakars. If they had good aim, at this moment I wouldn't
be writing this reply to you. So I don't fit in your categorization and
intolerance. However, I must say that I am sorry to cause annoyance to
your devotion to the leader. This is exacly what I had expected from
some readers because I hurt in the sickness called hero-worshiping
disease. Hero-worshipping is an irrational thing. But with a Ph.D.
and as a believer of rationality and with some love for the country I
left permanently unlike many fibble-minded followers of Bangabandu I was
not vassilating. If you don't know yet please let me inform you that
hero-worshipping is a disease in the followers of fascist leaders.
After this explanation, if you have a little more patience please
check my revised version of the book.  But I thank you very much for
your response.
Kind Regards
Abid Bahar



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Subject: RE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BANGABANDU AND BANGLADESH

Dr. Abid,
I had started to read your interestingly presented book on Bangabandhu.
You know, these days reading materials pour in like torrential rains.
Obviously you don't read them all. You pick and choose. A Dr. before
your name enticed me to read your book. I, as an ordinary man, naturally
expected scholarly work from a scholar. But you shocked me in the very
first page when you referred to a film to describe Sheikh Mujib's tricky
ways to avert crisis. I was impelled to stop there as I figured out you
will write everything yellow because you are Jaundiced. The theame you
are out to elucidate, was possibly best published in a major UK Daily
after Mujib's return to Bangladesh. The caption of the story was '
Sheikh Mujib, a Statesman or a village headman'.
From your organization of the book, interpretation of photographs and
facts, one can very easily find out it is a Bihari or Punjabi or Moududi
interpretation of the history of Bangladesh. These people could never
fathom out why the Bengalis were so crazy about their language, culture,
equal human rights and democratic rule. Entire history of the growth of
modern Bengali nationalism centers round those fundamental themes of
civilized life. As a freeman, you have the right to call an one eye
blinded boy lotus-eyed or spade a spade or a piece of rope a snake but
that does not affect the world. However by trying to daemonise Sheikh
Mujib whom BBC's survey found out to be the greatest Bengali in history,
you have resduced yourself to the pitiable level of one Rintu who wrote
a book named 'Amaaar fanshi chai' to black paint Sheikh Hasina. This
does not go with the responsibility and ethical norms of PhD. Again,
your evalution of Mujib has not added any thing
new. You will come across a Naigra of such tirades against Mujib in the
Pakistani media over the last four decades. But nothing could touch the
height of Mujib. Inspite of his short comings Sheikh Mujib is the Statue
of Liberty for the Bengali Nation. It is a pity you can't see it.
Thank you for your time.
Belal Beg

> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:39:30 -0800
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[ALOCHONA] Re: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BANGABANDU AND BANGLADESH



Dear Belal Bhai, I have read many of those writings of Mr. Abid Bahar whom I thought must have come from some part of Pakistan who himself or close ties in the family has great vengeance against Bangladesh and Sheikh Mujib for separating Pakistan the dreamland of Muslims. I thought it must be work of some stick-in-the-mud Pakistan lover who is waging proxy war and have taken paid or unpaid stewardship of eastern command since their eastern commander Gen. Niazi with ninety five thousand Paki soldiers soiled their pant and surrendered to Joint forces.

 

However, today Mr. Abid revealed a great story of his participation in our struggle of liberation. It is possible though hard to believe someone who fought against Pakistan as his enemy now selling Pakistani version of propaganda about Bangladesh and its founder Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

 

Nevertheless, though I am surprised with the revelation of him as freedom fighter but not completely baffled. Belal Bhai do you know why? Immediately some names came to my mind who joined our liberation war but perhaps not for the same reason as majority of our freedom fighters did. These handful people proved to be backstabbing even during our struggle and made efforts to make connection with then Pakistan military government through American embassy and other means. Many of them where forced to join the struggle, as there were no alternative, some of them where forced to back off from crossing barricade (Agrabad commercial area) on their way to serve Paki military aggressors in Chittagong port.

 

We all know about traitor Khondoker Mushtaque and many of his associates. After killing the Father of the Nation perhaps for a moment Mushtaque though he is going to be replacing Mujib, perhaps he will be called Bangabandhu as well, instead Mirzafar found his sole mate Mushtaque hundreds of years apart to be called traitor as well.

 

Abid Bahar and his kinds of PhD holders are restlessly writing against Mujib and his political philosophy only to prove their unscholarly work is insufficient to defeat Bangabandhu who is no less powerful away then alive.


Regards
Shamim Chowdhury
Maryland, U.S.A.


--- In sonarbangladesh@yahoogroups.com, abid bahar <abidbahar@...>
wrote:

Dear Belal Beg:
First Happy New Year to you and to the rest of the readers.
I would like state to you that the premise of my research is that
fascism is against any democratic development. It doesn't allow
opposition to its ideas and it uses violence in politics.Please check
the Italian and the Spanish variety.Surprisingly Mujib had somuch
similarities with those.  It works on the concept of ownership/
father and its followers as the children concept. My research was
specifically about Mujib's use of violence in politics which we have
seen led to further bloodbath to his own death and the unrest/ anger
still continues. If circumstances made him a statesman he would be a
Nelson Mendala or Gandhi who would have preched reconcilliation and
nonviolence in Bangladesh politics. But Mujib's upbringing made him a
musleman and the killer of Bangladesh's infant democracy. .In dealing
with this topic I have used examples, references, and the necessary
online liks, reading questions for further research. But unlike a
regular book here
I have used a nontraditional approach: a book of pictures/ I
have used illustrations.But this is not altogether uncommon in the
West. 

As you have noticed I was clearly against Mujib's brand of South
Asian Fascism which I can predict it will continue to hunt Bangladesh
for years to come. He was truly a very powerful fascist. We should all
be against irrationalism, an academic responsibility Drs or Mr/s alike.
So in no way attacking fascism is unethical. On record I was a
once a devotee of Mujib, later on of Moni Sing Communist Party
supporter. I went to India on foot for 17 days for trainning crossing
the Chittagong Hill Tracts to Mizooram. Several times I was about to be
killed by the razakars. If they had good aim, at this moment I wouldn't
be writing this reply to you. So I don't fit in your categorization and
intolerance. However, I must say that I am sorry to cause annoyance to
your devotion to the leader. This is exacly what I had expected from
some readers because I hurt in the sickness called hero-worshiping
disease. Hero-worshipping is an irrational thing. But with a Ph.D.
and as a believer of rationality and with some love for the country I
left permanently unlike many fibble-minded followers of Bangabandu I was
not vassilating. If you don't know yet please let me inform you that
hero-worshipping is a disease in the followers of fascist leaders.
After this explanation, if you have a little more patience please
check my revised version of the book.  But I thank you very much for
your response.
Kind Regards
Abid Bahar



________________________________
From: Belal Beg begbelal@...
To: abidbahar@...; chottala@yahoogroups.com; dina30_khan@...;
khabor@yahoogroups.com; notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com;
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smahmood20@...; baruaboss@...; zoglul@...; bapsnewsagency@...;
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Sent: Thu, December 31, 2009 4:50:20 PM
Subject: RE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BANGABANDU AND BANGLADESH

Dr. Abid,
I had started to read your interestingly presented book on Bangabandhu.
You know, these days reading materials pour in like torrential rains.
Obviously you don't read them all. You pick and choose. A Dr. before
your name enticed me to read your book. I, as an ordinary man, naturally
expected scholarly work from a scholar. But you shocked me in the very
first page when you referred to a film to describe Sheikh Mujib's tricky
ways to avert crisis. I was impelled to stop there as I figured out you
will write everything yellow because you are Jaundiced. The theame you
are out to elucidate, was possibly best published in a major UK Daily
after Mujib's return to Bangladesh. The caption of the story was '
Sheikh Mujib, a Statesman or a village headman'.
From your organization of the book, interpretation of photographs and
facts, one can very easily find out it is a Bihari or Punjabi or Moududi
interpretation of the history of Bangladesh. These people could never
fathom out why the Bengalis were so crazy about their language, culture,
equal human rights and democratic rule. Entire history of the growth of
modern Bengali nationalism centers round those fundamental themes of
civilized life. As a freeman, you have the right to call an one eye
blinded boy lotus-eyed or spade a spade or a piece of rope a snake but
that does not affect the world. However by trying to daemonise Sheikh
Mujib whom BBC's survey found out to be the greatest Bengali in history,
you have resduced yourself to the pitiable level of one Rintu who wrote
a book named 'Amaaar fanshi chai' to black paint Sheikh Hasina. This
does not go with the responsibility and ethical norms of PhD. Again,
your evalution of Mujib has not added any thing
new. You will come across a Naigra of such tirades against Mujib in the
Pakistani media over the last four decades. But nothing could touch the
height of Mujib. Inspite of his short comings Sheikh Mujib is the Statue
of Liberty for the Bengali Nation. It is a pity you can't see it.
Thank you for your time.
Belal Beg

> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:39:30 -0800
> From: abidbahar@...
> Subject: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BANGABANDU AND BANGLADESH
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[ALOCHONA] Transit gift to secure Bangla borders



Transit gift to secure Bangla borders
 

 India today sought to pitch its ties with Sheikh Hasina-led Bangladesh on a new neighbourly high, keen to utilise the presence of a friendly government to enhance mutual benefit and trust.

 

Facilitating Bangladesh transit facilities to Nepal and Bhutan through India will be the first concrete gesture in that direction. What New Delhi seeks, in return, is greater securing of its long, and porous borders from terrorist and insurgent elements that have frequently used Bangladeshi soil to stir ethnic and sectarian trouble in India.

 

Foreign secretary Nirupama Rao described the three-day state visit of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as a path breaking one.

The foreign secretary's statement came an hour before the Bangladesh Prime Minister landed at New Delhi's Palam Air Force base. "Bangladesh has welcomed our decision to provide it transit facilities to Nepal and Bhutan. We seek to revive those physical and emotional links which remain disrupted since Independence. We will also seek their understanding and co-operation on our security and connectivity needs," the foreign secretary stated.

 

It isn't only Ufla militants who have used Bangladesh as a haven to wreak violence in India. Rebels from several other Northeastern states — and lately Islamist militants — have operated from there to launch strikes.

There is a sense in New Delhi that the Hasina government is willing to co-operate on neutralising these elements, evidence of which may have been the recent surrender of some Ulfa leaders.

 

Rao reaffirmed India's commitment "to provide substantial assistance to Bangladesh to become a major partner in its economic development".

India has promised to assist Bangladesh in railway infrastructure, transportation, dredging, power grid interconnectivity, human resource development and investment and trade. Among the high points of Hasina's visit is likely to be a $500-million credit purse to Bangladesh.

 

"The visit of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh promises to be a path-breaking one and gives both countries a historic opportunity to build a new and forward-looking relationship. India is committed to working with the government of Bangladesh to build on our historical and traditionally close links and open new vistas in our bilateral relations," Rao said.

Hasina will stay in New Delhi's Maurya Sheraton hotel. She will meet President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who will also host a banquet in her honour. On Tuesday, the Indira Gandhi prize for peace, disarmament and development will be conferred on Hasina at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

 

A business delegation from Bangladesh has accompanied Hasina to New Delhi. She is scheduled to address a business event organised by India's apex business chambers.

 

The Bangladeshi Prime Minister is on her first visit to New Delhi after winning a landslide victory in December 2008. She will visit Ajmer on Wednesday and leave for Dhaka the same day, the foreign secretary said in her statement, confirming that Hasina will be giving Bengal a miss.

In a last-minute change of plans, junior foreign minister Preneet Kaur has been designated Hasina's minister-in-waiting instead of the original choice, junior rural development minister Agatha Sangma. The reasons for the switch are not known.

 

"We are confident that this visit would serve to underline that strong India-Bangladesh relations are vital, not just for both our countries, but for the entire region and the international community," the foreign secretary said.

Khaleda warning

India wants to strengthen the recent bonhomie by accommodating enough of Dhaka's concerns so that Hasina can ward off any allegations of a sell-out from the Khaleda Zia-led Opposition.

 

"We hope to take the relationship to a higher trajectory," an official said, adding that New Delhi was willing walk the extra mile even if the Hasina administration was prevented from returning the favour by domestic compulsions.

 

Khaleda today extended co-operation to the Bangladesh government but warned Hasina against inking any deal against the "national interest" such as a treaty to suppress Indian insurgents, PTI adds from Dhaka.

"Insurgencies by different Indian ethnic groups have become closely linked to our security," the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief said. "If she signs a treaty (to control Indian insurgents), the security of our own citizens will also be hampered."

 

She asked Hasina to raise "issues of national interest boldly", including disputes over the border, enclaves and maritime boundary. "People do not believe the Delhi talks will be successful if such serious issues are not included…. We are dead against submissive and subservient policies," Khaleda said.

 

The thinking in South Block is that India should play "the large-hearted elder brother" by helping Bangladesh economically. The only way to prevent Bangladesh from slipping back into the grip of fundamentalists is to help it fight poverty, many in the Indian establishment feel.

However, the sources said, Dhaka appeared ready to give India a lot more than ever before, as proved by the way it stuck its neck out to hand over the Ulfa leaders.

 

A source said: "India will continue to impress on the visiting Bangladeshi delegation to hand over Ulfa leader Anup Chetia." Bangladesh foreign minister Dipu Moni has rejected the demand.

 

Unlike the other Ulfa leaders who were deported unofficially, Chetia was formally arrested and this, in the absence of an extradition treaty, apparently stands in the way of hand-over.

Government sources played down the disputes with Bangladesh over land and maritime borders. They said of the 4,096-km-long border, only 6.1km was disputed.

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[ALOCHONA] 14 intelectuals and 3000 non bengalis killed on 14th december, 1971



Dear all
 
14 intellectuals and 3000 non bengalis were killed on 14th December when whole Bangladesh was under the Indian occupation forces, pro-pakistanis' were on run, pro-Liberation forces were on control over Bangladesh. Zahir Raihan was kidnapped by indian secret forces approximately one month after independence of Bangladesh. All justice must come together for the cause of justice and this the civilisation.
 
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[ALOCHONA] Whose idiology to be followed Muzib's, Zia, Ershad or Islam ?????



Dear all
 
Whose idiology to be followed, Muzib's, Ershad, Zia or Islam ? There must be a trough study on conflic and contrust between those idiology. We general public are now standing on vegue ground.
 
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[ALOCHONA] Rich country : PM to Delhi with 119 people



Rich country : PM to Delhi with 119 people
 



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[ALOCHONA] 1/11 Conspiracy



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[ALOCHONA] India wants Bangladesh to be in a forum against China



India wants Bangladesh to be in a forum against China

India is likely to offer a proposal to Bangladesh for water sharing of the River Teesta by involving two other neighbours- Nepal and Bhutan.

Instead of reviving the Joint Rivers Commission (JRC), that remained inactive for the last six years, India is going to propose a multinational river commission to settle the disputes over the river Teesta, Brahmmaputra and other rivers which originate from Tibet in China. India is also likely to propose certain provisions which can be followed at international level as a model for sharing cross-boundary rivers.

The proposal, as it appears, is lucrative to Bangladesh which has on many occasions proposed for a regional approach on sharing of waters of the common rivers. However, diplomatic sources think that it was actually designed to put a collective pressure on China because India alone is finding it difficult to negotiate the issue with its big neighbour.

The Teesta originating from Tibet flows down into two streams and join together in Sikkim of India, where it takes the name Teesta and flows downwards to Bangladesh. It is one of the major sources of the Himalayan waters in the northern districts of Bangladesh.

Meanwhile, the secretary level meeting on sharing of Teesta waters ended inconclusively in Dhaka last week. Both sides, however, announced that they would suggest reactivation of the JRC, which would be finalised during Bangladesh Prime Minister's ongoing visit to New Delhi.

In response to Bangladesh's demand for water sharing of the Teesta, India will now try to convince Dhaka that the river was getting less water due to reduced flow at the upper region following diversion of waters from the source in Tibet. India has also reportedly prepared technical documents to show how the Teesta went reduced and fetching less waters, not sufficient for their cultivation in lean period.

Meanwhile, Indian media and the intelligentsia have advised New Delhi not to put pressure on Hasina that she cannot agree due to her domestic compulsions. India wants the facility like use of Chittagong sea port and Ashuganj river port for carrying consignments to its land-locked north eastern states.

"India will request Hasina for these two facilities, but would not be unhappy if Hasina disagrees at this stage" , the diplomatic sources said adding that India will not make any haste move but would wait for the convenient time.

In response to Bangladesh's demand for reducing trade gap, India would send a delegation of experts to suggest for quality products so that such goods could attract foreign buyers. India is also going to offer technical support in overcoming agricultural problems in the south-western parts of the country, which is facing water-logging and salinity intrusion problems over the decades.

India has already offered a $ 500 million package for development of rail and power networks, dredging of rivers so that Indian goods carryhing vessels could operate smoothly. Another $1000 million would be offered for a five-year period.

On Tinbigha issue , India at this moment, will not agree to hand over the corridor to Bangladesh in compliance with the Mujib-Indira accord of 1973, but would allow the construction of power transmission line to the Bangladesh enclave of Dahagram, according to Indian media sources.

If everything moves well, the two neighbours will sign three accords mainly on security considerations, which are very important for India.
 



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[ALOCHONA] World slowly bringing war criminals to account



World slowly bringing war criminals to account   


It's all coming along very nicely—the threat to arrest war criminals and those charged with crimes against humanity.

Who would have thought in the days of the Vietnam and Cambodia wars, the civil war in ex Yugoslavia, the pogrom in Rwanda, the independent war of Bangladesh and perhaps soon the architects of torture in the recent US administration of George W. Bush that the hand of international justice would be reaching out to arrest the protagonists, try them and imprison them?

After the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials in 1945 and 1946 of the wartime leaders of Germany and Japan there was a hiatus, finally broken when in 1975 most of the world signed the Convention against Torture. Then there was an even broader treaty when the Convention Against War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity was signed in Rome in June, 1998.

In October, 1998, Scotland Yard arrested the ex dictator of Chile, General Augusto Pinochet, in a clinic in London. After long court hearings, for the first time anywhere a high court decided that sovereign immunity must not be allowed to become sovereign impunity.

The ball rolls with gathering speed. Early last month, a London judge issued an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, the leader of the Israeli opposition and before that foreign minister.
She was indicted for her role in Israel's so-called Operation Cast Lead when its forces assaulted the Gaza Strip earlier in the year. Ms Livni avoided arrest by cancelling her trip. The British government was embarrassed but could do nothing.

Effectively she is under the same threat if she visits any European state, indeed most of the countries of the world, bar China, India, the US and Russia which have yet to sign the Rome Treaty. Also last month, Kenya's president and prime minister stopped a list of politicians implicated in post-election violence from being sent to the International Criminal Court by agreeing to set up a tribunal to try them at home. (This is always the first choice of the Court.)

The envelope containing the names of those implicated holds names drawn up by the UN mediator, its former secretary-general, Kofi Annan.

Last summer Britain again broke new ground when it sent a former Afghan warlord to prison for torture and hostage taking even though he committed the crimes outside Britain.
Chile and Argentina are continuing to clean up the horrors of the 1970s and 80s when they were both ruled by
murderous tyrants. Many argue for moving on rather than re-opening old wounds. But the prevailing opinion is that without justice there can be no healing and no guarantee of the rule of law. Chile's prime minister's own father was tortured to death by the Pinochet government.

The other Latin American countries with a legacy of serious crimes against humanity have only relatively recently begun dealing with the crimes of the past- Uruguay, Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador.

Sudan's government decided two weeks ago to go ahead with the promised referendum on the status of the south where for decades an insurgency has challenged the central authority of the government. The government has been prevaricating, but it seems the threat of prosecution together with the decline oil revenues have made it more cooperative.

Already more Africans have been charged by the Court and its affiliates in Arusha and Sierra Leone than from any other continent. This is not, as some charge, because of a racial bias in the courts but because during the 1980s and 90s Africa was the site of the world's most bloody wars. Now its wars have all but disappeared, but the mess remains to be cleared up if future evil strongmen are to be deterred and the families of those tortured, raped and killed are to be given some peace of mind.

It is very likely that President Barack Obama will lead his country into the Rome Treaty, but not for a while. The Senate will be tough on the treaty, even though the military have softened
their opposition now they have seen how it works in practice. If the US does join the other recalcitrants won't be far behind.

Meanwhile, the US at home, thanks to its Alien Torts Act of 1789, is proceeding with a lawsuit alleging that the Shell oil company was complicit in the death of the Nigerian poet, novelist and human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was hanged by the military regime thirteen years ago. This is only one of a number of prosecutions involving big multinationals, including pharmaceuticals and banking, and reaching as far back as the days of apartheid. The ball rolls on, an immense force in the battle for raising the standards of human rights practices.


 


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