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Friday, April 2, 2010

[ALOCHONA] Chatra League cadre beats a RU female student



Chatra League cadre beats a female student
 
A Bangladesh Chhatra League cadre again assaulted a female student of Rajshahi University in front of Tapashi Rabeya hall on Thursday evening for not accepting his love proposal.

Kawsar Ahmed, a 4th year student of marketing, and his accomplices stopped the girl when she along with her friend was returning to the dormitory by a rickshaw at around 7:00pm.

Witnesses said Kawsar dragged her down from the rickshaw and assaulted her. Her friend tried to resist Kawser but he also assaulted her.Minutes later, on-duty police and university guards rushed to the scene and rescued the girl. Kawsar, however, managed to escape.Eight months ago, Kawsar assaulted the same girl in front of RU Senate Bhaban for the same reason.

After Thursday's incident, no action was taken against the BCL cadre.Tofazzel Hossain, officer-in-charge of Motihar police station, said the police lodged a general diary, but no case has yet been filed.

The RU chapter of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad condemned the incident. RU Proctor Prof Chowdhury Muhammad Zakaria told The Daily Star that the hall provost informed him of the incident. "We will take action after receiving any complaints."
 
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Economy and elecricity-gas-water crisis



Economy and elecricity-gas-water crisis
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Kader Siddiqui on war crime tribunal



Kader Siddiqui on war crime tribunal
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Let justice be done.



It's not a matter of revenge. It's a matter of principle. The delay to put the war criminal suspects in the court of law does not minimize the nature of the crime. The delay does not mean that the principles of justice took time to gather muscles but the blame goes to the weaknesses of the Bangladeshi political system which is opportunistic and hypocritical. Late Gen. Ziaur Rahman and his wife the former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's neo Muslim League approach in the nation's politics must be held responsible for the full resettlement of the enemies of the Liberation war. Even the Awami League is also responsible to some extent. Some people are saying that this War Crimes Tribunal will open the old wounds which can further hurt the process of reconciliation. This is not true because the perpetrators of 1971 crimes never expressed any remorse for their heinous crimes. They rather showed their bloody hands as a warning to the pro liberation forces. During the past BNP government they made a blue print to transform Bangladesh to a fundamentalist state and meticulously tried to plant the poison ivies to hasten their conspiratorial move. The past BNP administration of Khaleda Zia deliberately helped them. Many powerful ministers were planted in the sensitive areas who colluded with the Islamic extremists to usurp power at an opportune moment. This is a lame excuse that the nation can forget and forgive and go forward. If the 100 years old Turkish atrocities in Armenia can still be a sensitive issue and the former German Nazis who were involved in the holocaust can still be haunted and tried, the 1971 war crimes are matter of a very recent past. Therefore this War Crimes Tribunal must proceed to establish it once for all that poor Bangladesh can also uphold the principles of justice. This is not revenge. This is a necessity.

 

Akbar Hussain

 

 



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[ALOCHONA] Is Blogging Useful or a Waste of Time?



Is Blogging Useful or a Waste of Time?
 
Crucial for Spreading Accurate Information
 

We've all seen it.

A story that bloggers have bird-dogged for many months, gaining so much traction that the mainstream media is finally forced to cover it.

David Steele - former 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer, the second-ranking civilian in U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence, and former CIA clandestine services case officer - says that blogging is crucial for saving our country.

Dan Rather points out that "roughly 80 percent" of the media is controlled by no more than six, and possibly as few as four, corporations. As I wrote in July:

This fact has been documented for years, as shown by the following must-see charts prepared by:

This image gives a sense of the decline in diversity in media ownership over the last couple of decades:

The mainstream media are rabidly pro-war and refuse to disclose that many of the "independent" pundits they interview are actually lobbyists. The mainstream press has become lazy, and most of the stories are fed to them by PR firms.

People want change - that's why so many voted for Obama. But as Newsweek's Evan Thomas admitted:

By definition, establishments believe in propping up the existing order. Members of the ruling class have a vested interest in keeping things pretty much the way they are. Safeguarding the status quo, protecting traditional institutions, can be healthy and useful, stabilizing and reassuring....

"If you are of the establishment persuasion (and I am). . . ."

In other words, many editors, publishers, producers and reporters think of themselves as being part of the establishment class, and so do everything they can to protect those in power.

No wonder trust in the news media is crumbling.

On the other hand, as I wrote a year ago, it is possible to get direct-from-source news on the web:

Many of the world's top PhD economics professors and financial advisors have their own blogs...

The same is true in every other field: politics, science, history, international relations, etc.

So what is "news"? What the largest newspapers choose to cover? Or what various leading experts are saying - and oftentimes heatedly debating one against the other?
And as award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill said recently:
I think we're in a moment where corporations are more dominant over newsgathering and news production and disseminating information than they've ever been.

Contrary to that, though, you also have this sort of "citizen journalism" rising up, where you have people that are staring their own blogs or their own web sites.
So the blogosphere is certainly vital.

A Waste of Time

On the other hand, even with all of the millions of bloggers exposing what's going on, the powers-that-be are ignoring us.

Even with high-level economics and financial experts demonstrating that the economy cannot recover until the big banks are broken up, the government is letting them get bigger and bigger. For example, an
all-star cast of well-known experts says that we must break up the big banks, with people like Simon Johnson blogging about this daily for one of the world's most popular news sites (Huffington Post). And yet nothing is changing.

Even with top security experts showing that the never-ending "war on terror" is harming our national security, and that covering up for the torturers and war criminals is making us less safe, the Obama administration is continuing the never-ending war, and has swept torture and war crimes under the rug.

I could go on and on, but if you've been paying any attention, you know that our country is headed in the wrong direction, no matter how many thoughtful writers point out the direction we should be headed.

Moreover, the blogsphere is not a "free market" of ideas.
Whistleblowers and many of the hardest-hitting blog posts get attacked or buried by the powers-that-be. Because of this censorship, there may be a highly educated minority of millions of Americans, but the majority still gets their news from the mainstream media, including the mainstream news websites.

So blogging may be doing nothing but
blowing off steam, and draining the energy which should be used for massive protests and strikes. Indeed, maybe we are just shouting within the Matrix, in an artificial environment. Maybe we are having as much effect as protesters in government-approved "protest zone" - miles from the media, let alone the real events they are protesting.

Knowing stuff isn't enough. Being smart isn't enough. Indeed, being informed and smart but failing to take action to protect ourselves is a recipe for disaster (and perhaps even
extinction).

Maybe we need to get outside the cyber-playground and the designated protest zones, and
shout with our real, physical voices at real, physical people before anyone will actually pay attention.

Useful or a Waste of Time?

I've posted a poll to the right, asking whether blogs are useful or a waste of time. Vote to let us know what you think.
The potential answers are:
1. It is useful, because it informs people of information not covered by the mainstream media.


2. It is useful, because it can help organize people to take action.

3. It is a waste of time, because the powers-that-be do whatever they want, no matter how loudly the people speak out.

4. It is a waste of time, and gives people a way to blow off steam without challenging those in power, and a false sense of doing something constructive.

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18420




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[ALOCHONA] Indian BSF kills 20 Bangladeshis in last 3 months



Indian BSF kills 20 Bangladeshis in last three months: Odhikar

 
The killing spree of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Bangladesh border continues unabated taking the total of killing to 20 in last three months and to 100 in last 13 months.UNB says: Some 20 Bangladeshi nationals were allegedly killed by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Bangladesh-India border between January 1 and March 31 this year, according to a report released by Odhikar, a rights group.

Among the victims, nine people were killed allegedly by gun shots, while the rest were allegedly beaten to death, the report added.Besides, 20 people were injured in firing, and it is alleged that four others were assaulted while four were abducted by the BSF during the same period.

On the other hand, some 24 people allegedly died in the hands of law enforcers across the country during the same period. Among them, five were killed under custody, the Odhikar report said.

Some 52 people were killed and 3741 others were injured across the country due to political violence in last three months. Of the violence, 154 incidents were recorded as intra-party conflicts within the ranks of the ruling Awami League, killing 8 people and injuring 158 others, while 27 incidents were recorded as internal conflict within main opposition BNP, which injured 340 people.

Some 38 journalists were injured, 26 were threatened and 17 others were assaulted across the country up until the end of March this year. Besides, eight journalists and one newspaper office were attacked during the same period.

According to TBT Report: the number of Bangladeshis killed by BSF during the nine years period from January 1, 2000 to March 23, 2010 stands at 825. BSF also injured 859 and abducted 898 Bangladeshis in the same period.

 http://www.thebangladeshtoday.com/leading%20news.htm



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