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Thursday, February 11, 2010

[ALOCHONA] Casualties of student politics



Casualties of student politics

Mohiuddin Alamgir reveals how incidents of clash and conflict among and between the student organisations have hijacked the whole cause of student movement and rights in the public educational institutions of the country
 
 
Abu Bakar Siddique, a third year student of the Islamic History at Dhaka University was injured during a clash between two groups of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) of Sir AF Rahman Hall unit, during the early hours on February 2. The conflict took place between Saiduzzaman Faruq, president and Mehdi Hasan Molla, general secretary of the unit, over establishing dominance in the hall.

   According to witnesses, Saiduzzaman Faruq's men arrived at hall secretary Mehdi Hasan Molla's room, whose activists refused to let them enter. Faruq's activists then attacked Mehdi, sparking off the fight.

   The two factions charged each other with long knives, firearms and the Bangladeshi version of Molotov cocktails. During the clash, Abu, loyal to Mehdi, was injured seriously and was taken to the intensive care unit of the DMCH. Although he was operated on, Abu finally succumbed to his injuries on February 3 at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

   Earlier, Rezanur Chowdhury Sunny, vice-president of Rajshahi Polytechnic Institute of Chhatra Maitree, the pro-Workers Party student organisation, was killed by BCL cadres on January 7. Abul Kalam Asad Rajib, general secretary of the Dhaka Medical College BCL, died during a factional clash of the BCL on March 31, 2009.

   The recent loss of lives once again reminded countrymen of the vulnerable state of our educational institutions due to internal and internecine conflicts between activists of BCL, Jatiyotabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), widely known as Shibir, and sometimes, the ranks of Chhatra Maitree.

   According to newspaper reports, nine students and student activists have lost their lives over the past one year, ever since AL won the general elections to the ninth national parliament on December 29, 2008, while over 2,500 were wounded in various clashes at different academic institutions of the country. Over thirty educational institutions were ordered closed for an indefinite period as a consequence of clashes, during the last thirteen months.

   At least 122 violent clashes involving activists of different organisations rocked different educational institutions, including Dhaka University, Chittagong University, Jahangirnagar University, Jagannath University, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet, over the last thirteen months.

   Among the nine students killed in violent clashes, three were killed in factional clashes of BCL, one BCL activist killed by ICS activists, while two each of JCD and ICS, and an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra Maitree.

   Raihanul Islam Rabbi, a JCD leader, was killed in Khulna, allegedly by a group of Chhatra League activists on January 1. Rabbi was a student of Khulna Government City College. Sharifuzzaman Nomani, Rajshahi University unit secretary of ICS, died in a clash with BCL on the campus on March 13.

   Last year, during the second week of January, Ibrahim Rony, vice president of JCD Ward No. 2 of Narayanganj Sadar thana was allegedly killed by BCL cadres of the same unit. Similarly, Hafej Ramjan Ali, ICS worker of the Dewanganj Madrassah of Jamalpur district, was also allegedly killed by BCL activists.

   Palash Jammadar, a BCL activist of Mehendiganj Thana of the Barisal district lost his life during an inter-party clash while Shapan Mandal, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) worker, was killed by BCL cadres at the Suhrawardy Udyan in August last year.

   In the latest incident, Faruk Hossain, a Master's student of mathematics at Rajshahi University and a BCL activist, was killed in a clash between ICS and BCL on February 8.

   Besides taking over the campuses, occupying halls, doing away with opposition student leaders and so on, at the educational institutions, it is also alleged that most BCL activists are also active in vandalism, robbery, extortion and looting in different parts of the country. They are also involved in tender businesses and other illegal activities, according to students of various universities, including the colleges under the National University and medical colleges.

   Things were so much out of hand that at one point, the prime minister and organisational chief of BCL, Sheikh Hasina was compelled to announce that she had quit from her position as 'guardian' of the student party if the nuisances are not curbed.

   Mahfuzul Haider Chowdhury Roton, general secretary of the BCL, shared a different view about the incidents, while denying all allegations against the party.

   'The incidents are exaggeratedly presented by the media and our oppositions,' he said. 'BCL is a large organisation and there could be "sporadic incidents"; however our activists can not be accused for all the incidents which are occurring,' he said.

   BCL's opposition JCD is also fighting to revive their position in the campuses. Their activities, during the four-party alliance rule, were in no way less than BCL's current behaviour.

   JCD was involved in factionalism, attempts to eliminate opponent student fronts and factions, occupying halls of residence to establish dominance, tender-businesses, settling personal scores and so on, back then. They were also involved in extortion, seat business and other activities.

   Their notoriety can be recalled through newspaper reports from October 2001 till October 2006. Around 800 incidents of clashes occurred during this time, out of which, 420 incidents were instigated by JCD activists directly.

   In 2002, two members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) were allegedly killed during a shootout at Motijheel, the business hub of Dhaka, during a robbery that was headed by Tanjilur Rahman, president of the JCD unit of Zahurul Haq.

   On July 13, 2005, Rafiqul Islam Patoary, a JCD leader of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), was killed by another faction of JCD. Sohag, Suharwardy College unit president of JCD, was killed in an internal clash in connection with drug peddling in 2005.

   Amirul Islam Khan Alim, general secretary of JCD, has likewise denied all the allegations and accused BCL activists for the violence in the institutions. 'The countrymen can see what they are doing all over the country,' he commented.

   'The currently ruling party, Awami League, and their passive body, BCL, is establishing dominance in educational institutions by using their muscle power,' he added.

   ICS is yet another organisation that has been prominent through their involvement in campus violence. Their dominance is mostly realised through numerous incidents mainly in campuses outside Dhaka like Rajshahi, Chittagong, Bogra and other districts.

   Their prime opponent is usually the BCL. ICS has dominated the campuses of Chittagong and Rajshahi having also been involved in extortion, seat business and other illegal activities.

   Prominent educationist professor emeritus Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, of Dhaka University, described these student bodies as front organisations of political parties. The presence of these student bodies is causing major problems to the society.

   'The situation did not worsen overnight. Some political leaders use students for their own benefit. In this way, students got involved in the power struggle,' he said. He urged political leaders to bring an end to the use of students for their own benefit. 'Political leaders must stop using students for bad political intentions,' he stressed.

   He also blamed university authorities for not taking any initiatives for students' cultural and recreational activities. 'Nowadays, there are no cultural activities in the university campuses. Students pay money to publish magazines but they are not published,' he pointed out. He felt that the lack of cultural and recreational activities is responsible for students' involvement in criminal activities.

   Rashed Khan Menon, a current lawmaker of the country and a leader of the Bangladesh Chhatra Union group named after him, observed that the scenario of student politics has changed immensely after 1990. 'Terrorism, corruption and criminalisation has crept into student politics in absence of hall unions and central union elections in the educational institutions,' he said.

   Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) general secretary, Mujahidul Islam Selim, who was also a student movement activist between 1965 and 1972, and was Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) vice-president felt that ongoing student politics is doing less for student welfare.

   'In the name of student politics, sycophancy, tender grabbing, hall grabbing and extortion are presently prevailing,' he said. 'Similar things occurred during our times as well, but we organised ourselves to fight against such bad elements,' he informed.

   'Greed and lack of morality are the main reasons behind this violence,' said Mahmudur Rahman Manna, former DUCSU vice president and Awami League leader. 'It started right after independence through the hijacking of ballot boxes during the DUCSU elections in 1973, the seven murders at DU, and gathered momentum during the martial law regimes of Ziaur Rahman and Ershad,' he added.

   Manbendra Deb, president of Bangladesh Chhatra Union and Rafiqul Islam Shujon, president of Bangladesh Chhatra Maitree, agreed with them.

   'Religious fanatics have already turned Rajshahi, Chittagong University and other educational institutions of the cities into "mini cantonments",' said Manab. 'These activists are dangerously vindictive towards the opponents' ideological activities,' he explained.

   'We need a renaissance to instigate changes in political practices of the students as mainstream political parties continue to patronise unhealthy practices,' Selim, who is

    also the former president of Bangladesh Chhatra Union, added.

   Tofail Ahmed, another renowned student leader and Awami League leader, opines that the absence of the DUCSU elections is taking away bright students from the field of politics.

   'The glorious traditions of student politics have been in decline since the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 which resulted in the military junta assuming power,' says Tofail, former president of the Bangladesh Chhatra League.

   When he was asked about the solution to the problem, he refused to comment anything further.

   Current and former student leaders also echoed with Tofail Ahmed with regards to hall unions and central union elections, in the educational institutions.

   Serajul Islam, meanwhile, is sceptical about the demand for banning student politics in the public universities. 'By banning, the society will get some robots but not concerned students,' he opined.

   'Universities are social organisations and student movements provide the right ingredient required to hold the academic society together. Instead of stopping student movement, people should ponder on how and the ways through which the illegal activities of some leaders can be stopped,' he said.

   'The political parties should impart ideological and moral education to their student wings,' said Manna. 'Strict punishment should be handed down to identified criminals,' he added.

   'I am completely in favour of student politics,' said the vice chancellor of Dhaka University, AAMS Arefin Siddique. While supporting student politics, he mentioned that politics need to be academic or institution based.

   'The ideological linkage will be there between students and politics but not what they are doing now,' he mentioned.

   'If democracy is our goal then we have to make space for student politics as well. Students are the future leaders of our country; if they do not do it then who will?' he asked.

   'Most importantly, student politics has to be de-linked from political parties. Only, current students should be involved in healthy politics,' he said.

   Arefin also agreed that one of the ways out will be by holding the student body elections. 'The Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU) was an extremely powerful institution within the Dhaka University. This, despite being an important wing, has been dismantled for the last 18 to 20 years,' he said.

   'Because of this, student politics has become polluted. Only a current student will know the plight of other students, not ex students or outsiders,' he urged.

   Arefin further agreed that economics plays an important role in student politics. 'In order to secure a space in the hall, a faction of students fall into the trap of dirty politics,' he pointed out.

   He provided the example of how, in exchange of a seat in the hall, students participate in a meeting or a rally. 'Ninety per cent of the students come from outside of Dhaka and hence the logistical support is for them. The money that they get from their parents is low and survival is hard here,' he said.

A history of violence

According to Banglapedia, the book Bangladesher Chhatra Andoloner Itihas (History of students movement in Bangladesh), periodicals of different students' organisation and newspapers in the country, roughly 144 student activists have died since the independence of Bangladesh.
   At least 73 died at Dhaka University, 26 at Rajshahi University, 11 at Chittagong University, eight at Bangladesh Agricultural University, seven at Islamic University (Kushtia), five at Jahangirnagar University, three at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, two at Rajshahi Medical College, one each at BUET, DMC and six BCL leaders who were killed in a brush fire by Shibir activists in Baddarhat, Chittagong in 2000.
   The detail justifies the New York Times identification of the Dhaka University as the 'most violent campus in the world'.
   
   The beginning
   In independent Bangladesh, the first incident of killing in student politics took place in 1974, when BCL activists, under the leadership of then general secretary Shafiul Alam Prodhan, killed seven students of the Mohsin hall, at around 2:00 am on April 4, 1974. The seven murdered were Nazmul Haq Kohinoor, Mohammad Idris, Rezwanul, Syed Masum Ahmed, Basiruddin Ahmmad Jinnah and Abul Hossain.
   
   End of a talent
   Sabekun Nahar Sony, a second year student of chemical engineering of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2002, was shot dead when a stray bullet hit her during a confrontation between two factions of the JCD.
   
   Those who dared to protest
   Moyeen Hossain Raju, a Dhaka University student and an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra Union (BCU) was an active protestor against terrorism on campus. On the evening of March 13, 1992 he was talking to his party comrades when, out of the blue, the student activists of BCL and BCD started firing at each other.
   Instantly, Raju organised a demonstration against terrorism acts on campus. Unfortunately, a bullet pierced through his head and he fell to his death within seconds.
   
   Intra party struggle: BCL style
   After the fall of Hussain Mohammad Ershad, serious conflicts tore the BCL apart into a number of different factions. A prey of this inner party struggle was Moniruzzaman Badal, the organising secretary of BCL. Badal was killed during the clash on January 9, 1992 in front of the Shamsunnahar Hall of DU.
   
   Intra party struggle: JCD style
   It was a rainy day of 2004 when students of the Zahurul Haq hall witnessed the blood of Mahbubul Alam Khokon being washed away into the sewerage line by rain water. Khokon was first beaten by hockey sticks, by activists of a rival faction of JCD, Zahurul Haq unit.
   Finally, to ensure his death, the miscreants stabbed him three times.
   
   Century
   The nation was mortified when reports were published in the dailies about Jasimuddin Manik, general secretary of JU unit BCL, who celebrated his 'century of rape' during his campus life in 1998. He was sacked from the committee in response of a mass student movement on campus.
   In 2003, a sociology student of SUST was raped by Sadi, a Chhatra Dal cadre. When the university authorities rusticated him from the institute, he took revenge by attacking the vice chancellor of the institution.
   
   Guru dakshina
   60-year-old Professor Sayeed Taher Ahmed of the geology and mining department of Rajshahi University was killed by a group of Shibir activists on February 1, 2006.
   Under the leadership of Mahbubul Alam Salehi, president of RU Shibir unit, the Shibir activists killed Taher because of his progressive and liberal-minded ways.
   Taher also left behind work of fighting against illegal activities at the university administration, including the recruitment of 544 employees on 'political consideration'.
   The murder was followed by the killing of professor Mohammad Yunus, an economics department faculty of the same university. It is alleged that this was also carried out by Shibir activists.
   
   In the name of the Almighty
   After changing their name from Islami Chhatra Sangha, a collaborator organisation during the liberation war in 1971, activists of Chhatra Shibir proved their brutality through various incidents in different campuses all over the country. Their trademark move was cutting the arteries of opposition leaders and activists, besides the usual murders and hurling of bombs.
   Students of RU and CU allege that Shibir activists carry out such audacious acts by pronouncing the name of the Almighty.
   Activists of the organisation sprayed gun powder in Nawab Abdul Latif Hall, Syed Amir Ali Hall and Shah Makhdum Hall of RU while chanting Naraye Takbir on March 17 in 1992. They later lit fire to these halls. Shibir activists have killed eight out of the total 12 killings at RU since 1990.
   According to different sources, including newspapers, since 1985 Shibir activists have killed seven students in Chittagong University out of the total 11 murders at the campus, alongside six BCL leaders who were killed in a brush fire by Shibir activists in Baddarhat of Chittagong in 2000.

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[ALOCHONA] FW: Blow to Religion-based Politics in Bangladesh




       A very good summing-up without any frills. 
 
       I would clarify only one thing.  The notorious Fifth Amendment did not include the placement of "Bismillah" in the Preamble of the Consitution.  Therefore the repeal of the Amendment does not by itself remove "Bismillah".  There has to be another Parliamentary gesture to clean up the Constitution of any sign of preference for a particular religion.
 
             Farida Majid 




Blow to Religion-Based Politics in Bangladesh

Friday 05 February 2010

by: J. Sri Raman, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed



Here is some disconcerting news for all disciples of neocon gurus, who had discovered Islam as the enemy of democracy and the successor to the "evil empire" of the cold war era. An Islamic country of 160 million people, under an elected government, is witnessing important but ill-noticed moves to abolish religion-based politics.


On February 2, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh struck down a nearly 11-year-old constitutional amendment that had allowed religion-based political parities to function and flourish in the country. The ruling had the effect of restoring the statutory secularism, which Bangladesh adopted in 1972 after liberation from Pakistan and lost five years later following a series of military coups.


It may also have the effect of inspiring at least a debate on the issues in Pakistan, the other Islamic country of South Asia. It may also have a ripple effect, helping to raise the issues subsequently in sections of the rest of the Islamic world.


This only carries forward an old battle. The logic of Bangladesh's liberation war itself led the nation's founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, to place its linguistic identity above the religious. The reverse of the same logic drove religion-based groups in the the pre-liberation East Pakistan to side with Islamabad in the war.


The first constitution of Bangladesh, under Article 38, placed a bar on religion-based parties and politics. Mujib, as he was popularly known, and most of his family were assassinated in a coup on August 25, 1975. A series of coups since then culminated in the country's takeover by Maj.-Gen. Ziaur Rahman in 1977. In April 1979, the Zia regime enacted the infamous Fifth Amendment to the constitution, paving the way for the return of religion-based parties and politics.


Article 38 of the original constitution proclaimed: "Every citizen shall have the right to form associations or unions, subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interests of morality or public order." But it clearly added: "Provided that no person shall have the right to form, or be a member or otherwise take part in the activities of, any communal or other association or union which in the name or on the basis of any religion has for its object, or pursues, a political purpose."


As revised under the Fifth Amendment, the Article said: "Every citizen shall have the right to form associations or unions, subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interests of public order or public health." The amendment scrapped the original Article 12, which enshrined "secularism" and "freedom of religion" in the supreme law of the land.


Earlier, by a proclamation, the martial law regime made other major changes in the constitution as well. The Preamble to the constitution was preceded by the religious invocation, "Bismillah-ar-Rahman-ar-Rahim" (in the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful). In the text of the Preamble, the words "a historic struggle for national liberation" were replaced with "a historic war for national independence." The phrase mentioning "nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism" as the "high ideals" in the second paragraph was replaced with "absolute trust and faith in Almighty Allah, nationalism, democracy and socialism meaning economic and social justice."


Article 8 of the original constitution - laying down nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism as the four fundamental principles of state policy - was amended to omit "secularism" and replace it with "absolute trust and faith in Almighty Allah." In repeated pronouncements, Zia also substituted "Bangladeshi nationalism" for the "Bengali nationalism" of the Mujib days that stressed a non-religious identity.


Lt.-Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who staged yet another coup and ruled Bangladesh during 1982-86, carried Zia's initiative forward by making Islam the "state religion" through the Eighth Amendment.


The battle between the secular and anti-secular camps continued through all this, and became more open after the country's return to democracy in 1991. The Awami League (AL), headed by Mujib's daughter Sheikh Hasina Wajed, has always fought for abrogation of the Fifth Amendment. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), founded by Zia and now led by his widow Begum Khaleda Zia, and its allies pursuing religion-based politics have remained uncompromising supporters of the amendment.


The AL and its allies scored a legal victory in August 2005, when the country's High Court held the amendment unconstitutional. The court said: "These changes (made by the Fifth Amendment) were fundamental in nature and changed the very basis of our war for liberation and also defaced the constitution altogether." It added that the amendment transformed secular Bangladesh into a "theocratic state" and "betrayed one of the dominant causes for the war of liberation."


The government in Dhaka, then a coalition of the BNP and the religion-based Jamaat-i-Islami (JeI), moved a petition in the Supreme Court against the ruling. The order was stayed and the issue of the amendment was put on the back burner, where it stayed for four years.


Then came a major political change. A year ago, on January 6, 2009, Hasina returned as prime minister after a landslide electoral victory. In early May 2009, the AL government withdrew the old, official petition for staying the 2005 court ruling. The BNP-JeI alliance was quick to react. BNP Secretary General Khondker Delwar Hossain and three lawyers from the JeI rushed to the Supreme Court with petitions seeking to protect the amendment. Their petitions have been thrown out.


The JeI and other religion-based groups did not endear themselves to the country, as the results of the last general election showed, with their violent activities. The serial bombing they carried out across Bangladesh in 2005, taking a heavy toll of human lives, did not help the BNP return to power through the ballot box. The period 2001-06, when the BNP-led alliance wielded power, witnessed "unprecedented" atrocities against religious and ethnic minorities, according to Bangladeshi rights activist Shahriar Kabir. The victims included Hindus, Ahmediyas and other communities and the atrocities ranged from killings and rapes to destruction and desecration of places of worship.


After the Supreme Court's verdict, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed has said that all religion-based parties should "drop the name of Islam from their name and stop using religion during campaigning." He has also announced that religion-based parties are going to be "banned." The government, however, has disavowed any intention to remove the Islamic invocation from the Preamble of the constitution.


All this has already drawn attention in Pakistan, which has continued to suffer from religion-based politics despite its popular rejection in successive elections. Veteran Pakistani columnist Babar Ayaz, in an article captioned "Amendments for a secular constitution" in the Lahore-based Daily Times, talks of the clauses in Pakistan's constitution, introduced by former dictator Zia ul-Haq "who considered himself a kind of religious guardian of the country."


Noting the moves in Bangladesh, Ayaz adds: "Pakistan may not be able to ban religion-based political parties in the near future, but it should move towards expunging the ridiculous constitutional clauses mentioned above ... It would be a long and hard struggle, but it is doable."


Bangladesh is in for a long and hard struggle, too. The BNP has threatened an agitation against the changes. It is likely to combine this with a campaign against India (under whose pressure Hasina is alleged to be acting), and New Delhi can be counted upon to keep providing grist to Khaleda's political mill with Big Brother-like actions widely resented in Bangladesh.


There are also limits to which a constitution alone can counter religion-based politics. The far right's activities in India, proud of its staunchly secular constitution, furnishes just one example.


The significance of what is happening in Bangladesh, however, cannot be belittled either. It demonstrates the far greater role popular will can play in combating religion-based politics than cluster bombs and drones.





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       A very good summing-up without any frills. 
 
       I would clarify only one thing.  The notorious Fifth Amendment did not include the placement of "Bismillah" in the Preamble of the Consitution.  Therefore the repeal of the Amendment does not by itself remove "Bismillah".  There has to be another Parliamentary gesture to clean up the Constitution of any sign of preference for a particular religion.
 
             Farida Majid 




Blow to Religion-Based Politics in Bangladesh

Friday 05 February 2010

by: J. Sri Raman, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed



Here is some disconcerting news for all disciples of neocon gurus, who had discovered Islam as the enemy of democracy and the successor to the "evil empire" of the cold war era. An Islamic country of 160 million people, under an elected government, is witnessing important but ill-noticed moves to abolish religion-based politics.


On February 2, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh struck down a nearly 11-year-old constitutional amendment that had allowed religion-based political parities to function and flourish in the country. The ruling had the effect of restoring the statutory secularism, which Bangladesh adopted in 1972 after liberation from Pakistan and lost five years later following a series of military coups.


It may also have the effect of inspiring at least a debate on the issues in Pakistan, the other Islamic country of South Asia. It may also have a ripple effect, helping to raise the issues subsequently in sections of the rest of the Islamic world.


This only carries forward an old battle. The logic of Bangladesh's liberation war itself led the nation's founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, to place its linguistic identity above the religious. The reverse of the same logic drove religion-based groups in the the pre-liberation East Pakistan to side with Islamabad in the war.


The first constitution of Bangladesh, under Article 38, placed a bar on religion-based parties and politics. Mujib, as he was popularly known, and most of his family were assassinated in a coup on August 25, 1975. A series of coups since then culminated in the country's takeover by Maj.-Gen. Ziaur Rahman in 1977. In April 1979, the Zia regime enacted the infamous Fifth Amendment to the constitution, paving the way for the return of religion-based parties and politics.


Article 38 of the original constitution proclaimed: "Every citizen shall have the right to form associations or unions, subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interests of morality or public order." But it clearly added: "Provided that no person shall have the right to form, or be a member or otherwise take part in the activities of, any communal or other association or union which in the name or on the basis of any religion has for its object, or pursues, a political purpose."


As revised under the Fifth Amendment, the Article said: "Every citizen shall have the right to form associations or unions, subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interests of public order or public health." The amendment scrapped the original Article 12, which enshrined "secularism" and "freedom of religion" in the supreme law of the land.


Earlier, by a proclamation, the martial law regime made other major changes in the constitution as well. The Preamble to the constitution was preceded by the religious invocation, "Bismillah-ar-Rahman-ar-Rahim" (in the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful). In the text of the Preamble, the words "a historic struggle for national liberation" were replaced with "a historic war for national independence." The phrase mentioning "nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism" as the "high ideals" in the second paragraph was replaced with "absolute trust and faith in Almighty Allah, nationalism, democracy and socialism meaning economic and social justice."


Article 8 of the original constitution - laying down nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism as the four fundamental principles of state policy - was amended to omit "secularism" and replace it with "absolute trust and faith in Almighty Allah." In repeated pronouncements, Zia also substituted "Bangladeshi nationalism" for the "Bengali nationalism" of the Mujib days that stressed a non-religious identity.


Lt.-Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who staged yet another coup and ruled Bangladesh during 1982-86, carried Zia's initiative forward by making Islam the "state religion" through the Eighth Amendment.


The battle between the secular and anti-secular camps continued through all this, and became more open after the country's return to democracy in 1991. The Awami League (AL), headed by Mujib's daughter Sheikh Hasina Wajed, has always fought for abrogation of the Fifth Amendment. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), founded by Zia and now led by his widow Begum Khaleda Zia, and its allies pursuing religion-based politics have remained uncompromising supporters of the amendment.


The AL and its allies scored a legal victory in August 2005, when the country's High Court held the amendment unconstitutional. The court said: "These changes (made by the Fifth Amendment) were fundamental in nature and changed the very basis of our war for liberation and also defaced the constitution altogether." It added that the amendment transformed secular Bangladesh into a "theocratic state" and "betrayed one of the dominant causes for the war of liberation."


The government in Dhaka, then a coalition of the BNP and the religion-based Jamaat-i-Islami (JeI), moved a petition in the Supreme Court against the ruling. The order was stayed and the issue of the amendment was put on the back burner, where it stayed for four years.


Then came a major political change. A year ago, on January 6, 2009, Hasina returned as prime minister after a landslide electoral victory. In early May 2009, the AL government withdrew the old, official petition for staying the 2005 court ruling. The BNP-JeI alliance was quick to react. BNP Secretary General Khondker Delwar Hossain and three lawyers from the JeI rushed to the Supreme Court with petitions seeking to protect the amendment. Their petitions have been thrown out.


The JeI and other religion-based groups did not endear themselves to the country, as the results of the last general election showed, with their violent activities. The serial bombing they carried out across Bangladesh in 2005, taking a heavy toll of human lives, did not help the BNP return to power through the ballot box. The period 2001-06, when the BNP-led alliance wielded power, witnessed "unprecedented" atrocities against religious and ethnic minorities, according to Bangladeshi rights activist Shahriar Kabir. The victims included Hindus, Ahmediyas and other communities and the atrocities ranged from killings and rapes to destruction and desecration of places of worship.


After the Supreme Court's verdict, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed has said that all religion-based parties should "drop the name of Islam from their name and stop using religion during campaigning." He has also announced that religion-based parties are going to be "banned." The government, however, has disavowed any intention to remove the Islamic invocation from the Preamble of the constitution.


All this has already drawn attention in Pakistan, which has continued to suffer from religion-based politics despite its popular rejection in successive elections. Veteran Pakistani columnist Babar Ayaz, in an article captioned "Amendments for a secular constitution" in the Lahore-based Daily Times, talks of the clauses in Pakistan's constitution, introduced by former dictator Zia ul-Haq "who considered himself a kind of religious guardian of the country."


Noting the moves in Bangladesh, Ayaz adds: "Pakistan may not be able to ban religion-based political parties in the near future, but it should move towards expunging the ridiculous constitutional clauses mentioned above ... It would be a long and hard struggle, but it is doable."


Bangladesh is in for a long and hard struggle, too. The BNP has threatened an agitation against the changes. It is likely to combine this with a campaign against India (under whose pressure Hasina is alleged to be acting), and New Delhi can be counted upon to keep providing grist to Khaleda's political mill with Big Brother-like actions widely resented in Bangladesh.


There are also limits to which a constitution alone can counter religion-based politics. The far right's activities in India, proud of its staunchly secular constitution, furnishes just one example.


The significance of what is happening in Bangladesh, however, cannot be belittled either. It demonstrates the far greater role popular will can play in combating religion-based politics than cluster bombs and drones.





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Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Fourteen years of Farakka Barrage:Mighty Padma turns into desert



Dear Ejaz

So what are you proposing we do. Launch a massive commando raid and blow up Farrakka. Please advise!!! Will that succeed. Why was it tried earlier. In the 60s when Farkka was proposed or by so called govts led by "good guys".

 

Ejaz you are stuck in the rut of your "politician is the end all of all problems" analysis. We know that is part of the problem nobody is denying but that is not all.

 

Where is their replacement going to from? Who are they? Are they really apolitical good guys? Is there such an animal anywhere. If there are will they be accepted? What is the means? is than acceptable mean given the reallities on the ground and time and period we are living in.

 

Unless you spell it out your repeated sloganeering just sounds like a harangue. More in line with the Goebbelsian Isha and some of his cohorts who essentially cyber nihilists. And its really getting old and stale!

 

Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: ezajur
Sent: Feb 11, 2010 12:37 AM
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Fourteen years of Farakka Barrage:Mighty Padma turns into desert

 

India isn't complaining. Why should we?

After all India helped us in 1971. India'r shathe amra parbo na ki?

And so if we lose the Padma its okay. Its realpolitik Deshi style.

If India attacked us half of us would refuse to fight because India helped us in 1971 and India'r shathe parajabena. Nationalism is about walking barefoot once a year and having wet dreams about singing on stage.

We are losing the damn Padma. And no one gives a damn.

Just big talk about history.

Our nation conducts its affairs as a eunuch tries to make babies.

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, bdmailer <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *Fourteen years of Farakka Barrage:Mighty Padma turns into desert*
>
> The ecological balance of the northwestern and eastern region has already
> been destroyed and all related sectors like the agriculture, environment,
> underground water level, weather and biodiversity are being ruined
>
> The once-mighty Padma that flows through the northwestern and eastern parts
> of Bangladesh has turned into a virtual desert over the last 14 years as a
> result of the treaty regarding the death trap Farakka. Padma appears to be
> in the throes of death with massive chars (sandbars) forming at regular
> intervals. Drastic fall in groundwater level, heavy deposition of silt,
> emergence of numerous shoals and erosion has posed as a serious threat to
> the overall ecological balance of the northern region.
>
> The major rivers such as the Padma, Mahananda and Teesta have almost dried
> up over the years as consequences of the barrages built upstream across the
> border. The ecological balance of northwestern and eastern region has
> already been destroyed and all related sectors like the agriculture,
> environment, underground water level, weather, biodiversity are being
> rapidly ruined.
>
> In this regard, not only Rajshahi and Paksey are endangered, bordering
> districts like Kushtia, Natore, Bogra and Sirajganj are also at risk. The
> rivers and tributaries passing through these districts have lost their past
> glory because normal water flow to Bangladesh is being obstructed beyond the
> border.
>
> The ecological balance is endangered following unilateral withdrawal of
> water from the river Padma by India at Farakka. The subterranean water level
> has gone by 80 to 90 feet and if the trend continues, the flora and fauna
> will be totally destroyed. This is a clear process of desertification.
>
> *Affect on the sister rivers north and west*
>
> The water level of Padma at Rajshahi and Paksey points is below all time
> past records. Many sweet water fish have already disappeared because the
> climate of Rajshahi has taken on a desert effect.
>
> Rivers, tributaries, canals, marshes and other water bodies are drying up,
> sand dunes stretch endlessly. In the past, the torrent Padma and the
> Mahananda was so strong that the sound of the water dashing against the
> pillars of Hardinge Bridge were heard from half a mile away. But nowadays
> the bridge spans expanses of sand during the lean period.
>
> Over eight lakh acres of arable land have been rendered barren in last two
> decades. Unilateral withdrawal of water through the Farakka Barrage has
> reduced the mighty Padma to a few narrow canals in Chapainawabganj, Rajshahi
> and Pabna.
>
> The river has almost dried up now at all points and its bed under the Paksey
> Railway Bridge at Iswardi upazila of Pabna has now become cultivable land.
> The Mahananda in Panchagarh has almost dried up due to unilateral water
> withdrawal through the Mahananda Barrage in the upper catchment area.
>
> There is almost only sand in the bed of the Teesta at Lalmonirhat,
> Nilphamari, Kurigram and Gaibandha. The unilateral withdrawal of water
> through the Gozaldoba Barrage upstream has made the entire downstream area
> of the Teesta Barrage a barren land. Choto Jamuna, Karotoa, Jamuneswari,
> Tulshiganga, Ghaghot, Fakirni, Saniajan, Buri Teesta, Gingirum, Sonavori,
> Fulkumar and some other 20 smaller rivers and tributaries in the region have
> dried up for the same reason.
>
> River Dharla has now water channels of up to only 10 metres in width, with a
> maximum depth of only one metre in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram. The numerous
> shoals in the bed of the Brahmaputra have divided the mighty river into four
> to seven smaller channels with a trickling water flow in Kurigram. Officials
> and experts express serious concern over the prevailing condition of these
> major rivers.
>
> *Decreasing water of Padma*
>
> According to the Water Development Board, the water of Padma has not crossed
> danger level after 2003. The danger level of Padma water is 18.50 meters. It
> was last 18.85 meters on September 19, 2003. The highest water level of
> Padma was 17.48 meters in 2004.
>
> Farakka Dam is 6 km from the Rajshahi border. Indian control on the
> distribution of Padma's waters is the main cause of northern regional
> climate change, sources complain.
>
> According to sources in Bangladesh Water Development Board in Rajshahi, the
> water level of the river Padma started to decrease seriously from
> mid-September 2008. On September 15 the water level near Rampur-Boalia point
> was 17.8 meters but on September 26 the water level fell to 15.74 meters, on
> October 15 the level stood at 15.39 meters and on October 31 the level
> reduced to 13.39 meters. On October 31, 2008 the level was 13.92 meters. In
> November 31 it saw an alarming fall to 11.36 meters. This dipped to 9.65
> meters during the first week of January 2009. BWDB officials apprehend the
> water level of Padma might go below 7 meters during the peak dry season if
> the withdrawal of water through Farakka continues at the present rate.
>
> According to the 30-year water sharing treaty with India, the dry season
> starts from January 1. According to the treaty Bangladesh was supposed to
> receive 67,516 cusecs of water during the first ten days of January 2009 but
> only 55,883 cusec of water was released through Farakka. Bangladesh received
> 11,633 cusecs less water. This was not done only this year, but for the last
> ten years or so. The issue has been raised several times at the meetings of
> Joint River Commission but in vain.
>
> *Drastic affect on agriculture*
>
> Many tubewells of Rajshahi city areas and adjacent to the river Padma have
> dried up due to a receding water level. Hundreds of shallow tube wells used
> for irrigating crop lands are in the same state. Farmers of Barind
> Irrigation Project apprehend that the deep tube wells being used for
> irrigation might fail to bring up sufficient water. This is a threat to
> agriculture during the dry period.
>
> Fisheries at the Padma are threatened with the extinction of hundreds of
> species of sweet water fish, sources of Fisheries Department in Rajshahi
> say.
>
> Experts predict that the major irrigation project, Kapatakkhya Irrigation
> Project, might face closure and the region might face disaster if the river
> could not be restored to its usual shape. Marine researchers say the
> groundwater table has been on a sharp downward bend in recent times which
> might be the result of dwindling water flow of Padma.
>
> Availability of the sweet water fish has reduced drastically with almost
> extinction of dozens of species in the past two decades. "We have no control
> over the floods, river erosion and situation of river beds now in the region
> as the neighboring nation is withdrawing common river waters unilaterally
> causing drying up of our all rivers," experts in WDB and DAE told PROBE
> recently.
>
> *Sufferings of the char people*
>
> People living beside the river Padma near Rajshahi said, due to drastic fall
> in water level, the river routes remain totally suspended. Some five million
> people living at the char villages of Godagari, Paba, Bagha, Charghat
> upazilas of Rajshahi and Bholahat of Chapainawabganj district face great
> difficulties in travel and communication with the main land. Some have even
> to traverse more than ten kilometers through sand dunes, chars and shallow
> water to reach the district headquarters. This is catastrophic for patients
> and during other emergencies.
>
> *Heritage of Padma*
>
> The Padma is the mainstream of Ganges which originates in the Himalayas.
> Padma enters Bangladesh from India through Chapainawabganj. It meets Jamuna
> near Aricha and retains its name, but finally meets Meghna near Chandpur and
> adopts the name 'Meghna' before flowing into the Bay of Bengal. Its maximum
> depth was 1,571 feet (479 m) and average depth was 968 feet (295 m).
>
> The people of the region are extremely concerned about the prevailing
> situation and call upon the authorities to take effective measures before
> the rivers really disappear and the land becomes a desert.
> http://probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?ind...;contentId=5768<http://probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5768>
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Re: [ALOCHONA] Drunken driving, unlicensed gun and Joy



Thanks to Isha Khan for disseminating following article to us. Every Bangladeshi should read this. Anis Ahmed
 
----- Original Message -----
 
From: Isha Khan

Drunken driving, unlicensed gun and Joy

Joy, son of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, has been arrested for drunken driving on several occasions, was in possession on an unlicensed gun and guilty of a host of other misdeeds

When Sajib Wazed Joy, son of Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, returned to Bangladesh after many years abroad, the massive reception organized for him at the airport reflected his mother?s wish that he be her successor in politics. But was he cut out for the tough task of a political career? It doesn?t seem so. He seems quite happy with his cushy life in the United States, notwithstanding his several scrapes with the law and other shady tales.

Going back

Joy has hardly much childhood association with Bangladesh. His mother lived a life in exile since August 1975, spending a long asylum in India under the patronage of the Indian government. She would live at Basant Bahar, the safe house run by the agencies there.

As a result, Joy had his early education in India where he spent much of his formative years. They may have returned to Bangladesh in 1981, but there was a sense of isolation from normal family life for Joy. This was only to be expected, given his boarding school years, the intense political activities of his mother, all compounded with the estrangement of his parents.

Persons who knew him then say he was a rather reckless youth. Even later, he reportedly met with an accident in Gulshan in the mid-nineties, totaling the Pajero jeep of a businessman of Narayanganj. Rather than keeping him in Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina sent her son to the US for further studies. She perhaps felt that would give him some stability, a sense of responsibility.

Reckless driving

Life in the USA didn?t seem to change Joy much. That reckless trait in his character showed itself time and again. Records show several cases were filed against him. He has been charged on various occasions with drunken driving, speeding, reckless driving, unlawful use of radar detection device, and even carrying an unlicensed gun. He even had to spend time in jail for his misdemeanours, not to mention all the fines he had to pay too. If Hasina had political aspirations for him, she couldn?t have chosen a more unsuitable candidate.

As it is, he had a basically apolitical character. He disliked the gathering of poor people at home and expressed a distinct disinterest in politics. He often snubbed persons who, out of affection or simple curiousity, came to meet Sheikh Mujib?s grandson.

He continued his fast life in the US as he had no sense of belonging with Bangladesh, no affinity to his mother?s party and had no intention of living with his dysfunctional family at home. In was no secret that there was no love lost between Sheikh Hasina and husband Wazed Miah.

Clouds over love and marriage

During his mother's tenure as Bangladesh?s Prime Minister (1996-2001), Joy reportedly got engaged with an old girlfriend from his school days. She was an Indian girl of Sikh religion. Hasina, taking cover of an official visit, went to London to formalize the marriage. Along with the barat of close friends and relations, she even took along cooks of Dhaka?s famous Fakhruddin bawarchi. Her one condition was that the girl convert to Islam. The girl refused. Hasina was more than upset. She reportedly cancelled all programmes on that day. She shut herself up in her hotel room the whole day, refusing to talk to any one. She immediately returned to Dhaka. The marriage reception never took place, and her entourage, cooks and all, returned home without the taste of biriyani in their mouths.

Joy is presently married to American citizen Kristine Ann Overmire a.k.a. Kristine Wazed. They were married in the US on October 26, 2002. Kristine may have been previously married to a certain Richard D Loomis. There were rumours that Joy and Kristine were on the verge of a divorce, but if there had been a separation, things have apparently been patched up, perhaps with the birth of their child.

Informal entry into politics

Joy's arrival in Dhaka and grand reception by young cadres of the party at the airport, and the several subsequent meetings at Sudha Sadan, heralded his informal entry into politics. It is not clear how serious he actually was about politics. He may have just been out to impress his newly-wed American bride. Or he may have just been pacifying his mother who had big plans for her prodigal son.

It was clear that Sheikh Hasina wanted him to be her successor, but Sheikh Rehana had her reservations in this regard. This fact was brought home further by an article in the magazine Bichitra, owned by Hasina?s sister Sheikh Rehana. The article was vehemently opposed to the idea of Joy?s entrance into politics.

The matter of Joy?s political induction was made clear again by the visiting card he had printed. His designation was shown as Advisor to the Prime Minister. He would use the card in his meetings and dealings in the US.

Interestingly, after the grenade attack on August 21, 2004, Joy?s statement was published in the official Awami League website with special prominence. The website normally only carried news, analyses and statements of Sheikh Hasina. At times it would have statements of senior party leaders like Abdul Jalil or Zillur Rahman at the most. But then suddenly it began posting Joy?s statements prominently.

Power breeds money

When Awami League came to power and his mother became ruler of the country, Joy got involved in business. There was the Texas-based Infolink International (from November 1998 to March 2001) and Nova BD International, LLC (May 1998 to August 2000).  He had links with the SEAMEWE-4 undersea cable project through Nova BD International. He was also involved with Tyco Communications (USA) along with a certain Mahboob Rahman.

He also founded two other companies, Wazed Consulting and Sim Global Services in March 2005. This was after Awami League was out of power. Interestingly, the annual sales of these two companies were only 61,000 dollars and 35,000 dollars respectively. Yet Joy, in his own name, bought a brand new house at 3817 Bell Manor Court, Falls Church, Virginia, on May 12, 2006, worth about one million dollars. His wife is not a co-owner of the house. He used a fixed-rate mortgage and paid only about 200 thousand dollars (20 percent of the value) in cash. This was a clever move as it hid the real value of the property in terms of cash.

Earlier, together with his wife, he brought another property at 4823 Martin Street, Alexandria, VA 22312. The property is worth 749,000 dollars.

Business, not as usual

Like Joy, his brother-in-law Khandkar M Hossain, husband of sister Saima Wazed Hossain (Putul), started a few businesses in the US when his mother-in-law Sheikh Hasina came to power, but dissolved them after a couple of years. These businesses included Bangladesh Metals and Pipes Trading Corporation; Shonali Inc; Doug?s Wholesale Inc; Afsana Inc; and Jampy Corporation.

Apparently business was not quite the cup of tea for either of them. However, despite none of the businesses seeming to make any money and most of them being shut down before long, no one has ever heard of them suffering from financial difficulties. Perhaps mother?s affection helped them in this regard.

A reluctant successor

It was more than apparent to senior and mid-level leaders of Awami League in the mid-nineties that Sheikh Hasina to all intentions and purposes was intent on grooming Joy as he successor. Sheikh Rehana, Sheikh Selim and other in the family were no comfortable with this.

The Awami League leaders were noting with alarm that the post-2001 scene witnesses a gradual infiltration of newcomers into the membership of Hasina?s kitchen cabinet. Kazi Zafrullah, Saber Hossain Chowdhury, Abul Hossain, Salman F Rahman and a number of former bureaucrats were gradually entering the hallowed circle of Hasina?s favoured ones, pushing the old-timer ?uncles? out of the way. Only Abdul Jalil and Zillur Rahman, together with half-baked politicians like Obaidul Kader, were allowed to come into prominence. Thanks to the pro-Awami League media who were friendly with the ?uncles?, the seniors managed to maintain some semblance of political visibility.

Sheikh Hasina is going through critical times. In all likelihood she will have to relinquish her leadership of Awami League. At this juncture, given South Asian political trends, it would have only been natural for Joy to step into his mother?s shoes. Now, however, that does not seem likely. His background and records hardly present him as leadership material, particularly when reforms are the call of the day. The party leaders will not accept him. After all, his propensity for joy rides seems to outweigh his penchant for politics.

Arrests and criminal charges

Criminal court clerk records identify the following criminal charges and arrests of Sajib Wazed Joy:

On June 14 1998, Joy was arrested in Tarrant County, Texas. He was charged on two counts of carrying an unlicensed handgun and one count of driving while intoxicated. He was convicted for drunken driving and was imprisoned for 120 days, sentenced to 24 months of probation and fined $500.

On February 6, 2000, Joy was charged with reckless driving and having a radar detector in Hanover County, Virginia. He was fined and incarcerated for one day.

On March 19, 2000, he was arrested and charged with reckless driving in Fairfax County, Virginia. He was found guilty and given a suspended 30-day jail sentence and 12 months probation along with a $400 fine.

On April 29, 2001, Joy was charged with speeding in Rappahannock County, Virginia.

On May 20, 2004, Joy was charged with speeding in Arlington County, Virginia.

Putul's property

Saima Wazed Hossain (Putul), Sheikh Hasina?s daughter and Joy?s younger sister, along with husband Khandakar Mahbub Hossain, own considerable property in the US. The houses they purchased there include:

456 North Bay Point Way, Jacksonville, Florida. This is a single family residence purchased by Saima and husband Hossain on November 1, 2005 for $245,000 from Merrill and Priscilla King.

845 York Way, Maitland, Florida. This is also a single family residence purchased by Saima and Hossain on October 16, 2004, for $311,000 from David and Elizabeth Cocchiarella. The property has an assessed value of $208,844.

2065 W 119th Avenue, Miramar, Florida. This single family residence was purchased by Saima and Hossain on October 28, 1998 for $154,300 from Pulte Home Corporation. On March 15, 2005, a non-purchase money loan of $197,000, was obtained from SunTrust Bank secured with this property. The property has an assessed value of $265,440.
 



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[ALOCHONA] Re: [notun_bangladesh] DAILY STAR EDITORIAL,SHIBIR ACTIVISTS IN BCL/ SATIRE: Hasina Ashraf Dialogue, "we found the enemy!"



Friends

The recent utterances of the only Soiiiiod in BAL family n the world best netri is again n again proving that the BAAAAAAAAAAL n Kuttta Jibis n the reveared media icon moooooooofoooooj  anuuuuuum n gong either have lost total senses or must be afraid at the upcoming "Janatar Rosh" due to the cruel misrule causing the nation to pay heavily by just one year of their sonar(penis) rule.

They now do not understand that patriot except the paa chata kutta jibis n media whores that people are geeting impatient at the lies  after lies n wants them to behave n also wants them to divorce the HINDUS( their mentors) of Opar n be Bangladeshi n implement the sweet dreams that their imposed Dad has dreamt as claimed by the Huakka Hua Khekh Shial day in n day out.

Have they forgotten that the bestial Ayub( ally of their Dad) could not stick to the power even he had the military might within his grip. So   the case was with the JANWAR Yaahia ???? It appears in fact that they have ?????????
The fascist BASKSAL could not stand the " Janatar Rosh" for long n the people drove the imposers of "DEMOCRAZY" n reinstated MULTI PARTY DEMOCRACY n resptored people freedom of speech/freedom of politics n the HR was sowed again.

So, friends, how much these liers/imposters n agents of HINDUS of opar beats drum of lies like goebbles it will not enter the ears of the people. The people must be vigilant on the activities of the anti Bangladesh HINDU   STAAANI  agents in guise of politics/Kutta jibis/ media icons etc etc.


BANGLDESH  ZINDABAD

ZINDABAD  BANGLADESH ZINDABAD
Let the heroic sacrifice of the Martyrs remain ever glowing in the "Akash Batash Nodi Prantor" of BANGLADSH for ever n ever

n the LAL  SABUJ  PATAKA fly high with right dignity n honour.


Faruque Alamgir

 



On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, abid bahar <abidbahar@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

SATIRE: Hasina Ashraf Dialogue, "we found the enemy!"
Abid Bahar
 
(Breakfast time, Padma Bhavon, Dhaka)
Ashraf: Netri, Netri, I have a startling news, breaking news for you. Oh my goodness, I found out who is causing all the trouble for us.
Hasina: Tell me, tell me?Breakfast time, breaking news, good, good!
Ashraf: The trouble makers in the SL are the Jamatis!
Hasina: Really?I believe you! My father Bangabandhu was such an honest person he through his sincerity founded the AL/SL party. SL couldn't be dishonest!They even proudly call themselves as "Mujiber Chelara."
Ashraf: Oho Ohh, Netri, SL ok, but is n't it Bhasani who founded the AL party?
Hasina: Stop saying that. I hate you. I hate you, I hate you. Go away! Bangabandhu did every goodthing in the world, don't you know?
Ashraf: Netri, netri, I found out, even Mostaque was a Jamat! Wasn't he?
Hasina: Yes, yes.
Ashraf: It is not the first time, Bangabandhu said and I remember clearly "everybody whoever was not with the AL/ BKSAL got to be a Jamat/ Razakar."
Hasina: You are right! We keep forgeting the the father of the nation's omer bani!
Ashraf: The biggest Jamat and razakar was Ziaur Rahman, wasn't he?.
Hasina: I agree, that is why I have asked the judges to revoke the Fifth Amendment! and to confiscate books that says Zia declared independence.
Ashraf: The first man that found it out was me
Hasina: No it was was Mahfuz of the daily Star guy.
Ashraf: Him too, he is a good guy!
Hasina: He is my great protector in disguise!
Ashraf: Netri, Netri, I know! I have to tell you something. I remember when you were a student Motia was fighting with you by pulling your hair. Remember? She must be a Jamat
Hasina: She was a Moni Singh Communist but who knows she could be a Jamat also!
I still feel the pain from the pull  Moha Sankot! Oh God, she could be a Jamat! Find out!
Ashraf: I found the enemy, the enemy is within.
Hasina:Go away, go away!
(Ashraf leaves and says to himself, what about my wife who is from India. Sometimes she fight with me, she must be a Jamat too!If she fights with me again I will tell the Netri, Ha ha ha!!!
Joy, Bangla, Joy Bangabandhu!!!!
_______________________
Editorial
Shibir activists in BCL!
 
What has the AL been doing then?

Awami League general secretary, Syed Ashraful Islam, has come up with the startling revelation that none other than the Shibir followers have infiltrated deep into the BCL's top ranks and are responsible for the ongoing violence in the educational institutions. At the same time, leaders of the 14-party alliance have expressed their concern over the BCL activities characterised by some morally and legally indefensible pursuits. We are left wondering as to where does the truth lie! While we appreciate the candour, we are patently alarmed by the contents of the statements, particularly that of Ashraful Islam.
The AL general secretary has announced what sounds like an expedient dodging of responsibility: the BCL is no longer the student wing of the AL, in an apparent reference to the RPO provision that does not allow for associate bodies of political parties. However, the widely held view on the issue is that the 'estrangement' of the BCL from the ruling party, as claimed, is more a reflection of distancing from what is now considered a liability by the AL. At best, it is an absurd public posturing with a manifest abdication of responsibility towards the BCL! At worst, it amounts to disowning the activities of the young followers of the party who reportedly have patrons among its leaders.
Nevertheless, the claim of Shibir infiltration will give rise to some pertinent questions. Is the BCL's defense mechanism so loose and so poorly supervised that known Shibir elements could make inroads into its heart so easily? Obviously, it is not enough to call the undesirable elements infiltrators. The claim has to be substantiated with solid evidence and even if it is found to be true, it has to be explained how the Shibir supporters could accomplish such a feat! Furthermore, their collaborators within the BCL need to be weeded out if the statement is true.
All this is incredible. The question now is what have the AL leaders been doing all this time when the BCL got infected by a Shibir malcontent. Leaving the job of purging the bad fellows to the BCL if Ashraful's allegation is to be accepted is a clear-cut shirking of responsibilities that belong to the AL, more so because of its having allowed a free rein to the BCL. The attempt to divert attention from core responsibility of the ruling party and to dismiss everything by putting forward disingenuous arguments can indeed be counter-productive. Worse still, it can erode authority of the government, which will be a heavier price to pay.
 
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