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[ALOCHONA] Police manipulate investigation of custodial murder



Police manipulate investigation of custodial murder

September 15, 2010

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION - URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding the custodial death of Mr. Mizanur Rahman, who was extrajudicially killed by the Gulshan Police in Dhaka after having been kept in arbitrary detention for two days (For further details, please see our original appeal here: AHRC-UAC-107-2010). The AHRC has received the statement of a fellow detainee, who was also shot by the police at the time when Mizan was killed, which describes the whole story about the murder in an audiovisual interview. The police are continuously harassing the deceased's family, intimidating and obstructing them from communicating with the media and human rights organisations.

UPDATED INFORMATION:
(Based on the statements of the victim's relatives, witnesses and on documents related to the incident)

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned from a fellow detainee at the time when Mizanur Rahman, who was shot dead in the pretext of a so called "gunfight" while in Gulshan police custody, that the Gulshan police killed Mizan in direct shoot outs. Mr. Mohammad Manik, who was detained together with Mizan in the Gulshan police custody and received bullet injury in his leg, told in an audiovisual interview that Sub Inspector (SI) Anisur Rahman of the Gulshan police shot at the left legs of Mizan and Manik when both were taken out from the police cell early in the morning of 1 July 2010. The police then asked both wounded persons to run away. Mizan followed the instructions of the police and as soon as attempted to run the police fired at his other leg and he fell to the ground. However, Manik did not run to avoid Mizan's consequence and survived as he was only shot in one leg. Mizan's death was due to continuous bleeding without any treatment after both of them were taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where Manik gave an interview before camera. He described how the police officers bargained with the detainees and their families and subsequently extorted money while in detention at the Gulshan police station. Later, from the DMCH Manik was sent to the Dhaka Central Jail under the cases registered by the police officers against him along with others after the death of Mizan.

The AHRC has received an audiovisual interview of Mohammad Manik which was recorded on the same morning when he was admitted to the DMCH reveals the story. Please see the interview of Manik in Bangla language here:

Meanwhile, a High Court Division Bench of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh on 5 July 2010, four days after Mizan had been killed, ordered the Ministry of Home Affairs to form a committee to probe three custodial deaths including the death of Mizan within seven days since the Bench passed the order. The Division Bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsudding Chowdhury and Justice Sheikh Mohammad Zakir Hossain ordered the government not to include any member from the police in the probe committee. It also ordered to inform the Court that what measures had been taken as per the Code of Criminal Procedure (of 1898) following the deaths and what initiatives had been adopted in order to prevent deaths under the custody of the law-enforcing agencies and security forces. The High Court Bench passed this order following a public interest writ petition (No. 5241/2010) filed by two human rights organisations – Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation in cooperation with Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh. The Court directed the ministerial probe committee to record the statements of the eyewitnesses of the incidents of custodial deaths and submit the opinions regarding the said custodial deaths expressed by prominent columnists that were published in the media beforehand. It issued a rule against the respondents – the secretary of the Home Ministry, Inspector General of Police, Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police and the Officers-in-Charge of Dar-Us-Salam, Ramna and Gulshan police stations – asking them appear before the Court within two weeks and explain about the custodial deaths. The Court asked the Dhaka Medical College Hospital to submit the post-mortem reports of the three custodial deaths. It also made a panel of 11 prominent lawyers and jurists to assist the Court as amici curiae regarding the issue.

After the Court's order the Ministry of Home Affairs formed a two-member-probe-committee comprising Mr. Shawkat Mostofa, Joint Secretary (Law) and Mr. Mozakker Ali, Deputy Secretary (Law) of the Ministry of Home Affairs to inquire into the incident. However, the committee has not yet visited the crime scene or talked to the family of the victims of custodial death or any of the eye-witnesses.

Since the AHRC issued Urgent Appeal (AHRC-UAC-107-2010) regarding the custodial death of Mr. Mizanur Rahman under the Gulshan police custody of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) the family of the deceased has faced intimidation and threats from the police officers regularly. The family has shifted its house three times since the incident of extrajudicial killing of Mizan as a result of non-stop surveillance by the members of the law-enforcing and intelligence agencies. The cell phone of Mrs. Taslima Khatun remained unreachable for several weeks.

Later, when contacted Taslima told the AHRC that the police picked her up by their vehicle on several occasions to the Badda police station as well as other unidentified offices occupied by the police officers where she was offered money and intimidated not to communicate with the media and human rights organisations without permission from the police officers. The police also allegedly snatched Taslima's personal cell phone (+8801750000241) and provided a new cell phone (+880174 6458128) so that only the police officers have access to her. On 10 August, Mr. Akther, who claims that he is leader of the ruling political party – Bangladesh Awami League, located Taslima and returned her cell phone, which was seized by the police officers after the custodial death her husband.

In an interview with the AHRC she claims that the police officers offered her money with the intimidation that if the matter is discussed with any journalist of the media or human rights organisation, she and her family will have to bear the liabilities for such communications. She also alleges that since the extrajudicial murder of her husband by the police she has been under surveillances of the law-enforcement agencies of the country. The political activists of the ruling party and the former landlord of Taslima Akhter insisted her to collaborate with the police for the sake of saving the life and career of Sub Inspector (SI) Anisur Rahman and other police officers of the Gulshan police.

Giving examples of the pressures and intimidation that Taslima's family has received from the police and political activists Taslima alleges that the police had taken away the documents regarding a life insurance policy of her husband – Mr. Mizanur Rahman, who was killed by the police while in an arbitrary detention – and had repeatedly denied to return it until her signatures were taken on documents prepared by the police officers.

On one occasion, after two days of her husband's murder, she was taken by the police officers to a house at around midnight. An unknown person, who introduced himself as a lawyer, provided some prepared documents and took her signature and thumb prints on them while she was escorted by the police.

Moreover, in the process of intimidation the police forced Taslima's neighbours to locate her (Taslima's) whereabouts while she was hiding concerning about the security of her and her child's life.

On 20 August 2010, at around 6:30pm, Taslima's former landlord Mr. Tajul, accompanied by Mr. Akther, a local activist of the ruling political party- Bangladesh Awami League, and a plain clothed policeman, who was carrying a wireless set in hand, went to a woman, whom the police believed that she might be aware of Taslima's whereabouts, and asked woman to send Taslima to the office of the DC (Deputy Commissioner of Police) for putting signatures on certain documents. They (police and political activists) insisted that at any cost SI Anis's job should be protected with an assurance that the AC (Assistant Commissioner of Police) will correct all the papers relating to the purpose.

21 August, at about 7:05pm, Mr. Akther again called Taslima's neighbour to remind her obligation to send Taslima to the police. They insistently suggested that Taslima should go to the office DC for asserting that she signed on the papers provided by the police on her own will. At 7:30pm on the same evening, Taslima went to the office of the AC where the Death Certificate of Mizan (Taslima's husband), a money receipt, which was deposited to an Account at the Trust Bank, a bank controlled by the armed forces of Bangladesh, and a certificate issued by a local Imam (Muslim clergy) of a mosque on burial of Mizan's dead body.

The money receipt, which was given by the police to Taslima, shows that money was deposited to the Trust Bank on 19 July 2010 under the National Savings Schemes for five years (Registration No. 51/10) and will be payable jointly to Taslima and her sister-in-law Ms. Farida. Both of the co-recipients have nominated Liza Akhter, Taslima's dauther, for the whole amount. The document contains photos of Taslima, Farida and Liza.

On the other hand the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) disseminated a press release on 22 July. In the Press Release the DMP claims that it was following all the directions as per the order given by the High Court. It accused the print and electronic media for publishing "emotionally and willingly biased reports that may create wrong perception" regarding the custodial deaths and "influence the ongoing investigation by the Home Ministry probe committee, which was being conducted according to the Court's guidelines". It urged the media to respect the Court's order by not publishing any further report on the issue of custodial deaths for "impartial" and "uninfluenced" investigation.

Taslima alleged that the police officers were doing silly jokes with her family regarding the orphanage of her child. She told that the police took her along with her mother-in-law Mrs. Samsun Nahar (deceased Mizan's mother) to the office of AC of Gulshan Zone Mr. Nurul Alam on several occasions. On the very first day when Samsun Nahar went to the AC's office she asked him, "You (police) have killed my son (Mizan). Now, my grandchild has been an orphan at this minor age. Whom shall the child call 'father'?" The police officer replied, "You don't have to worry about this. The child can call me 'father'! Offering a sum of money he said, "We cannot bring the man back to life. But, we will pay you money that will give you a better life." The policeman also took the thumb print of Shamsun Nahar on a paper, which has not been shared with them.

Taslima claims that none of the probe committee formed by the Ministry of Home Affairs has taken her statement as part of the investigation as per the directions by the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.

ADDITIONAL COMMENT:

The police pretend to obey the High Court's order through its press release. But, in fact, they not only utterly disrespect the order of the court but also manipulate the whole investigation process by creating panic through harassing the witnesses and the family of the victim as they have done in the case of Mizan after the extrajudicial murder.

In one hand, the police resisted the family to speak to the media and human rights defenders by snatching mobile phone of Taslima and seizing her deceased husband's life insurance-related documents, and on the other they intimidate the family as well as tempt them by offering money. The police also engaged the local political activists to insist the victim's family to hide the truth related to the murder of Mizan for the sake of saving the job of the alleged policemen, which means that the job of police is more precious than human life, rule of law and justice in the country.

The experiences of the victims of custodial abuses further create a question relating to the protection of the witnesses of criminal offences, particularly the state-sponsored abuses, in Bangladesh. There is no witness protection mechanism, which multiplies the problems of the families and witnesses of the custodial abuses, in the country that cultivate a culture of impunity for the perpetrators.

The long absence of the probe committee formed by the Ministry of Home Affairs to hear the pains of the family as a result of the extrajudicial death of their breadwinner and in the midst of continuous harassment by the police and their allies raises question regarding its purpose. The High Court Division directed the Home Ministry believably to help the victims as well as to the judiciary for finding out the truth. In reality, the Ministry of Home Affairs, which has been failed to control the law-enforcement agencies for decades for its flawed and anti-rule of law policy of extending impunity to the perpetrators, appears to be reluctant to respond to the call for justice even though it is from the highest court of the country.

The remarks of the police officer regarding the orphan child's fatherlessness represent the absurdity that prevails within the police force in Bangladesh.

SUGGESTED ACTION:
Please write to the authorities below asking for their immediate intervention to ensure that this case of extrajudicial killing is thoroughly and transparently investigated by the judicial probe committee, without police interference or impediment. Those found to have been involved in the litany of crimes attached to this case must be prosecuted without delay. The family of the victim and the witnesses must be granted adequate state protection from further harassment and threats.

Please note that the Asian Human Rights Commission has written a separate letter to the UN Special Rapporteurs on Question of Torture and Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions requesting their prompt interventions in this case.

To support this appeal, please click here:
Thank you.

Urgent Appeal Programme
Asian Human Rights Commission (ua@ahrc.asia)

http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAU-035-2010



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[ALOCHONA] Oppression on minorities



Oppression on minorities
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] AL-BNP activists clash at JFK Airport: 10 hurt :-Hasina whisked away through exit door



AL-BNP activists clash at JFK Airport: 10 hurt :-Hasina whisked away through exit door

A bloody clash between the supporters of Awami League and BNP took place at the John F Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York in the USA on Sunday wounding at least 10, says News World of New York.

The clash occurred centering the New York visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wanting to join the UN session. The New York units of Awami League and BNP blamed each other for the untoward incident. The News World report said leaders and workers of Awami League went to the JFK Airport to welcome Sheikh Hasina on her New York visit while the leaders and workers of BNP assembled there to show her black flag to express their protest.

When Sheikh Hasina arrived at the airport and went inside, the bloody clash took place between the supporters of the two parties outside the airport. The police controlled the situation. At the time of the clash they arrested a person who was reported to be involved in it.

Sheikh Hasina left the airport through a safe exit quickly. So the waiting leaders and workers, who assembled outside, could not welcome their party chief.

Alleging BNP for the incident, US branch of Awami League said BNP was responsible for it. President of the branch Prof Khalid Ahmed and Acting General Secretary Sazzadur Rahman Sazzad alleged that the supporters of BNP created the unpleasant situation to foil the Prime Minister's tour to New York. On the other hand, leader of the US branch of BNP Abdul Latif Samrat accused Awami League for the incident. He said, "Intolerance is the political culture of Awami League. So they attacked the peaceful demonstration of BNP and due to this the incident occurred at the JFK Airport."

An officer of the airport told the media that the incident was very shameful. The whole incident was recorded in the camera. Legal initiatives would be taken against them who would be found involved in the incident after investigation and identification.
http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2010/09/21/news0788.htm


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[ALOCHONA] US keen about CHT



US keen about CHT
 
Rangamati, Sep 20 (bdnews24.com) — US ambassador to Bangladesh James F Moriarty has said that his country is very keen on working for the development of Chittagong Hill Tracts.

"Implementation of development projects is impossible if conflicts continue in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Donors will also not want to come forward under these conditions," he told journalists and officials in Rangamati at the end of his two-day tour of the hill regions. He set off for Dhaka on Monday evening after finishing his tour to observe and evaluate the overall situation in the area.

The ambassador emphasised on the need for the different ethnic groups of people to work together to establish a permanent peaceful situation. He also said that the future of US development work in the area depends on the integrated Protected Area Co-management (IPAC) project.

Moriarty held separate talks with Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity chief Santu Larma, Rangamati deputy commissioner Shourendra Nath Chakravarti and military officials and leaders of Parbatya Ganaparishad during his visit.


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[ALOCHONA] Invitation to read my article published on thesop.org



Dear all,
Salam. 
 
An article of mine has just been published on thesop.org and I'm very happy to share it with you.  
Please follow the link below to read the article-  
http://thesop.org/story/world/2010/09/20/media-towards-muslims-should-this-double-standard-be-so-naked.php 
 
Thank you.
 
Ma'assalam,
 
Farjana Mahbuba
www.jajaborrr.blogspot.com
www.fmahbuba.blogspot.com


 

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RE: [ALOCHONA] Dr Abul Barakat or Dr Atiur Rahman do not write on these anymore



         Of course Abul Barakat has written about their plight and who benefits by putting them on the streets.
  He has done extensive research that shows how governance in Bangladesh had been consistently
  autocratic which, when combined with religious fundamentalists slyly taking over economic activities,
  prevent favoring programs for people's longtime welfare.
 
             Dr. Atiur Rahman has done much to facilitate easy loans to small farmers in a timely fashion.
 
             May be bdmailer kows a thing or two about the agents who make money by putting
             the beggars on the street.  It is just the kind of racketeering people associate with this lot.
 
                         
 


From: bdmailer@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:03:06 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Dr Abul Barakat or Dr Atiur Rahman do not write on these anymore

 
Dr Abul Barakat or Dr Atiur Rahman do not write on these anymore
 
The number of beggars is increasing in Dhaka city. A
small child is seen begging
 




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Re: [ALOCHONA] Sentimentalization of religion for political lrgitimacy





Albeit I could not find "fraudulently" in that verse
( Source: http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/engagement/resources/texts/muslim/quran/011.qmt.html)

 but I agree with your sentiment up to a point. [ I do not see any impact in removing "Bismillah" either but scoring some "Political" point..]

Religion has been abused in Bangladesh. Moderate Muslims of Bangladesh gave an overwhelming mandate to elect the current government (With huge popularity among minority community) who gave us commitment of "Secularism". As I mentioned before in BD context this sort of argument is "Academic" only. Apparently 'Secularism" is failing in the good old US of A as well.
[ Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/opinion/19kristof.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=global-home&adxnnlx=1284894235-4TkejYBJt8CrmG4Znjvw1A]

According to recent news minority community is in worse shape under so called "Secular" government than the right leaning previous government. As I said before Islam has "Safeguards" for minority communities and our last prophet Muhammad (PBUH) practiced it in Medina [ around1400 years ago] protecting Jews and idol worshippers by the "Medina charter".

I respect your passion about secular Bangedesh. I know you want to see a peacful country where everybody live in peace. I do not have any problem with it. I just think we can give security to our non-Muslim brothers and sisters within Islamic guideline.

I am a "Bottomline" man, who sees what works and what does not work. In Bangladesh Islam works and secularism failed our people over and over ( I admit it sounds better).

I do not care which party is in power, I want to see end of such oppression on non-Muslims in Bangladesh.


"Shalom".

--qr


-----Original Message-----
From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 20, 2010 11:30 am
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Sentimentalization of religion for political lrgitimacy

 



Sentimentalization of illegal use of "bismillah" in the Constitution is blasphemous
 
       Sentimentalization of "bismillah"s illegal placement in the Constitution has begun just as I apprehended. 
This is a familiar trick reminiscent of Hitler's campaign rhetoric stoking popular racial and ethnic sentiments
in 1930s Germany. Later the Catholic Church of Austria used religious sentiments to persecute the Jews and
oust them from Vienna, urging the congregation to do so as a national as well as a religious duty.
 
      When I raised the issue of illegality of "bismillah" above the Preamble of the Constitution of Bangladesh
in the internet forums, I got angry responses. Accused of being anti-Islam and a paid servant of Zionist
masters, I was asked sarcastically: "Why "Bismillah" is a problem for you?"

       It is not a problem for me.  'Bismillah' is my constant companion. Besides using it in prayers, I love saying it
at the commencement of any good work, and I love writing it.  Give me a minute or two, and any old pen,
and even without practice, I will write 'bismillah' in Arabic in passable Nashtaliq calligraphic style.
 
      I do have a problem though with a thing called Martial Law. There is no such thing called 'Martial Law' in the
Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.  'Bismillah' should not be put above the Preamble of
the nation's Constitution, a nation that fought a bloody battle for its birth on the principle of secularism,
by an unlawful usurper of civilian power who called himself Chief Martial Law Administrator.
 
      The use of 'bismillah' for such crass political purpose behind the clout of illegal Martial Law by
a Proclamation Order in 1977, thereby betraying the trust of 150 million people should surely count
as the most shocking and egregious blasphemy! It is kufri of the most heinous kind!

 See the Holy Qur'an for a strong interdiction very specifically against an act like this in Sura Hud: 18 --

wa man adhlamu mimman iftara 'ala Allahi kadhiban

"Who is a worse transgressor than him who constructs lies upon Allah's name fraudulently"?
 
 
             Farida Majid



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[ALOCHONA] Fw: Shame for Bangladesh: Hasina & her B A L



Shame for Bangladesh: Hasina & her BAL
Abu Zafar Mahmood, New York

Sheikh Hasina and her Awami league have earned shame for Bangladesh in JFK Airport. Their cold war tactics against Bangladesh might encourage Indian Govt. but frustrated freedom fighters and the peace loving citizens with no exception. She and her extreme loyalists have been playing with the fire, escalating the angers of the loyalists of Bangladesh misusing democratic avenues.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrived in J F K Airport in New York afternoon on Sept.19th, 2010 to represent Bangladesh in United Nations. She is scheduled to speech in U N. Bangladesh, though a young country in South Asia but focused in priority row of attention to the Global Super powers because of it’s special importance. This country is highly honored worldwide for leading contribution in the United Nations peace core and some other global representations.

It’s a very shocking affair that she touched the ground of New York with shameful image for Bangladesh as the citizens of her country and her political followers have shown their uncivilized acts and created unwanted horror situation where the Airport security guards have beaten her political followers ruthlessly in her presence in J F K. Sheikh Hasina deserves no excuse for such funny leadership. All dignified Kings, Presidents and Prime Ministers of the countries of the World already reached in New York to represent in UN. Where as she dances in fools paradise!

The Awami league supporters entered in the security guarded area of the J F K Airport to receive their Party President and the Prime Minister of the Republic and the supporters of Bangladesh National Party-B N P went to receive their 2 party leaders who accompanied P M in the same flight and took position at near
by the parking zone showing black flag. They assembled for peaceful  protest against the Sheikh Hasina also in democratic manner.When Awami league supporters found their political opponents close to their
area, started shouting Taliban, Taliban. The Airport security guards so did not make any late and started beating the Bangladeshis of same show who was naming this banned item in America and chanting slogans illegally. The guards challenged those angry Awami league supporters as if they are the Taliban and who deserve to be beaten mercilessly.

Though the fact is different. No Taliban was in there. Only the anti-Bangladesh elements of the special foreign countries attempt to brand Bangladeshis with this Afghanistani identity and who serve their bosses in blackmailing state department of United States on South Asian affairs and contribute to keep capture Bangladesh under Indian control.

It`s so unfortunate that it was an act of foreign interest promoters who might push the word to through among the hot headed political supporters in the special moment-like a very small group who came from Washington DC and NJ. The sources confirmed that there were some Hindu Bengalis who once came from
Bangladesh to New York with Bangladeshi passport and now carry Indian and American passport. They represent Hindu-Buddhist-Christian unity council, New York who are in close touch with the newly appointed information secretary Mr.Swapon Kumar Shaha in Bangladesh Embassy in DC.

Dr.Abdul Momen of permanent mission of Bangladesh in UN was found in leading this political mismanagement and horror in JFK Airport where some Bangladesh Govt.officials exercised abnormal and unprofessional activities in receiving Prime Minister. He has been accused lot of times for his unwanted involving of creating groups and sub-groups inside Awami supporters in USA which are absolutely beyond his professional limit. There was no compulsion of inviting the unmanaged gathering in JFK when every corner was pre-informed about the possibility of such incident. Where as no other foreign state leader wait in Airport to show a similar false and funny popularity.

The foreign Ministry now again become a talk of the table and criticized at random for their childish activities where the senior diplomats are not asked even in decision making where as they deserve to lead in all critical journey of the govt. in abroad.

However, the B A L and B N P accuse each other for this incident where as no party has the scope to keep them out of responsibilities from this harmful act to Bangladesh. Where as these two major parties have to walk together through co-operating each other for strengthening democratic governance in Bangladesh.
National Socialist Party(Rob) and Promote Bangladesh Worldwide condemned the street fighting of the Awami league and BNP supporters in JFK Airport and demanded proper investigations and necessary actions against the sabotage in BD govt. foreign ministry officials and Awami league.

Some non-partisan Bangladeshis also raise the accusation to the responsible government officials and senior Awami league supporters for not taking steps to tie up the different political party supporters to show the proper respect to Bangladesh Prime Minister and specifically make an arrangement with B N P
supporters to show up their democratic values in sophisticated manner in New York. The Prime Minister also should not forget that there are strong controversies regarding her few steps and interested regional powers might avail chances to grow more controls on Bangladesh government playing the internal conflict cards very carefully.

Let’s turn all of our eyes and ears to save the honor and integrity of our prime minister in abroad and the interests of Bangladesh. Let’s united we stand for Bangladesh-USA partnership and friendship.

Writer is a free-lancer Journalist & a freedom fighter.
E-mail:  rivercrossinternational@yahoo.com.


     

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[ALOCHONA] How Mujib used Tajuddin to achieve his personal political goals ...



What about Seikh Mujib?
Seikh Mujib and Bhutto were responsible to break up and create cycle of violence.
 
Seikh Mujib started his politics with Muslim League, with Shawardy, Mujib participated in communal politics and Hindu-Muslim riots in Calcutta. Mujib aka Debodas Chokroborty was born in Calcutta 1920 to an unwed Mom. Later she was married to serestadar Seikh Lutfur Rahman. 3 years old Debodas Chakrabarty named as Seikh Mujibur Rahman and his mother took a name as Saleha Khatun. This record can be found in Calcutta High Court.
 
Seikh Mujib did not attend madrassa until he was 8 years old, and he did not complete his BA degree. Later he was admitted to Dhaka University and expelled from the university. Seikh Mujb was married at 18 years old.
 
 

--- On Mon, 9/20/10, Mohammed Ramjan <mramjan@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Mohammed Ramjan <mramjan@hotmail.com>
Subject: [KHABOR] RE: BNP's birth -2 How Zia used Jadu Miah to achieve his personal political goals ...
To:
Date: Monday, September 20, 2010, 1:34 AM

 
That means Those Freedom Fighters are the most immoral identities on this earth (like zia and others) who has broken the Pakistan. Enemy of united Muslim Power in the Indian sub-continent.
 
We know dog fight each other, now we see same thing happening among Freedom Fighters - between Zia & Muzib followers.
 

Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:42:31 +1200
Subject: Re: BNP's birth -2 How Zia used Jadu Miah to achieve his personal political goals ...
From: srbanunz@gmail.com
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জিয়া একজন ধুরন্ধর corrupt ব্যাক্তি। উদ্দেশ্য অন্য কিন্তু প্র্রকাশ ভিন্ন। এই ধরনের মানুষ ব্যাক্তি জিবনে অনেক অর্থ এবং ক্ষমতা অর্জন করতে পারেন কিন্তু দেশ ও জাতির জিবনে কোন ভুমিকা রাখতে পারে না।
 
সেই নেতাই মানুষের মঙ্গল করতে পারেন যে - তিনি যেটা বিশ্বাশ করেন সেইটাই প্রকাশ করেন।
 
Truth will reveal the real cahracter of killer, conspirator, corrupt and naPaki agent general Zia
 
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Syed_Aslam3 <syed.aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:
 বিএনপির জন্ম যেভাবে সেনানিবাসে: ২
 BNP's birth in cantonment - Part 2:
 How Zia used Jadu Miah to achieve his personal political goals ...
 
 
 
Please read:
Zia the brain and Ershad the heart of Murky politics in Bangladesh.
 
 
 
 
 


 

বিএনপির জন্ম যেভাবে সেনানিবাসে: ১

মার্কিন দূতাবাসকে গোপন বৈঠক সম্পর্কে জানাতেন যাদু মিয়া

BNP's birth in cantonment -1 :Some inside stories [Shadows of US connections]
 
 
 
 
Related:
 

bnp

Place of Birth: Dhaka Cantonment Literati: ... BNP Big Shots. Click here to read reports on the corruption of the following BNP bigshots ...
muktadhara.net/bnp.html - Cached

Types of Criminals

... who was just a Major and in Dhaka cantonment during the war. ... People say that she has three or four date(s) of birth. ... Other BNP war criminals: 1. Shah Azizur Rahman - Dictator Zia's Prime Minister, deceased in 1988, 2. ...
ghatok-dalal.tripod.com/criminals.html - Cached - Similar






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[ALOCHONA] 'Invisible Violence’ that consumes India



'Invisible Violence' that consumes India
  
By RSN Singh
 
Our attention span and emotional engagement with incidents relating to internal security has become directly proportional to the magnitude of the 'visible violence', like 73 CRPF personnel killed in Chhattisgarh or the hostage of crises in Bihar or the attack on Gyaneshwari Express in Bengal.
 
As we get inured, our tolerance levels and appetite for 'visible violence' also increases. But what about 'invisible violence'!
 
The press does not report because it is not tangible and therefore has no news value, the legislators could not care because they have benefited from it, and in absence of political direction, the bureaucrats have neither the backing nor the courage to influence the environment on ground. In the process, the state apparatus begins to erode, making way for anarchy.
 
Some real settings and related incidents highlight physical, economic and psychological havoc that 'invisible violence' can wreak on the lives of people and whole generations as such are narrated below.
 
Setting-A: Kashmir
 
A 24-year old girl walked into a security forces camp and insisted on meeting the commander. She confided in the commander that a militant from across the border had been forcibly stretched the hospitality of her family for past several years in the name of jihad. Sometime later, she said, he also began to abuse her and a stage came when he began to draw perverse pleasure in burning her with cigarettes. She said she could not take it any more and wanted to see him killed. One morning, based on her information, an operation was launched and the militant was killed.
 
The policy-makers must realize that reacting to 'visible violence' can buy them temporary reprieve, but their inability to read and deal with 'invisible violence' will cost them India as a modern and democratic nation-state.In another incident, a Kashmiri boy studying in Class-VIII sought appointment with the Commanding Officer of an Infantry Battalion. On meeting him, the boy became inconsolable. He then narrated that a militant often came to his house and forced himself on his college going sister. One day, based on the information by the boy, a cordon and search operation was launched and the militant was eliminated.
 
There are thousands such stories regarding atrocities by the Pakistani jihadis on women of Kashmir.Privately, the separatist (read pro-Pakistan) leaders in Kashmir ask the women to endure the assault on the dignity quietly for the larger cause of jihad.
 
Setting-B: A Village in Bihar
 
The Maoists in order to make inroads into the village decided to terrorize the villagers by murdering one of the most respected persons in that area. One afternoon, about 200-300 Maoist cadres descended on his house and ignoring the wailing of his wife and children, carried him to the nearby fields and beheaded him. The village was terrorized. The police did come to investigate, but in times to follow, could do nothing to disabuse the terror from the minds of the villages. Some of the inherently criminal elements amongst the some villagers joined the Maoist ranks. Nobody in the village could thereafter question their writ.
 
In the next 10 years, these very Maoist cadres met their cruel end at the hands of their comrades. One of them was cut into pieces for hobnobbing with the rival leftist group. Yet another committed suicide after some of his comrades on a night patrol came to his house and physically exploited his wife.
 
Few years later, another cadre, who committed a murder at the behest of the Maoists, managed to reach the nearby police station and died there, but not before handing over a note that he had consumed poison due to atrocities perpetrated upon his son, also a Maoist.
 
Setting-C: A Village in West Bengal
 
On 5 September 2010, on the Teacher's Day, the Maoist beheaded a primary school teacher in West Bengal in full view of little school children, who had terror on their faces and hearts, indelible for the rest of their lives. The Maoists reportedly suspected the school teacher of being a police informer. The primary school since then is closed and so are many schools in the Red Corridor due to the terror of the Maoists.
 
Setting-D: Manipur
 
A newly Commissioned Army Officer, was stopped from coming home in Manipur by his proud father because he felt that his life was in danger because he had chosen to join the Indian Army. Terror in Manipur and Nagaland has driven youth to violence and drugs. Many of them have been consumed by HIV. A sizeable section of Manipuri students outside the state are meeting their educational expenses by resorting to drug smuggling.
 
He (common man) is bewildered, why the government or the civil society should even entertain the idea of having 'talks' with criminals, and what right does the government have to pardon them. He wonders whether it pays to be a law abiding citizen. He does not know which principles and values to live by and to live for.
 
Setting-E: Andhra and Jharkhand
 
In 1989, the former Indian Air Force Chief, Air Chief Marshal Dennis La Fontaine, who had chosen to settle in rural Andhra Pradesh, was robbed of his pistol by the Maoists. In fact, he was tied up with the chair and he remarked whether they were revolutionaries or dacoits?  Twelve years down the line, i.e. in November 2001, he was again robbed of another pistol. Comparing the two incidents La Fontaine said: "The confidence of the teenagers this time was much higher because they were better armed." In 1989, he maintained: "That seemed a ragtag bunch while this one came in jungle fatigues, boots and caps." The State, however, did not show any resolve to tackle the menace of Maoism in the intervening years.
 
Now, the latest victim is a Group Captain of the Air Force, R K Prasad. He was made to pay Rs. 10 Lakhs for the release of his brother who was kidnapped by the Maoists in Jharkhand in this very year. The officer wrote to the Home Minister and was subsequently given a very patient and concerned hearing by the Defence Minister and the Defence Secretary.
 
Armed forces personnel hailing from the Red Corridor are being subjected to intimidation and extortion by the Maoists for at least two decades now. The families of the servicemen residing in their native places are being forced to part with their hard earned money to fill the coffers of the Maoists.
 
Manifestations of Invisible Violence
 
In the areas where the government has forfeited its writ to the Maoists and other insurgent groups, a whole generation has been brought up in an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty and depravity. They are subjected to extortion and Kangaroo courts. Their movement is restricted, their interaction is restricted, their communication is restricted, and their occupational choices are restricted. All government plans and programmes reach them after the filtering process of the Maoists / insurgents. In the tribal areas, even worship of traditional deities has been forbidden by the Maoists and have been forcibly supplanted by Mao.
 
No development is allowed to take place in the Maoist / insurgency affected areas. Inaccessibility and backwardness is of critical importance to the Maoists. It is for this reason that they blow up schools, hospitals, bridges, railway tracks and target road construction parties.
 
A visit to the Red Corridor will reveal the huge swathes of agricultural land lying uncultivated because of Maoist ban or threat. The Prime Minister can keep talking about the second 'Green Revolution', but he must realize that it can only take place in a conducive and fear-free environment.
 
In these Maoist controlled areas, elections are held under the shadow of the gun and therefore their legitimacy is in question. It is for this reason that the mainstream political parties do not hesitate to tie-up with the Maoists for influencing the voting pattern in their favour. The people are very well aware that after the elections, the government will retreat and they will be back to the mercy of Maoist masters.
 
Insurgency has played havoc with the demography within the country. With the insurgents running a parallel government in the rural areas, a large number of people are moving towards cities and towns in search of security and progress. The rural areas are devoid of doctors, teachers and rural businessman due to incessant extortion by the insurgents. Maoist insurgency has caused the sky-rocketing of property prices even small towns like Arrah, Asansol, Jamshedpur and Raipur because of exodus in villages. People feel that at least they will be able to buy peace and government's writ in these areas.
 
For the insurgents there are many payoffs of invisible violence. There is a thriving extortion industry worth Rs.14,000 crores in the Red Corridor. The Maoists have emerged as the mining mafia. In Kashmir, the people are benefiting from money coming from the central government and Pakistan's ISI. In the Northeast Manipur and Nagaland have become a bottomless bit. The reason contribute nothing to India's coffers, but the insurgent outfits run an insurgency industry on tax-payers' money.  The insurgent leadership thrives. Most of the leaders have acquired huge properties in cities and state capitals. They ensure that their own families and children are not victims of the invisible violence.
 
Maoism has brought in terror in hitherto some of the most peaceful states like Orissa and begun to make inroads in Himachal Pradesh and Uttrakhand.The common man is confused by the debate over Maoism and other insurgencies, which he thinks are criminal activities. He is bewildered, why the government or the civil society should even entertain the idea of having 'talks' with criminals, and what right does the government have to pardon them. He wonders whether it pays to be a law abiding citizen. He does not know which principles and values to live by and to live for.
 
Meanwhile the security forces are confused over the shifting definition of their 'adversary' and 'enemy'. They feel that if the insurgents, who have declared 'war on India', are country's 'own people', whom are they fighting against. They are not sure whether their actions in line of their duty will have the backing of the country's leadership. They wonder, is it worth fighting or is it worth losing their lives for ungrateful set of people and VIPs. When they are vilified for their role in counter-insurgency and praised for protection duties of VIPs, they are visited by doubts about being used as a cannon-fodder.
 
Conclusion:
 
The policy-makers must realize that reacting to 'visible violence' can buy them temporary reprieve, but their inability to read and deal with 'invisible violence' will cost them India as a modern and democratic nation-state. The nation must therefore define its core values and defend it irrespective of human and other costs.
 
RSN Singh, Associate Editor IDR and author of the book Asian Strategic and Military Perspective and The Military Factor in Pakistan. His latest book is The Unmaking of Nepal.
 


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