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Monday, June 28, 2010

[ALOCHONA] Ashraful's comments belie public perception



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The AL-BCL link disowning
 
Ashraful's comments belie public perception
 

 
WE find rather strange and unacceptable the comments of Syed Ashraful Islam, minister for local government and general secretary of the AL, that since there is 'no link' between his party and the Bangladesh Chattra League, the AL has no responsibility for the BCL's activities on the hartal day.

What occasioned the remarks was the question raised by journalists regarding the anti-hartal activities of the BCL that led to clashes with Chattra Dal, in and around the campus and the Shahbag crossing, on the day of BNP-called hartal. We are not only surprised by his observations, we find these irresponsible and expedient too which neither behooves his position as a minister and particularly as general secretary of Awami League.

We are afraid we cannot accept such comment, it being, to our mind, an attempt to shirk the responsibility by the party for what the BCL did on the 27th. As the Chattra League elements were seen engaged in clashes with the pro-hartal elements, the police were in very close proximity to the scene appearing as mute bystanders at the very least. One wonders what the source of the strength of the BCL is. And even for the sake of argument if one were to accept that the government adopted a hands-off policy on the BCL, was it not tantamount to abetment. Was it not an issue of law and order which the administration, the law enforcing agencies in particular, were duty-bound to address effectively and even handedly?

We cannot believe that when all kinds of processions and picketing on the day of the hartal was banned by the administration in certain areas, an anti-hartal procession could have been brought out by the BCL without the back-up of sorts.

Therefore, any attempt to disown the link between the BCL and the AL whenever things go wrong evoking adverse publicity, it appears not only convenient but also irresponsible on the part of high government and ruling party functionary such as Syed Ashraful Islam. It is patently disingenuous too. We wonder whether that is the position of the governmen. If that be so, government's credibility will be called into further question.

We are all for maintenance of peace at all costs as well as for people's right to register their protests peacefully. But what people won't stand for is even any smack of duplicity and double standards and playing politics with law and order issues.
 


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[ALOCHONA] Uptrend in rice price worries people



Uptrend in rice price worries people


Even after satisfactory harvest of Boro this year and stable supply chain, the prices of different varieties of rice remained high in the city's kitchen markets yesterday, said traders. The present stock of rice is satisfactory compared with the previous years, they said. But, the uptrend in rice price has caused concern to the commoners, as they strongly expected that the price of rice would have been decreased to a tolerable level.

The prices of different categories of rice shot up between Tk 2 and Tk 4 per kg for the last one-month in the city's markets, according to traders.

In the city's retail markets, per kg of coarse rice was sold between Tk 27 and Tk 28 in the previous months. But, it was now selling between Tk 30 and Tk 32 per kg.

Minicate was sold between Tk 42 and Tk 44. Nazirshail depending on quality was sold between Tk 42 and Tk 46. Paizam was sold between Tk 35 and Tk 36 yesterday.

During the first quarter part of the current year, the coarse variety of rice was sold between Tk 20 and Tk 24 per kg in the city's kitchen markets.The limited income people especially labourer class were benefited by the price. They are now hard hit by the coarse rice price.Earlier, the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management had introduced Open Market Sale (OMS) of rice to bring stability in the retail level price.

The shut down of OMS might have added price hike of rice especially coarse variety, according to market experts. They suggested Government to reintroduce OMS before the upcoming month of Ramzan.

Trades at Badamtali rice markets told The New Nation that a section of rice mill owners in the northern districts have stocked huge quantity of rice by taking bank loans. They alleged that the unscrupulous mill owners drastically reduced per day quantity of their rice sale to the retailers in recent days, trying to create an artificial price hike.

In the 2008-09 fiscal, the total demand of food in the country was 2 crore 67 lakh metric tonnes against the total production of 2 crore 83 metric tonnes.

The target food production during the current fiscal was earmarked 2 crore 90 lakh metric tonnes against the production of 3 crore 44 lakh metric tonnes, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).

Presently, there are about 7 lakh metric tonnes of food stock in the government silo, said a source in the Directorate of Food yesterday. The government will take measures to ensure 'price stability' in the rice market by curbing 'machination of profit monger traders', said a highly placed source of the Ministry of Food.
 


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[ALOCHONA] A largely effective hartal and the message within



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A largely effective hartal and the message within

THE countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal (general strike) — called by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on May 19 to register protest against power, water and gas shortage, oppression on opposition leaders and activists, closure of media houses, harassment of journalists, the government's attempts to control the media, violence over tender manipulation, land grab by the ruling party men, harassment of girls in educational institutions, politicisation of the administration and signing of deals with foreign countries 'compromising national interest' — was observed on Sunday, apparently without too much coercion tactics employed by the BNP leaders and activists. In fact, the police, the Rapid Action Battalion and other law enforcement agencies — and, of course, the marauding activists of the ruling Awami League and its associate organisations — far outnumbered the pickets at most places. They also created commotion in most cases, swooping on pro-hartal activists largely without any provocation.
   
The general strike, by and large peaceful and apparently effective as it was, shed light on two issues of crucial importance. First, the general acceptance of the BNP call for general strike tends to indicate that a sizeable section, if not the majority, of the populace does associate with the opposition party's displeasure with certain actions and inactions of the ruling quarters. Second, the actions of the law enforcers and the activists of the ruling party and its associate organisations, especially the Bangladesh Chhatra League, betrayed once again the intolerance of the ruling quarters to any expression of public dissent and displeasure. The police actions against the pickets, especially inside the residence of some frontline BNP leaders, suggest that the ruling quarters were not willing to allow the opposition the space to exercise what they themselves acknowledge to be its democratic right to observe general strike. The law enforcers not only raided the houses of these leaders but also harassed everyone that came their way; women and children were not spared, either.
   
The masterstroke, so to speak, came later on the day when the AL general secretary claimed that the ruling party would not shoulder the responsibility for the BCL attacks on pickets because 'Chhatra League is neither a front organisation nor an associate body of the Awami League as per the RPO [Representation of the People].' He insisted that the ruling party had 'no links with them but fraternal relations.' The 'fraternal relations' did seem to afford the BCL activists the scope to swoop on the pickets in the presence of, if not with assistance from, the law enforcers. If it were not hypocrisy, one wonders what is. Besides, if the ruling party does not take responsibility for the many misdeeds of the Chhatra League, who will?
   
The opposition, too, dealt in double standards. Its claim that the people wholeheartedly supported the call for general strike certainly does not go with the violence, vandalism and arson, believed to have been carried out by some of its activists on the eve of the general strike. Not only such actions were duplicitous but these also endangered the lives of quite a few. It is simply not done.
   
Be that as it may, the general strike, largely effective as it was, contained a strong message for the incumbents, all the more so in view of the dismal showing of the ruling party in the elections to the Chittagong City Corporation, the Supreme Court Bar Association, the Dhaka Bar Association and the Dhaka University Teachers' Association. The message is simple: the people may be getting wary and weary of the ruling party's discernible deviations from its electoral pledges for change. Hence, the ruling quarters would do well to do a course correction and invest their time and energy in bringing about qualitative improvement in the nation's life – social, political and economic – just as they promised before the general elections and not remain obsessed with whetting their tyrannical tendencies.
 


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[ALOCHONA] India ruling the waves can help relieve security pressure



India ruling the waves can help relieve security pressure

By Zhang Wenmu

The Indian Ocean occupies the center of the world sea power system. In particular, the northern Indian Ocean is the center of the world's resources politics, which makes it a core objective of competition for world hegemony.

Russia, the US and India are the powers with direct interests in the Indian Ocean and its northern shores, and they have a direct competitive relationship there, while Europe and China have an indirectly competitive relationship. From China's point of view, Indian development on the Indian Ocean is good for China's security.

The more India develops toward the Indian Ocean, the safer China's Tibetan border is. The more influence India has in the area, the better it can contain US power. The Indian Ocean is the heart of Western energy networks and is thus important for the Western powers to control.

Some people in India say that the development of the Indian Navy is aimed at "containing China." This is not true - if it wants to do so, it can just focus on its northern border.

Why should it bother to contain China at the Indian Ocean? If India can contain China on the Indian Ocean, it means that it can also contain other maritime powers, including the US. If the long-range missile launched by India from the Indian Ocean can reach major cities in China, it can also cover major cities in the US or other Western countries.

History shows that India's future security lies in the Indian Ocean. Several US-led wars in the northern regions of the Indian Ocean in the early 21st century show that India's real opponent in the area is the US rather than China.

The most direct threat to India is the US military presence backed by the bases at Diego Garcia, part of the British In-dian Ocean territory, and elsewhere. So the development of Indian strength on the Indian Ocean will first influence the interests of the US and other Western countries rather than those of China.

This is why Russia's main policy toward India is to expand Indian maritime influence. Russia sells large amounts of military equipment, particularly sea combat equipment, to India in order to support its development of sea power.It should be noted that control of the sea is the lifeblood of US and British national strategy.

In the past, the Soviet Union and the US seemed to clash over Afghanistan in Central Asia, but in fact they were fighting for the sea control power over the Indian Ocean.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Sino-US relations improved on the premise that China had no urgent need to develop on the Pacific while the escalation of conflict between China and the US since the late 1990s is due to China's increasingly urgent demand for sea control power, due to Taiwan question, resource imports and protection of overseas interests, especially in the Western Pacific.

In recent years, India has strengthened relations with Vietnam and its ships have moved into the South China Sea, which was thought to indicate that India has a large "Indian Ocean control strategy."

But it is impossible for India to have the appropriate financial resources to support such a large ocean strategy in a long time. In modern history, only the UK and the US, who dominate the world's resources, have had the capacity to implement such a maritime strategy.Even if India really implements such a strategy, it will first threaten the US and Western countries, instead of China.

The West has a directly competitive relationship with India in the Indian Ocean and the North Shore region. India will face the same pressure from the US as China in the Taiwan Straits and South China Sea.

In this sense, India's maritime expansion is complementary to the reunification of the Chinese mainland and Taiwan and the expansion of Chinese sovereignty in the West Pacific, and will benefit both countries.

The author is a professor of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. forum@ globaltimes.com.cn

http://opinion.globaltimes.cn/commentary/2010-06/546356.html



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[ALOCHONA] precious moments with an illiterate but extra ordinary poetic talent



I trust you will enjoy reading my write-up at: http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=3019. Best regards. Wohid

  




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Re: [ALOCHONA] Chatra League / Chatra Dal



Yes, but even violence needs to be targeted. The fact is that these student groups are simply too stupid to even help themselves. It is incumbent upon all NRBs to save our young talent by helping them to leave the country. The future of Bangladesh is in the hands of these thugs and their sari wearing dog handlers. What kind of future is that? Well, you can see it now!

I look forward to an even more successful NRB community, developing, evolving and breeding out the rot of living back home.

Joy Bangla!

Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com


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Violence is the way we solve our problem.When there is no faith on police, judge or politician, we will be ruled by the mob.

--- On Mon, 6/21/10, Emanur Rahman <emanur@rahman.com> wrote:

From: Emanur Rahman <emanur@rahman.com>
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Chatra League / Chatra Dal
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What I find so extraordinary is the detail and precision with which this incident has been reported. It says something that this is considered a real story. Remove the DU background and you can see this story for what it really is - a clash between rival criminal gangs.

You could call it organised crime. Spawned, fuelled, sponsored and supported by the major political parties.

I'd like to invite these idiot in-bred illegitimate sons and daughters of Mujib and Begum Zia to explain why their continued existence is a necessary feature of our politics.

We should simply issue arms to university security with orders to shoot to kill these cadres on sight.

After all, that's how we deal with rabid dogs isn't it?

Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com

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25 JCD activists injured in BCL attack
 
Dhaka, June 21 (bdnews24.com) -- At least 25 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chatra Dal (JCD) were injured in an alleged attack by pro-government Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) on the Dhaka University campus on Monday.

The incident occurred at around 12 noon when BCL activists stormed into Modhu's Canteen and attacked the pro-opposition JCD men with clubs and iron bars without provocation, Shahdat Hossain Ranju, one of injured, told bdnews24.com.

Among the injured were DU Chatra Dal convener Abdul Matin, senior joint secretary Obaidul Haque Nasim, joint conveners Asad and Hiru, deputy sports secretary Habibur Rahman Sumon, activists Resin, Shahnewaz, Nazmul Sakib, Zakaria, Sabid Hassan Babu, Moinul, Shahdat Hossain Ranju, Shafique and Sahabuddin Shihab. Several of the injured were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital's emergency department. One of the injured, Obaidul Haque, was admitted to Islami Bank Central Hospital with a fractured head.

DU Chhatra League joint secretary Mustak Ahmed said they had been asking the JCD to withdraw, what he claimed, was a false case following a clash on Jan 18. "Today's incident was an outburst of anger as they were not withdrawing the case," he said.

University proctor KM Saiful Islam said the JCD filed a case following a clash with BCL. The Shahbagh police filed another case against JCD in connection with the same incident. The proctor said that the two organisations had been discussing withdrawal of the cases for some time.

JCD had said they would withdraw the case against BCL provided the Chhatra League withdrew the case filed by police against the Chhatra Dal, the proctor said, adding that the situation is now under control after police intervention. On Jan 18 two rival groups of JCD clashed over positions in its newly formed committee. At one point BCL leaders also became involved in the violence.
Police chief, proctor, JCD boss among dozens injured in DU violence
 
 Dhaka, Jan 18 (bdnews24.com) – An armed battle at Dhaka University campus on Monday between two rival groups of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, over positions in JCD's newly formed committee, left at least 20 people injured, including the Shahbagh police chief and JCD president. DU proctor Prof Saiful Islam Khan was also hurt. He was taken to BSMMU Hospital while Karim and another injured police officer were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Central committee president Sultan Salauddin Tuku, who came under direct attack by rivals, was also rushed to DMCH, along with at least four other injured JCD leaders and activists. All university classes were suspended for the day. But exams were held, officials said.

The fighting JCD groups exploded cocktails and exchanged several rounds of gunfire, police and witnesses said. Police chief Rezaul Karim told reporters at DMCH that his men had to throw several rounds of teargas shells to bring the situation under control.

Leaders of the recently formed JCD committee were obstructed by a rival Chhatra Dal group from entering the campus in the morning, witnesses said. Both groups became locked in fierce clashes. A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League leaders also became involved in the violence at one point, witnesses said

Police chief Karim said: "We had tightened security on the campus Monday morning on information that rival JCD groups had taken position on the campus Sunday night. "The two groups became involved in clashes from 10am. We tried to protect Chhatra Dal president Tuku. I was injured during that time." He said police would launch a special drive to recover the arms that were used during the clashes.

DU assistant proctor Amzad Hossain told bdnews24.com at least 20 people were injured in the clashes. "We have not verified the exact figure yet." "Classes were not held today. But exams went ahead," he said.





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Re: [ALOCHONA] Press Freedom in Bangladesh



Sometimes its all in a word - "sedation" vs "sedition". The latter is a trumped up catch all to violate the rights of citizens, the former is what we as a nation need to survive BAL.

Joy Bangla!

Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com


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In Bangladesh, most of the torture carried out by law enforcement agencies is when they have the accused person in 'remand' for 'interrogation'.

Mahmudur Rahman, Acting Editor of Bengali Daily Amar Desh was sent for four days remand on June 20, 2010. Inspector Manzur Murshed of the Detective Branch of Police who is investigating a sedation case lodged at the Airport Police Station against Mahmudur Rahman, went to the Dhaka Central Jail at about 4.00 pm and received him from the Jail authority for interrogation and took him to the Detective Branch office located at Mintoo Road in Dhaka.

Today, June 23, 2010 at about 6.35 in the morning, Mahmudur Rahman has been taken to an unknown location for 'interrogation' from the custody of the investigating officer of the Detective Branch of Police Inspector Monzur Murshed. Journalists of the Bengali Daily 'Amar Desh', which has been shut down by the government informed Odhikar that they believe he has been taken to the office of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) for interrogation at the Dhaka Cantonment.

Earlier on June 16, 2010, Mahmudur Rahman was brought before the Court of Magistrate Ismail Hossain after the completion of four days remand at the Detective Branch office in another case under the Anti Terrorism Act 2009.

The Magistrate sent him to jail for treatment and ordered the jailor to arrange his medical check up and accordingly he was undergoing treatment at the jail hospital under a medical board. The Magistrate further ordered that he may be taken to remand if he is physically fit.

On June 20, 2010, the jail authority gave a fitness certificate for Mahmudur Rahman for interrogating him at remand. Though it has been reported that when he was going towards the van he could not walk properly and looked pale.

Earlier Mahmudur Rahman was tortured in custody and when he was produced in the Court on June 12, 2010 he appealed to the Court for the safety of his life and gave an account of the inhuman and degrading treatment he went through during remand. As he was unable to stand in court the Magistrate arranged for him to be seated at the dock.

The lawyers representing Mahmudur Rahman held a press conference at the National Press Club today (23 June 2010) at 1.30 PM, to express their concern regarding the physical and mental torture and ill treatment of their client and to demand his release.

At the press conference, Advocate Sanaullah Mian, President of the Dhaka District Bar Association and Advocate Masud Ahmed Talukder, both representing Mahmudur Rahman, while expressing concern about the life and safety of their client, mentioned that he had been taken to an unknown destination this morning in a 2-vehicle contingent, where the vehicles had no license plates. They also stated that when they contacted the Detective Branch office regarding the whereabouts of Mahmudur Rahman, Detective Branch officers informed them that he was not in their custody.

Police arrested Mahmudur Rahman from his newspaper office in the early morning of June 2, 2010 after the government cancelled the declaration of the newspaper Amar Desh on June 1, 2010 afternoon.

Altogether 34 cases (28 of which are defamation cases) have been filed up to now against Mahmudur Rahman.


ASM Nasiruddin Elan
Director, Odhikar
E-mail: odhikar@citech-bd.com
odhikar.bd@gmail.com
odhikar@sparkbd.net
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www.odhikar.org


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Re: [ALOCHONA] Dhaka must ask Delhi to stop BSF instigations in the border



What a juvenile piece. It is the BDR who are at fault here. They have no business patrolling the India border and certainly no right to impede Indian citizens working on Bangladeshi soil.

It was the clear intention of Bangabandhu to make us a vassal state of India. Bangladeshis demonstrated their support for this by voting for his daughter in their millions. These pontificating and pointless editors need to catch up.

Independence is for songs and dance, something to entertain ourselves and nothing more. The freedom fighters were little more than Indian sponsored insurgents akin to the contras of old.

More power to BAL. Pretty soon Hasina will declare herself a Chief Minister and abolish the Presidency and Agartala can finally be renamed as an Accord rather than a Conspiracy.

Epar Bangla. Opar Bangla. Joy Bangla!

Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com


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Dhaka must ask Delhi to stop BSF instigations in the border

The latest intrusion of Indian nationals into Bangladesh territory, and that too to till the crops land of Bangladesh at the Shreepur border of Jaintapur in Sylhet Friday morning is really ominous. The incident took place 17 hours after a high-level flag meeting between the Bangladesh Rifles and the Border Security Force (BSF) of India where they agreed to keep peace in the border. The repeated intrusion tends to indicate that the Indian guards are out to instigate the BDR and consequently the Bangladeshi civilians are concerned about confrontation.
   
According to a report front-paged in New Age on Saturday, some 40 Indians armed with bows and arrows and other sharp weapons trespassed into Bangladesh at about 9:45am and started tilling cropland at Minartila near the BDR outpost. Although the BDR soldiers asked the Indian Khasia tribesmen not to till the cropland, the Indians did not pay any heed to the request. The BSF soldiers not only did not ask their fellow countrymen to stop tilling the Bangladesh land, but in the afternoon they took position in the bankers they had dug along a 20km border stretch after a series of clashes with the Bangladesh border guards during June 4–15. The mysterious silence of the Indian border guards over the incident of trespass reinforces the suspicion that India, although a huge nation, aspires to grab land from its neighbouring countries on the one hand and intends to undermine the peaceful foreign policies of both the countries on the other.
   
Needless to say, India and its BSF have consistently defied all agreements and conventions, bilateral and multilateral, including the last joint communiqué signed between the prime ministers of two countries early this year that assured Bangladeshis of border peace. But the Indians carried on with all kinds of aggressive and intrusive activities over the past months and years. The BSF atrocities have reached such proportions that the government of Bangladesh has been forced to enforce a dusk-to-dawn ban on movement of Bangladeshi civilians within 150 metres of the zero point inside Bangladesh territory, to prevent loss of lives.
   
In the past four months or so, the BSF has appeared rather hell bent on instigating trouble on its border with Bangladesh. There have been several incidents of intrusion of Indian nationals into Bangladesh territory, apparently at the instigation of the BSF, one of which resulted in exchange of more than 1,000 gunshots between the border guards of the two countries. Moreover, the BSF even kidnapped a BDR soldier at gunpoint and detained him for more than 10 hours. Besides, in the first five months of the calendar year, at least 24 Bangladeshis have been killed by the BSF.
   
The Awami League-led government has repeatedly claimed that it has been successful in persuading its Indian counterpart to resolve all the outstanding problems through peaceful dialogues. But the ground reality tends to indicate otherwise. India has neither taken any steps to resolve the longstanding problems, nor has even shown any sign of resolving them in the near future. Rather, Indian nationals at the backing of its border forces have tried, more than once in a month, to till Bangladeshi crops land! But the government in Dhaka has not been seen/heard to have registered any serious protests with its counterpart in Delhi, leaving the issue of territorial sovereignty in the hands of poorly equipped BDR soldiers. The government must come up with an unequivocal statement on the BSF atrocities on the border and tell the people as to how it plans to redress the issue effectively. The Indian government, on the other hand, needs to realise that by way of repeated BSF intrusion and killing Bangladeshis, it is continuously fuelling an 'anti-India' sentiment across Bangladesh to the detriment of the interests of the people of both the countries.
  
 We, therefore, suggest that Dhaka takes up the issue seriously with Delhi and Delhi asks its border guards to stop killing of Bangladeshis and prevent its citizens from intrusion into Bangladesh territories – let alone tilling land for the sake of mutual interests.
 


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[ALOCHONA] American Conspiracies



American Conspiracies
 
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[ALOCHONA] Say No to Indian Sky Marshall in Bangladesh



Say No to Indian Sky Marshall in Bangladesh
By Mohammad Zainal Abedin, USA

Under the camouflage of protecting its airlines and passengers, a horrifying report of deploying Indian troops at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport of Dhaka (popularly known as Dhaka Airport) is considered as another unexpected design of India to extend its hegemonic paw on Bangladesh. Government̢۪s readiness to provide corridor and seaports facilities, made India desperate to reduce the sovereign status of Bangladesh further. Earlier India deployed 36 security agents inside India High Commission under the guise of protecting the diplomats, who are basically RAW operatives.

At least 54 countries have their diplomatic missions, other many other international and regional agencies in Bangladesh. Only during the short rule of President Abu Sadat Mohammad Shayem, an abrupt attack was launched on Indian High Commission to hijack Samar Sen, the then Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh. It was alleged that the attack was manipulated by RAW to make a situation of invading Bangladesh. The attack was instantly thwarted by the Bangladeshi police deployed in the High Commission compound that foiled the design of India.

Many foreign airlines and passengers use Dhaka Airport since 1972. There was no security mishap or terrorist attack in any airport of Bangladesh, including Dhaka. No country, including India, ever expressed any apprehension regarding security threat in Dhaka Airport or willed to deploy its security agents in our airports. Bangladeshi security agencies proved their aptness successfully in ensuring the security of the passengers or the airlines. It is an amazing question why India after 39 years now feels security threat in Dhaka Airport, when an India-friendly government rules the country.

The reality is that since 1972 India desperately tries to redeploy its armed forces in Bangladesh. Indian troops who entered Bangladesh in 1971 under the cover of so-called allied forces were withdrawn from Bangladesh virtually beyond India̢۪s intention. It was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of Bangladesh, who openly asked India to withdraw its troops from Bangladesh territory. India never dreamt that such a request would ever come from Sheikh Mujib. Knowledgeable circles believe that such patriotic move of Sheikh Mujib perturbed India so much that it contributed a lot to the political and physical assassination of this great leader.

The incumbent government, led by Mujib̢۪s daughter, unfortunately deviated from the policy and spirit of Mujib. Her government readily accepts all the Indian demands whatever India places. Her government should have studied the far reaching consequences of all those concessions that were already agreed to provide to India. Sheikh Hasina particularly should not forget how treacherously India contributed to make Mujib an unpopular and failed leader. Who looted Bangladesh after 16th December? Who made Bangladesh a bottomless basket through smuggling, arson, and sabotage? Who financed and provided logistic support to divide Mujib̢۪s followers? Who printed conceited paper currency to create inflation? Who created manmade famine in Bangladesh? Who didn̢۪t honour the agreements that signed with Mujib? Who cheated simple-hearted Mujib in commissioning the Farakka Barrage? Who portrayed him as an Indian surrogate?

If any ordinary Bangladeshi, not to speak of a Prime Minister, thinks over these questions, cannot trust India. Bangladeshis know that no real terrorist group other than India-patronized ones, exists in Bangladesh. India not only patronizes, finances, arms the terrorists, but also provides safe shelter in her territory even to the most ordinary robbers, killers, snatchers. Committing any crime in Bangladesh they simply sneak to Indian Territory. Indian BSF kills hundreds of innocent Bangladeshis every year, but there is no record they shot or killed any Bangladeshi terrorists, miscreants and criminals in the border. If BSF could apprehend any terrorist, after getting his identity, they escort him to the nearest RAW or any other intelligence office providing VIP treatment.
India recruited huge number of its extreme communal Hindu nationals and after providing required training send them to launch terrorist attacks inside Bangladesh. They work in Bangladesh as rickshaw drivers, barbers, garment workers, petty vendors, construction workers, restaurant workers, even day labourers. Unknown numbers of Indian nationals also work in Bangladeshi educational institutions, business establishments, clinics and hospitals, beauty parlors, advertising firms. Knowledgeable sources believe, these Indians branding them as Bangladeshis infiltrated in political groups and trade unions play pioneer role attacking opponent groups, garment factories, or vehicles. Many of them claiming as pious Muslims fuel a section of true, but imprudent Muslims to adopt militancy for Islam, which India uses to justify that Bangladesh went militant in order to invite foreign invasion.

To demonstrate Indian claim of security threat India launches media campaign that Bangladesh has turned to a haunt of the terrorists having link with the al-Queda, India floated so-called Islamic groups who were and are isolated from the people of Bangladesh. Those who were arrested and even hanged confessed how Indian intelligence agencies organised, financed, and armed them. During interrogation they also confessed that they collected all the arms, ammunition and explosive from India. India did and does so create a situation that Bangladesh is not a secured country.

In the name of protecting diplomats, India designs to kill many birds at one stone. On the other hand, by deploying troops in Bangladesh territory, India designs to prove that Bangladeshi armed forces and intelligence agencies are unfit and incapable of ensuring security. Through such deployment India also wants to send this message to the international forums that Bangladeshi forces who now work in UN Peacekeeping Missions should be sent back as they are no more in a position to ensure security in their own country. Such deployment will also work as scimitar to squeeze and scare the Bangladeshis and their patriotic governments. India launching planted attack on its own troops may pave the way to deploy more troops even without asking the government. They may be used to crush any anti-India move of the government or people of Bangladesh. Above all, deployment of such troops undermines the viable sovereignty and independence of Bangladesh.

It is amazing to note that Indian troops who cannot cope with the terrorists and protect people from terrorist attacks in their own soil, are sent to Bangladesh to planes and passengers. All the Indians, irrespective of their position and status right from the Prime Minister to a rickshaw puller, suffer from insecurity. India faces the gravest threat from inside. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh publicly acknowledged Maoist operation as "single biggest internal security challenge".

Maoists now are active in at least in 11 States (provinces) of India.
231 out of 608 districts of India, i.e., 40 per cent of the total territory of India is now the victims of terrorist activities of the Maoists. Since 1994 to 2008, about 54 thousand Indians, including 969 security personnel were killed by the Maoists. Three grievous attacks in recent days killed 77 police personnel, 48 persons including 16 police and 110 train-passengers.

According to partial data compiled by a New Delhi-based body ‘The South Asia Terrorism Portal’, there have already been 26 attacks on the Railways in the first quarter of 2010, though none of these had resulted in a fatality this year, before the Sardiya incident.

On April 23, 2010, Mamata Banerjee informed the Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament): "Railways has become a target of Naxals. We have lost Rs. 500 crore because of Naxal bandhs [shut downs] and obstructions. We have lost about 40 per cent of our business due to Maoist violence and agitations like bandhs. These have hit our operations to a great extent. Incidents of attacks by Naxals nearly doubled to 58 in 2009 from 30 in the previous year. 56 incidents were reported in 2007." Earlier, on March 24, an unnamed Railways official had said, "Though we do not have a definite data about the exact length of rail route directly affected by Maoist violence, about 11,000-km rail route in Maoist-affected states have become vulnerable to such attacks." Home Ministry sources now say that Maoists have the resources to actually bring the entire rail network to a standstill by simply blowing up major sections of the track. Another report indicates that almost 202 Railway Stations face a direct Maoist threat.

Times of India (June 16, 2010) informed to contain Maoists havoc, Indian Army Headquarters has drawn up a plan to keep about 50,000 soldiers - approximately 5 divisions - in readiness to help the civilian authorities deal with the growing Naxal threat. A training programme, especially designed to meet the challenge that the Left wing extremists pose, has been drawn up, with the Lucknow-based Central Command being given the task of readying the soldiers for what could potentially be the single-biggest internal mobilisation outside the insurgency-ravaged J&K and the northeast.

It is known to all Indian army are engaged in full-fledged wars with the secessionist guerrillas at least in nine provinces named, Assam, Tripura, Nagaland, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, even Punjab. It means Indian security forces are fighting in 20 provinces of India. But they could subdue militancy, except in Punjab.

No other country in the world is so much terrorist-infested like India. No other country in the world uses its regular soldiers to subdue terrorism and extremism. I refrain from mentioning the communal and caste-based killings and riots in India. Such a country has no moral right to say that it apprehends security threat in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh government should immediately deny Indian proposal of stationing so-called air marshal in our airports. It is nothing but a trick of India

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Re: [ALOCHONA] Dhaka must ask Delhi to stop BSF instigations in the border



DO  PRESENT DHAKA HAS THE GUTS TO SPEAK OUT FOR THE NATIONAL CAUSE TO STOP THE HINDUSTAANI BEASTS "THE BESTIAL SECURITY FORCE(bsf)( like their counterpart beasts of the ME the IDF) ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????


NO  ABSOLUTELY NO SINCE THEY ARE THRONED TO BENIFIT  HINDUSTAAAAAAAN EVEN A CHILD OF OF YESTERDAY WILL SAY ON THE SPOT.

On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Editorial
Dhaka must ask Delhi to stop BSF instigations in the border

The latest intrusion of Indian nationals into Bangladesh territory, and that too to till the crops land of Bangladesh at the Shreepur border of Jaintapur in Sylhet Friday morning is really ominous. The incident took place 17 hours after a high-level flag meeting between the Bangladesh Rifles and the Border Security Force (BSF) of India where they agreed to keep peace in the border. The repeated intrusion tends to indicate that the Indian guards are out to instigate the BDR and consequently the Bangladeshi civilians are concerned about confrontation.
   
According to a report front-paged in New Age on Saturday, some 40 Indians armed with bows and arrows and other sharp weapons trespassed into Bangladesh at about 9:45am and started tilling cropland at Minartila near the BDR outpost. Although the BDR soldiers asked the Indian Khasia tribesmen not to till the cropland, the Indians did not pay any heed to the request. The BSF soldiers not only did not ask their fellow countrymen to stop tilling the Bangladesh land, but in the afternoon they took position in the bankers they had dug along a 20km border stretch after a series of clashes with the Bangladesh border guards during June 4–15. The mysterious silence of the Indian border guards over the incident of trespass reinforces the suspicion that India, although a huge nation, aspires to grab land from its neighbouring countries on the one hand and intends to undermine the peaceful foreign policies of both the countries on the other.
   
Needless to say, India and its BSF have consistently defied all agreements and conventions, bilateral and multilateral, including the last joint communiqué signed between the prime ministers of two countries early this year that assured Bangladeshis of border peace. But the Indians carried on with all kinds of aggressive and intrusive activities over the past months and years. The BSF atrocities have reached such proportions that the government of Bangladesh has been forced to enforce a dusk-to-dawn ban on movement of Bangladeshi civilians within 150 metres of the zero point inside Bangladesh territory, to prevent loss of lives.
   
In the past four months or so, the BSF has appeared rather hell bent on instigating trouble on its border with Bangladesh. There have been several incidents of intrusion of Indian nationals into Bangladesh territory, apparently at the instigation of the BSF, one of which resulted in exchange of more than 1,000 gunshots between the border guards of the two countries. Moreover, the BSF even kidnapped a BDR soldier at gunpoint and detained him for more than 10 hours. Besides, in the first five months of the calendar year, at least 24 Bangladeshis have been killed by the BSF.
   
The Awami League-led government has repeatedly claimed that it has been successful in persuading its Indian counterpart to resolve all the outstanding problems through peaceful dialogues. But the ground reality tends to indicate otherwise. India has neither taken any steps to resolve the longstanding problems, nor has even shown any sign of resolving them in the near future. Rather, Indian nationals at the backing of its border forces have tried, more than once in a month, to till Bangladeshi crops land! But the government in Dhaka has not been seen/heard to have registered any serious protests with its counterpart in Delhi, leaving the issue of territorial sovereignty in the hands of poorly equipped BDR soldiers. The government must come up with an unequivocal statement on the BSF atrocities on the border and tell the people as to how it plans to redress the issue effectively. The Indian government, on the other hand, needs to realise that by way of repeated BSF intrusion and killing Bangladeshis, it is continuously fuelling an 'anti-India' sentiment across Bangladesh to the detriment of the interests of the people of both the countries.
  
 We, therefore, suggest that Dhaka takes up the issue seriously with Delhi and Delhi asks its border guards to stop killing of Bangladeshis and prevent its citizens from intrusion into Bangladesh territories – let alone tilling land for the sake of mutual interests.
 




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Re: [ALOCHONA] India's Dream, Bangladesh's Disaster



I request all Alochoks to be united ( No matter which begum Shaheba you like or dislike) for the sake of our country and promote interest of our motherland inside and outsuide of our country. Use your capacity in full to talk about Bangladesh and India's plan to kill our future. So far both political parties failed to put a dent on Indian ambition to destroy our future. International rivers should not be used exclusively by any party.
 
I had opportunities to travel most of north Bengal in recently and dry rivers broke my heart!!
 
Please forget the name calling and political posturing. I have faith in ability of my brothers and sisters. If we focus on this issue, if we talk to media and peacefully bring up our issues, we can make meaningful difference in our future. We have taken some positive initiatives from this forum before, let us work togather once again!!
 
Respectfully,
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Sent: Sun, Jun 20, 2010 7:37 pm
Subject: [ALOCHONA] India's Dream, Bangladesh's Disaster

 
India's Dream, Bangladesh's Disaster
By John Vidal
Indian plans to divert vast quantities of water from major rivers, including the Ganges and Brahmaputra, threaten the livelihoods of more than 100 million people downstream in Bangladesh, the Bangladeshi government fears. Ministers are so concerned that they are considering appealing to the United Nations to redraft international law on water sharing.
The ambitious Indian plans to link major rivers flowing from the Himalayas and divert them south to drought-prone areas are still on the drawing board, but Bangladeshi government scientists estimated that even a 10% to 20% reduction in the water flow to the country could dry out great areas for much of the year.
More than 80% of Bangladesh's 20 million small farmers grow rice and depend on water that has flowed through India.
"The idea of linking these rivers is very dangerous.It could affect the whole of Bangladesh and be disastrous," said Hafiz Ahmad, the water resources minister. "The north of Bangladesh is already drying out after the Ganges was dammed by India in 1976. Now India is planning to do the same on [many of] the 53 other rivers that enter the country via India. Bangladesh depends completely on water."
The minister said the government had protested to India but had so far not had any response. "Without this water we cannot survive," he said. "If [rice] production falls then we would not know how to survive. We want no kind of war, but international law on sharing water is unsure and we would request the UN to frame a new law. It would be a last resort."
The Indian government is preparing to seek international funds for its giant river-linking project, intended to divert water from the north of the country to drought-prone southern and eastern states. Up to one third of the flow of the Brahmaputra and other rivers could be diverted to southern Indian rivers to provide 173bn cubic metres of water a year, supplying millions of people in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka states with more reliable drinking and irrigation water.
But the plan - which could cost between £44bn and £125bn and take at least 14 years to implement, making it potentially the largest and most expensive water project in the world - would redraw the subcontinent's hydrological map with immense ecological and social consequences.
It involves building hundreds of reservoirs and digging more than 600 miles of canals. Preliminary estimates by environment groups suggest that more than 3,000 square miles of land could be flooded and 3 million people forced off their land.
India's national water development agency, which is backing the scheme, has said it will divert enough water to irrigate 135,000 square miles of farmland and produce 34,000 megawatts of hydroelectricity. However, much of the electricity would be needed to pump the water around.
"This could trigger a long-term disaster on the subcontinent and trigger bloodshed in the region," said Shashanka Saadi, of Action Aid Bangladesh.
Bangladesh already knows the consequences of India restricting its water. The Farakka barrage, built across the Ganges 11 miles from the Bangladeshi border in 1974, had at certain times of the year reduced by half the water that once flowed via the Ganges into Bangladesh, said Mr Ahmad.
"Great parts are turning into a desert, rivers have lost their navigability, salt water is intruding into farming areas. You can walk across the river Gori at some times of the year," said the minister.
Although the Indian and Bangladeshi governments have a water sharing agreement for the Ganges, there are none for the other 53 rivers that cross the border. Bangladeshi water engineers say that Indian barrages, canals, reservoirs and irrigation schemes are slowly strangling the country and are stopping its development.
Bangladesh, which is too flat for major reservoirs, says if India goes ahead with its schemes, it may have to build a network of expensive canals to irrigate large areas now fed naturally by the Brahmaputra.
"It would cost a huge amount of money, but we may need it to survive," said Mukhles uz Zaman, the director general of the Bangladesh water development board. "At the moment there is just about enough water for everyone, but the Indian plans could be disastrous. They would have catastrophic effects on Bangladesh's rice fields."
One of the most serious consequences of India's continuing search for irrigation water is expected to be the further drying out of the Sunderbans, the world's largest coastal forest, a world heritage site shared by India and Bangladesh and vital for fish. "The forest needs fresh water to survive. Because of the Farakka dam fresh water is not reaching there and the rivers are silting up rapidly. The trees are dying" said Mr Zaman.
Local people say the Farakka barrage has already changed millions of people's lives. "In eight to 10 years I believe that most of the Sunderbans will be silted up. The rivers flow far less than before the barrage was built, and it is getting worse every year," says Humayun Kabir, of Noapara, where a large river is now a small backwater and 6 metres (20ft) of silt has been deposited across thousands of hectares.
"These new Indian plans would finish the whole area."
 
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