Back in 1971 we were still a famously illiterate and poor people. Its been only 40 years since then. We haven't had a chance to evolve slowly or naturally. The strategies and mentalities of centuries of village politics still define us. We are an incredibly stubborn and jiddhi people. It doesn't matter how educated one becomes - biases and prejudices remain. sometimes it looks like education only reinforces them.
Grown men of obvious talent and merit keep silent when their party apparatus commits a murder, ruins a campus, commits rape and extortion. But they get all high and mighty when it comes to due process - when it suits them.
Our ignorance, hypocrisy and selfishness knows no bounds.
These people will keep silent as Tareq or Joy or Rehana slip into power and then lecture the rest of us about democratic values.
The Yunus saga has revealed our true colours to the world. It is good.
As it is I have heard that Hasina is due to visit the US but is being refused an appointment with Obama and Hillary :)
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Mohd. Haque" <haquetm83@...> wrote:
>
> What I fail to understand how a human, specially in our country, when supports BNP or AL surrender their all intelligence and resign to the Netri's khaesh and whim. Netri said this than I need to support it, it is loughable, at the same time dangerous.
> Â
> All of a sudden 'law' 'rule', 'court verdict' become so sacred, only to remove Yunus from Grameen Bank.
> Â
> Khaleda and his two son's crime and plunders that made AL popular over them, what happened to the low and rule?
> Â
> Hasina's 18 criminal, defroud, plunder and corruption cases were, along with all her accomplice's court cases withdrawan, what rule, law that allowed them to do this?
> Â
> Removing Yunus is not just because how he stayed on the helm of his own created empire that brought him and the country fame, it is his Nobel Prize (I was never a fan of Yunus's Microcredit).
> Â
> What is more worring is the government's increasing indulgence in vindictive and revenge against any one it wants in connivance with the High court or Supreme court.
> Â
> I guess some overenthusiatic insiders creating fury against AL as they did during 90s that crushed them to one third in the parliament. But again, when these parties are solely run by their Netris one should not blame the others, like the sole power, sole responsibility is none other than the PM.
> Â
> Can anyone please tell me how the Mahfouz Anam, Matiur and gong gone against AL this time?
> Thanks. Â
>
>
> --- On Wed, 9/3/11, ezajur <Ezajur@...> wrote:
>
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> From: ezajur <Ezajur@...>
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Joy's 'letter' tells it all
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, 9 March, 2011, 7:20 AM
>
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> Â
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>
> Joy's letter does say it all. But it's good news in many respects. It shows Joy in his truest light. His US handlers will write in his file: just like Mommy / jealous type / upset that Mommy did not get the Nobel Prize / delusions of grandeur.
> We need the West to see Joy for what he is.
> It's good news really : D
> Â
> -- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@> wrote:
> >
> > *Joy's 'letter' tells it all*
> >
> > *Friends of Yunus critical of his statement*
> >
> > Friends of Grameen, an international effort to save Prof Muhammad Yunus and
> > Grameen Bank, yesterday said an open letter of Sajeeb A Wazed, son of Prime
> > Minister Sheikh Hasina, has exposed fully the dynamics behind attacks on the
> > country's most prestigious organisation and its founder.
> >
> > The group, chaired by Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and former
> > United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said it has been
> > particularly alarmed by the statements made by Sajeeb.
> >
> > "Friends of Grameen are shocked by this letter, its existence, signatory,
> > allegations and the themes that are developed, that are now exposing fully
> > the dynamics behind the attacks on Grameen Bank and Prof Yunus, the very
> > strong personal content of the harassment of Yunus and Grameen Bank, the
> > allegations that Grameen Bank has been designed as and remains an organ of
> > state, the clear underlying view that Grameen Bank is a useless organisation
> > that has brought no relief to poverty in Bangladesh, the full and explicit
> > opposition to microcredit as an efficient way to alleviate poverty."
> >
> > The group said: "He wrote and signed an open letter on Saturday in his
> > capacity of 'Advisor to Sheikh Hasina, Honourable Prime Minister of
> > Bangladesh', claiming that he was representing the official view of the
> > Government of Bangladesh on the matter, in extremely troubling and
> > defamatory terms."
> >
> > "Here are the facts from the Bangladesh Government's side on the Yunus and
> > Grameen Bank issue", starts the email. It continues, "Last year Norwegian
> > Television uncovered documents revealing massive financial improprieties at
> > Grameen Bank under Mohammed Yunus.... Commenting on the fact that the
> > government of Norway has totally cleared this issue, he says "no doubt Yunus
> > lobbied the Norwegian Government."
> >
> > The letter continues with very acrimonious, pseudo-legal terms, and contains
> > such words as illegal activities, criminal offence, fraud, improprieties,
> > theft, embezzlement, and molestation, according to a statement of Friends of
> > Grameen.
> >
> > "Even more alarming, Mr Sajeeb Wazed goes on by saying: 'Contrary to the
> > popular perception, Yunus did not found Grameen Bank. The Government of
> > Bangladesh did', and continues with the following conclusion: 'Despite the
> > hype, there is no evidence that microcredit has in fact reduced the rolls of
> > the poor in Bangladesh. Grameen Bank has been in the microcredit business
> > for 30 years, yet Bangladesh remains one of the poorest countries in the
> > world.'"
> >
> > The letter came as the High Court yesterday ruled that Grameen Bank did not
> > obtain formal approval from the government on Yunus' reappointment as the
> > managing director in 1999.
> >
> > The Group said the government is the member of the board of Grameen Bank by
> > running three seats out of 12, but it has never questioned the position of
> > Prof Yunus as the managing director.
> >
> > On the contrary, the board voted unanimously for Yunus to continue as
> > managing director. The court decision is politically oriented and without
> > legal grounds, it said.
> >
> > Friends of Grameen hoped the position expressed by Sajeeb is not the
> > official position of the government of Bangladesh.
> >
> > Meanwhile, Ã"scar Arias, former president of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace
> > Prize Laureate, joined as Friends of Grameen.
> >
> >
> > http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=177004
> >
>
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