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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

[ALOCHONA] Election pledge: Low priced rice !



Election pledge: Low priced rice !
 
 
 
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] For God's sake why...?How can 'renaming' be a priority for any govt?



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People of Bangladesh gave Sheikh Hasina the best gift possible in a democracy--a massive electoral victory of four-fifths majority in parliament. The young voters became enthused hearing of her "Digital Bangladesh". The professionals, civil society and the intellectual community in general suddenly found something to hope for when the Awami League chief proposed a "Politics of Change"(Din Badaler Rajniti). All this resulted in one of the biggest electoral victories, in December 2008, for any political party in recent history. Even after a year of her being in power, Sheikh Hasina was able to retain much of her support as was revealed by our recent opinion poll.

But just as her electoral victory was grand, her decision to change Zia International Airport's name and remove the former President's name from most public buildings was small, mean and vindictive. Yes, we recall how Khaleda Zia's government changed the name of Bangabandhu Bridge (renamed Jamuna Bridge), Bangabandhu Conference Centre (renamed Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre) and even tried to do the same with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University till better sense prevailed. We also remember that after the assassination of Bangabandhu in August 1975 till the coming of power of Awami League in 1996, over 21 years a relentless and state supported effort was on to eliminate the country's founder's name from our history. That attempt totally failed. Why? Because political decisions cannot take away the place history grants a leader. History has a way of stamping its own judgments in the long run, that political machinations of the day try to change in the short run. And then, did we vote to change all that? Didn't our PM promise "Din Badaler Rajniti"?

Haven't we learnt that this "name game" is ephemeral and lasts only as long as the regime? With every change of government the names are replaced just as quickly as they were given in the first place. Haven't we also learnt that this is no way of showing respect to our departed leaders but only reducing them to playthings of present day politics? Haven't we learnt that such behaviour only makes us a laughing stock of the world and brings insult to the very leaders we are trying to honour?

Along with the "name game" we now have "is-there-a-body-in-the-grave" game. How can this be in any way a priority for the people of Bangladesh today? How does it, any way, improve our governance, fight the rising corruption and calm the campuses that are becoming increasingly violent? Then again why is this question being raised in the first place? Have any facts been uncovered that lead to such questions? If so, what are those facts? Share them with the public so that we can see some reason, however remote, as to why no less a person than the PM felt the need to raise this question on the floor of no less a place than the parliament.

Pending that we are forced to conclude that it was totally unbefitting, fundamentally unbecoming and basically wrong of the Prime Minister to question whether Ziaur Rahman's grave actually contains his body.

This paper's historic position has been to oppose any boycott of parliament by the opposition. In this spirit we wrote numerous editorials, urging the present opposition to shun their destructive path of boycotting parliament and rejoin the House and raise all relevant national issues there. After having wasted almost a year Khaleda Zia and her MPs along with her allies are finally back. Not that they are doing the nation any favour (they should have been there all along), yet we think that it is a welcome move and everything should be done to keep them there.

However, instead of showing the maturity, magnanimity and sagacity of an alliance that controls four-fifths membership of parliament and of a party that by itself has two-thirds majority, the ruling AL is showing a destructive streak that is making parliament more a place of abuse rather than a place of debate. Our opposition is far from being a saint. Their demand for more front row seats, withdrawal of cases against Khaleda Zia and her sons, assurances that nothing will be done about her cantonment residence, etc cannot be accepted as their preconditions for participating in parliament. That they should do simply because they pledged to represent their constituencies when they sought people's votes.

Having said all that we are constrained to comment that the treasury bench seems to be deliberately provoking the opposition to desist from attending the House and are creating unnecessary and irrelevant controversies so that our quick-on-the-foot opposition goes for a boycott.

We would like to point out to the Prime Minister that to build her "Digital Bangladesh" she needs political peace. Pushing the opposition towards mass agitation, however futile and ineffective it may appear to her analysts, cannot be good for her government. If we analyse the opposition politics from 1991 onwards, it becomes clear that a small number of committed agitators can cause enough disturbance to disrupt the smooth functioning of any government. Huge demonstration of mass outpouring is not necessary to create an image of the government's weakening position. Disruption at a select number of city points over a period of time has been seen in the past to be enough to create unfavourable public opinion against the government of the day. BNP and Jamaat together have that many committed agitators.

It is our view that a sense of over-confidence appears to be permeating the thinking of the ruling party leaders. It is such over-confidence that has led them to open too many political and legal fronts without effectively resolving any. It is such over-confidence that makes them feel nonchalant while student league members openly indulge in gunfights causing death to innocent students, and participate in corrupt activities disregarding the PM's repeated warnings. It is again such over-confidence that has led them to be so reckless, verging on being disdainful, in handling the elected members of the local bodies who have been made to sit idle for the last one year though they have all been duly elected in their local constituencies.

Why are we being led towards a political confrontation which appeared eminently avoidable just the other day? Whose interest will such confrontation serve? Not Sheikh Hasina's government's. That is for sure.

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[ALOCHONA] Bt Brinjal: India halts, Bangladesh moves ahead?



Bt Brinjal: India halts, Bangladesh moves ahead?
 
Farida Akhter
 
On 10th February, 2010 the State Minister for Science Yeafesh Osman tabled the “National Institute of Biotechnology Bill-2010″ in the National Parliament in Bangladesh. (http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=153348&cid=2). The National Institute of Biotechnology is going to be an authority to set standards for highly controversial genetically modified (GM) foods and crops in Bangladesh. Four other bills seeking to enact laws for growth and development of hi-tech based industries in a “planned way and innovation of sustainable and environment-friendly technologies in agriculture, environment, medicine and industries” as described by the state minister were sent to the parliamentary standing committee on science and ICT ministry for scrutiny and to submit reports. The parliamentary body has only 21 days to finalise its recommendations on the five bills.

The rationale of the bill on biotechnology, according to the state minister, is to set up a national institute of biotechnology to ensure Bangladesh’s socio-economic development through usage of biotechnology. The proposed national institute will be run by an 18-member board of directors led by the science and ICT secretary. That is, it will be actually run by the bureaucrats and given the reality of Bangladesh, it implies absence of public participation in decision-making process.

Potential negative impact of the introduction of the GM food crops in agriculture is of serious concern in Bangladesh, more so, because the country is one of the sites of origin of global biodiversity. The stake for biodiversity and the livelihood of millions of farmers is enormous. If the threat of biological pollution is added to already threatened environment, ecology and biodiversity caused by chemical and pesticide based agriculture with extraction of groundwater, introduction of genetically modified crop could be disastrous. GMOs are not the solution to lack of organic matter in the soil and the stagnant productivity of the so called ‘modern’ or HYV varities, reported in studies conducted by mainstream institutions including the World Bank. Bangladesh requires a reversal of policies to safeguard whatever is left: the immense potential of the confluence of water, soil, greenery, traditional knowledge and generational practices of farming communities.

A democratically elected government tabling such a controversial bill is unexpected, particularly in the absence of the opposition. It is all the more alarming to see that there was no consultation held outside the parliament with the relevant environmental groups and, most importantly, even with any representative from farming communities. Having two-thirds majority in the parliament, the grand alliance government will have no difficulty in passing the bill but only prove that a brute majority in parliament may prove disastrous for a country; Bangladesh is already vulnerable to environmental and ecological disasters, and threats of climate change is already looming. The democratic attitude of the government is conspicuously lacking here, particularly towards the farmers. It is not known whether the parliamentary standing committee will hold any public consultation within the 21 days to finalise its recommendations. So far, no such effort has been visible.

The introduction of the bill in Bangladesh parliament coincided with the scheduled announcement in India of the Bt Brinjal verdict on Feb 10. The Indian government had declared its verdict a day before following severe opposition from states, farmers and environmental groups, and halted its plans to allow commercial cultivation of the first genetically modified eggplant or Bt Brinjal. The Indian environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, announced imposition of the “moratorium on the release” of Bt Brinjal till the time when “independent scientific studies establish, to the satisfaction of both the public and professionals, the safety of the product from the point of view of its long-term impact on human health and environment.” Unfortunately, such consultations are not held in Bangladesh, yet a law is being enacted to enable GM crops to be grown in Bangladesh. This raises serious questions for environmentalists and those opposing the release of GM food and crops in Bangladesh as well as in India. Why did Bangladesh have to take this initiative at a time when India had decided on the moratorium? Is this merely a coincidence or a plan to help Bt Brinjal continue with its commercial release?

Concerns were also expressed in the Indian media that the ‘environment ministry’s moratorium on the commercial release of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Brinjal in India is unlikely to keep the genetically modified crop out of Indian kitchens. “It may creep in via Bangladesh and Philippines,” according to A R Reddy, co-chair of Genetic Engineering Approval (now Appraisal) Committee (GEAC) that approved the vegetable for commercial use (Business Standard, Feb 14, 2010). According to A R Reddy, Bangladesh and the Philippines were in an advanced stage of releasing Bt Brinjal in their respective countries. Once that happened, it would be tough for the government to keep an eye on the movement of seeds. The tabling of the “National Institute of Biotechnology Bill-2010″ in the parliament immediately after the moratorium in India proves this concern to be true. Gravely risking biological pollution and health of human beings and other animal life Bt Brinjal will be cultivated in Bangladesh in order to provide opportunity for GMO companies to make money against the interest of the farmers of Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is a target country for Bt Brinjal under the Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II (ABSP II) and the ‘Monsanto technology’ – a joint venture with Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company (Mahyco) and its collaboration with the private seed company East West Seeds in Bangladesh. Mahyco is transferring the technology and basic breeding material of Bt Brinjal to two Indian public sector institutions (PSIs), the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore (TNAU) and the University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad (UASD), though its ownership still rests with Mahyco. The Bt Brinjal contains a gene construct of ‘Cry 1 Ac’ from Monsanto, the American MNC, which has a 26 per cent stake in Mahyco-Monsanto Biotech (MMB). The PSIs will use the Mahyco material to backcross with their own brinjal varieties to incorporate the genetic event into them, imparting tolerance to the fruit and stem borers of brinjal that cause severe damage.

This partnership arrangement is extended to the Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, University of Philippines in Los Banos, a government research institute Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) and a private seed company, East West Seeds, Bangladesh. The ABSP II, funded by USAID and led by Cornell University, aims to provide substantial benefits from agricultural biotechnology to countries in East and West Africa, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The Bt Brinjal is actually a piracy of the local brinjals to be genetically modified for patenting by Monsanto-Mahyco partnership.

According to newspaper reports (Nayadiganta, 13 Feb, 2010) BARI has been conducting field trial of Bt Brinjal with an MOU with Mahyco since 2006. According to BARI sources as quoted by the report, it may take another 2 years for widespread cultivation by the farmers. It is at this very crucial time that the proposed biotechnology institute bill is being tabled in the parliament which will set standards and issue certificates for genetically modified foods and genetically modified organisms, according to sections 9 (e) of the bill. Biotechnology is often seen as beneficial to human beings, and in Bangladesh it is argued that biotechnology is a scientific advancement. But according to Greenpeace, “While scientific progress on molecular biology has a great potential to increase our understanding of nature and provide new medical tools, it should not be used as justification to turn the environment into a giant genetic experiment by commercial interests. The biodiversity and environmental integrity of the world’s food supply is too important to our survival to be put at risk.”

In India, the farmers’ groups and environmental activists welcomed the moratorium on Bt Brinjal announced by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. Greenpeace campaigner Jai Krishna however warned that the environment minister “must reassure the nation that the moratorium will not lead to a backdoor entry of Bt Brinjal or the 41 other GM food crops which are in different stages of trial in the country. A strong message should be sent out making GM developers liable for any accidental or illegal releases”.

The Bangladesh government is a signatory of the Cartagena Protocol on biosafety, which is the first international agreement to regulate the transboundary movements of genetically engineered (GE) organisms. The Biosafety Protocol is a subsidiary agreement to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which was signed by over 150 governments at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The Protocol itself was agreed to in Montreal in January 2000 and came into force on September 11, 2003. Following the obligation of the protocol, the government formulated the Biosafety Guidelines for Bangladesh by the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2005 which was earlier formulated in 1999. Considering the obligation of the said protocol, the guidelines have been updated through an initiative of the Ministry of Environment and Forest. The ministry has also taken the National Policy on Biotechnology into consideration and recast various aspects of Risk Assessment and Risk Management in light of the Cartegena Protocol. The Biosafety Protocol is an agreement designed to regulate the international trade, handling and use of genetically engineered organisms that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, also taking into account risks to human health.

According to the Biosafety Guidelines of Bangladesh, GMO introduction must not interfere with the protection of genetic resources and biological diversity.

Bangladesh is among the few known as the country of origin for brinjals. There are many varieties of brinjals in the country and farmers are growing them in different agro-ecological zones. The introduction of Bt Brinjal will pose a threat to the genetic diversity of brinjals and allow monopoly control of genetic resources by multinational companies by destroying sovereign rights of farmers over seeds. This is not acceptable. We do not need Bt Brinjal, as we have many vareities of our own.

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Farida Akhter

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Activist in women’s movement, environment and health issues in Bangladesh. She is also the executive director of UBINIG (Policy Reserach for Development Alternative), a well-known policy research and advocacy organisation in Bangladesh and a founding member of Nayakrishi Andolon (New Agricultural Movement), led by Bangladeshi peasants for biodiversity-based ecological agriculture.

Activist in women’s movement, environment and health issues in Bangladesh. She is also the executive director of UBINIG (Policy Reserach for Development Alternative), a well-known policy research and advocacy organisation in Bangladesh and a founding member of Nayakrishi Andolon (New Agricultural Movement), led by Bangladeshi peasants for biodiversity-based ecological agriculture.



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[ALOCHONA] SYEDA RIZWANA HASAN



SYEDA RIZWANA HASAN

Defender of environment

SYEDA Rizwana Hasan sometimes jokingly attributes her decision to become an environmental activist, instead of a mainstream lawyer, to her failure to master 'the art of taking money from the clients.' People who have either worked with her or watched her closely, over the years, know it is just that - a joke.
   
After receiving her bachelor's and master's degrees with distinction from Dhaka University, she could have easily joined any of the reputed law firms in the country and also learned 'the art of taking money from the clients.'
   Being a lawyer, like many, may have been a means to an end for Rizwana; however, the end was not making money. She has always been a believer of people's right to live in a health natural environment. So, she joined the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers' Association in 1993. The reputed non-governmental organisation provided her with the platform to do what has always wanted to do - fight against commodification and exploitation of the environment.
  
 'I did not join the traditional legal profession or the civil service,' she says. 'I have always wanted to pursue a combination of legal practice, teaching and social service for protection of the nature. In BELA I found the platform to give expression to my ideas.'
   'I have also tried to make use of the court and the law, which are traditionally fearful to the people, to protect the interests of the people and the nature, as I believe the government structures are not service-oriented,' she adds.
  
 Now, as the chief executive of the organisation, she is responsible for the overall coordination of its activities that include research, awareness raising, public interest litigation and advocacy for promoting the notion of environmental justice.
   She conducted public interest litigation on various environmental issues most of which have received favourable orders from the court. She has fought against vehicular pollution, river pollution, industrial pollution, ship breaking, grabbing of wetlands, cutting of hills, unregulated mining, unplanned urbanization, commercial shrimp cultivation, deforestation, loss of biodiversity and so on. 
   
Her cases have redefined the current notion of development that is devoid of environmental consideration. Since she is an anthropocentric environmentalist, her efforts are adding value to conventional human rights movement by bringing in the elements of environmental justice. She places people's legitimate rights at the centre of her activism.
   
Rizwana is an elected vice-chairperson of the Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh, the chairperson of RDRS, a leading Bangladeshi NGO, and member of other NGOs such as Nijera Kori and the Association of Land Reforms and Development. She is also member of various committees formed by the government. 
   
Rizwana does not only work at the national level but also voices her concerns at international forums. She is a member of the executive committee of Friends of the Earth International. She is a member of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, and also of the Environmental Law Commission of the IUCN. She is also coordinating the activities of the recently formed South Asian network of environmental activists called 'SAANS - the South Asian Solidarity'.
   
Rizwana's enduring fight to save the environment has also drawn the attention of the international bodies and won her quite a few accolades. She received the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2009 for her outstanding contribution to the protection and conservation of the environment. Recently, her name has appeared in the list of environmental heroes, 2009 of the Time magazine. She is also amongst the first five South Asian women to receive the 'Celebrating Womenhood' award (2008) given by the Creative Statement and South Asia Partnership based in Nepal.
  
 Even BELA, the organisation that Rizwana runs, has received the Global 500 Roll of Honours of the United Nations Environment Programme in 2003 and the Environmental Award in 2007 (given for the first time that year) by the Ministry of Environment and Forest for popularising environmental law. 
   
Rizwana also has a number of publications on environment and law to her credit, and notable amongst these are 'Laws Regulating Environment in Bangladesh' and 'Judicial Decisions on Environment in South Asia'. In addition, she is the editor of the BELA newsletter (a quarterly publication of the organisation) and also contributes to numerous national and international publications.
   
The colonial laws and practices of the government institutions disturb Rizwana very much. 'Asking government offices for service is treated as an offence as these offices usually use "colonial laws" as an excuse for not providing service to the people,' she says. 'Moreover, the politicians and the officials who run these offices never question why the colonial laws are not amended or changed.'
   
Rizwana endorses the people's movement in eliminating such colonial practices. 'People's movements are very powerful and active in India and Nepal, and we too need to create such movements here to protect people's interests.'
   It is the people's movement that prevented Asia Energy from carrying out open-pit mining at Phulbari coalmine in Dinajpur, although it had the government's endorsement, she says.
   
'Regrettably, there was no movement in Bhabadaha [in Jessore] although about 300,000 people had been stranded in water for several years. It hardly made it to the front pages of the newspapers. But it would have been an issue of people's movement, had it been in Nepal and India.'
   Rizwana primarily blames the apathy of the government officials to protecting the nature and wildlife and their attitude towards the nature for unabated anti-environment activities of certain vested quarters, like encroachment of water bodies including rivers and canals, plundering of forests, poaching and cutting hills.
   
Asked about mushrooming growth of ship-breaking yard, Rizwana paid deep respect to West Bengal leader Joyti Basu. 'He could say no to anti-people steps. Unfortunately, (political) leaders (and the government) in our country cannot say no to anti-people steps...They remained silent when industries and powerful quarters were polluting and encroaching water bodies...Now they are taking projects to stop pollution and reclaim the rivers.' 
   
Bangladesh has been providing service to European countries, which need to dump about 2,172 single chamber oil takers by the year 2012, by allowing them to dump their cast-off ships that contain poisonous substances.
   'They [the government] may consider it [ship-breaking] as an industry that provides raw materials for re-rolling mills and creates employment but I see it as a means of exploitation (of labour) and a source of pollution,' Rizwana says.
   'How can one consider sea beaches as yard when there is no infrastructure? For ship-breaking you need dry dock with waste management facilities,' she adds.
   
Urging the politicians and the government here to take decisions to stop ship-breaking, she says, 'The Europeans do not go for dismantling abandoned ships, which is very expensive there, as they have to abide by the laws.'
   The outcome of the environment summit in Copenhagen has disappointed Rizwana, and she is critical of the government for its stances at the just-concluded global climate summit, where, according to her, 'Bangladesh has tried to bring some funds.' 
   
Rizwana is also critical of the previous governments for their attitude towards development. According to her, the government, which holds a notion that nothing will happen without taking expert-driven projects, always considers population as a burden and hardly takes them into confidence during planning and implementation of projects. 'The government does not seem to believe that community involvement can be helpful and all development plans require impartial cost-benefit analysis. They even do not provide information to the people,' she says. 
   
She stressed the need for revitalising the entire system, without demoralising it and holding neutral national consultation ensuring participation of experts and community people for making the system transparent and free from corruption. 'You cannot solve the problems by organisations such as Rajuk and the Department of Environment, which have actually created the problems in the first place. Corruption has reached its peak in many of these offices. Of course, there are honest officials in these organisations but they are marginalised,' she says.
   
Rizwana does not believe, however, that corruption is the only problem; she also feels the existing laws need to be amended and made time-befitting. 'In many cases the laws also inspire corruption. The forest law was enacted during the British rule as a tool to collect revenue. In fact, you need to infuse wisdom. It is important how you do it.'
   
Mother of three children, Rizwana understands the importance of involving children in environmental movements and in the decision making process. 'They would need to make tough decisions. So, we need to prepare them.'
   Asked how recognitions, local or international, have changed things around, she says, 'Recognition adds to credibility and helps to make friends as well as antagonise many persons…It makes going to many places easier, especially at the policy level and also in the international arena. It also inspires many others to work for the people.' 
   
Rizwana is planning to work on forest and its inhabitants (people, flora and fauna).
   'We need to change the attitude towards forests, wherever they are. Many consider forest as a commodity. Now it (forest) has become a tool for carbon trading depending on how much money it would be able to earn. In fact, the trees are our soul. They provide all living things with shelter, food, safety, security. They give us a sense of beauty,' she says.

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[ALOCHONA] One World, Many Voices: A Celebration of World Languages [1 Attachment]

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Join Drishtipat DC for a cultural extravaganza on February 21, to celebrate UN International Mother Language Day! Come enjoy an evening of music and colorful dance performances from around the world – traditional Bangladeshi dances, Indian melodies, Native-American songs, music from the Andes, belly dancing, tango and more. 


According to the National Geographic, every 14 days, a language dies. At least half of the world's languages are projected to disappear this century. Through this multi-cultural event we will celebrate the world's 7,000 languages and highlight the need for language preservation.

Each year our event grows bigger and better, so don't miss out on this entertaining cultural journey around the world!

 

When: Sunday, Feb 21, 2010, 6:00 - 7:30 pm

Where: Historic 6th and I Synagogue, 600 I Street NW, Washington DC (near Chinatown metro)

 

This event is being hosted by Drishtipat DC (http://www.drishtipat.org/dc) along with:
- Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Dance Company (
http://www.dakshina.org/)
- DC Internationals (
http://www.dcinternationals.com/)

- Dhroopad (http://www.dhroopad.org)
- NetSAP DC (
http://www.netsap.org/netsapdc/)
- SAALT (
http://www.saalt.org)
- SAPAN (
http://www.sapanarts.org/)
- UNA-NCA (
http://www.unanca.org/)
- Young Bengali Professionals

This event is FREE and open to the public, thanks in part to support from the following sponsors:
- Cafe Luna (
http://www.skewers-cafeluna.com/)
- Bashi

 

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[ALOCHONA] NBC News - War Crime by Mukti Bahini in 1971



 
 
 
 
 
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[ALOCHONA] NBC Report - War Crime just after indpendence in 1971 by Mukti Bahini



 
 
War Crime in 1971 by Mukti Bahini
 
 
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[ALOCHONA] War Crime by Mukti Bahini



 
 
War Crime by Mukti Bahini
 
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[ALOCHONA] 500,000 Bihari killed by Bangladeshi Mukti Bahini



 
 
It is alleged that Bangladeshi Mukti Bahini killed arround 500,000 Bihari in 1971
 
 
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[ALOCHONA] Is Zia Ariport is naming to HASINA ?




 


Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:23:53 +0300
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Zia Ariport
From: malifreelance@gmail.com



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From: chowdhury alamgir <alamgir67@yahoo.com>
Date: Feb 16, 2010 4:35 PM
Subject: Fw: Zia Ariport
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--- On Tue, 2/16/10, Mamun Mollick <mamunmck@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Mamun Mollick <mamunmck@gmail.com>
Subject: Zia Ariport
To: "Bangladesh" <amader_matrevume@yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2010, 3:00 PM

Zia Airport.jpg  

Best Regard

M. Mamun Mollick

Tamimi Global Company Ltd. Loc #133, EWPL Area-I, PS-03 

Riyadh No-11585, Post Box No-62171, Kingdom of Saudi Aarbia. 
Phone: +9663574-5192 Fax: +9663574-5485 Cell: +966530398008

Web: www.mamun-mck.tk Email: mamunmck@gmail.com









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