__._,_.___
Editorial
IGP's law and order claim beggars belief
AABEA (American Association of Bangladeshi Engineers & Architects) celebrated it's Biennial Convention on last Saturday, October 9, 2010 at The Universities at Shady Grove, 9630 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850. Only you made this event a super grand success. Whether or not you attended physically, we thank & appreciate all of you for your direct, indirect, physical, moral, & financial support, participation, & sponsorships to make our progam as over-satisfactory & over-expected event. The tickets for all seats were sold out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
You are invited to view steelcurtain12's photo album: AABEA 2010 Pics
Message from steelcurtain12: AABEA Biennial Convention - 2010 |
- Mr. Shabbir Parvez (coordinated & managed Science Fair totally efficiently)
- Mr. Hosain Touhidul Alam (ordered & brought trophies for Science Fair, rented & brought heavy spot light equipment, arranged complementary breakfast, and provided many other help)
- Mr. Mosabber Zaman (prepared AABEA's professional quality banner and prepared certificates for Science Fair participants).
Mr. Jamil Khan (installed & operated high quality sound system)- Mr. Anwar Zaman and Mr. Nazir Ullah (efficiently helped to keep discipline at dinner serving area in cafeteria)
- Mr. Inul Tanjil and Mr. Ruhul Chowdhury "Raymon" (constantly helped non-stop at all areas throughout the event. They helped for sound system control, coordinated with performers for all slots, operated spot lights, provided auditorium entrance security, backstage management, and provided many other help)
- In addition, we are also grateful to the following volunteers for providing help to us during our critical times: Babina Mahbub, Subhi, Allen, Sajid Hasan, Tanveer Wahid, Abir Chowdhury, Javed Amman, Anita, Churri Rahman, Muna Rahman, and Rejaur Shikder.
We are also grateful to the following performers for presenting outstanding performance during the most thrilling & exciting entertainment program.
Mrs. Sabrina Choudhury Dona {Emcee during entertainment program}- Mrs. Miladun Nahar Anny, Mr. Aminul Islam, and Mr. Azfar Hossain {presented vocal songs}
- Ramin, Razeen, Tasnuva, Taj, Humayra, Fariba, Parama, Shomapti, Evana, Eraj, Ibtida, Irtiza, and Churri Rahman {presented group dances}
- Oshmi Anwar & Shalmi Anwar {dance choreographers}
- Hopkins Bengali Organization {presented music video}
- Bengali Students Association of University of Maryland at College Park {presented Fashion Show. The participants were: Kishwar Nadia, Jackson Costa, Nicolas Beeter, Syed Morshed, Akid Hossain, Nasif Ahmed, Monty Ali, Asif Ahmed, Rishi Hebbar, Nahid Sultana, Mishal Karim, Sophia Jafrul, Vicki Pung, Sabrina Khan, Preasha Hussain, & Churri Rahman}
- Professor Momotajuddin Ahmad (live legend of Bangla drama world) {author of the comedy drama script "Bhalobasha Bhalobasha"}
- Mr. Jamal Uddin Hussain & Mrs. Rowshan Ara Hussain (Famous & renowned drama performers, creators, & directors) {directed the comedy drama "Bhalobasha Bhalobasha"}
- Colonel Anwar, Sheetesh Dhar, Shireen Rahman, & Sabina Hai Urbee {performers of the drama mentioned above}
- Abu Mohammed Rumi {played keyboard with drama as well as with Anila Chowdhury's songs}
- Himu Rozario {played Tabla with Anila Chowdhury}
- Mrs. Anila Chowdhury (Famous contemporary singer of Bangladesh}
- Mr. Aniket Ahmed {accompanied Anila Chowdhury with guitar & vocal}
AABEA Central Executive Committee and AABEA Washington DC Executive Board
Hares Sayed, President, AABEA Central Executive Committee: 202-841-6269
Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com
In no way I am advocating that Bangladesh should send their troops to Afghanistan. I do have some reservations about some sweeping comments like, "A military dictator had sent troops to the First Gulf War. A democratic government has better and wiser things to do."
Son, are you aware of the circumstances under which the military dictator had to send troop to the first Gulf War? Had not Bangladesh sent the token no. of troops, would the outcome of that war been different? What Bangladesh ultimately gained by sending even only token number of troops.
Again, there is clearly no comparison between the first gulf war and war in Afghanistan. Don't compare apple with oranges. If you think the present Govt. is traitor, I advice to you and very patriotic like you to go back to your country and fight against the traitors. I know you will not do it. You simply don't have the guts and even the morale to do it. All you can do is what you doing now with your illogical and childish utterances.
My advice to you and people like you is to study, understand and only then speak.
Saeedur
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Emanur Rahman" <emanur@...> wrote:
>
> I quote -
>
> "No way. A country that gave a sea of blood to win liberty could not go and fight to kill forces resisting foreign occupation. A military dictator had sent troops to the First Gulf War. A democratic government has better and wiser things to do."
>
> Let's get our facts straight:
>
> • We did not win liberty.
> • We do not have a democratic government.
> • No elected government since the fall of the military dictator has done anything better or wiser.
>
> Let's get our expectations straight:
>
> • We have traitors in power.
> • The ahl al Mujib has already destroyed the BDR.
> • The ahl al Mujib will look upon this as an opportunity to destroy the army.
>
> I fully expect our troops to be sent to their death.
>
> Anyone who doesn't is ahl al Mujib or ahl al Fool.
>
> Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Isha Khan bdmailer@...
> Sender: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 13:43:08
> Reply-To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Bangladesh troops to Afghanistan: should we feel flattered?
>
> Bangladesh troops to Afghanistan: should we feel flattered?
>
> Dr. Zakir Husain
>
> Beleaguered US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Hollbrooke (of
> Kosovo fame) reportedly did request Bangladesh foreign minister for troops
> to Afghanistan.
>
> Apart from its merit, the request reflects the desperate situation faced by
> the American led NATO occupation troops. Also perhaps a presumed
> vulnerability of Bangladesh to earn few brownie points from the US. But no
> need for a rocket scientist, even a junior student of diplomacy would know
> that powerful countries conduct foreign affairs and collect friends only in
> national interest and as long as needed. There is no such thing as fidelity.
> Forget the incestuous relationship enjoyed by Israel. That is an aberration
> of extreme rarity.
>
> Coming back to Afghanistan where the mightiest power (military power that
> is) leads a 40-odd contributing countries to fight a few thousand Talibans
> where is the need for a few hundred Bangladesh troops? What role for them?
> Certainly not to escort school kids home!
>
> So are they needed to put a "Muslim face" on a "Christian" campaign (Bush's
> crusade) to civilise the "uncivilised" Afghans? Or does the US envoy assume
> that Bangladesh troops are available as mercenary troops on hire to the
> highest bidder? And at cheaper rate too!
>
> Yes, Bangladesh is a major contributor of troops to the UN peace keeping
> missions. But where is the peace to keep in Afghanistan? The contrary fact
> is: Afghanistan is deeply troubled. Only the proverbial fools would rush in
> where angels fear to tread. The well meaning and altruistic "angels" of NATO
> went in, messed up and made things even worse; now they are calling for help
> from any unsuspecting source. Does Bangladesh has to be naive or vulnerable?
> None I believe.
>
> What difference could a Bangladesh contingent make when the blueblood "super
> troops" from America, joined by Britain, Germany and Canada proved
> incompetent and utterly clueless? Now one by one allies are abandoning the
> ship. America feels abandoned and so is in search of new "partners" even if
> from the "third world"! The US president already announced plans to planning
> to start exiting by mid 2011. The cheerleader Bush is having the last laugh
> leaving incumbent Obama such a precarious choice to "win victory". But is
> there a simple choice? No. Afghanistan has been tribal territory and tribal
> retaliation can be unforgiven and unremitting as history proved time and
> again.
>
> Richard Hollbrooke we know is no amateur diplomat. That is why I am curious,
> indeed very curious. Does he take poor puny Bangladesh for granted? And
> naive too? What made him judge that Bangladesh will jump on the US bandwagon
> of a losing if not lost war for a pat on its back or worse still for a few
> dollars more?
>
> No way. A country that gave a sea of blood to win liberty could not go and
> fight to kill forces resisting foreign occupation. A military dictator had
> sent troops to the First Gulf War. A democratic government has better and
> wiser things to do. If necessary a look at Pakistan torn apart by sectarian
> violence and slaughter of civilians and militants alike should bring second
> thoughts. How strange that Pakistan's military ruler had plunged into the
> American war on Afghanistan. Now the people of Pakistan are paying the price
> — a very stiff price indeed. For what? A few billion dollars worth military
> hardware to fight someone else's war and slaughter thousands of troops as
> canon fodder? What a shame! What travesty of democracy!
>
> Indeed Bangladesh has enough on its plate at home to counter militant
> extremism. Why should the country invite and import even more?
>
> http://opinion.bdnews24.com/2010/10/08/bangladesh-troops-to-afghanistan-should-we-feel-flattered/
>
Bangladesh. Where war crimes are unacceptable.
And everything else is acceptable!
By which, I presume, the writer means every crime is accaptable, even encouraged, in Bangladesh
except War Crimes.
Who talks like that? Who can be that insensitive to the justice-seekers of crimes and atrocities
committed 39 years ago still unheeded? Only those pretending to care about 'law and order' and yet
sneers and snarls at attempt to end the culture of impunity for the cruellest of the criminals walking free
in Bangladesh.
Let me try to explain to those who visibly shake in rage at the mention of "war crimes" of 1971.
What we, and the international community, are attempting to call "war" crimes are these very heinous
crimes --- killings, looting, vandalizing, arson, rape, etc.---- committed systemetically on a mass scale
for the realization of a political/communal proposition. That proposition being that Muslim and Hindu peoples
cannot live together anymore even though these peoples have lived side by side for centuries on this land.
The realization of this irrational and idiotic proposition, first manufactured by the British colonial
administrators for facilitating their purpose of 'divide and rule', was welcomed by neo-colonizers of
Pakistan, and then, after 1971, by the neo-Pakistanis of Bangla origin.
Equally irrational and ironic is the idea that the war crimes trials would divide rhe nation. It can
only do so if we assume that close to half the nation holds the same criminal record as the Jamaati
honchos and the grizzled old Muslim League razakars.
Farida Majid
SAN-Feature Service
SOUTH ASIAN NEWS-FEATURE SERVICE
October 10, 2010
Award marks a remarkable journey for a literature professor
By Ananth Krishnan
Once a soft-spoken literature professor who professed a love for Franz Kafka, his life was transformed by the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests, which he described as "the major turning point in my 50 years on life's road."
BEIJING: A day after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese professor and political activist, rose to another normal day in the company of five others in a 30 square metre jail cell in a corner of northeast China.
Mr. Liu, however, was not in the minority in likely being unaware of the news of his award. Most of his compatriots, too, across the length and breadth of China, had little idea that one of their countrymen had received one of the world's most prestigious prizes.
In Beijing, newspapers did not write of the announcement. Morning television news shows carried on as usual, discussing floods in southern China, the end of the week-long national holiday and the Chinese Premier's visit to Europe. In Beijing's Central Business District, passers-by, scurrying to work after a week of vacations, said they had little idea of any award. Most did not know who Liu Xiaobo was.
In reality, the award is likely to make little difference, either to the lives of ordinary Chinese, or to the gradual reform of China's political system. Yet it marks a remarkable journey for a literature professor, who has now become the face of China's fast-expanding civil society movement.
The small but growing group of Chinese scholars, lawyers and activists, who quietly push for reforms here — most with little success and no recognition — welcomed Mr. Liu's award as a vindication of their own different struggles. A land rights activist in Shanghai, who has campaigned, over two decades, for judicial reforms to ensure fair compensation for those displaced by China's development, said the news would encourage her to carry on her work. She, like Mr. Liu, has spent several years in detention.
For them, Mr. Liu has become an unlikely symbol. "I firmly believe that China's political progress will never stop, and I'm full of optimistic expectations of freedom coming to China in the future, because no force can block the human desire for freedom," Mr. Liu said on December 23, speaking during his trial which ended with an 11-year jail term for him for subverting State power.
Once a soft-spoken literature professor who professed a love for Franz Kafka, his life was transformed by the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests, which he described as "the major turning point in my 50 years on life's road."
He gave up teaching positions in Europe and the United States and returned to China to join the student movement. He became a moderate voice in the movement, even negotiating with the military before tanks entered the famous square. He was later imprisoned for his role in the protests.
"Simply for expressing divergent political views and taking part in a peaceful and democratic movement, a teacher lost his podium, a writer lost the right to publish, and a public intellectual lost the chance to speak publicly," he said during his trial.
In its verdict on Christmas Day last year, the Beijing Intermediate People's Court cited his role in the release of Charter 08, a call for democratic reforms in China, as well as articles he had written criticising the Communist Party.
Yet, Mr. Liu is regarded as a moderate voice in the spectrum of Chinese civil society. In his trial, he praised the party's role in addressing poverty, improvements in China's political and judicial system, and the humaneness of his handlers in prison. Fourteen overseas Chinese activists, in a letter this week, criticised the award going to Mr. Liu because of his moderate and "misleading" calls for gradual reform.
For some, that has made the government's response puzzling. "The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, an incarcerated Chinese criminal. The Nobel committee once again displayed its arrogance and prejudice against a country that has made the most remarkable economic and social progress in the past three decades," the official Global Times newspaper wrote on Saturday.
But not everyone in China criticised the award. On Twitter, thousands of young Chinese welcomed the news, promising their own unique tribute to Mr. Liu. They would all eat salmon — in China, the most famous export from Norway.
—SAN-Feature Service/ Courtesy : The Hindu
Death of any human bean brings melancholy, especially when the death occurs in a violent way. Distressing death of Sanaullah Noor Babu, BNP local unit president and upozila Chairman of Baroiagram Natore is once again reaffirms violence brings violence and the end of one violence brings the volley of more violence. Ending the thirst for revenge is the only way to bring peace or else the bloodshed will continue.
I condemn this and all killing and pray to almighty Allah for the departed soul, hope the perpetrators will be brought to justice and maximum punishment will be given. Peace will find a footing in this valley of death.
One must jog their memory to go back to the beginning of this sad episode of continued political killing which in time turned once peaceful rural community of Baroiagram of Natore into a death valley. It all started in the year 1980 when the then Member of Parliament from Baroiagram -Gurudashpur and district Awami League General Secretary Rafique Shorkar was hacked to death, hence starting a series of violent killing changing the socio-political turf of Baroiagram forever.
Ruhul Qudus Talukdar Dulu the notorious state minister of last BNP-Jamaat government from Natore initiated a violent campaign to annihilate Awami League and their supporter's right after coming to power. Natore become a thorny point of Bangladesh's violent politics. Thousands of Awami League workers and leaders as well as a vast number of minorities flee away form Baroiagram after their houses were burn down to ashes, business been looted and temple put to ruin..
Ruhul Qudus Talukdar Dulu's name will come up with anything awful happening in this locality and earned him the title of godfather. Tragic death of Sanaullah Noor Babu also happened in a rally welcoming Ruhul Qudus Talukdar Dulu to Baroiagram.
Startlingly this heartbreaking incident happened exactly where another heartrending incident took place on 29th March of 2002. Dr. Ainal Haque the then President of Baroiagram unit Awami League and Chairman of Baroiagram union was picked up from his chamber by a group of armed BNP cadres lead by now deceased Sanaullah Noor Babu and taken to powerful local BNP leader Principal Akaram's house. Dr. Ainal Haque was roped behind a motorcycle and dragged to Bonpara bazaar where he was killed brutally by chopping his body with machete. Forty houses in Banpara-Mohisbhanga-Kalikapoor belonging to Awami League supporters was burn down the very next day of Dr. Ainal death lead by Sanaullah Noor Babu.
As I have mentioned earlier, violence brings violence and bloodshed brings more bloodshed, hostility brings vengeance. Jakir Hossain, suspected murderer of deceased BNP leader Sanaullah Noor Babu is none but the son of deceased Awami League leader Dr. Ainal Haque who was brutally chopped to death after being paraded in Bonpara bazaar led by Sanaullah Noor Babu.
Revenge of one death will bring revenge, settling of scores will bring more death. Natore needs a closure of this turbulence. In last eight years many lives has gone untimely in Banpara-Mohisbhanga-Kalikapoor, we hope Sanaullah Noor Babu's death will be the last one in this death rally and peace will return.
Sincerely Shamim Chowdhury Maryland, U.S.A. |
BNP should immediately take stern action against these killers n marauders else it will face wrath of the people as last time. They must kick the hood looms out from their party and make prove that they are sincere to establish a free and fair politics in the country as they(BNP) isChuga Fulaiiiiing.
Jubo Dal men on the rampage
Factions turn its district conference into battlefield in ComillaA section of Jubo Dal activists, three of them wearing masks, shoots at rivals during a factional clash centring the council of the organisation's South Comilla district unit yesterday
Feuding factions of Comilla District (South) Jubo Dal yesterday turned Kadirpara area of the district town into a war zone, exploding Molotov cocktails, and firing sawed-off rifles, pistols, revolvers, and homemade guns.The incident, which was sparked centring a conference of the BNP youth front's unit, left 30 persons including four police personnel wounded.http://www.bd-pratidin.com/?view=details&type=single&pub_no=167&cat_id=1&menu_id=1&news_type_id=1&index=1
The injured police personnel are Officer-in-charge (OC) of Kotwali Model Police Station Mohiuddin Mahmud, sub-inspectors (SI) Mosaddekul Maula and Md Shahjahan, and a havildar.Police picked up 15 persons on charges of involvement in the incident, and recovered a revolver, a bullet, and a cocktail from the spot.During the clash, 10 cocktails were exploded and at least 20 shots were fired by a faction of Jubo Dal activists, some of whom were in black masks.
Students of educational institutions and pedestrians ran for cover as the feuding groups chased each other. Shops pulled their shutters down. Police fired tear gas shells to bring the situation under control.Police, leaders and workers of Jubo Dal, and other witnesses said followers of Comilla district unit BNP General Secretary Aminur Rashid Yasin, and supporters of his rival -- former organising secretary of the party unit Monirul Haque Sakku, took positions against each other at the Town Hall in the morning.
The clash started around 12:00pm when Sakku's followers threw a Molotov cocktail at the rear of a microbus carrying the organisation's central leaders including its President Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal. The vehicle was entering the Town Hall Auditorium premises, the venue of the conference scheduled to start at 10:00am.
They then exploded nine more cocktails at the Chowrangi Crossing area.Some of Sakku's followers were wearing black masks and were armed with pistols, LGs, revolvers, and sawed-off rifles. They fired shots at the Town Hall ground that was empty by then. At least 20 gun shots were heard. Two young men in jeans and T-shirts were seen firing guns, but their identities could not be known immediately.
At one stage, supporters of Yasin, armed with sticks, chased their rivals, sparking an exchange of brickbats. Later police came to the scene and lobbed tear gas canisters to disperse the warring groups.Sakku's supporters Milon, Ferdaus, and Russell were hit by bullets, and were sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Mazharul Islam, a fourth year accounting student of Comilla Government College, was hit by a bullet in the chest. OC Mohiuddin Mahmud was injured in the leg, SI Mosaddekul Maula was injured in the head and abdomen, SI Md Shahjahan and the havildar were injured in the hands. Four pedestrians were also injured, who were admitted to local clinics. Police recovered an abandoned revolver from the front of the district BNP office. Rapid Action Battalion arrived at the spot around 1:30pm.
District Jubo Dal Joint Convener Ashikur Rahman Mahmud Wasim, a supporter of Yasin, said, "Our rivals opened fire in broad daylight in a bid to foil the conference, but their attempt failed."The unit's First Joint Convener Nazrul Islam Bhuiyan, a follower of Sakku, said, "I was in charge of conducting the conference. I don't know what happened outside."
Police picked up 15 persons from the conference venue on charges of involvement in the incident, who are Md Sumon, 20, Mostafizur Rahman, 35, Hridoy, 20, Rony, 25, Ripon, 20, Abul Hasan, 24, Monir Hossain, 24, Yasin, 20, Pavel, 28, Jahir, 22, Rafiqul Islam, 22, Anu Miah, 35, Rubel, 25, Kishore Kumar Debnath, 35, and Ripon, 20.
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=157988
__._,_.___