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Monday, July 12, 2010

[ALOCHONA] 15 per cent of Sunderban will be submerged: UNDP



15 per cent of Sunderban will be submerged: UNDP



An estimated 15 per cent of the Sunderbans delta will go under the sea by 2020, the UN Development Programme has warned. A UNDP report while describing the Sunderbans delta, which has the world's largest mangrove forest, as highly vulnerable to climate change, said, 'Neglecting the Sunderbans can have global implications.'

The report of a district-wise human development survey was released by the UNDP's chief of South and West Asia division and Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, Fadzai Gwaradzimba, here Monday. It says 54 of the 102 islands are inhabited and characterised by poor infrastructure which leaves the local poor with few alternative livelihood options.

'Over-reliance on natural resources by the delta's inhabitants can harm an already fragile eco system that is critical to maintaining the region's biological balance,' the report said.


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[ALOCHONA] But the leaders hinted to so many conspiracies !



DAD Towhid prime accused; Pintu, Torab Ali among 23 civilians on charge sheet

 
* DAD Towhid prime
* accused

Pintu, Torab Ali among
* 23 civilian accused
* 21 accused still at large
* BDR men, civilians meet
* before mutiny
* Mutiny staged to realise
* demands
* No political link found



 
 
The Criminal Investigation Department indicted 824 Bangladesh Rifles soldiers and civilians on 24 criminal charges yesterday, in connection with last year's mutiny in the border security force's Pilkhana Headquarters.The charges include murder, arson, looting, hiding of bodies, and sedition.This is the first time so many people are charged in a single case in the country.

Investigation officer (IO) of the case, CID's Special Superintendent Abdul Kahar Akand said the charge of murder was brought against all indictee including former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, former leader of a Dhaka City ward unit of Awami League Torab Ali, and BNP backed former city ward commissioner Suraiya Begum.

"The indictee cooperated among themselves in all the crimes including murder. All of them had common interest in committing the crimes," the IO told a media briefing in the CID headquarters prior to submission of the charge sheet.

After an investigation that took a year and four months, the IO submitted a 132-page charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, Dhaka in the afternoon, indicting 801 BDR soldiers and 23 civilians including a number of females.

Much talked about BDR Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) Mohammad Towhidul Islam was made the prime indictee.The indicted are six DADs, 44 subedars, 80 havildars, 60 nayeks, 68 lance nayeks, 504 sepoys, 14 cooks, 2 peons, 2 cow herders, 18 sweepers, 1 ward boy, 2 carpenters, and 23 civilians.

The charge sheet also showed 21 BDR personnel as absconding since the mutiny. The IO prayed for issuance of arrest warrants against them, and an order for confiscating their properties.The IO in the briefing also said the mutiny was staged based on some pent-up resentment among BDR soldiers regarding some demands. He said the indicted BDR members and civilians held several meetings inside and outside the border security force's headquarters prior to the mutiny.

The mutineers initially decided to keep officers hostage to fulfill their demands, and to open fire if necessary, he added. "After the killings, initially they planned to burn the bodies, but in the end they decided to bury the bodies in mass graves," he said. He also said the investigation could not find any political or foreign link to the bloody mutiny.

The indictee looted arms breaking armories, raided Darbar Hall of the BDR Headquarters, sprayed bullets there and at different other places in Pilkhana killing 74 people including 57 army officers, he said.They also looted grenades and exploded those, fired rifles targeting a helicopter, and set fire to officers' houses. "The mutineers confined family members of the army officers inside Pilkhana and tortured them. They also looted money, gold ornaments, and cellphones which were recovered later," the IO continued.

Pintu and Torab Ali used to reside near Pilkhana, one of them is a former BDR member, he said. "We have found evidence of their involvement in the incident," the IO added without elaborating.

In the charge sheet 1,285 people including the home minister; state minister for law; state minister for LGRD; former chiefs of the army, navy and air force; the police chief; journalists; and army officers were shown as prosecution witnesses. Besides, a statement of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was also recorded.

All killings took place on February 25 last year, the IO said.

CID took statements of around 9,500 people during the course of the investigation in which more than 100 CID officials assisted the IO.

Kahar also said the crimes took place at 62 spots inside Pilkhana in which 2,500 firearms were used, and CID seized 5,959 pieces of evidence including a helicopter.The IO also pleaded the court to drop the charges against 1,504 people earlier arrested in the case, as the charges against them were not proved.

But almost all of them will nonetheless face trial by special BDR courts for taking part in a mutiny.

In the event of a conviction in the cases being tried at the special courts, the maximum penalty under the existing BDR Act is seven years imprisonment.The cabinet however approved the draft Border Guards Bangladesh Act 2010 yesterday, which sets death as the maximum penalty for mutiny.

A total of 2,307 were arrested so far in connection with the mutiny, 2,282 of them were taken on remand, and 543 gave confessional statements.The criminal case was initially filed with Lalbagh police station for murder, looting, arson, and sedition, which was subsequently transferred to New Market police station.

The government sought the Supreme Court's opinion on the trial process, as opinions varied widely on whether the suspected mutineers should be tried under the law of BDR or the army, or the civilian law.The court appointed 10 senior lawyers as amici curiae meaning "friends of the court", for advice, and they suggested trial of the criminal case under the civilian law.

The IO said 64 pistols, 5 Chinese rifles, and 1 sub-machine gun are still missing. He also said 198 grenades are missing as well, but it is suspected that some of those were exploded during the mutiny.
 


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[ALOCHONA] Re: Textile Minister on AL and the media



Editorial
Angry minister picks on wrong targets

NOT all political leaders are notably moderate persons, nor are all their pronouncements mild and pleasant. But the acerbity and belligerence demonstrated by the textiles and jute minister, Abdul Latif Siddique, in the course of his address at a discussion meeting arranged by the Awami Sangskritik Forum at Dhaka Reporters Unity on Saturday, will find few parallels. The hot air he was puffing out was directed against multiple targets – Ziaur Rahman, Ershad, the media, lawyers, even 'some Awami League leaders'. His particular bĂȘtes noire were the newspaper owners whom he called 'illegitimate children of Zia-Ershad'. He exhorted the Bangladesh Chhatra League activists engaged in in-fighting to take on the opposition instead of fighting among themselves.
   
The minister has not noticed, it seems, that the Chhatra League has already ousted their main opponents from nearly all institutions and there is none left against whom they could fight, hence the in-fighting. What is particularly worrying is that his call on the Chhatra League to target the opposition may be construed as an encouragement to violence and the political scene may be further beclouded. Instead of inciting the youths of the Chhatra League to pounce upon the other student groups or whatever, he could help to reorganise them into a fine force of student politics with positive goals. This will require introduction of election and democratisation of the student body.
   
The minister then went on to vent his spleen against the media. We are not suggesting that the media has no flaws or is above criticism. But a condemnation of the media, or of any object of condemnation, must be based on sound logic. The textiles minister accused the media of trying to protect the war criminals instead of helping the efforts to prosecute them. He cited no evidence. The media is of different hues but if he is speaking of the mainstream media, then it is absurd to suggest that the media shielded the war criminals. On the contrary, it is the larger section of the media, along with some socio-cultural organisations and the Sector Commanders' Forum, that kept the issue of war crimes trial alive. Ministers and politicians had almost forgotten it.
   
Latif Siddique also decried the media for its supportive role during the military-backed emergency government of Fakhruddin Ahmed. This is only partially true; a section of the media also opposed, or highlighted the unconstitutional character of the two-year-long interim government within the limitations then prevailing. Therefore, he cannot tar the entire media with the same brush, remembering that his own party had taken an ambivalent position towards that regime. Talking to this newspaper the minister said crony capitalism exerted a bad influence on the politics of both the Awami league and the Chhatra League. Without differing with him we would say that all parties, including his own, which held power in this country created as much as were created by lumpen capitalism.
   
If the minister is angry or frustrated over the doings of his party or party colleagues, there are understandable reasons for it. But he will achieve nothing by picking unrelated issues and innocent victims.
 
On 7/12/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

Jute minister's remarks termed provocative,irresponsible 

Cross-section of people on Sunday described as 'irresponsible' and 'outrageous' the remarks of jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique that the Chhatra League should take on the opposition rather than fighting among themselves.
   They also condemned as a 'reflection of fascist
   mentality' his diatribe against the media.
   
They said that the minister's provocative remarks proved that the government had no respect for the mass media and democratic norms and values.
   At a programme of Awami Sangskritik Forum on Saturday, the minister for textiles and jute, Abdul Latif Siddique, advised the Bangladesh Chhatra League activists to stop infighting and take on the opposition parties instead. 'Why do you fight among yourselves instead of taking on them [opposition]. I know the media will kick up a fuss about my comments but I do not care…,' he said.
   
Pointing at the television cameras at the programme, he said, 'These machines are not in favour of us. The reporters might be our supporters but the owners are illegitimate sons of military rulers Zia and Ershad.'
   'The minister's remarks laid bare the fascist face of the Awami League. I am consciously using the adjective as I watch the activities of the government,' said writer Azfar Hussain.
   
'I am not at all surprised by such irresponsible remarks of the minister as we all know their cultural background. All these indicate the bankruptcy of bourgeois politics. Such bourgeois politics did not solve the issues like war crimes rather kept them alive for political gains. Such activities have kept the problems of the majority of the people, the workers and peasants, out of focus,' he said.
   
Anthropologist Rahnuma Ahmed said, 'One should respond to such inanity by asking the minister whether this is the Awami League's secret policy, whether Sheikh Hasina's standing down from the top position of Chhatra League last year was aimed at pulling the wool over our eyes; how long he [minister] thinks the public will tolerate such blatant arrogance… What I actually find deeply worrying is the sheer disregard for our public universities which have a proud history of producing so many meritorious students…'
   
'The present government is literally driving the last nail into the coffin of the public universities… Destroying the moral fabric of the public universities is a despicable crime…I demand that the government publish a white paper on where the children of ministers and top-ranking bureaucrats study, whether at public or private universities, whether at home or abroad,' she said.
   
Rights watchdog Odhikar's secretary Adilur Rahman Khan said, 'The minister's remarks once again reminded us of the fascist trend in politics when political persecution is continuing. The ruling class in Bangladesh, irrespective of partisanship, has a fascist tendency. One need not mention what was the situation during the rule of unelected governments. People, especially the students in Bangladesh, have long been struggling against such trend and the minister's remarks have proved that the struggle is not over…,' he said.
   
Robaet Ferdous, associate professor of mass-communication and journalism at Dhaka University, said the minister should be reined in so that he does not make such irresponsible remarks again. 'The whole country is suffering because of Chhatra League's violence; what the minister wants to achieve by trying to incite them to attack others,' he asked.
   
'What is most alarming is the minister's total disrespect for democracy and mass media. It seems he considers himself above everything and accountable to none. I fear bad days are ahead for Bangladeshi mass media. They have already closed down a newspaper and two television channels. The minister's tone indicates something ominous,' said Robaet.
   
Mushtaque Ahmed, a young entrepreneur and managing director of Reptile Farms Ltd, said, 'It is shocking that a minister can speak this way.'
   'The minister's remarks will provoke more violence in student politics. This eventually will strengthen the quarters who want to stop student politics,' said Mahbubul Haque, a student of mass communication and journalism at Dhaka University.
   
Rifat Rezwana, a student of Bangla at Jahangirnagar University, said 'Violence on campuses is never acceptable whether it is infighting of a student body or a clash between rival student organisations.'
   'The minister's comments made it clear that the government is not only supporting Chhatra League's activities, but also inciting them to do so,' said Munna Amzad, a student of Urdu at Dhaka University.
   
Bazlul Karim Chowdhury Abed, vice-president of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, said they did not expect such irresponsible remarks from a senior minister. 'We condemn it.'
   
Chhatra League general secretary Mahfuzul Haider Chowdhury Roton declined comments on the minister's remarks. 'Being a man of ordinary position, I think I should not make comments on what a minister has said.'
 
 
On 7/11/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Textile Minister on AL and the media
 
 




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[ALOCHONA] FW: Professor's 13 Keys Predict Obama Will Get Re-Elected (AOL News)




 


Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:41:09 -0400
Subject: Professor's 13 Keys Predict Obama Will Get Re-Elected (AOL News)

Professor's 13 Keys Predict Obama Will Get Re-Elected

Updated: 1 hour 11 minutes ago
 
Andrea Stone Senior Washington Correspondent
 
WASHINGTON (July 12) -- Never mind that President Barack Obama's job approval ratings can't break the 50 percent mark. Or that the tea party movement owes its very existence to a rising tide of anti-Obama fervor. Or even that the next presidential election is 28 months away.

Obama, says a previously prescient professor, already holds the keys to another four years in the White House.

American University history professor Allan Lichtman said Monday that according to his "13 Keys" formula, which predicts popular vote based on party performance instead of polls or campaign tactics, Obama is headed for a second term....
 
 
 


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Re: [ALOCHONA] BB Governor pursues Tk 600cr digital plan for a private company




As we know that the Bangladesh Bank is the Bankers bank and it's main ONUS is to control the cash flow in the country controlling the inflation and credit awarded by schedule banks. The central bank never ever in the world's history jumps directly to  investment.


As Dr. Atiar and  another great Economist(who invented the terminology of jongi economy) Dr. Barakat are BAL drum beaters and "Chunga Fukaiing" for centuries and for their Chamchami rewarded the coveted posting. 

So, to prove further their worth as die hard Chamcha they are risking Public money to pay off the grass root level BAL activist. This is plain and simple equation. The BALIST may disagree but this is hidden agenda of these two BAL stalwarts.

Faruque Alamgir

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
 

BB Governor pursues Tk 600cr digital plan for a private company

Abdur Rahman Khan
 
Though the Bangladesh Bank (BB) Governor deserves appreciation for promoting the proposal to set up 10,000 digital centres for providing monetary transaction services at the grassroots level, question has arisen about the very intention in selecting a particular private business enterprise having no previous experience of handling a huge financial transaction but a dismal record of failure in a pilot digital project of preparing voter's ID card.

   Terming it "a visionary project", Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman said the digital centres will be set up under SME programme, which have raised some vital questions regarding the whole programme.
   The Governor, having some special fascination for the project promoter, apparently was in a hurry to call the meeting on a weekly holiday, Saturday, July 3, 2010, to convince the Deputy Managing Directors and SME heads of all banks and non-banking financial institutions in mobilising Taka 600 crore for Digital Centre project as pursued by Digital Technologies Limited, a private business enterprise.

   Engineer Mozammel Huq, Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Technologies Limited, who also identifies himself as a columnist and ICT specialist, presented the concept paper in the gathering of financial leaders claiming that the Prime Minister's office "has given recognition" to his idea as "the need of the hour" and offered necessary cooperation.
   He also claimed that Bangladesh Bank has provided the Digital Technologies with necessary approval to establish the Multi-Bank Electronic Payment Network (MBEPN) with the "moral consent" to refinance the project at 5 per cent interest rate.

   Mozammel Haque, the project designer, has also mentioned in his presentation that Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has provided his company with necessary permission to operate digital payment and information network while the Local Government Ministry "has agreed" to allocate land for establishing Digital Centres in the business and growth centres.
   According to the proposal, Digital Centre is a "Social Business Model" and a "Nationwide Service Delivery Network" (NSDN) designed by Digital Technologies Ltd (DTL) to implement the vision of "Digital Bangladesh". The Digital Centre for each 15,000 people on an average will be established in phases by 2011.
   Digital Centres will deal with all money payments from government to the people (G2P), people to people (P2P) and people to government (P2G) including salary payment, pension payment, freedom fighters' allowance, food for works payment, students' scholarship, all utility bill payment, and foreign remittance disbursement.
   The minimum monthly income of each Digital Centre will be Tk. 54,000 against the monthly expenditure of Tk. 44,000 leaving an operational surplus of Tk 10, 000 per month, the project proposal mentions.
   
   Pilot project
   Aftab-ul-Islam, chairman of SME Foundation, suggested setting up the centres as pilot project-based programme to review and evaluate its output.
   The minimum monthly income of each Digital Centre will be Tk 54,000 against the monthly expenditure of Tk 44,000 leaving an operational surplus of Tk 10, 000 per month, the project proposal mentions.
   "If all these monetary operations are to be conducted through a these Digital Centres, then what would be the use of 6,000 to 7,000 SME branches of all the banks in the country, questioned one of the bankers who participated in the seminar on Digital Centre.
   There are efficient NGO's like BRAC, Grameen Bank or ASA who have been doing well over the decades in credit handling business. Why the government do not try to involve them in these centres, he posed a question.
   
   Others ignored
   There are many reputed IT companies in the country who have not been involved in the programme. When asked, the executive Director of Bangladesh Computer Council said he has gone through the news item but the council is in no way involved in the project.
   The government at local level is developing the union information centres to provide IT-based facilities at the grassroots level which also can be used to function as digital centres, said an official.
   Aftab-ul-Islam, chairman of SME Foundation, suggested that to test the viability of the project, it should be started as a pilot project first and then evaluate the outcome before going for a country-wide operation.
 




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Re: [ALOCHONA] The Return of The Hasina Khaledab



Dear Alochok Kg


You have spoken the minds of millions who feels that the nation had been pushed back to 100 years  and made the bestiality in the name politics the rule of the day.

No real democracy would be viable else we straighten our national priorities on consensus basis and draw a distinct line of our relation with the hegemonic neighbour who has a big mouth to devour small states like us.

Faruque Alamgir



On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:08 PM, kg <kgazi@cox.net> wrote:
 

After nearly 2 years of Return of The Hasina, it should be obvious to all, that the primitive system of governance created by AL & BNP is the Law of the Jungle. This system will NEVER develop Bangladesh into a liveable nation.

Bringing Hasina back to develop BD is like bringing Bush back to fix USA. Hasina is totally incompetent to govern any nation, and that fact was proven in her last failed regime in 1996-2001.

Her governing style is based NOT on developing the system of democracy, ie functional parliament, law & order, term limits, party democracy, anti-corruption etc - BUT, her system is based on the OLD PAKISTANI system of failed politics, ie:

- Student terrorism
- Corruption & graft
- Opposition harrassment
- incompetent governance
- failed admin in natl systems (traffic, power, police, education etc)
- abuse of Justice system
- fraud bureaucracy

This whole Pakistani style of fraud governance, established in BD since 1947, is the signature of BD politics - mastered by Hasina Khaleda and the current style of politics.

Until BD overhauls this Pak-style fraud political system - BD has no hope of developing into a liveable society. Instead there will continuation of corruption, bad governance and division of our people.




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[ALOCHONA] Re: [reform-bd] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)



Friends


To my opinion we Bangladeshi will never  ever have a real democratic government unless we chop off the so-called DEMOCRAZY weeds from political scenario and stop money and muscle and human worship as deciding factor of any election.

To attain this at the first instance we have to be patriot(no notojanu ideology) and educate our people not by lectures but becoming as examples of real citizen and our media have to shun the "Tolpi Bahak Dalali" n turn real pragmatic nation oriented journalism and ban student politics for good.

Faruque Alamgir

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Mohd. Haque <haquetm83@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

Democratic polity did not set it's root in our society for various reasons.
Since, we the people from this deltaic plain of Padma, Jamuna and Meghna always ruled by outsiders, feeling of freedom and equity was suppressed as lived under oppression and submission. In so doing developed and demonstrates submissive characteristics in general. One may disagree but that will be only distortion of reality out of sheer ego and exaggeration which can not be helpful for our progress. However, it does not mean that self respect and free thinkers were not there or no one emerged with strong voice and values.

Great majority of our population lived under poverty either under Mongols (Mughols), Turks or Panjabis. Shockingly it continues today under Sh. Hasina or Begum Khaleda who are native of this land.
The GDP in nominal or real term has increased many fold in last 60 years, yet it is far below than what achieved by our moderate neighbors, save those great achievers in our neighborhood.
Impoverishment chastised further our bodily and moral strength and values that, I am afraid, today runs into our blood and genre. Any Bangladeshi, everywhere demonstrates a personality that will bear this testimony. The same appears as deterrence to securing leading positions in competition with others, even with Pakistanis and Indians as main point of disqualification. This only excludes purely technical hands.

We usually shout at wrong time and in wrong place (out of passive characteristic) often with loud and noisy exaggeration, ineffectively.
'Bengalis could think ahead of Indians or Pakis', only on certain given circumstances but that also diminished in thin air long ago.

Take twenty most read novels from 60s to todate, find a character that effectively demonstrated and exercised good values that influenced our society effectively towards a positive dimension!

Take fifty articles of our popular columnists from the same period, you will notice inherent intellect, eloquence, objectivity and farsightedness all collapses in great inconsistency and often in great disarray representing there social positioning then and now. It does tell the same old tale.

Democracy, humanity and social justice in their perception changes along the line of their mentors (netris). What they vowed to fight yesterday against, today they accept and submit only to satisfy their masters. When they claim as scholars (budhijibi), can't be called free human.

Take example of Rab killings, custodial deaths, high court's inaction or misruling, injustice that taken place under BNP, you will notice how vehemently those scholars opposed and stood as symbol of a savior of democracy, justice and human rights. Today they are very silent on the same issues, accepts the crimes as committed by their Netris. It can not be from an independent mind that takes it's wisdom from its own values. But why we are so? Their submissive and criminal embedded psychology as we have seen our history books, repeats - only to safeguard and protect the 'dada babu, korta, mohajon and its equivalent today.

Today when we count on our GNP or literacy rate both explains the conditions of the majority. No one is ready to take responsibility and ownership of our sordid conditions and status, yet they plan for a life time rule.
It is a strange manifestation in our society, strange indeed to prove that we love freedom, we care for justice for our people.
We have a long way to go!




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Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Fwd: Happy youth: 42% wants to leave the country



Dear Alochoks,
 
If we connect the jergon - best brains are not allowed to stay in the country or they are settled in outside. When I do believe this, yet I am frustrated as I notice that all these best brains serving the best economies and societies or humanities, there contributions do not appears as such.
If you go to a book shelf in - say Dubai or Kuala Lumpur or in London or New York how many titles you see authored by our best brains settled and enjoyed their lives in west. Please do not bring in Tommy Mian or Monica Ali as reference.
 
Would appreciate if you can start a healthy debate on my frustration.

--- On Fri, 9/7/10, ezajur <Ezajur@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: ezajur <Ezajur@yahoo.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Fwd: Happy youth: 42% wants to leave the country
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, 9 July, 2010, 12:09 AM

 
They are happy because most of them have given up on having higher expectations of Bangladesh. As with many things in life - one can be happier if one cares less. This disengagement is NOT from world trends. They want to go out and meet world trends head on. Their disengagement is from trends in Bangladesh.

They want to leave the country not because of ignorance of the outside world but because of their knowledge of the world inside Bangladesh.

You could not last 5 minutes in an argument with a youngster determined to build a life abroad. And you needn't worry. As a nation we don't want or encourage young talent to stay. Which is why no one gives a damn that every year thousands of our best young people leave.

This is the Bangladesh created by the older generation who support the crimes and lies of AL and BNP. And now this same generation blames the younger generation. No wonder our youth have disengaged.

Political activists aren't worth the spit of our young people. Our young people go abroad and lead more productive lives in safer environments with a better ethical setting.

Parents and grandparents don't encourage their kids to return even if it breaks their hearts.

Because of our politics.

Even all the AL who faint at the sight of Joy know that what they like about Joy would not be there if Joy had spent his life in Bangladesh mixing in AL circles. Dhekthe hobeh na kar nathi? Ji na. Dhekthe hobeh kuthai manush hoilo.

42% want to leave their country - its a good sign. It indirectly shows the rejection of the Bangladesh of AL and BNP.

Even AL and BNP activists abroad don't return to Bangladesh when their party wins power!

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> ------ Forwarded message ----------
> From: Javed Ahmad
>
> They are 'happy' because they are not aware of many of the world trends
> and events that is taking shape and how they might affect them. And they
> 'want to leave the country' because they do not know what 'freedom' means as
> the world is gradually turning into a prison. Our present young generation
> are the believers of "ignorance is bliss". Soon they would come to know the
> truth and will be totally clue less. Perhaps then they would come to
> understand that this life is not a bed of roses.
>
> --- On *Sun, 6/13/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@...>
> Subject: Re: Happy youth: 42% wants to leave the country
> To:
> Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010, 2:28 AM
>
>
> *Most youths are happy, but half of them want to go abroad*
>
> *British Council* survey reveals
>
> Eighty eight per cent of young people in Bangladesh are either happy or very
> happy while 42 per cent young people want to go abroad, said a survey report
> conducted by the British Council.
>
> On the findings of the study, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said: "The total
> number of young people in Bangladesh is around 55 million. Among this 88 per
> cent are happy or very happy while 1.6 per cent are unhappy. It's a positive
> sign for our country. As the young generation is happy they can bring a
> better future for the country."
>
> She said 76.5 per cent of youth believe women should play a greater role in
> decision making affecting their community while 73 per cent of them own a
> mobile phone. Both are good signs as we are going on our way of fulfilling
> Vision 2021, she added.
>
> The foreign minister said this while speaking at the launching ceremony of
> the survey report titled "Bangladesh: The Next Generation" at a city hotel
> on Saturday.
>
> British High Commissioner Stephen Evans said: "This survey demonstrates the
> need and opportunities offered by mobilising one of the Bangladesh's
> greatest assets--the 55 million young people between the ages of 15 and 30
> and pointed to the significance of active citizenship in building
> communities and improving livelihood to take Bangladesh forward."
>
> British Council Director Charles Nuttall OBE recognised the transformational
> power of young Bangladeshis and added: "We hope the report will promote
> discussion on how the immense social and human capital that Bangladeshi
> youth have to offer can be harnessed."
>
> The survey involved hour long interviews with 2,167 males and females aged
> between 15 and 30, which the British Council claims were representatives of
> the demographics of young people in Bangladesh.
>
> The survey found that young people had an overall positive view of the
> country's progress - with 79 percent believing that "the country is heading
> in the right direction". However, 60 percent of the interviewees said that
> they felt that corruption will or may get worse in the next five years.
>
> They ranked bribery as the second most important factor, next to education,
> in securing a job- with 12 percent believing it to be the major factor.
>
> It also found that only 15 percent thought that student politics is a good
> thing. Another 36 percent said student politics has a detrimental effect on
> educational institutions.
>
> http://fe-bd.com/more.php?news_id=102985&date=2010-06-13
>
> On 6/13/10, Isha Khan
> <bdmailer@...<http://mc/compose?to=bdmailer@...>>
> wrote:
> >
> > *British Council* survey on bangladesh youth
> >
> > http://www.dailyjanakantha.com/news_view.php?nc=15&dd=2010-06-13&ni=21648
> >
>




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Re: [ALOCHONA] The Return of The Hasina Khaleda



K Gazi,
 
Did read your postings in UV, keep writing.
 
Haque


--- On Sun, 11/7/10, kg <kgazi@cox.net> wrote:

From: kg <kgazi@cox.net>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] The Return of The Hasina Khaleda
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, 11 July, 2010, 6:08 PM

 
After nearly 2 years of Return of The Hasina, it should be obvious to all, that the primitive system of governance created by AL & BNP is the Law of the Jungle. This system will NEVER develop Bangladesh into a liveable nation.

Bringing Hasina back to develop BD is like bringing Bush back to fix USA. Hasina is totally incompetent to govern any nation, and that fact was proven in her last failed regime in 1996-2001.

Her governing style is based NOT on developing the system of democracy, ie functional parliament, law & order, term limits, party democracy, anti-corruption etc - BUT, her system is based on the OLD PAKISTANI system of failed politics, ie:

- Student terrorism
- Corruption & graft
- Opposition harrassment
- incompetent governance
- failed admin in natl systems (traffic, power, police, education etc)
- abuse of Justice system
- fraud bureaucracy

This whole Pakistani style of fraud governance, established in BD since 1947, is the signature of BD politics - mastered by Hasina Khaleda and the current style of politics.

Until BD overhauls this Pak-style fraud political system - BD has no hope of developing into a liveable society. Instead there will continuation of corruption, bad governance and division of our people.




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[ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)

Democratic polity did not set it's root in our society for various reasons.
Since, we the people from this deltaic plain of Padma, Jamuna and Meghna always ruled by outsiders, feeling of freedom and equity was suppressed as lived under oppression and submission. In so doing developed and demonstrates submissive characteristics in general. One may disagree but that will be only distortion of reality out of sheer ego and exaggeration which can not be helpful for our progress. However, it does not mean that self respect and free thinkers were not there or no one emerged with strong voice and values.

Great majority of our population lived under poverty either under Mongols (Mughols), Turks or Panjabis. Shockingly it continues today under Sh. Hasina or Begum Khaleda who are native of this land.
The GDP in nominal or real term has increased many fold in last 60 years, yet it is far below than what achieved by our moderate neighbors, save those great achievers in our neighborhood.
Impoverishment chastised further our bodily and moral strength and values that, I am afraid, today runs into our blood and genre. Any Bangladeshi, everywhere demonstrates a personality that will bear this testimony. The same appears as deterrence to securing leading positions in competition with others, even with Pakistanis and Indians as main point of disqualification. This only excludes purely technical hands.

We usually shout at wrong time and in wrong place (out of passive characteristic) often with loud and noisy exaggeration, ineffectively.
'Bengalis could think ahead of Indians or Pakis', only on certain given circumstances but that also diminished in thin air long ago.

Take twenty most read novels from 60s to todate, find a character that effectively demonstrated and exercised good values that influenced our society effectively towards a positive dimension!

Take fifty articles of our popular columnists from the same period, you will notice inherent intellect, eloquence, objectivity and farsightedness all collapses in great inconsistency and often in great disarray representing there social positioning then and now. It does tell the same old tale.

Democracy, humanity and social justice in their perception changes along the line of their mentors (netris). What they vowed to fight yesterday against, today they accept and submit only to satisfy their masters. When they claim as scholars (budhijibi), can't be called free human.

Take example of Rab killings, custodial deaths, high court's inaction or misruling, injustice that taken place under BNP, you will notice how vehemently those scholars opposed and stood as symbol of a savior of democracy, justice and human rights. Today they are very silent on the same issues, accepts the crimes as committed by their Netris. It can not be from an independent mind that takes it's wisdom from its own values. But why we are so? Their submissive and criminal embedded psychology as we have seen our history books, repeats - only to safeguard and protect the 'dada babu, korta, mohajon and its equivalent today.

Today when we count on our GNP or literacy rate both explains the conditions of the majority. No one is ready to take responsibility and ownership of our sordid conditions and status, yet they plan for a life time rule.
It is a strange manifestation in our society, strange indeed to prove that we love freedom, we care for justice for our people.
We have a long way to go!


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[ALOCHONA] Bravo Bangladesh – Hurray Demoncracy



Bravo Bangladesh – Hurray Demoncracy

During general strike called in Bangladesh on June 27, 2010, members of the students and youth front of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League were openly seen on various roads with iron bars, field-hockey sticks and other weapons. They were mercilessly assaulting the opposition activists and leaders, while members of law enforcing agencies were seen giving protection and instigation to such unruly thuggish activists of the party in power.

Following such broad-day-light display of anarchism by the ruling party activists, a senior minister in the cabinet and general secretary of ruling Bangladesh Awami League, Syed Ashraful Islam said, his party would not take responsibility of the activities [anarchy] of the student front or youth front of his party for attacking the opposition activists during the general strike.

Meanwhile on the same day [June 27, 2010], members of infamous Rapid Action Battalion [RAB] accompanied by ruling party activists stormed into the 3-story residence of Bangladesh Nationalist Party [main opposition] leader and former minister Mirza Abbas, vandalized all the rooms as well physically assaulted his 95-year old mother Kamala Khatun, 12-year old daughter along with 20 more members of his family and party. The unruly members of Rapid Action Battalion mercilessly assaulted Mirza's wife Aforza Abbas. Valuables were looted from the house during such 'action'.

In a chocked voice, Kamala Khatun told reporters that, for the first time in her life, she has witnessed such atrocities of the members of law enforcing agencies. She said, her grand-daughter was also physically assaulted and humiliated by the members of Rapid Action Battalion and several ruling party activists.

Lt. Colonel Ziaul Ahsan, chief of RAB's intelligence wing said, they went inside the house and charged baton on the BNP workers there after brick chips has been thrown at them during the general strike. Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner's office said, none of the members of Bangladesh Police were present when RAB entered the house of Mirza Abbas.

Giving quick reactions to such barbaric actions of the ruling party activists and members of law enforcing agencies including Rapid Action Battalion, people started sending reactions to newspaper offices.

They said, "Why and how members of law enforcing agencies went inside the residence of any citizen without a valid warrant of arrest."

Meanwhile, a ruling party lawmaker and former minister Barrister Abdul Matin Khosru expressed serious concern at the notoriety of members of Rapid Action Battalion. He said, "I saw on television [lawmen] beating up women after entering into a house; it is in no way acceptable. Bangladesh Awami League cannot do it. Who are these overenthusiastic people? They should be brought to account for their actions."

Though notoriety of the ruling party activists and several members of law enforcing agencies sparked harsh criticism even inside the ruling party, home minister Advocate Shahara Khatun thanked the lawmen for discharging their duties with 'courage' and 'patience'.

Commenting on such notoriety of the members of Rapid Action Battalion, Dhaka's leading English daily newspaper New Age in an editorial wrote: "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 'Bangladesh 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 Bangladesh Chhatra League [student front of the ruling party], who will?"

Another leading English language newspaper The Daily Star said in editorial comment: "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 government. If that be so, government's credibility will be called into further question."

Police arrested hundreds of opposition activists and leaders during the general strike. Former minister Mirza Abbas, lawmaker Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anny, BNP's vice president and former Bangladeshi ambassador in Washington Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury are also arrested. Later, Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury was placed on remand for interrogation on charge of obstructing police from discharging duties and vandalizing vehicles during Sunday's general strike.

Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury is not only a former ambassador but also a veteran injured freedom fighter, who fought for the independence of Bangladesh in 1971. Bringing charge of vandalizing vehicles against him would sound absolutely funny if not rubbish. On the other hand, government's reluctance in taking any action against the members of Rapid Action Battalion [RAB] evidently proves that Bangladeshi politicians and opposition voices are under severe state-patronized terror.

Both Awami League and BNP claim to be democratic political party. But the way ruling party behaved during Sunday's general strike, it shows a very bad picture of the prevailing situation in Bangladesh. People are terming 'democracy' of these political parties as 'demoncracy' [demonic attitude under the garb of democracy]. Bangladeshi democracy has always been obstructed by various anti-democratic forces since independence of the country. Sunday's incidents, especially unruly behavior of the ruling party men as well as notoriety of the members of law enforcing agencies, particularly Rapid Action Battalion [RAB], which is led by military officers once again rings the alarming bell. The entire issue should be properly investigated and stern actions should be taken against each and every member of RAB, who were behind such nasty incident.

Hope Bangladeshi leaders will at least learn to behave sensibly and democratically. Otherwise, they entire nation will only suffer. We want a stable democracy. But, in no way, we can tolerate demoncracy.

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[ALOCHONA] World Commission on Dams



World Commission on Dams

Body Seeks to Establish Standards for Large Dams and Assess Alternatives.

Professor Kader Asmal, South Africa's Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, announced here today the creation of a new World Commission on Dams. The Commission, which he will chair, is a major international initiative aimed at bringing a more responsible approach to investments in large dam projects by conducting the first-ever independent global review of their costs and benefits.

"I have agreed to chair the Commission," said Asmal after the announcement, "because I believe that it provides an unusual and unique opportunity to address one of the most intensely debated issues in sustainable development today. The fact that both dam proponents and critics reached consensus on creating this Commission, and have continued to work together over the last eight months to establish it, is a significant step forward and bodes well for the future work and success of the Commission."

The Commission includes business leaders and noted environmentalists and social activists as well as internationally renowned experts in water and energy resources development.

The Commission will carry out a two-year review of the development effectiveness of large dams and develop standards and guidelines to advise countries on future dam-building decisions. It will also conduct an assessment of alternatives. The Commission's final report and recommendations will be delivered in the year 2000. By working closely with both advocates and opponents of large dams, the Commission's 12 members will seek to overcome the deadlock which has polarized the international debate on large dams.

The establishment of the Commission was the unanimous recommendation of governments, civil society organizations, international financial institutions, and private business people who met in Gland, Switzerland, in April 1997, to discuss the future of large dams. The meeting, hosted by the World Bank Group and IUCN-The World Conservation Union, was the result of more than 18 months collaboration to develop an open and clear dialogue on the role of large dams in sustainable development.

Professor Kader Asmal, was invited to chair the Commission in September 1997 by James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, and David McDowell, Director General of IUCN, and he has subsequently conducted extensive consultations with the stakeholder representatives from the April meeting to put together a top quality group of commissioners. This group of stakeholders will be actively involved in the work of the Commission.

Wolfensohn, commenting on the creation of the Commission, said, "Much of the credit for having pulled this off must go to Professor Asmal." The World Bank President added,

"This is a most remarkable group of distinguished leaders, bringing a wide range of experience and perspectives to this complex task. I salute the commissioners for agreeing to work, on the basis of consensus, in coming up with standards which we trust will provide a framework for all future dam investments."

McDowell of IUCN, the world's largest grouping of environmental and development organisations committed to conservation, said "We look to the Commission to address the difficult trade-offs that affect the biodiversity value of ecosystems and the daily life of communities when decisions about water resources and energy development are made."


The World Commission on Dams Framework - a Brief Introduction
(prepared by International Rivers)

February 29, 2008

With support from the World Bank and IUCN, the independent World Commission on Dams (WCD) was created in May 1998. Its mandate was to review the development effectiveness of dams, and to develop standards and guidelines for future dams. The Commission was chaired by South Africa's water minister Kader Asmal and consisted of twelve members from governments, industry, academia, and civil society.

During its two-year lifetime, the WCD carried out the most comprehensive evaluation of large dams ever done to date. It commissioned 130 technical papers, studied seven dams and three dam-building countries in great depth, reviewed another 125 dams in less detail, carried out consultations in different parts of the world with 1,400 participants, and accepted 950 submissions from experts and the interested public. Altogether, the WCD reviewed experiences from 1,000 dams in 79 countries.

The WCD concluded that while "dams have made an important and significant contribution to human development," in "too many cases an unacceptable and often unnecessary price has been paid to secure those benefits, especially in social and environmental terms, by people displaced, by communities downstream, by taxpayers and by the natural environment." For example, dams have physically displaced 40-80 million people worldwide, and most of these people have never regained their former livelihoods. In many cases, dams have led to a significant and irreversible loss of species and ecosystems, and efforts to mitigate these impacts have often not been successful.

To improve development outcomes of water and energy projects, the World Commission on Dams presented a new framework for decision-making based on recognizing the rights and assessing the risks of all interested parties. The WCD framework puts forward seven general "strategic priorities" each based on a set of "policy principles." A set of 26 "guidelines for good practice" lay out specific actions for complying with the strategic priorities at five key stages of the project development process. The list below summarizes the WCD's recommendations in ten points.

After publishing its final report in November 2000, the WCD dissolved. Yet the WCD framework lives on and has become the most important benchmark in international dam building. Several governments – including Germany, Nepal, South Africa, Sweden and Vietnam – have organized dialogue processes to integrate WCD recommendations into national policy. The World Bank, export credit agencies and the International Hydropower Association, while critical of specific recommendations, have endorsed the WCD's strategic priorities. The member states of the EU have decided that carbon credits from large dams can only be sold on the European market if the projects comply with the WCD framework. International Carbon Investors & Services, a group of international banks and other bodies involved in carbon trading, also require WCD compliance for large hydro projects.

The requirement for dams to comply with the WCD framework under EU and other policies has created a demand for guidance on how to implement the framework and assess compliance with it. The "criteria checklists" and guidelines in chapter 9 of the WCD report are key to these tasks. Some governments have also prepared their own checklists and guidelines. The following list is not a checklist for developers, but an illustrative sample of key WCD recommendations compiled by International Rivers.

Key WCD recommendations:

1. Development needs and objectives should be clearly formulated through an open and participatory process, before various project options are identified.

2. A balanced and comprehensive assessment of all options should be conducted, giving social and environmental aspects the same significance as technical, economic and financial factors.

3. Before a decision is taken to build a new dam, outstanding social and environmental issues from existing dams should be addressed, and the benefits from existing projects should be maximized.

4. All stakeholders should have the opportunity for informed participation in decision-making processes related to large dams through stakeholder fora. Public acceptance of all key decisions should be demonstrated. Decisions affecting indigenous peoples should be taken with their free, prior and informed consent.

5. The project should provide entitlements to affected people to improve their livelihoods and ensure that they receive the priority share of project benefits (beyond compensation for their losses). Affected people include communities living downstream of dams and those affected by dam-related infrastructure such as transmission lines and irrigation canals.

6. Affected people should be able to negotiate mutually agreed and legally enforceable agreements to ensure the implementation of mitigation, resettlement and development entitlements.

7. The project should be selected based on a basin-wide assessment of the river ecosystem and an attempt to avoid significant impacts on threatened and endangered species.

8. The project should provide for the release of environmental flows to help maintain downstream ecosystems.

9. Mechanisms to ensure compliance with regulations and negotiated agreements should be developed and budgeted for, compliance mechanisms should be established, and compliance should be subject to independent review.

10. A dam should not be constructed on a shared river if other riparian States raise an objection that is upheld by an independent panel.


The full Report of the World Commission on Dams :

http://www.dams.org//docs/report/wcdreport.pdf


The annexes :
 


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