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[ALOCHONA] Fwd: [Dahuk]: articles on human rights in bangladesh





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From: Shimul Chaudhury <honestdebater@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 8:22 AM
Subject: [Dahuk]: articles on human rights in bangladesh
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Please read and spread articles in this website:

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/index.php


for individual articles:

Digital Rape in Analog Bangladesh

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/3.php

 

Genealogy of militancy in Bangladesh and some threatening worries

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/15.php

 

Silence of civil society

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/10.php

 

The road to BAKSAL

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/17.php

 

Thoughts on BAKSAL, Mahmudur Rahman and the media

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/16.php

 

Thoughts on RU Incident: Untold Facts

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/2.php

 

In Memoriam 28 October 2006

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/1.php

 

Reasons for collective actions to shield Mahmudur Rahman from Awami regime's cruel exercise of power

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/14.php

 

BSF Killings and Bangladeshi Politics

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/12.php

 

New polarization in Bangladeshi politics

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/11.php

 

Freedom of expression in Bangladesh: the case

of Abu Karim

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/7.php

 

Test on patriotism

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/5.php


Concerns for civil rights in Bangladesh and

a consistency check!

http://humanrightsinbangladesh.com/4.php




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[ALOCHONA] Now you know why they are after your factories



India trails Bangladesh in RMG exports

Bangladesh's textile and apparel exporters are giving a tough competition to their Indian counterparts in both the United States and European Union.
   A report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industries, released on Monday, showed that Bangladesh witnessed a growth of 3.6 per cent in its apparel exports to the EU market in 2009, while all its major competitors like China, Turkey and India experienced negative growth.
   The EU and US are the major destinations of textiles from both Bangladesh and India.
   The FICCI analysis had noted that India's exports of textiles and apparel had witnessed a negative growth of around 11 per cent to US and EU in 2009, but still managed to increase its share by 0.17 per cent in both the markets.
   Bangladesh, Vietnam and Indonesia had seen slightly higher increase in their shares in US textiles and clothing market in the recession year 2009 over 2008.
   According to the FICCI report; the share of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam and China increased by 0.5, 0.4, 0.67 and 4.3 percentage points respectively in US imports in 2009 as compared to 0.17 percentage points for India. In fact, in 2009, Vietnam managed to surpass India in terms of share in US imports of textiles and apparels.
   The apex trade body observed that India's textiles and apparel exports to the US grew by 4.2 per cent per annum between 2004 and 2009; while those of Bangladesh witnessed a growth of 11.5 per cent. China, Vietnam and Indonesia registered a growth of 15.3 per cent, 14.5 per cent and 8.9 per cent respectively in textile and apparel exports to the US.
   India's share in EU market of apparel increased from 6.8 per cent to 7.2 percent while that of Bangladesh increased from 7.5 per cent to 8.9 per cent. China's share in EU's apparel imports from third countries increased from 42.7 per cent to 44.7 per cent but that of Turkey fell slightly from 12.7 per cent to 12.2 per cent.
   The FICCI analysis revealed that the share of Bangladesh in EU's imports of apparels in 2005 had been almost equal to that of India (around 6.2 per cent). In 2008, the share of Bangladesh had been 7.5 per cent and India's share had been 6.8 per cent in EU's imports of apparels – a difference of just 0.7 percentage points.
   But, in 2009, the gap had further widened with the share of Bangladesh being 8.9 per cent and that of India 7.2 per cent - a difference of 1.7 percentage points, the report stated.
 


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[ALOCHONA] India’s provocation campaign takes a new turn



 
India's provocation campaign takes a new turn
 
SUNDAY'S incident on the Jaintapur border in Sylhet, in which 10 Bangladeshis were wounded when members of India's Khasia community opened fire from the other side of the frontier, had been in the offing for quite some time now. According to a report front-paged in New Age on Monday, the Khasia people have been tilling cropland about 200 metres inside Bangladesh since June 25, 17 hours after a high-level meeting between the Bangladesh Rifles and the Border Security Force of India. While the BSF and, by implication, the Indian government have paid little heed to the protests lodged by the BDR, the Khasia people have sought to make it clear that they would not stop their incursion into Bangladesh territory for tilling cropland. On June 26, a Bangladeshi teenager was wounded when he was shot from across the border. Death of, and injury to, Bangladeshis in gunshots fired from across the border is neither unprecedented nor isolated. In fact, Jaintapur has become a flashpoint of border skirmishes these days. The oddity about the latest incident is that this time around it was not the BSF soldiers but people of the Khasia community, themselves repressed and exploited by the Indian state, who had pulled the trigger. It seems that the Indian state and its ruling class have chosen to use an underprivileged and exploited section of the Indian society as fodders to carry on with its campaign of brazen provocation against Bangladesh.
   
The other disturbing facet of Sunday's incident is the attack on the BDR outpost by people of the bordering villages. According to the New Age report, the agitated villagers also blocked the Sylhet-Tamabil road for two hours in protest at the unresponsive role of the BDR following the shooting by the Khasia people. They were also unhappy with the BDR for not allowing them to drive away the trespassing Indians by themselves. While the anger and frustration of the villagers is understandable, the BDR has certainly played a commendable role by not letting the villagers take charge. Had it not intervened the situation might very well have gone out of control and resulted in the loss of lives on both sides of the border. In fact, the BDR has consistently displayed its commitment to maintaining peace and order on the border despite relentless provocations and atrocities by the Indian border guards. Unfortunately, neither the BSF top brass nor the Indian government has shown any signs that may suggest that they are appreciative of the BDR's role. Disturbingly still, the Awami League-led government, due to either inability or unwillingness to effectively raise the issue, has exposed the BDR to wrath of the people in the bordering villages. The BDR, already weakened by the February 25-26 rebellion and its aftermath, must not be projected as 'villains', so to speak, for the sake of greater national interest.
   
According to a report also front-paged on Monday, the government on Sunday initiated a move to lodge a protest with the Indian government against the shooting by the Khasia people. We are also told that the Indian high commissioner in Dhaka was called in by the government and asked to inform New Delhi of the development on the Jaintapur border. Regrettably, however, there are hardly any reasons for us to be reassured. After all, the incumbents have thus far appeared rather docile in their diplomatic exchanges with their Indian counterparts. In fact, the government's foreign policy towards India has been criticised as being subservient by different quarters. Hence, it is time for the government to assertively raise the issue with India and persuade it to take effective actions so that such provocative actions by either the BSF or Indian nationals do not recur. At the same time, the government needs to clarify its position vis-à-vis India to the public and also take steps to inform the democratically-oriented citizens of India and beyond about New Delhi's aggressive role. After all, mobilisation of public opinion across the borders is imperative to create pressure on New Delhi so that it refrains from such acts of aggression – for the sake of peace and stability in the region.
 


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Fwd: [ALOCHONA] BONDE MATAROM GROUP Staged "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" drama in Dhaka




" Once I told a Muslim friend of mine that worshipping the Shiva Linga and kissing the Black stone in the house of Kaba is nothing different"He could not gather any logic to answer me

I request you to use your "Indian" name in this forum. The Arab smelling name you are using probably not your "Real" name............[ This is an old Indian trick in the net]
 
I will advise people like you to be generous in your perceptions and view thing in a wider perspective.
 
There is a another hypothesis that, you were talking to a coconut and imagining it as your friend. Muslims with average knowledge of religion should be able to explain the difference. I am being generous with two possible views as per your request!!
 
With due respect to you ( Whatever your name is) I have serious doubt about your knowledge of Islam or Hinduism. Kissing black stone has NO religious significance to Muslims [ Yes I can produce religious texts if you like to learn more]. However Shiva Lingam in Hindu custom is a whole different game!! [ To put it mildly]. It is a deity!!
 
Muslims [ During time of prophet Muhammad(PBUH)] used to stand on Kaba's and gave Azan [ Call to prayer]. People can easily finish their Hajj without physically kissing the black stone. By kissing the stone we show our love for Prophet Abraham and Muhammad (PBUT). Nothing more than that.
 
I may disagree with some views of Farida Majid but I respect her. She is sincere in whatever she stands for. I agree with her in many areas like empowerment of women and increase tolerance in our soceity.
 
Reverting to "Bande matarom" for a minute. I am well aware that, most people do not see it as communal song. Mostly it is used to show love for "Mother India". Which is fine.
 
However if you go by the words of that song and analyze them according to religious scriptures, knowledgeable Muslims would be troubled by it. According to Islam, we should ONLY worship Allah. "Bande" urges us to worship motherland and it goes against the core spirit of monotheistic Islam [ All Abrahamic faiths( Islam, Judaism and Christianity) teaches us that]. We can surely love,praise and protect our respective lands of birth but Muslims consciously cannot take part in "Worshipping"[ Bandana] land or similar rituals. Muslims can freely praise and pray to God who gave us our motherlands and other bounties of life.
 
Actually it is a small difference. We praise God who gave us countries we love instead of praise a piece of land which does not have life of its own [ Or any genuine feeling]. At least God knows when you are thanking God. A lifeless land have no way of appreciating your love for her [ According to Islamic logic----no disrespect to different customs. Just want to explain the differences].
 
Shanti & Shalom.
 
--qr
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Akbar Hussain <akbar_50@hotmail.com>
To: alochona group <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Jul 2, 2010 12:58 am
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] BONDE MATAROM GROUP Staged "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" drama in Dhaka

 
Very well said Mr. Islam,
 
To understand Farida Majid you have to travel a long way from the 7th century Arabia to India, the land where our forefathers were born and raised. Your culture, food, language and your features are all Indian but you love to think to be an Arab. Your motherland's praise makes you hateful but you love to kiss the hand of a Saudi mullah. Joy Bangla is a Hindu word to you but Zindabad makes you happy. Your mother tongue smells infidel to you but an Arabic word takes you to the heavens. What a miserable ignorance, what a mean interpretation? What a narrow understanding?
 
 A few weeks before I met an Indian Muslim man in full Saudi dress. I asked him if he was an Arab. He said no' but this is my Islamic dress. I reminded him that Muhammad's sworn enemies such as Abu Zahel also wore the same dress as Muhammad but to you why this dress has become so holly? He declined to answer because a fool can't understand logic. Once I told a Muslim friend of mine that worshipping the Shiva Linga and kissing the Black stone in the house of Kaba is nothing different. He could not gather any logic to answer me. I will advise people like you to be generous in your perceptions and view thing in a wider perspective.
 
If you have the courage to respond to my comments come on but do not ignore me by taking me as an enemy of Islam. Ignorance and dogmatism are the most powerful and potent enemies of Islam, it's not me or Farida Majid.
 
Akbar Hussain
 



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From: aminul_islam_raj@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 03:05:26 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] BONDE MATAROM GROUP Staged "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" drama in Dhaka

 

Dear All,
I am familiar with the name of one farida majid. I went through many of her postings.She said that "Bonde Matarom is not a comunal Slogan.But it is clear that she is hard core anti muslim.
This Farida majid and his like minded people staged a  "Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism"  drama in Dhaka
 
Attorney William Sloan, a foreign delegate, addresses the International Conference on Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism at the Osmani Memorial Hall in the capital yesterday. Speakers at the conference urged international community for extending support to the process that Bangladesh government has initiated to try the war criminals. Photo: Shawkat JamilStaff Correspondent
The MSSK Trust, Forum for Secular Bangladesh and Trial of War Criminals of 1971 and South Asian People's Union against Fundamentalism and Communalism jointly organised the conference titled "The International Conference on Peace, Justice and Secular Humanism" at Osmani Memorial Auditorium.
In the resolution titled "Dhaka Declaration", the conference also called on international community for extending support to the process that Bangladesh government has initiated to try the war criminals.
The resolution was adopted at concluding session of the conference following daylong discussions attended by delegates including human rights activists, lawyers and experts from 11 countries.
The resolution said the trial of war criminals in Bangladesh would discourage the culture of impunity and urged international community "to unite against the culture of impunity to prevent genocides and war crimes from recurring."
Countries affected by terrorism and regional extremism were also urged to support the proposed regional taskforce, a taskforce proposed by Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina, to combat religious extremism and terrorism.
The resolution also emphasized strict measures to check money laundering for what they said, "fundamentalist organisations across the world are using different NGOs, Banks and various financial institutions to finance militancy and terrorism through money laundering."
Building a domestic and regional secular humanist network by civil societies and governments across the world was also urged upon.
The conference also called upon Pakistan to take effective measures to curb and eliminate religious militancy, repeal anti-Ahmadiyya laws and blasphemy laws.
Earlier, during its inauguration, speakers from home and abroad urged all countries to form an inter-continental network based on secularism.
"Religious fundamentalism in many forms and faces has become a great problem. There is no time to lose. With cooperation from all we must cut it out globally before it is too late. Otherwise humanism will be in jeopardy," said Prof Kabir Chowdhury, president of the advisory committee of Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee.
"If there are Muslim fundamentalists in Pakistan, there must be Hindu fundamentalists in India. If there is Hindu fundamentalists in India, there is no way to resist Muslim fundamentalists in Bangladesh," said former speaker of India PA Sangma.
Former speaker of Nepal Daman Dhungana said that democracy couldn't be achieved without overcoming religious extremism.
"Individually it is tough to overcome this, but globally it can be done," he added.
Prof Shafaraj Khan from Pakistan, Prof Maxim Dubayev from Russia, terrorism expert Chris Blackburn from UK, Cecilia Wikstrom, member of MEP, Sweden, Parvin Najfgholi Ardalan, human right activist from Iran and Attorney William Sloan also spoke in the inaugural session. Journalist Shahriar Kabir conducted the programme.
Speakers also discussed Jamaat-e-Islami's link with international terrorist organizations.
"Trial of war criminal is necessary for strengthening the foundation of democracy. It is a matter of great shame that collaborators were reinstated in Bangladesh politics," said Dr Peter Custers from The Netherlands in his speech during inaugural session.
He also mentioned that European countries politically support this effort of war crimes trial and suggested taking assistance from international lawyers.
"It's never too late for justice. Time is always now. It is always the right time to punish crime against humanity," said William Sloan.




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[ALOCHONA] Chatra League atrocities



Chatra League atrocities
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Crushing the opposition in Bangladesh



Crushing the opposition in Bangladesh

 

Zoglul Husain, UK

 

London 4 July 2010. Bangladesh plunged into a new and deep political crisis as the government deliberately set itself on a collision course with the opposition, which many presume to be prompted from across the border. The overt objective of the government seems to be to crush the opposition for perpetuation of its power and its covert aim being to remove the obstacles in serving the Indian interest at the cost of the country.

 

According to some opposition quarters, the government thus acting as the obsequious minions of a hegemonic neighbouring country is bound to bring upon Bangladesh untold peril and dire consequences and, as poetic justice, upon itself too, which would be reaping a bitter harvest and, as such, it could be quite harsh and unkind too. Obaidul Quader, a BAL leader, vented out the recognition of this realisation when he said on 2 July 2010 that the present political confrontation could be "suicidal" for both the government and the opposition.

 

Repression of the media:

 

The daily Amar Desh, a popular and powerful voice of the opposition, not belonging to any particular political party, was conspiratorially shut down as the NSI nabbed its publisher for six hours to get him to sign a few blank papers, which were then converted to complaints, framed by the NSI, to arrest the editor-in-charge, Mahmudur Rahman, at about 4 am on 2 June 2010 with a 200-strong police force, on ridiculously flimsy charges. After arrest, new charges of conspiracy against the state and of patronisation of Hijb-ut Tahrir were lodged against him, again conspiratorially.

 

Defying the concerns of the US and the UK embassies for freedom of the press and also defying the court order not to torture, which is forbidden by the constitution, the police later forcibly undressed him at midnight in remand, tortured and beat him up leaving him unconscious, while the paper was closed down by the supreme court for a month, within which time, new orders may be issued. In the circumstances, the future of Mahmudur and the daily Amar Desh are uncertain at this stage.

 

As regards the vague allegations against Mahmudur of his connections with "Islamic terrorism", it needs to be remarked that, according to many, whatever there were in Bangladesh in the name of "Islamic terrorism", were created in the main by India (such as JMB) and Israel (such as HuJI-B) for their ulterior motives of imparting blemish of "terrorism" and "failed state" to the country and thus making it a target of some foreign powers with the aim of subjugating the country by India in the common interest of those countries.

 

The hegemonic neighbouring country has continued with the same heinous conspiracy unabated, with malicious propaganda by their powerful media and pockets of influence worldwide. But it would not be out of place to mention here that the evil US-Israel-India axis of the Bush era, seems to be in the process of gradually being down-graded and dismantled in the present Obama era, in spite of defiance and circumvention by both India and Israel, which may not yield their desired result, albeit definitive conclusions cannot yet be reached for lack of unequivocal official statements backed up by discernable actions.

 

As to the present government's attempt to gag the media, already previously, it closed TV channels, such as Channel-1 and Jamuna. By now, all the newspapers, indeed all print and electronic media, including online publications and websites, of Bangladesh are being controlled by the government through autocratic actions and intimidations, the TV talk shows being prevented from any dissensions and these shows are being directed to eulogies only for the government and its foreign allies. The government seems to be taking directions churned out of powerful computers of foreign lands.

 

"Persecution" of the BNP:

 

Irrespective of whether anyone supports a particular party or not, it is in the interest of the citizens in a democracy to see that human rights, democratic rights and rule of law are respected and practised and that justice prevails in matters of governance and all walks of social and political lives. Any incumbent autocracy should also learn from the history, for today's power can evaporate tomorrow, as it generally does.  

 

The countrywide general strike called by the BNP on 27 June 2010 on their 11-point demands and supported by many opposition parties, including BJI, was hugely successful and the picketing and processions of various groups of the opposition were also peaceful. But the BCL, police and RAB, according to reports, resorted to violence as they went on attacks, which were clearly seen to be unprovoked and premeditated. In particular, certain government-sponsored acts of brutality drew public condemnation, as well as international criticism, such as, of Amnesty International.

 

The brutal beating up of BNP students' affairs secretary Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie MP jointly by BCL members and the police and later, as a total disgrace to medical profession, by BAL elements of hospital doctors and staffs when Annie was taken to hospital, was a case in point. Similarly, thoroughly condemned was the joint attack of members of BCL and RAB in the peaceful house of the BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas, a former Mayor, who was earlier arrested the same day. The people, who gathered in the house after his arrest, were beaten up brutally including women, among them were his wife and his 85-year old mother and, as stated by his wife, about 50 people were arrested.

 

BNP claimed that more than one thousand of their leaders and workers were arrested on the day and more than five hundred injured. Prominent among them, in addition to the two above, were Vice-Chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, Khaleda's advisers Prof M A Mannan and Adv Ahmed Azam and Rajia Begum, secretary of women's organisation, BJMD.  

 

Clearly, many of these arrests were targeted in order to weaken and demolish the BNP organisation. The arrest of Mirza Abbas and filing of case against Mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka, who may be arrested later, are aimed at weakening the BNP in Dhaka. MP Annie was arrested to weaken the student organization BJCD, while BNP adviser, former foreign secretary and former ambassador to the US, Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, to weaken foreign lobbying and Rajia Begum to weaken women's organisation, BJMD. Similarly, the arrests of the secretaries of volunteer organisation Jatiatabadi Swechhasebok Dal, Fishermen's organisation Motshojibi Dal etc. were targeted. The BNP termed these targeted attacks as "political persecution".

 

At this present tempo, any leader of the BNP, including Khaleda, may be arrested and the BNP should have no illusions of any kind about that. The government seems to be cutting off the twigs and branches of BNP, before felling the tree. Even today (4 July 2010) Hasina claimed that Khaleda was involved in the bombing of August 21, 2004 at Hasina's meeting. Is it a hint?

 

Arrest of BJI leaders:

 

The government previously arrested many members of Hijb-ut Tahrir, including its leader, and later banned the organisation. Previously also many of Jamaat and Shibir activists were arrested. In the RU BCL leader Faruk murder case in February 2010 alone, more than two hundred Jamaat and Shibir activists were arrested. And now comes the crunch, the top three leaders were arrested.

 

On 29 June 2010, Nizami, Mojahid, and Sayedee were arrested on most laughable charges of hurting Islamic sentiments. But that this was only a ploy was apparent next day when a raft of cases, such as murder of Freedom Fighters in 1971, implication in RU BCL leader Faruk Hossain murder case, torching of vehicles during the general strike of 27 June 2010, malicious propaganda against the image of the country and its foreign friends, etc. were brought against them. And then each of them was given a remand of 16 days, which is a record number.

 

Today (4 July 2010), according to reports, Law minister Shafique Ahmed said that the 1971 war crimes tribunal could have the three top Jamaat-e-Islami leaders shown arrested for crimes against humanity on the basis of witnesses and evidence.

 

The government seems to be aiming at meting out capital punishment to a number of BJI leaders and destroying the organisations of BJI and Shibir. When the Jamat-Shibir activists demonstrated today throughout the country to protest the arrest of their leaders and workers, about one hundred activists were arrested, as reported.

 

According to many, Jamaat was an ally of BAL and Ershad, during the Ershad regime of 9 years, until at the end both BAL and BJI joined the movement to bring down Ershad. Again BJI along with Ershad was an ally of BAL, during Hasina regime of 1996-2001, when at the end of it, the BJI switched sides to join a coalition with the BNP and won two ministries for Nizami and Mojahid during Khaleda regime of 2001-06. The BJI has since become a target of the BAL, while Ershad became an ally of the present BAL government.

 

So, which way is the political pendulum swinging?

 

The writing seems to be on the wall for the government. The complaint of the opposition against the government include rampant corruption, armed terror, murders, grabbing, misrule, oppression of citizens, repression, partisan control of administration, judiciary, ACC, law enforcing agencies, educational and other institutions etc. The people's discontent and swelling rage are gradually cutting the ground from under the feet of the government.

 

Additionally, its declared intent to serve Indian interest at the cost of the country has added fuel to the fire. The total silence of the Hasina government against Indian border atrocities such as killing of nine hundred innocent unarmed Bangladeshi villagers in ten years by contravening the Geneva convention, and incidents such as forcible intrusion and occupation of Bangladeshi agricultural lands in the Jaintapur border area are not going unnoticed. The people are getting further enraged.

No wonder Indian media are hinting at a possible military coup. Coup or not, the government is already finding itself in a tight corner. Within one and a half years of its coming to power, the government seems to have started tottering.

 

It is in this charged backdrop that the BNP emphatically won the CCC election held on 17 June 2010. It is the first time since 1/11 2007 that the law enforcing agencies did not interfere in the balloting system. What internal and or external influences were there at work is not crystal clear, but the returning officer Jasmine Tuli set an example of acceptable, free and fair election, just as the general elections of 1991, 1996 and 2001 were acceptable.

 

In the recent Bhola-3 by-election, the loser BNP candidate Maj (Retd) Hafiz complained of DGFI, NSI, SB etc. campaigning against him. About the general election of 29 December 2008, former BAL secretary Abdul Jalil said that the Hasina government came to power through understanding with the army. Gen (Retd) Ershad also said that without the help of the army, this government would never come to power. These three leaders summed up the situation of these rigged elections. Thus, the people who termed the CCC election a turning point are more than justified. It boosted up the spirits of the BNP camp.

 

The highly successful general strike of 27 June 2010 called by the BNP camp is indeed a notice served on the government. And the more the government resorts to repression and persecution, the more the people will be mobilised against it. What is more, if the repression exceeds the level of tolerance, some sections of the BNP and the BJI, which are involved in constitutional politics for the last three decades, may be driven underground along with sections of other opposition parties, as the opposition did during Mujib regime of 1972-75.

 

In order to play a good role in history, the political parties need to learn from the history.

 

Writer: Zoglul Husain

Email: zoglul@hotmail.co.uk



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Mon 5 Jul 2010 9:11 PM BdST

rtnn জাবি, ০৫ জুলাই (আরটিএনএন ডটনেট)-- হলে আধিপত্য বিস্তারকে কেন্দ্র করে জাহাঙ্গীরনগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে ছাত্রলীগের দুই গ্রুপের সংঘর্ষের পর জাহাঙ্গীরনগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে সরকার সমর্থক ছাত্র সংগঠন ছাত্রলীগের ১৩ কর্মীকে বহিস্কার করা হয়েছে। একইসঙ্গে অনির্দিষ্টকালের জন্য জাহাঙ্গীরনগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় ছাত্রলীগ শাখার কার্যক্রমও স্থগিত করা হয়েছে।

বহিস্কৃতরা হলেন- কাজী মারুফ সজীব, বিজয় কুমার দাশ, পারভেজ, দেবব্রত প্রিয় জনি, আরিফুল হক আরিফ, খায়রুল বাশার রাজু, শুভাশীষ কুন্ড টনি, মহিউদ্দিন আহমেদ মুহি, উজ্জ্বল কুমার দাশ, চয়ন, সকাল, স্বাধীন ও পলাশ।

সোমবার সন্ধ্যায় ছাত্র লীগের সভাপতি মাহমুদ হাসান রিপন ও সাধারণ সম্পাদক মাহফুজুল হায়দার চৌধুরী রোটন স্বাক্ষরিত এক সংবাদ বিজ্ঞপ্তিতে একথা জানানো হয়।

ছাত্রলীগের সাধারণ সম্পাদক মাহফুজুল হায়দার রোটনের জানান, বিকালে কার্যনির্বাহি সংসদের বৈঠকে এ সিদ্ধান্ত নেয়া হয়েছে। তিনি আরো বলেন, শৃঙ্খলা ভঙ্গের অভিযোগে কমিটি স্থগিত ও ১৩ জনকে বহিষ্কার করা হয়েছে।

জানা গেছে, আল-বিরুনি হলের আধিপত্য বিস্তারকে কেন্দ্র করে সোমবার বেলা ১১টার দিকে বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় শাখা ছাত্রলীগের সভাপতি রাশেদুল ইসলাম সাফিন ও সাধারণ সম্পাদক নির্ঝর আলম সাম্যের সমর্থকদের মধ্যে সংঘর্ষের হয়।

সংঘর্ষে এক সহকারী প্রক্টরসহ আহত হয়েছে অর্ধশতাধিক। আহতদের মধ্য ১৫ জনকে ঢাকা মেডিকেল কলেজ হাসপাতালে ভর্তি করা হয়েছে। এদের মধ্যে ১০ জনের অবস্থা গুরুতর। প্রত্যক্ষদর্শীরা জানায়, সংঘর্ষ চলাকালে উভয় গ্রুপের মধ্যে কমপক্ষে ১১ রাউন্ড গুলি বিনিময় হয়েছে। কয়েক দফার এ সংঘর্ষ আল-বিরুনি হল থেকে অন্য হলেও ছড়িয়ে পড়ে।

বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় ও এর আশপাশের এলাকায় এখনো আতঙ্ক বিরাজ করছে। পরিস্থিতি নিয়ন্ত্রণে ক্যাম্পাসে অতিরিক্ত পুলিশ মোতায়েন করা হয়েছে।

খবর পেয়ে বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের ভিসি অধ্যাপক শরীফ এনামুল কবীর ও প্রক্টোরিয়াল বডির সদস্যরা ঘটনাস্থল পরিদর্শন করে পরিস্থিতি নিয়ন্ত্রণে আনতে চেষ্টা চালান।

বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় ক্যাম্পাসের পরিস্থিতি শান্ত রাখতে সব ধরনের পদক্ষেপ নেয়া হচ্ছে বলে জানিয়েছেন বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় প্রক্টর আরজু মিয়া। একইসঙ্গে সাধারণ ছাত্রদেরকে নিরাপদে থাকার পরামর্শ দিয়েছেন তিনি।

এদিকে, আজ সন্ধ্যায় অনির্দিষ্টকালের জন্য জাহাঙ্গীরনগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় ছাত্রলীগ শাখার কার্যক্রমও স্থগিত করার ঘোষণা দেয় কেন্দ্রীয় সংগঠন। জাহাঙ্গীরনগর বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের গত বছর ফেব্রুয়ারি মাসে ছাত্রলীগের দুই পক্ষের মধ্যে সংঘর্ষের কারণে সেসময়ে কমিটির কার্যক্রম স্থগিত করা হয়েছিল। পরবর্তিতে ওই কমিটি বাতিল করে গত ১৯ মে সভাপতি রাশেদুল ইসলাম সাফিন ও সাধারণ সম্পাদক নির্ঝর আলম সাম্যের নেতৃত্বে নতুন কমিটি করা হয়।

আরটিএনএন ডটনেট/প্রতিনিধি/এমএম_২১০৭ ঘ.




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[ALOCHONA] Fwd: Fw: Dots make a line



------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Javed Ahmad
 
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK.

It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligrapher. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.

It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss. 


I was lucky I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me
I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months.
It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.

Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park , and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

And I have always wished that for myself.

And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.





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[ALOCHONA] Akhtar-ul Alam (LUDHOK)(Ex actinng editor ITTEFAQ)passes away



Dear all,
Veterv journalist n diplomat Akhter Ul Alam has passed away on 23/6/2010.
He served as acting editor of Daily Ittefaq.
He also serve Ittefaq As Cosulting Editor . He Was also  the Editor of Daily Dinkal.He was famous for His column "Sthan -kal patra" in ittefaq.He wrote many books.

 
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Akhtar-ul Alam passes away

Veteran journalist and a diplomat Akhtar-ul Alam passed away last night due to kidney failure in United Hospital of the capital, at the age of 71.

He worked as an acting editor of the vernacular daily Ittefaq, and also served as the country's ambassador to Bahrain.

He used to write a regular column in the Ittefaq under his pen name 'Lubdhok'.

He is survived by his wife, two sons, and a daughter. He will be buried in the Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard in Mirpur of the capital today.




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