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[ALOCHONA] Sheikh Mujibur’s Early Life (1920-1949)



Sheikh Mujibur's Early Life (1920-1949)

 
BY Abid Bahar , Canada

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, later Bangabandu was born in Tongipara of Faridpur district in Bangladesh in March 1920 A.D. He was the third child among four daughters and two sons of Sheikh Lutfar Rahman and Siara Begum. The parents were very affectionate to him and called him Khoka. In his childhood due to eye problem in his left eye, the parents withdrew him from attending school for four years. What else would the parents do except to keep him home him from studies when with their one eyed child was laughed at by other children? During this time, the compulsive Mujib's prolonged break of study must have created anger in him. He had no home education either. His time was spent with children of the neighborhood who voluntarily skipped classes. After four years when Mujib returned back to school, compared to his fellow students, he found himself way behind in education. He also found himself physically taller. His parents demanded to the school authority that Mujib should have auto promotion to his original class; after all Mujib's delay in education was not his fault. No permission was given to this end. The parents found it hard to deal with the crisis.

The outcome was Mujib lost his interest in education and started to act like a rebel and when he had to attend classes he liked to sit in the back and either chat with students or to create trouble to other students. In 1938, to bring a change to Mujib's grubby reputation only at the age of eighteen, the parents forced him to get married to Begum Fazilatnnesa. Even after this change, Mujib's showed restlessness and a lack of interest in education. The father always reminded Mujib that he should continue his studies. To help him do well the father now decided to transfer him to Gopalganj missionary school.

In the following year in1939 "Bongobondhu's political career was effectively inaugurated while he was a student at the missionary school. There he led a group of students to demand to Suhurwardhy who came to visit the school that the cracked roof of the school must be repaired before they let him go."(1) No one at the moment knew that Suhurawardhy just met a rebel who years later would be claimed by the successive AL governments as the father of Bangladesh nation.

When Suhrawardhy met Mujib he was still a High School bully. Suhrawardhy the populist leader of his time quickly recruited Mujib to help counter his political rivals. Under Suhurrawardhy, Mujib began his flowering career to become a great leader. After years of trying, finally Mujib finished his Matriculation degree at the age of 22. He continued to work for Suhrawardhy and remained loyal to him until his death in 1962. In the Calcutta riot Mujib was with his mentor Suhurrawardhy who was behind the Hindu-Muslim Calcutta riot in the Jinnah called Direct Action Day which claimed many innocent lives for which the Congress Party leadership still blame Suhurawardhy. Mujib's body language in dress and mannerism and his association with Suhurawardhy at the time show the sign of Mujib's role at the time.

During these years Mujib was hardly a student. Despite his busy time with Suhrawardhy, it seems that he managed to complete his intermediate education at the Islamia College in Calcutta. He also finished his B.A. in Calcutta. One Mazharul Islam from Kutubdia of Chittagong was known to have written his BA examination from Calcutta Islamia College. Back in Dhaka he again became a student of law faculty at the Dhaka University; probably recommended by Suhurawardhy to help him prepare for a future statesman. But Mujib was seen by his fellow students to be sitting at the backbench with his group of his friends causing trouble to his professor Shamsun Nahar in the law faculty classroom.(2) Despite his disinterest in education, he was out and out a political person. He was also working against the normal order in the university for which unfortunately he never finished his law degree from Dhaka University; for he was deeply involved with Dhaka University's 4th class employees association. The university authority found his unauthorized involvement and fined him. Mujib the rebel refused to pay the fine. He was expelled from the University. True, in this act alone, Mujib exemplified the ideal of student involvement in politics for change. Mujib always succeeded in his actions and nobody dared to challenge his growing authority.

Who was the True Sheikh Mujibur Rahman?

Mujibès early life was not written in detail. But from the above we can assume that Mujib's upbringing made him more of a populist leader than a statesman. But he was no ordinary and a naïve leader as many people wish to believe. He was a complex figure in politics; a Machiavellian and as a very powerful rebel rouser ready to take risks but almost always knew how to save himself. Personally he showed pride and confidence in his work and in his accomplishments in one hand on the other hand he would show mockery to the opposition. These were his early sign of intolerance to the opposition, which continued until when established the BKSAL party. During his entire career we see almost always before a serious threat to his life he prepared the necessary grounds to be arrested and be in jail. Like in many other occasions, during the time of language movement as expected he was in jail.

This reminds us of a story in a film where a perilous person the jail authority just released to lessen the extra burden insisted that they keep him in jail where he would be safer. Not surprisingly, once Mujib was just released from jail and hearing the report of an imminent trouble, he did something violent in front of the jail premise causing the death of a child (3) His critics claimed that after his 7th March Speech to the 25th March in 1971 at the critical juncture of the national life instead of leading the nation he repeated his similar behavior and for his and his family's safety surrendered himself to the Pakistan army while the army massacred the innocents in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country. Once in the when Bangabandu began to show intolerance to the opposition, established the BKSAL one party rule, there was no doubt to Bangladeshis that Bangabandhu was the original Suhwardhy's muscleman with little education and no respect for law/ judiciary and human rights but now has only turned into an outwardly smiling, laughing, and crying politician saying "Bhaiera Amer," a gentleman political actor our Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

End notes and References

1. My book in progress: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF BANGABANDU AND BANGLADESH

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notun_bangladesh/attachments/folder/899393398/item/list;

Mozahed Alam, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

The Father of the Nation: A Political Profile, 1999. www.bangabandhu.org/profile.html; Early life of Bangabandhu « Moktel Hossain Mukthi

muktimusician.wordpress.com/2009/11/.../early-life-of-bangabandhu

early-life-of-bangabandhu

.2.http// Wikipedia .org;

Information compiled from interviews done on the contemporaries of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Kamruddin Ahamed, Banglar Ak Modhubetter Atho Kahini (Bengali), Dhaka, p. 1-4, 15, 1979

(3) Abu Rushd edited "Secret Affidavit of Yahya Khan,"

Published by: Bangladesh Defence Journal,February 2009

http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5049

Syed Muhammad Hussain, "A book, a coup, some thoughts"

http://www.newagebd.com/edit.html#2; http://www.bdsdf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3478

Awami League and its role betwen 1971 and 1975, Jamshed Chowdhury, Bangladesh: Failed Years —- 1972-75, based on his thesis dissertation for his PhD from Heidelberg University.

Submissions - Khan Saifur Rahman (Senior Advocate)

Case of Mutiny leading to Murder or a Case of Murder Simpliciter? Defence arguments presented on behalf of Col. Syed Farook Rahman and Col Mohiuddin

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

Kamruddin Ahamed, Banglar Ak Modhubetter Atho Kahini (Bengali), Dhaka, p. 1-4, 15, 1979; also quoted in Syed Abul Maksud, Bhasani, First edition, 1986, 122, 126-127, p. 146-147.

Toffozal Hossain Manik Mia, Pakistani Rajnitir Bish Botshor, pp. 68-69, 86-87, 90-91 talks about Mujib's widespread use of blackmailing intimidation and force to push through his agenda. Also see in Syed Abul Maksud, Bhasani, First edition, 1986, pp.146-147.

Abid Bahar, Bangabandu Mujib and Benito Mussolini: Striking Similarities, http://bangladesh- web.com/view. php?hidRecord= 218125

Henrik Ibsen, The Enemy of the People, "An Enemy of the People addresses the irrational tendencies of the masses, and the hypocritical and corrupt nature of the political system that they support. It is the story of one brave man's struggle to do the right thing and speak the truth in the face of extreme social intolerance.

Logi Boitha Viloence youtube video link http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=hjWhLD1- JLk&feature= player_embedded

Sheikh Hasina

http://sajeeb. blogspot. com/2007/ 04/charges- against-sheikh- hasina.html

Zahurul Kaium's (Senior Vice President of Awami League 1971, Interview, Arun Udayer Nappoithe Kahini 1995

Independence and Awami League, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9QWw-D-QpE&feature=related

Zaglul Hossain in his review of the above video says "...it is a well-researched report, which shows that Mujib did not want to break-up Pakistan (meaning he did not want independence), Bhashani called for independence since 1955, Mujib never declared independence but Zia did, Mujib was bidding for power failing which he surrendered to Pakistan army, his and his family's safety was assured by the US ambassador,..)

Shahidul Alam, Sheikh Mujib: A people's dictator , Notun Bangladesh, August 14, 2008. Farman Ali, Bhutto, Sheikh Mujib and Bangladesh, Published by Altaf Hossain: Translated by and published in Bengali by Mostofa Harun, 1978,

Abul Monsur Ahamed, Amer Dhaker Rajnatir Ponchas Botchas, Dhaka:Khroz Kitab Mohal, 1984.; Azizul Karim, From Awami League to BAKSAL, http://newsfrombang ladesh.net/ view.php? hidRecord= 42362;

Abid Bahar, The 1/11 Hijacking of Bangladesh, http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2008-12-27&hidType=&hidRecord=237359

Abu Rushd edited "Secret Affidavit of Yahya Khan," Published by: Bangladesh Defence Journal, February 2009

http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5049

M A S Molla,Tajuddin's prophecy, Daily Star, November 03, 2006

Ibid

Syed Muhammad Hussain, "A book, a coup, some thoughts"

http://www.newagebd.com/edit.html#2; http://www.bdsdf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3478

Awami League and its role betwen 1971 and 1975, Jamshed Chowdhury, Bangladesh:

Failed Years —- 1972-75, based on his thesis dissertation for his PhD from Heidelberg

University; Amartya Sen, Poverty and Famines (Famine in Bangladesh, p. 131), New

York: Oxford University Press, 1981; Abid Bahar, Bangabandu Mujib and

Benito Mussolini: Striking Similarities, News from Bangladesh, http://bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=218125.

Submissions - Khan Saifur Rahman (Senior Advocate)

Case of Mutiny leading to Murder or a Case of Murder Simpliciter? Defence arguments presented on behalf of Col. Syed Farook Rahman and Col Mohiuddin

Syed Muhammad Hussain, "A book, a coup, some thoughts"

http://www.newagebd.com/edit.html#2;http://www.bdsdf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=3478

MUJIB MURDER CASE Court rules on reading of 3rd verdict today, New Age Front Page. http://www.newagebd.com/2009/oct/13/front.html; Mujibès Killers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l292yT1FHDo&feature=related

Kamruddin Ahamed, Banglar Ak Modhubetter Atho Kahini (Bengali), Dhaka, p. 1-4, 15, 1979; also quoted in Syed Abul Maksud, Bhasani, First edition, 1986, 122, 126-127, p. 146-147.

Henrik Ibsen, The Enemy of the People, "An Enemy of the people addresses the irrational tendencies of the masses, and the hypocritical and corrupt nature of the political system that they support. It is the story of one brave man's struggle to do the right thing and speak the truth in the face of extreme social intolerance; see for Properties stocked in Mujib's house Ittifaq, 30th October 1975/ (Among the illegal weapons recovered were one heavy machine gun, two light machinre guns, 3 SMGs, 8 Stan guns, 10 rifles, 60 grenades and ammunitions.)

.http://www.amardeshbd.com/dailynews/detail_news_index.php?NewsID=247355&NewsType=bistarito&SectionID=home

Logi Boitha Viloence youtube video link http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=hjWhLD1- JLk&feature= player_embedded

Sheikh Hasina

http://sajeeb. blogspot. com/2007/ 04/charges- against-sheikh- hasina.html;

BDR MASSACRE; Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpmr4gKFHww&feature=related, part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWI3Ybe2hfs&NR=1

Dr. Abid Bahar's exposure of Mujib and BKSAL By Zoglul Husain, UK London 26 November 2009. I read with much interest Dr. Abid Bahar's three articles on ...

www.wikio.com/themes/Abid+Bahar

(Abid Bahar Ph.D. teaches in Canada , wrote several books on Bangladesh and Burma). E mail :abidbahar@yahoo.com

http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=301399



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                                 ব্যাঙ ও স্কড়পিওনের গল্প
 
 
নদির পাড়ে বসে ছিল এক ব্যাঙ।অলস ভাবে সে উদাশি।
মরমর বাতাশে দুলছে গাছের পাতা।সামনে ছোট ছোট ঢেউ তুলে বয়ে চলছে নদি।
এমন সময় বিশাক্ত এক স্কড়পিওন এল , ব্যাঙকে বলল- ভাই আমাকে নদিটা পার করে দিতে পার?
ব্যাঙ বলল- না ভাই তুমি আমাকে কামড় দেবে ।স্কড়পিওন বলল- তোমাকে কামড়ালে তুমি এবং আমি
দুজনেই ডুবে মরব। কেন আমি তা করব?
 
সহজ শরল ব্যাঙ রাজি হল। হেলে দুলে ব্যাঙ এর পিঠ জুরে বসল স্কড়পিওন।
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বিষ ছরিয়ে পরছে শরিরে এবং মৃত্যু যন্ত্রনায় কাতর ব্যাঙ স্কড়পিওন কে সহ নদিগরভে ডুবে যাওয়ার আগে
জিজ্ঞাস করল, ভাই স্কড়পিওন তুমি যে আমাকে কামড়ালে এখন তুমিও ডুবে যাছচ আমিও ডুবে যাচ্ছি।
কেন তুমি এটা করলে?
স্কড়পিওন বলল- কামড়ান আমার সভাব।আমি বেচে থাকি বা মরে যাই, বা কে মরে গেল তাতে আমার কিছু
যায় আসে না।
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I agreed with sk. Hashina that her India visit is 100% successful. Because she have done what she wanted. She could shamelessly & successfully surrender herself before the demands of India. After all she could proof herself as a coward, backboneless, loyal agent of their master. 

 

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[ALOCHONA] TIme Magazine - May 31, 1954 on Bengali Killings in Pakistan

---  Mir Raza <mirsalimraza@...> wrote:

 
East Pakistan is separated from West Pakistan by the 1,000-mile width of India and by a smoldering hatred. East Pakistan pays most of Pakistan's taxes, provides most of the sterling and dollar earnings, but gets the short end of revenues. Though 56% of Pakistan's population live in East Pakistan and four out of seven Pakistanis speak the Bengali tongue, until last fortnight the nation's official language was West Pakistan's Urdu.
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Even in his own area, the East Pakistani feels like a second-class citizen, exploited by carpetbaggers from Karachi who hold most of the top government posts and most of the top police jobs. Last week the news seeped through tight censorship that East Pakistan's hatred had flared into appalling bloodshed.
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How it began is unclear; why is plain. The owners of the world's newest, biggest jute mill Adamji at Narayanganj, East Pakistan, pampered their imported West Pakistan workers, gave them better jobs and a higher wage scale than the East Pakistan Bengalis. On payday, when the West Paks were lording it over the Bengalis, the atmosphere was tense. According to one version, a West Pakistani fireman reproved a Bengali teastall keeper for allowing the flames to burn too high in his oven. The Bengali took offense, and when a factory watchman intervened, another Bengali stabbed the watchman.
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Next morning the West Paks hoisted black flags over their houses, in mourning, and staged an impassioned mass meeting. From the meeting they surged toward the Bengali labor barracks, armed with rifles and revolvers. The Bengalis took up swords, pickaxes and knives. All morning both sides sweated in the humid heat and butchered. One band of West Paks selected a block of Bengali quarters, set it afire, then systematically shot down the Bengalis as they fled.
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By midday two Bengali villages were in ashes, the water in two hyacinth-covered ponds was red from the blood of floating bodies. When the troops arrived, they found some 400 dead, including 25 women and nine children, and guessed that the total would rise to at least 600 and possibly to 1,000.
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West Pakistan newspapers thundered for punitive martial law in the east. But East Pakistan's chief minister, 82-year-old Fazlul Huq, the wily "Lion of Bengal," stomped aboard a plane for Karachi, closeted himself for hours with Premier Mohammed Ali, then stomped out, announcing that his people wanted no less than independence. Said he: "Of course, they [West Pakistan] will try to resist such a move. But when a man wants freedom, he wants it."
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[mukto-mona] In Memory of Jyoti Babu!



The news came in the early afternoon. A friend had rung up. My TV is out of operation for quite a while.
In the evening, another friend rung up to talk of.

It was a long and no doubt a distinguished career in the conventional sense of the term. He was by far the longest-serving Chief Minister in India. Only Gegong Apang of Arunnachal Pradesh has a somewhat comparable record. But then, Arunachal is not counted amongst the major states of India.
In 1996, his name was proposed as the Indian Prime Minister by the combined anti-Congress - anti-BJP opposition and forcefully pursued. To the horror of many - just not the foes, but also friends. In fact, after an intense tussle, the Party, of which he was the Polit Buro (the highest rung of leadership) member rejected the proposal, despite the spirited bid by the then General Secretary of the Party and also Basu himself being clearly in favour. As a disciplined party soldier, he abided by the decision. But that could not stop him from publicly calling it a "historic blunder". Only a Jyoti Babu, not Comrade Basu, could go unpunished after chiding the party in public.
No other leader from the Left came anywhere remotely close to that. Only Tridib Chaudhuri, of the Revolutionary Socialist Party - a far smaller leftwing outfit, had been the combined opposition's Presidential candidate against the ruling Congress in the year 1974. But that was for all intent and purpose a symbolic fight. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed would win hands down.

Not that he was loved by all, no human is that fortunate. But he definitely commanded widespread respect and also elicited some degree of awe.
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, so to say, grew up to become a Communist. While in Britain in late thirties - the colonial ruler of India in those days, studying to become a Barrister. As is the case with his many illustrious senior and junior comrades did. Not too uncommon in those days. The famous advocate Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, who would later become the Advocate general of West Bengal, was understandably very close to him, sharing a broadly similar aristocratic family roots and personal inclinations, in those days and also for long years thereafter. Not too many would remember him now though. 
Basu, to be sure, had also intimately engaged with the labour movement, at least during his initial years. Was just not confined to parliamentary politics. And led historic popular agitations like the campaign against Bengal-Bihar merger, against one paisa tram fare rise etc. (Not too many would remember now though.)

Jyoti Babu, as he was widely known - not Jyoti Da by any stretch nor even Comrade Basu - had his own distinctive air of aloof dignity tinged with evident haughtiness. That came with his aristocratic family roots, privileged foreign education, communist (presumably some superior) ideology, and of course Benglainess.
That was perhaps during the second United Front regime in West Bengal, which had assumed power in West Bengal. Those were the days of turmoil - both in the agrarian sector, and also in the cities. Physical bloody fights among the partners of the ruling coalition led by Ajoy Mukhopadhyay of the Bangla Congress was the norm of the day. The CPIM was the second most important constituent and Jyoti Basu was the Home Minister and the Dy. Chief Minister. Bloody clashes between the cadres of the two parties in the countryside were too frequent. And also verbal duel between the leaders. As the things turned particularly sour, Jyoti Babu held a press conference to narrate an alleged incident of atrocities perpetrated by the Bangla Congess men. He'd normally not get involved in such murky business. In this particular event a widow was reportedly assaulted and tortured, to which Basu did refer. A journalist, with mischief on mind, asked him to "elaborate" the "torture" bit. Basu was visibly disgusted. He retorted back that he has already that a widow has been assaulted and tortured. The persistent journalist refusing to give up explained that the other day Sushil Dhara, the second senior most leader of the Bangla Congress, and the Industries Minister (if my memory serves me right), had given an elaborate description of the torture inflicted by the CPM cadres on some women. the quintessential Jyoti Babu with unconcealed contempt shot back: I cannot go down to the level of Sushil Dhara! 
A comparable example that comes to my mind would take place about a decade later.
In 1977, after the Janata Party government came to power, at the end of the Emergency, it dismissed the state governments run by the Congress. In the process, in West Bengal the Left Front led by the CPIM came to power. Dr. Ashok Mitra, at that time a close friend of Basu, now the Chief Minister, became the Finance Minister. The Sunday was quite a popular magazine in those days, edited by M J Akbar. Sometime later, on its last page, it carried an interview of Dr. Mitra, an eminent economist in his own right. The interviewer, at one point, asked him whether the economic philosophy of Morarji Desai, the Prime Minister, known for his conservative vies, is somewhat akin to that of Milton Friedman. Dr. Mitra curtly replied (I imagine I still remember): Why bother about Friedman? He has never heard of his name. (Just think of it! Morarji Bhai is the Prime Minister of the country, and Dr. Mitra is the Finance Minister of a constituent state!)
That demonstrative intellectual arrogance (permeated with moral courage), I guess, would not be too commonplace elsewhere.

Jyoti Babu, despite being the best known leader of the CPIM towards which the Bengali upper middle class had a distinct animus, came to get identified with Bengali subnationalism and, even if somewhat strangely, struck a chord with the Bengali middle class. Though not exactly comparable, even then somewhat resembling Subhas Bose, a much taller figure and having a strong pan-national appeal cutting across regional divides. Basu is obviously far more parochial in terms of his appeal as compared to Bose. The only other two political figures whose names, in this context, come to mind are C R Das, a mentor of Bose, and subsequently Dr. B C Roy, the Chief Minister of West Bengal in its early independent years. He reportedly had a special soft corner for Basu despite political rivalries.

Ninety-five years is no short span. So Basu could do a lot and saw a lot. 
If the CPIM in West Bengal had peaked under the (somewhat tension ridden) joint stewardship of his and significantly lesser known, but perhaps even more powerful, Pramod Dasgupta (or PDG); he lived long enough to see the beginning of the dramatic decline of the party that he had nurtured for far too long.

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[mukto-mona] Re: [Diagnose] Has Bangladesh given an all out transit to India?



[India fooled us once and now fooling us twice.]
 
Indian Hindus do not eat beef that is why they have been able to fool the beef-eating Muslims of Bangladesh, not once but twice!
 
Mohammad Asghar
 
 
In a message dated 1/16/2010 7:13:26 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, abidbahar@Yahoo.com writes:
 India fooled us once and now fooling us twice.


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[mukto-mona] Fwd: [khusroelley] FIDEL CASTRO ON THE PRESENT HAITIAN CRISIS



 
 

From: kandrelley@yahoo.com
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To: khusroelley@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 1/17/2010 10:07:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: [khusroelley] FIDEL CASTRO ON THE PRESENT HAITIAN CRISIS
 


"Around 400 doctors and healthcare experts are offering their services free of charge to the Haitian people. Our doctors are working every day in 227 of the country's 337 communes. On the other hand, at least 400 young Haitians have trained as doctors in our homeland. They will now work with the reinforcement brigade which traveled there yesterday to save lives in this critical situation. Thus, without any special effort being made, up to 1,000 doctors and healthcare experts can be mobilized, almost all of whom are already there willing to cooperate with any other state that wishes to save the lives of the Haitian people.."
We know from the experience of the 2005 Earthquake in Pakistan how valuable Cuba's help was. Cuba has built a core competency in Medicine which should be the envy of all developing countries and their willingness to offer their services for free to any one in distress is highly praiseworthy for a country under constant sanctions and threat from the US.
Khusro

--- On Sat, 1/16/10, Don DeBar <dondebar@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Don DeBar <dondebar@yahoo.com>
Subject: [WESPAC-Foundation] FIDEL CASTRO ON THE PRESENT HAITIAN CRISIS
To: WBAIX@yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, January 16, 2010, 12:10 PM

 
The lesson of Haiti
TWO days ago, at almost six o'clock in the evening Cuban time and when, given its geographical location, night had already fallen in Haiti, television stations began to broadcast the news that a violent earthquake – measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale – had severely struck Port-au-Prince. The seismic phenomenon originated from a tectonic fault located in the sea just 15 kilometers from the Haitian capital, a city where 80% of the population inhabit fragile homes built of adobe and mud.

The news continued almost without interruption for hours. There was no footage, but it was confirmed that many public buildings, hospitals, schools and more solidly-constructed facilities were reported collapsed. I have read that an earthquake of the magnitude of 7.3 is equivalent to the energy released by an explosion of 400,000 tons of TNT.

Tragic descriptions were transmitted. Wounded people in the streets were crying out for medical help, surrounded by ruins under which their relatives were buried. No one, however, was able to broadcast a single image for several hours.

The news took all of us by surprise. Many of us have frequently heard about hurricanes and severe flooding in Haiti, but were not aware of the fact that this neighboring country ran the risk of a massive earthquake. It has come to light on this occasion that 200 years ago, a massive earthquake similarly affected this city, which would have been the home of just a few thousand inhabitants at that time.

At midnight, there was still no mention of an approximate figure in terms of victims. High-ranking United Nations officials and several heads of government discussed the moving events and announced that they would send emergency brigades to help. Given that MINUSTAH (United Stabilization Mission in Haiti) troops are deployed there – UN forces from various countries – some defense ministers were talking about possible casualties among their personnel.

It was only yesterday, Wednesday morning, when the sad news began to arrive of enormous human losses among the population, and even institutions such as the United Nations mentioned that some of their buildings in that country had collapsed, a word that does not say anything in itself but could mean a lot.

For hours, increasingly more traumatic news continued to arrive about the situation in this sister nation. Figures related to the number of fatal victims were discussed, which fluctuated, according to various versions, between 30,000 and 100,000. The images are devastating; it is evident that the catastrophic event has been given widespread coverage around the world, and many governments, sincerely moved by the disaster, are making efforts to cooperate according to their resources.

The tragedy has genuinely moved a significant number of people, particularly those in which that quality is innate. But perhaps very few of them have stopped to consider why Haiti is such a poor country. Why does almost 50% of its population depend on family remittances sent from abroad? Why not analyze the realities that led Haiti to its current situation and this enormous suffering as well?

The most curious aspect of this story is that no one has said a single word to recall the fact that Haiti was the first country in which 400,000 Africans, enslaved and trafficked by Europeans, rose up against 30,000 white slave masters on the sugar and coffee plantations, thus undertaking the first great social revolution in our hemisphere.

Pages of insurmountable glory were written there. Napoleon's most eminent general was defeated there. Haiti is the net product of colonialism and imperialism, of more than one century of the employment of its human resources in the toughest forms of work, of military interventions and the extraction of its natural resources.

This historic oversight would not be so serious if it were not for the real fact that Haiti constitutes the disgrace of our era, in a world where the exploitation and pillage of the vast majority of the planet's inhabitants prevails.

Billions of people in Latin American, Africa and Asia are suffering similar shortages although perhaps not to such a degree as in the case of Haiti.

Situations like that of that country should not exist in any part of the planet, where tens of thousands of cities and towns abound in similar or worse conditions, by virtue of an unjust international economic and political order imposed on the world. The world population is not only threatened by natural disasters such as that of Haiti, which is a just a pallid shadow of what could take place in the planet as a result of climate change, which really was the object of ridicule, derision, and deception in Copenhagen.

It is only just to say to all the countries and institutions that have lost citizens or personnel because of the natural disaster in Haiti: we do not doubt that in this case, the greatest effort will be made to save human lives and alleviate the pain of this long-suffering people. We cannot blame them for the natural phenomenon that has taken place there, even if we do not agree with the policy adopted with Haiti.

But I have to express the opinion that it is now time to look for real and lasting solutions for that sister nation.

In the field of healthcare and other areas, Cuba – despite being a poor and blockaded country – has been cooperating with the Haitian people for many years. Around 400 doctors and healthcare experts are offering their services free of charge to the Haitian people. Our doctors are working every day in 227 of the country's 337 communes. On the other hand, at least 400 young Haitians have trained as doctors in our homeland. They will now work with the reinforcement brigade which traveled there yesterday to save lives in this critical situation. Thus, without any special effort being made, up to 1,000 doctors and healthcare experts can be mobilized, almost all of whom are already there willing to cooperate with any other state that wishes to save the lives of the Haitian people and rehabilitate the injured.

Another significant number of young Haitians are currently studying medicine in Cuba.

We are also cooperating with the Haitian people in other areas within our reach. However, there can be no other form of cooperation worthy of being described as such than fighting in the field of ideas and political action in order to put an end to the limitless tragedy suffered by a large number of nations such as Haiti.

The head of our medical brigade reported: "The situation is difficult, but we have already started saving lives." He made that statement in a succinct message hours after his arrival yesterday in Port-au-Prince with additional medical reinforcements.

Later that night, he reported that Cuban doctors and ELAM's Haitian graduates were being deployed throughout the country. They had already seen more than 1,000 patients in Port-au-Prince, immediately establishing and putting into operation a hospital that had not collapsed and using field hospitals where necessary. They were preparing to swiftly set up other centers for emergency care.

We feel a wholesome pride for the cooperation that, in these tragic instances, Cuba doctors and young Haitian doctors who trained in Cuba are offering our brothers and sisters in Haiti!

Fidel Castro Ruz
January 14, 2009
8:25 p.m.

Don DeBar
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[mukto-mona] Fwd. Israeli general Brigadier-General Uzi Eilam denies Iran is nuclear threat



 
 
 
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Israeli general Brigadier-General Uzi Eilam denies Iran is nuclear threat

Iranian anti-riot police officers confronting people during an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran

Iranian anti-riot police officers confronting people during an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran

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A general who was once in charge of Israel's nuclear weapons has claimed that Iran is a "very, very, very long way from building a nuclear capability".

Brigadier-General Uzi Eilam, 75, a war hero and pillar of the defence establishment, believes it will probably take Iran seven years to make nuclear weapons.

The views expressed by the former director-general of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission contradict the assessment of Israel's defence establishment and put him at odds with political leaders.

Major-General Amos Yadlin, head of military intelligence, recently told the defence committee of the Knesset that Iran will probably be able to build a single nuclear device this year.

Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, has repeatedly said that Israel will not tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran. Israeli forces have been in training to attack Iranian nuclear installations and some analysts believe airstrikes could be launched this year if international sanctions fail to deter Tehran from pursuing its programme.

Eilam, who is thought to be updated by former colleagues on developments in Iran, calls his country's official view hysterical. "The intelligence community are spreading frightening voices about Iran," he said.

He suggested that the "defence establishment is sending out false alarms in order to grab a bigger budget" while some politicians have used Iran to divert attention away from problems at home.

"Those who say that Iran will obtain a bomb within a year's time, on what basis did they say so?" he asked. "Where is the evidence?"

He has just published Eilam's Arc, a memoir in which he reveals that he opposed the Israeli attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981.

According to well-placed defence sources, Israel is speeding up preparations for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear sites. Last week its defence forces released footage that showed training to refuel F-15 jet fighters in mid-air. "This was a warning not to Iran but to the Americans that we're serious," said an Israeli defence source.

But Eilam argues "such an attack [against Iran] would be counter-productive".

"One strike is not practical. In order to delay the Iranian programme for three to four years, one needs an armada of aircraft, which only a super-power can provide. Only America can do it."

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Graham G wrote:
Jayil, you must understand that men like General Eilam are not in the minority and many speak out against war and aggression on all sides. There are many in Israel who want peace and do not favour war with Iran or anyone else for that matter. But do not confuse that with a lack of willing to fight if put under the very real threat of distruction which the Iranian government seems hell bent on.
January 13, 2010 5:05 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk
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Robert Leach wrote:
General, you have an amazing grasp for the obviuos, which everyone knows. Nmely, Iran has NO nukes and Israel has hundreds. That means Israel can prorect itself. Can our troops come home now? It's time for you to fight your own wars of aggression.
January 11, 2010 7:38 PM GMT on community.timesonline.co.uk

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