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[ALOCHONA] Raped girl whipped to death



Raped girl whipped to death

Fatwa enforcers find victim guilty

Four arrestees were remanded yesterday for links with a fatwa (religious edict) that led to whipping of a rape victim to death in Shariatpur.

Fourteen-year-old Hena, daughter of farmer Darbesh Kha of Chamta village in Naria upazila, was raped by her cousin Mahbub, 40, Sunday night.

The victim's father filed a murder case with Naria Police Station accusing 18 people.

Naria police arrested four of the accused and prayed for a seven-day remand before a court. Judicial Magistrate Abdul Mannan placed Mahbub's wife Shilpi Begum on remand for three days, Mofiz Uddin, imam of Chamta village mosque, for two days and Joynal Meer Malot and Alabux Korati for one day each.

Mahbub and the other accused are on the run.

Shariatpur Superintendent of Police AKM Shahidur Rahman said the police are hunting for the other accused.

Shariatpur Civil Surgeon Golam Sarwar said that after post mortem of the body, samples have been sent to Dhaka Medical Forensic Department for viscera report.

Meanwhile, Hena was buried at her family graveyard yesterday after a namaz-e-janaza in the afternoon.

Different organisations held rallies and human chains in protest at the social crime. They demanded immediate arrest and punishment of Mahbub and the ones who issued and executed the fatwa. Shusashoner Janno Nagorik (Shujan), district unit of an alliance for prevention of domestic repression; Prothom Alo Bandhu Shabha and district unit of Human Rights Commission held a human chain in front of the deputy commissioner's (DC) office.

The victim's family said Idris Fakir, a union parishad member and an accused in the case, have been offering Hena's father Tk 7 lakh to stop proceeding with the case.

On Sunday night, when Hena went out of her house to respond to nature's call, Mahbub forcibly took her to an abandoned house nearby and raped. Hearing her screaming, Mahbub's wife Shilpi Begum and brother came there. But surprisingly they beat up the rape victim. At one stage, Hena's father and some relatives reached the spot and rescued her.

As the news spread, some locals including Idris Fakir, Saiful, a teacher of Chamta Abul Bashar Madrasa; Mofiz Uddin, Latif Meer Malot, Akkas, Yasin and Joynal Meer Malot, Alabux Korati arranged for arbitration. They sentenced the rapist to 200 lashes with Tk 50,000 fine and 100 lashes to the victim.

The punishment for the rapist, Mahbub, was reduced from 200 to 100 lashes. But Hena could not escape punishment and lost her consciousness after 60 to 70 whippings. Her relatives took her to Naria Upazila Health Complex where she finally lost her battle for life Monday night.



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[ALOCHONA] Bangladesh's blood parade truth still unknown



Afsan Chowdhury

Shiraj Shikder, Mujib, Taher, Zia: Bangladesh's blood parade truth still unknown

Courtesy BDNews24 / January 23, 2011

Bangladesh-map222The intervention of the court to find out what really transpired that led to the hanging of Col. Taher is welcomed. It is significant not just because Taher was a man of history with many followers and admirers but also because his death is still shrouded in mystery. Not only do we not know yet if there were major violations of the rule of law and due process in the trial but as many have said, it could well be a `judicial murder'. Where the court was used and in this case, a military court to try a civilian no matter whose actions involved soldiers of the army. Taher is dead but the people have a right to know what happened.

* * *

Bangladesh's history has produced four major deaths that have reverberated in history and influenced thinking and action till today. They are the violent deaths of Shiraj Shikder, Sheikh Mujib, Col. Taher and Gen. Zia. There are certain similarities and certain discordances amongst the four which need to be noted

In this parade of blood and death, Shiraj Shikder's case happened first. A Maoist opponent of Sheikh Mujib and his Awami League, he mounted a challenge which was more in principle than real but objectified the sense of rage and resentment that many felt towards the regime then. He was killed while in custody amidst jubilant descriptions from national media and AL politicians.

* * *

Sheikh Mujib's death has been documented more than everyone else's but the brutality is still shocking. He was killed by a rogue band of army officers along with many members of his family in a gruesome episode of national life. Various anti-AL regimes gave shelter to his killers and the constitution was even doctored for their protection. Ultimately, during the present regime, many were caught, tried and hanged.

* * *

Taher was hanged by Zia in a secret military trial although he was a civilian. He had participated in a coup in which soldiers played a major role and the effort was also linked to the leftist political party JSD. The soldier involved in the coup later released Gen. Zia from jail who became the hero, took over power, had Taher arrested and later tried him leading to his death. It is hoped that the recent court based enquiry will bring out much information on the entire episode.

* * *

Zia was mowed down by a group of Bangladeshi army officers –mostly war of independence veterans – in Chittagong. They thought he was betraying the `spirit of 1971' through his actions. Killed in the same city where he began his war in 1971, the bloody event spilled on after his death with a section of the cantonment rebelling and later being put down by the main army. The officers responsible for the killing of Zia and others were tried in a military court and hanged.

However, questions remain particularly about the involvement of Gen. Ershad and the investigative trial that began looking into it was not continued.

Together these four deaths have contributed to the creation of the `legitimacy' of extrajudicial killings, failure of due process of law, conspiracies to kill using the powers of the state and accepting that such acts are part of a murderous doctrine of necessity in Bangladesh politics, military or civil. Together they have nullified the principle of rule of law in general.

* * *

Of the four, two of them, Mujib and Zia were in power and were killed by their contestants who sought to take over the state. Shiraj Shikder and Taher were killed by Mujib and Zia respectively as threats to their power, big or small.

The death of Mujib, Zia and Taher were all actions taken by army officers in their quest for power.

Shiraj Shikder was the only one in the quartet who was killed by a civilian regime.

The tradition was not established by one killing but murders in each regime have strengthened the process with each act of violence.

* * *

Shiraj Shikder's death was foundational as it established the system of killing off enemies – inconvenient or dangerous – by the state represented by the government in power. He was a communist revolutionary who was the first person to articulate the East Pakistan-West Pakistan relationship through Marxist lenses and concluded that independent Bangladesh was the only solution. His party fought independently of Mujibnagar against the Pakistanis and after independence fought against Sheikh Mujib's regime. He was an outlaw and killed several of his own party members including Prof. Humayun Kabir of Dhaka University. His protests reflected the resentment many felt towards the then regime.

He was captured in 1973 and then tortured in custody. I met a few ex-NSI officials as a journalist who told me that they were involved with the interrogation of Shiraj Shikder claiming to have eye witnessed torture. I had asked whether the authorities knew about this and they asked back whether it was possible to torture a `national enemy' without the sanction from the top.

"His death while trying to escape was faked. A man who had so many limbs broken could hardly run. He was shot." I didn't dare ask him if he was personally involved but the encounter recollection has stayed with me though I am not sure it happened. I remember the regular announcements on the radio that the "criminal Shiraj Shikder has been killed while trying to escape". Of course no one believed the radio.

* * *

By the time he was killed, people had already come to accept such encounter killing courtesy to the Rakkhi Bahini, another terribly misguided attempt to obtain security through random acts of mayhem ignoring every notion of rights and common human decency. Worse, they set off the tradition of custodial, extrajudicial and plain murder by the people who were supposed to protect the very principles they violated often acting AL supporters themselves as records show.

* * *

Mujib and Zia were killed by army officers because they thought the two leaders were bad rulers. Both were ineffective rulers and people suffered much during their regimes. Both committed massive human rights abuses and themselves have been accused of many wrong deeds. Sheikh Mujib's BKSAL and cronyism initiated a platform that was used by his enemies to kill many, doctor the constitution and in general establish a tradition of bad politics that continues to haunt Bangladesh till today.

Mujib himself with his authority and stature was a poor manager of the state and most traditions including partisanship was very much a product of the first regime that is now a national tradition. It is important to recognise that the end of Mujib whose departure's principal beneficiary was Zia produced no better regime and was marked by a great deal of bloodshed.

* * *

Zia's regime produced many negatives including using money and favours to create political groups, introducing and rehabilitating state enemies like the Jamaat-e-Islami, establish corruption as a form of official income and infect money as a grease of power and influence that affected his own children.

During his regime many coups were noted, many soldiers killed and hanged and a brand of politics was initiated that is cynical to the extreme.

It is impossible to give anything but mixed reviews to both and also add that both established and enhanced the tradition that is so much part of all the negatives that bedevil us now.

That by no means can ever justify the end of these two. There never can be excuses for murder.

* * *

Taher and Shiraj Shikder were both civilians seeking power and broke the law while doing so. Considered as enemies of the state they were dealt with violence both physical and legal. No matter how horrendous their crimes, no one can be bumped off according to convenience. Because it all happened in the first decade they have become such an integral part of the national psyche. If one wants to look at the roots of present day encounter killings the answer lies in the traditions that included the death of these two political opponents of Mujib and Zia.

* * *

It is also interesting that both these two were followers of their own brand of Marxism/Maoism. What is even more interesting is that many if not the majority of the encounter killings that occur in Bangladesh including now involve Maoists in Bangladesh according to the South Asia Terrorist Portal. The situation is the same for India.

Maoists are not targeted ideologically but as rural operators with no political support or pressure group, it is easier to kill them, even display their dead bodies on TV because there is no one to protest or answer.

* * *

Unless we condemn all killings and seek restoration of judicial justice, the present tradition will continue and we stand to lose from that. Knowing Bangladesh's tribalised politics, the truth will not come out in one go. Let's hope that during this regime, as the killers of Mujib have been dealt with, all the information about the Taher killings will be found out and made public information. JSD activists are friendly with the present regime and trashing Zia will be welcomed by the AL.

And let's hope when the BNP comes to power, they will explore in the same manner the circumstances around the death of Zia which was begun and investigate the process that led to the death of Shiraj Shikder. It will embarrass the AL which BNP will like.

But in the end it is not for them but for us.



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RE: [ALOCHONA] Bangladesh famine of 1974



mr. Isha khan,


don't you have fear?
these facts of history....have been carefully buried by AL thugs + chamcha.... for years!!!!

Why are you digging them up again?

neither Farida Majid + her pseudo intellectual friends will be happy to revisit this dark chapter.

Why AL could never produce leaders and workers, who beleive in self-analysis and quality control?

Who are those people who voted them into power again?

Is it too early to assess....which forces have caused more damage to Bangladesh :  AL or combined forces
of Jamaat- razakars- al badr-communist etc?

khoda hafez.







From: bdmailer@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 12:19:01 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Bangladesh famine of 1974



Bangladesh famine of 1974
 
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Bangladesh famine of 1974
CountryBangladesh
Location
Period1973-1977
Total deaths1 million
ObservationsWar
ReliefNone provided
Impact on demographicsPopulation of Bengal declined
 
The Bangladesh famine of 1974 refers to a period of mass starvation beginning in March 1974 and ending in about December of the same year. The famine is considered the worst in recent years; it was characterised by massive flooding along the Brahmaputra river as well as high mortality.
 
Contents
 
1 Overview of famine
2 Portrait of Mortality
3 Causes
4 See also
5 References
 
Overview of famine
 
Warnings of famine began in March, 1974 when the price of rice rose sharply. In this month "widespread starvation started in Rangpur district",[1] the region which would become one of three most afflicted.[2] It had only been two years and three months since the end of the Bangladesh Liberation War for their independence (December 1971) and Bangladesh's formal creation. In many ways, Bangladesh's new state and devastated infrastructure and markets were wholly unprepared to deal with the situation.[3][4] Corruption among the newly appointed officials was rampant and widespread. In April, though government officials reiterated that the crisis would be temporary, rice prices continued to rise sharply and reports of starvation became more widespread. From April to July, Bangladesh was hit by heavy rainfall and a series of devastating floods along the Brahmaputra river, with notably destructive incidents in May, July [5] In addition, neighboring India declined to cooperate with the government of Bangladesh. Rice crops were devastated and prices rocketed. In October rice prices peaked and conditions eased by November 1974 as foreign aid and the winter crop arrived.[6] The famine was officially over by December, though 'excess' mortality (e.g. by disease) continued well into the following year, as is the case with most famines. More people suffered in the rural areas due to starvation. Generally, regional famine intensity was correlated to flood exposure and no doubt the floods exacerbated the famine.[7] However, though warnings of famine began long before the flood (as demonstrated above), it is to the floods which the famine is popularly blamed.[8]
 
Portrait of Mortality
 
In terms of total mortality, though figures vary, one scholar estimates 1.5 million deaths as a reasonable estimate.[9] This number includes the post-famine mortality. Starvation was not the only factor; a significant number of deaths are attributable to diseases, cholera, malaria and diarrheic diseases. As with most famines, weakened, disease-susceptible conditions resulted in high post-famine mortalities of over 450,000.[10] The poor, labourers and non-landowners were especially susceptible.
 
Multiple authors agree that "wage labourers suffered the highest mortality for all groups".[11][12] Crude death rate "among landless families was three times higher than that for families with three or more acres".p. 18 Amartya Sen's micro-level entitlement analysis explains this trend. Sen's theory, looks at individual "entitlements", or direct access, to food resources. Individuals who have a direct claim to food (e.g. landowning farmers), will fare better than those who rely on markets to purchase food(e.g. artisans, or those in service sectors). For example, while a landowning farmer claims her product, her labourer is paid a wage and must buy food from the market. Thus, non-crop-owners are exposed to fluctuations in food prices, employment opportunities, wage and demand for products and services. In a time of food insecurity, these conditions deteriorate, leaving non-crop-owners susceptible to famine.[13]
 
Causes
 
As with most famines, the causes of the Bangladesh famine were multiple. These included flooding, government mismanagement of foodgrain stocks, legislation restricting movement of foodgrains between districts, foodgrain smuggling to neighbouring countries and so called distributional failures. The famine did not occur among all areas and populations but was concentrated in specific areas; particularly those hit by flooding.[14]
 
In their studies of the 1974 famine, various scholars find that 1974 average foodgrain production was a 'local' peak.[15][16] For this reason, scholars argue that, "food availability approach offers very little in the way of explanation of the Bangladesh famine of 1974".p. 141 Rather, they argues that the Bangladesh famine was not caused by a failure in availability of food but in distribution (or entitlement), where one group gained "market command over food".p. 162
 
Two distributional failures stand out. The first failure was internal: the specific configuration of the state rationing system and the market resulted in speculative hoarding by farmers and traders and a consequent rise in prices.[17] The second failure was external: the US had withheld 2.2 million tonnes of food aid to 'ensure that it abandoned plans to try Pakistani war criminals'. And a year later, when Bangladesh was faced with severe monsoons and imminent floods, the then US Ambassador to Bangladesh made it abundantly clear that the US probably could not commit food aid because of Bangladesh's policy of exporting jute to Cuba. And by the time Bangladesh succumbed to the American pressure, and stopped jute exports to Cuba, the food aid in transit was 'too late for famine victims'.[18]
 
References
 
^ Alagmir, M. (1980). Famine in South Asia: Political economy of mass starvation. Massachusetts: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain
^ Baro, M. & Duebel F.T. (2006). Perspectives on vulnerability, famine and food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Annual Review of Anthropology, 35, p.521-38.
^ Hugo, G. (1984) In Currey B. & Hugo, G. (Eds.), Famine as a geographical phenomenon (pp. 7–31). Boston: Reidel.
^ Sen, A. (1982). Poverty and famines: An essay and entitlement and deprivation. Oxford: Clarendon.
^ Sobhan, R. (1979). Politics of Food and Famine in Bangladesh. Economic and Political Weekly, 14(48)
^ Famine as Commerce, by Devinder Sharma
 




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RE: [ALOCHONA] Naming Dhaka as" Mujib Nagar"



you should be given" sitara ee meghna"...for your brilliant proposal.


khoda hafez







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From: shossain456@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 18:29:17 -0800
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Naming Dhaka as" Mujib Nagar"



In order to pay our indebtedness to Father of the Nation, Bangabondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman I propose to change the name of Dhaka to "Mujib Nagar"
and "Bay of Bengal" to "Bay of Bangabondhu".
 
Any comments from the Alochoks?
 
SH
Toronto





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[ALOCHONA] 10-taka rice : Not promised ?



10-taka rice : Not promised ?
 
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Bangladesh famine of 1974



Bangladesh famine of 1974
 
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Bangladesh famine of 1974
CountryBangladesh
Location
Period1973-1977
Total deaths1 million
ObservationsWar
ReliefNone provided
Impact on demographicsPopulation of Bengal declined
 
The Bangladesh famine of 1974 refers to a period of mass starvation beginning in March 1974 and ending in about December of the same year. The famine is considered the worst in recent years; it was characterised by massive flooding along the Brahmaputra river as well as high mortality.
 
Contents
 
1 Overview of famine
2 Portrait of Mortality
3 Causes
4 See also
5 References
 
Overview of famine
 
Warnings of famine began in March, 1974 when the price of rice rose sharply. In this month "widespread starvation started in Rangpur district",[1] the region which would become one of three most afflicted.[2] It had only been two years and three months since the end of the Bangladesh Liberation War for their independence (December 1971) and Bangladesh's formal creation. In many ways, Bangladesh's new state and devastated infrastructure and markets were wholly unprepared to deal with the situation.[3][4] Corruption among the newly appointed officials was rampant and widespread. In April, though government officials reiterated that the crisis would be temporary, rice prices continued to rise sharply and reports of starvation became more widespread. From April to July, Bangladesh was hit by heavy rainfall and a series of devastating floods along the Brahmaputra river, with notably destructive incidents in May, July [5] In addition, neighboring India declined to cooperate with the government of Bangladesh. Rice crops were devastated and prices rocketed. In October rice prices peaked and conditions eased by November 1974 as foreign aid and the winter crop arrived.[6] The famine was officially over by December, though 'excess' mortality (e.g. by disease) continued well into the following year, as is the case with most famines. More people suffered in the rural areas due to starvation. Generally, regional famine intensity was correlated to flood exposure and no doubt the floods exacerbated the famine.[7] However, though warnings of famine began long before the flood (as demonstrated above), it is to the floods which the famine is popularly blamed.[8]
 
Portrait of Mortality
 
In terms of total mortality, though figures vary, one scholar estimates 1.5 million deaths as a reasonable estimate.[9] This number includes the post-famine mortality. Starvation was not the only factor; a significant number of deaths are attributable to diseases, cholera, malaria and diarrheic diseases. As with most famines, weakened, disease-susceptible conditions resulted in high post-famine mortalities of over 450,000.[10] The poor, labourers and non-landowners were especially susceptible.
 
Multiple authors agree that "wage labourers suffered the highest mortality for all groups".[11][12] Crude death rate "among landless families was three times higher than that for families with three or more acres".p. 18 Amartya Sen's micro-level entitlement analysis explains this trend. Sen's theory, looks at individual "entitlements", or direct access, to food resources. Individuals who have a direct claim to food (e.g. landowning farmers), will fare better than those who rely on markets to purchase food(e.g. artisans, or those in service sectors). For example, while a landowning farmer claims her product, her labourer is paid a wage and must buy food from the market. Thus, non-crop-owners are exposed to fluctuations in food prices, employment opportunities, wage and demand for products and services. In a time of food insecurity, these conditions deteriorate, leaving non-crop-owners susceptible to famine.[13]
 
Causes
 
As with most famines, the causes of the Bangladesh famine were multiple. These included flooding, government mismanagement of foodgrain stocks, legislation restricting movement of foodgrains between districts, foodgrain smuggling to neighbouring countries and so called distributional failures. The famine did not occur among all areas and populations but was concentrated in specific areas; particularly those hit by flooding.[14]
 
In their studies of the 1974 famine, various scholars find that 1974 average foodgrain production was a 'local' peak.[15][16] For this reason, scholars argue that, "food availability approach offers very little in the way of explanation of the Bangladesh famine of 1974".p. 141 Rather, they argues that the Bangladesh famine was not caused by a failure in availability of food but in distribution (or entitlement), where one group gained "market command over food".p. 162
 
Two distributional failures stand out. The first failure was internal: the specific configuration of the state rationing system and the market resulted in speculative hoarding by farmers and traders and a consequent rise in prices.[17] The second failure was external: the US had withheld 2.2 million tonnes of food aid to 'ensure that it abandoned plans to try Pakistani war criminals'. And a year later, when Bangladesh was faced with severe monsoons and imminent floods, the then US Ambassador to Bangladesh made it abundantly clear that the US probably could not commit food aid because of Bangladesh's policy of exporting jute to Cuba. And by the time Bangladesh succumbed to the American pressure, and stopped jute exports to Cuba, the food aid in transit was 'too late for famine victims'.[18]
 
References
 
^ Alagmir, M. (1980). Famine in South Asia: Political economy of mass starvation. Massachusetts: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain
^ Baro, M. & Duebel F.T. (2006). Perspectives on vulnerability, famine and food security in sub-Saharan Africa. Annual Review of Anthropology, 35, p.521-38.
^ Hugo, G. (1984) In Currey B. & Hugo, G. (Eds.), Famine as a geographical phenomenon (pp. 7–31). Boston: Reidel.
^ Sen, A. (1982). Poverty and famines: An essay and entitlement and deprivation. Oxford: Clarendon.
^ Sobhan, R. (1979). Politics of Food and Famine in Bangladesh. Economic and Political Weekly, 14(48)
^ Famine as Commerce, by Devinder Sharma
 


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[ALOCHONA] Naming Dhaka as" Mujib Nagar"



In order to pay our indebtedness to Father of the Nation, Bangabondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman I propose to change the name of Dhaka to "Mujib Nagar"
and "Bay of Bengal" to "Bay of Bangabondhu".
 
Any comments from the Alochoks?
 
SH
Toronto



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[ALOCHONA] Transit issue-cost-benefit analysis

Transit issue-cost-benefit analysis

A top official in the BTC said the letter of the adviser gives us a
negative signal as far as striking of transit deals is concerned.

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked the commerce ministry to
carefully analyse the economic costs of transit, taking into
consideration the negative externalities, political and environmental
issues, prior to granting the facility to India, Nepal and Bhutan.(The
Financial Express BD)

Dr Moshiur Rahman, Economic Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister, has
made specific suggestions through a dummy-official (DO) letter
addressed to Commerce Minister Faruk Khan.

In the letter, which was seen by the FE, the Adviser has requested to
evolve a methodology to assess the possible negative externalities in
the event of granting transit facility to India, Nepal and Bhutan.

The Ministry of Commerce (MoC) should analyse the theoretical base of
political and economic issues on transit and possible impact on
sub-regional cooperation in the way of striking transit deals with the
countries concerned, Moshiur said.

He has suggested the MoC to conduct an economic analysis of the
facility in cost-benefit perspective.

Dr Moshiur said a system should be there to assess the economic gains
for Bangladesh after constructing required infrastructures for transit
facilities.

Besides, Moshiur said, MoC will need to have an administrative
arrangement to comply with the regulations of World Trade Organisation
(WTO) in relation to the proposed transit agreements.

He has also underlined the need for amending the existing fees
applicable to Indian cargoes under the protocol on inland water
transit between Bangladesh and India.

'It is essential to examine and identify the loopholes in the current
tariff rates under the agreement between Bangladesh and India, while
the required changes should be brought in the agreement to make the
same workable in future perspective,' reads the DO.

Furthermore, the DO said, a system has to be evolved to measure the
negative externalities and calculate the financial compensation for
Bangladesh.

Moshiur Rahman in his letter has also underscored the need for
establishing an appropriate authority that would determine the actual
compensation that the country would need in the event of granting
transit facility.

The latest letter also suggested estimation of the financial losses
that the country would suffer due to heavy traffic movement under the
proposed transit deals.

Officials in the MoC said they have sent the letter to Bangladesh
Tariff Commission (BTC) as they did in the case of Finance Minister's
directives on the same issue.

A top official in the BTC said the letter of the adviser gives us a
negative signal as far as striking of transit deals is concerned.

"We are working on both the directives coming from Dr Moshiur and Mr
Muhith," he said.

Earlier, Muhith outlined an eight-point strategy for Bangladesh in
relation to striking transit deals with the neighbours.

The major areas of strategy include finalising routes for transit
through road, railway and waterways and strengthening the capacity of
Chittagong and Mongla ports, developing required infrastructure.

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=124900&date=2011-02-03


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RE: [ALOCHONA] Egypt is Another Soros "Color" Revolution



Mubarak is a staunch ally for the world power who control and suppress the ME. His long rule created lots fo resentment, he needs to be replaced. So it is crucial that USA, Israeli interests are protected. That is the subject and objective of the main writeup.
 
I wish you would agree that this days desents are created. One quick example that came to my mind - if you remember, before Iraq was attacked there were frequent protest and outcry by the people in London and NY, whol said they will create human chain in Bagdad. And, so they went in Bagdad and started providing information to the invading armies and its operations theatre before they could bomb with precision.
 
So was the uprising in Belarus, Georgia etc.
 
Al Baradei can not be a nationalist leader as per his past records. 
 
Hope you see the limitiation of the leaderless popular uprising.  


--- On Tue, 1/2/11, S A Hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com> wrote:

From: S A Hannan <sahannan@sonarbangladesh.com>
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Egypt is Another Soros "Color" Revolution
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, 1 February, 2011, 10:41 AM

 

This is another malicious propaganda against people's movement in Egypt , against Al Barade and against Muslim brotherhood.

Shah Abdul Hannan

 


From : alochona@yahoogroups.com [mailto : alochona@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Isha Khan
Sent : Monday, January 31, 2011 11 : 04 AM
Subject : [ALOCHONA] Egypt is Another Soros "Color" Revolution

 

 

Egypt is Another Soros "Color" Revolution

 

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by Henry Makow Ph.D.

The turmoil in Egypt
is another  contrived, Illuminati backed "color" revolution designed to install puppets more subservient to their London-based masters.  Over the last decade, we have seen such "revolutions" in Serbia , Georgia , Ukraine , Kyrgyzstan , Mongolia and recent failed attempts in Burma , Iran and Thailand .

"Human rights" and "democracy" is always the pretext for these Illuminati gambits, dating back to the French and Russian Revolutions. They take advantage of genuine grievances to hoodwink the public.  

This time there was no color scheme to tip us off but the unanimous support by the Illuminati-controlled mass media was a signal. You wouldn't hear about it otherwise. (For example,
did you know that real nationalists took over the government of Hungary ?)

The confirmation is the man they are touting to replace Hosni Mubarak.

Globalist widget, Mohammed El Baradei is a trustee of the "International Crisis Group"  an "independent" non-profit group run by bankers to incite revolutions and profit from them.
His fellow trustee is none other than the ubiquitous Rothschild front man, George Soros.

El Baradei, who recently resigned as Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is being groomed by the Illuminati to replace Mubarak. (He and his agency won the 2005 Nobel Prize.) In April, he gave a speech at Harvard saying he was "looking for a job" and wanted to be "an agent of change and advocate for democracy" in Egypt . This is code for local boss in the NWO banker tyranny. (Barack Obama has taught us about "change.") 

In February, El Baradei was part of a new non-party political movement called the "National Association for Change" which included a leader of the banned Masonic Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim brotherhood is a proxy for Britain 's MI-6 masquerading as Muslim fundamentalists. In November they were
roundly defeated in elections, so this "revolution" seems to be their answer. Mubarak wisely jailed their leaders.   

On Thursday El Baradei returned to Egypt to lead the demonstrations. Friday he and his supporters were subjected to water canons and batons.  Today he announced : "We are seeking a change of regime. President Mubarak should step down. We should head towards a democratic state through a new government and free democratic elections...The whole world should realize that the Egyptians are not going home until their demands are realized...We are talking about taking down the Pharaonic dictatorship."

Egypt has
accused the US of helping to engineer this revolt by training "activists," citing this document.

Is it going too far to say that removing Mubarak would be a victory for Israel in its expansion from the Nile to the Euphrates ? Their surrogates are already in Baghdad . 

This article is not intended to garner sympathy for the Mubarak regime but  merely to point out that this turmoil is about the Illuminati tightening their grip on Egypt . Imagine a Mafia gang that has been raking off a share of profits for decades. One day it decides to increase its take by eliminating the middle man. At the same time, it can create turmoil which always provides new opportunities.

One thing is for sure : Our "leaders" care little about human rights and democracy. 
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Note : I am indebted to this article :
Tunisia & Egypt: Manufactured Crisis? 

Related- Illuminati West's Support of Mubarak Wavering 

Related-
How Leftists and Progressives Carry Water for the Illuminati 

Related - Video
"Change in Egypt"

Hegelian Dialectic- Muslim Brotherhood is Leading the Opposition

Council on Foreign Relations Smiles on ElBaradei

Mubarak Chooses CIA Man to Succeed Him?

David Livingstone on the Muslim Brotherhood

Chossudovsky- Changing Puppets in Cairo 

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Was Mubarak Getting too Close to the Russians?

A reader, Dan, writes :

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 "There is a Globalist summit coming up in about 3 weeks in Cairo .  On the itinerary the last speech is called, "What will Egypt look like in 2020?
A longer-term perspective from The Economist Group". (see link and image below)

I had a hunch to research current Russian/ Mubarak regime relations and indeed, I found they've been talking - Jan 7th.  I think Hillary may be jealous.
 
Mubarak, Russian FM discuss regional cooperation
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/mubarak-russian-fm-discuss-regional-cooperation

"Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held "important talks" yesterday over common regional and international interests, according to Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Abul Gheit

Among the most important issues discussed, Abul Gheit told reporters, was the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mubarak and Lavrov stressed the importance of reconciliation between Palestinian factions and the urgent need to lift the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. Mubarak welcomed a proposal to hold a ministerial meeting in Moscow for parties involved in the peace process."

The latest video of the Cairo mobs looks orchestrated, or choreographed as the BBC narrator says in the clip.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/01/egyptian-air-force-fighter-planes-buzzed-low-over-cairo-on-sunday-helicopters-hovered-above-and-extra-troop-trucks-appeare.html

That might explain a lot.  Russia hasn't been a player in Egypt since the Nassar.  There's no way the State Dept will allow that. They'll pull the plug on Mubarak first.

http://mea.economistconferences.com/event/egypt-summit/agenda

http://www.henrymakow.com/egypt.html




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[ALOCHONA] Fwd: Arrested for Felani poster!!



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From: Zoglul Husain zoglul@hotmail.co.uk
 
 
15 Year old Felani hanging in Barbed wire killed by Indian BSF
 
BNPdistrict leader arrested on charge of distribution of Indian BSF victim Felani poster
The poster under the name of "People of Bangladesh" is inscribed with sharp criticism of Foreign Minister Dipu Moni
 
News From Bangladesh
Wednesday February 02 2011
 
Sirajganj, Feb 1 (UNB) - BNP district leader Saidur Rahman Bachhu was arrested early hours today for his suspected involvement in distribution of poster that carried photograph of India's BSF victim Felani hanging with barbed wire fence at Kurigram border.
 
Police said the government has protested the shooting down of 15-year old poor Felani by BSF at Kurigram border on January 7. Despite that a section of politicians have been circulating the heart rending poster across the country in a bid to agitate the public mind.
 
Officer of Sadar thana said a case was filed against Saidur Rahman and he was personally investigating into the matter.
 
The poster under the name of "People of Bangladesh" is inscribed with sharp criticism of Foreign Minister Dipu Moni. It castigated her as "shameless, betrayer minister" for her pro-Indian role.
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Re: Amartya Sen on joratali dinbodol



Abid Bahar
 
Amartya Sen mentioned the 1974 famine as a man-made phenomenon. The famine was during Sk Mujib's time of 1972-75 when looting, smuggling, nepotism, cadre politics ruined the economy.But AL fondly calls that period Bangabandhu's Sonar Bangla.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Amartya Sen on joratali dinbodol
 
 



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[ALOCHONA] India is Bangladesh's major source of illicit drugs



India is Bangladesh's major source of illicit drug: UNITED NATIONS REPORT
 
 
The United Nations narcotics report said that India is the source of illicit drugs and rising of drug abuse in its neighbouring countries including Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Maldives.Meanwhile during recent years huge quantity of illicit drugs produced in India have been recovered from Bangladesh and Bhutan, the report said. Not only that India has also become a supplying ground of clandestine shipment of illicit drugs through Internet trade, those products are going even to North America and Europe.
 
Narcotics abuse
The Vienna-based, United Nations narcotics watchdog, International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) released its report on February 24, 2010 further stated that India is the primary source of injectable drugs such as Pethedine and Morphine, which are widely abused in the neighbouring countries including Bangladesh. In fact, more and more addicts in South Asian countries including Bangladesh are shifting to inject able narcotics abuse.
 
"The widespread abuse of pharmaceutical preparations containing narcotic drugs such as Codeine is an ongoing problem in Bangladesh. Such preparations are smuggled into that country from India," reports the INCB.
The INCB report also gives details of seizure made in these countries. In 2008, drug enforcement agencies in Bangladesh seized 53,239 bottles containing codeine-based syrup and 226 ampoules containing Pethidine and Morphine. The same year, agencies seized 554 tablets containing codeine. But this was far less than the huge seizure of 70,000 tablets made in 2007.
 
A record seizure of Buprenorphine, a widely abused inject able drug, of 14,782 ampoules, was made by law enforcement authorities in that country in 2008. These too were smuggled into Bangladesh from India.
Pharmaceutical preparations containing Benzodiazepines are among the drugs most widely abused in Bhutan. More than 1,060 tablets containing Chlordiazepoxide and 240 strips of tablets containing Nitrazepam were seized in 2007 in Bhutan and the trend continued in 2008. The suspected origin of the seized drugs was India, according to the INCB report.
 
Besides smuggling drugs to neighbouring countries, the report says, India has become one of the main sources of drugs sold through illegal internet pharmacies. Orders placed with such pharmacies are often dispatched to buyers in other countries through courier or postal services.The UN agency asked India to increase its vigilance in detecting the misuse of courier and postal services to smuggle controlled substances out of the country. It said the majority of clandestine shipments of controlled substances detected in India were destined for Australia and countries in North America and Europe.The report on narcotics trafficking for the year further stated that 2009 couriers and postal services have got a boost on account of the recent trends in globalisation.
 
Crackdown on culprits
A report of "My News.In" stated that India, responding to this has said that its Narcotic Control Bureau in cooperation with the state government is busy cracking down on the culprits. The problem with India is that it is located in the midst of the Golden Triangle and Golden Quadrilateral.
 
The Indian minister for social justice, Mukul Wasnik said: "Drug abuse is a complex issue. Since long we had put in places strategies to tackle the situation. The INCB data does not provide much insight. It may be used as an input. It says that in India 72.2 million people have drug addiction. We are commissioning a survey through National Survey Organisation (NSSO) to arrive at a right figure. The NSSO has begun its work in Manipur, Punjab and Maharshtra."
 
However, different reports criticized that the INCB in its report has made critical references to the developing world and has been mild on the developed world. Whatever may be the present scenario as per the report, the origin and the history of the illegal drug trade hold the colonial rulers responsible for the situation. However, the South Asia representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC), Cristina Albertin said that the INCB report was unbiased.
 
According to the INCB report seizures of amphetamine-type stimulants show that trafficking in these substances are increasing in South Asia. The region has also become a location for their manufacture. A number of clandestine methamphetamine laboratories have been discovered in India in recent years.
 
Cannabis trafficking
Trafficking in cannabis remains widespread throughout the region. In 2008, Indian authorities seized 103 tonnes cannabis herb and 4.1 tonnes cannabis resin. In Bangladesh, 2.3 tonne cannabis herb were seized, in Nepal more than seven tonnes and in Sri Lanka more than 37 tonnes. The widespread abuse of pharmaceutical preparations containing narcotics, namely codeine is an ongoing problem in Bangladesh.
 
However, the Indian authorities claim an increasing proportion of heroin seized in the country originated in Afghanistan, which indicates that India is being used as a transit area.The smuggling of heroin into the Maldives is an ongoing problem and has contributed to a rise in drug abuse. Pharmaceutical preparations containing benzodiazepines are among the most widely abused in Bhutan. The sources of origin of these preparations are suspected to be in India.
 
Bangladesh is vulnerable to ATS and pharmaceutical preparations and source for preparations containing Pseudoephedrme trafficking. In Nepal there is trafficking of cannabis. Afghanistan remains by far the largest illicit producer of heroin and other opiates and is becoming a major producer of cannabis.The INCB report also said that after tremendous progress in the past, countries in the east and south-east Asia faced setbacks in reducing illicit opium poppy cultivation in 2008, with a 3.3 per cent increase compared to the preceding year. Trafficking in methamphetamine and the illicit manufacture of MDMA (ecstasy) also increased. For the first time in recent years, the illicit manufacture of gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) was reported
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Commerce of Begging



Commerce of Begging
 
by Maswood Alam Khan
 

Bangladesh government has planned to stop beggars from begging in the streets of Dhaka and Chittagong cities ahead of ICC World Cup, the country's largest sporting event, due to start at Dhaka on 19 February which is also being co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka. Hawkers will also be shunted out to ensure that there are no security glitches during the event. Bangladesh Home Minister Sahara Khatun told reporters that the beggars would be taken to rehabilitation centers.

More interestingly, the mayor of Chittagong metropolitan city Manzurul Alam said his city office will pay each of the disabled beggars up to Taka 150 a day to keep the local beggars off the streets in the port city during the prestigious ICC World Cup event. Mr. Alam said: "Initially, defraying the daily allowance for the beggars will continue for three months till end of April. And we are planning to permanently rehabilitate them."

Undoubtedly, these are nice plans of the government to make a clean sweep of the beggars who nag people on the roads for Taka and even for Dollar when they find a visiting foreigner on a car or on the street. Dhaka city will wear a clean and neat look with no beggar crowding at the traffic stops. The footpaths would be tidy and orderly for one to walk on with the hawkers shunted out.

With beggars to be cleared off the streets in Dhaka and Chittagong cities thousands of cricket fans and aficionados from different parts of the world who will be flocking Bangladesh---some of whom visiting the country perhaps for the first time in their life---will not at least have registered in their memory a bad image of maimed beggars nagging while they would be staying in our country as our valued guests.

But, beggars will verily return to the streets immediately after the ICC event is over and the foreign guests are gone. I can vouch for any bet under the sun that the beggars in Bangladesh are not going to disappear anytime soon. Beggars were, beggars are and beggars will always be there everywhere. There are beggars all over the world. Begging is a very old profession. Sometimes begging is also a sacred ritual in some religions. Bangladesh would never be free from beggars even if this country in a near or distant future becomes a Saudi Arabia or a Malaysia.

About 700 thousand people in our country are eking out their living from begging. Out of this vast population of beggars a great portion were abducted and maimed when they were young. Their job is only to solicit pity and beg from people. At the end of the day many of these beggars have to hand all the alms and charities they have earned from kind people to the beggar mafia leaders in exchange of a shelter or morsels of stale food or perhaps for free drugs and alcohols.

Beggars in a decent society usually keep mum sitting under a shade or at a corner of a sidewalk placing before them a hat with its upside down or a pot hung around their shoulders wherein kind-hearted passers-by drop a bill or a coin. But the style of Bangladeshi beggars nagging persistently and begging persuasively---at times aggressively---is unnoticed elsewhere in the world other than in the India-Pakistan-Bangladesh subcontinent.

A maimed Bangladeshi beggar crying despicably and chasing a foreigner on a road incessantly leaves with anybody, especially with a tourist, a very uncouth impression about our people.

We are happy to learn the government at the behest of the Supreme Court is about to take some measures to get rid of the menace of beggars. Beggars may soon be rehabilitated in homes for the homeless as the cabinet already approved a draft in this regard. Prime minister also assured that beggars' problem would be seriously addressed; she informed that the formulation of Vagabond and Unsheltered Persons (Rehabilitation) Bill 2010 is going to be passed very shortly.

But solving the intractable beggars' problem may not be easy in a poor country like ours where there are not enough employment opportunities even for the educated and the able-bodied persons, let alone for the disabled beggars. Our neighboring country India has also been facing the same problem with beggars and the problem there is far from over. Plus, begging is a commercial business worth multimillion dollar in this subcontinent run by powerful beggar mafias. Indian mafias are making more than US Dollar 30 million a year in Mumbai alone.

The beggar mafias have also grown in Bangladesh doing their roaring businesses as has been proven time and again. According to official figures, as many as 45,000 children fall into the traps of beggar mafias in India each year. According to an unofficial rough estimate, every year not less than 5,000 Bangladeshi children are abducted by the Bangladeshi beggar mafias which may have syndicated links with their Indian counterparts for cross border trading of abducted and maimed children. The job of such mafias is to abduct, drug, maim and force the children to beg at designated places that are assumed to be guarded and controlled by mafia leaders.

It won't be a surprise if it is found that a great number of elements in political domains and law enforcement agencies are also involved in the lucrative businesses of the beggar mafias as has been made apparent by the recent High Court's directive to immediately suspend sub-inspector of Kamrangirchar police station Nurul Alam for his trying to save a gang involved in maiming a seven-year old boy Neyamul in their attempt to engage him in begging. As has been reported in the press, gang leader Faruk in collusion with their cohorts Korban, Ramjan, Russell, and Saddam had chopped off the penis of Neyamul, son of a rickshaw-puller.

A human rights organization and a private television channel did a commendable job by uncovering the gruesome story of Neyamul. RAB also played a heroic role in nabbing some of the mafia gangsters in Kamrangirchar, near Dhaka city. According to a news report, one of the arrested suspects Shariful Islam, alias Korban, told interrogators how he and his accomplices used to abduct children, confine them in cramped spaces for days together in near-starvation to weaken their mental strength and develop dependability on the gangsters, the way animals are trained to perform in a circus. Korban also confessed about killing male partners of couples who went out for evening walks at Beribadh and abducting the female partners for prostitution.

According to a report published recently in a Bangla newspaper, one RAB official came to know from one Faruq, now under police custody, that many gangsters, some of whom are members of powerful political parties, who are involved in this gruesome business of beggar mafia, have already fled away after their den in Kamrangirchar was detected. One of the gangsters, according to the news report, is a notorious criminal named Solaiman Matbar against whom there are numerous criminal charges like murder, abductions, extortion, land-grabbing and smuggling. Under Solaiman, the report said, there is a network of dozens of agents who are engaged in abduction and maiming of children who are later forced either to begging or to prostitution.

Children of the India-Bangladesh-Pakistan subcontinent are victims of "Beggar Mafia". The mafia gangsters are so violent and amoral and so blind and intoxicated in their spree of making money out of commerce of begging and prostitution that they are ruthlessly stealing new-born babies from hospitals and, like the butchers slaughtering animals, are hacking the limbs off male children. They are forcing the female children into prostitution at their tender age.

Hundreds of young children in India and Bangladesh are having their limbs chopped off, their eyes gouged out and their limbs made full of suppurating wounds out of acids poured on their bodies. A child abducted in most cases is maimed with the aid of an unscrupulous doctor who is paid by mafia gangsters to amputate one of the child's healthy hands or legs.

Not all the abducted children are maimed for begging; some are forced into child pornography and used as sex slaves and others who are suitable neither for begging nor as sex slaves are perhaps killed and have their organs like kidneys sold to middlemen for transplantation purposes.

Scattered all over Bangladesh, there are thousands of victims like Neyamul who are helplessly finding their limbs amputated at the hands or the directions of hundreds of mafia leaders and workers like Solaiman, Korban, Ramjan, Russell, and Saddam. Tales of victims that we read and hear in newspapers and television channels are only a molehill of a few painful stories compared to a mountain of more heartbreaking and more excruciating tragedies and agonies that are untold, unheard and uninvestigated.

Just imagine how the parents of these abducted children are now passing their days. Just imagine, your own child has similarly been abducted, beaten, starved, drugged and lastly maimed to be forced into begging or prostitution. Just visualize the innocuous and hapless face of your own child fallen in such a trap and try to hear his or her screams and groans: "Don't beat me please; don't cut my leg, please. Abbu, Abbu, Ammu, Ammu. Save me, please".

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of children are thus being crippled so they look helpless evoking pity among people and become potential earners of alms. The perpetrators know that the more a child is tortured and tormented the more unfortunate s/he would look. To a beggar mafia a child with the worst injuries is his prize earner as s/he can melt the hearts of the sympathetic passers-by. These young beggars are trained to learn how to choose the most appropriate place to beg in, the kind of people to approach and the kind of mannerism to mimic to make people sympathize. These children are tutored how to make their appearance as pitiful as possible to get money from people like elderly men and women who they would assume as soft-hearted.

One may now wonder why not the child beggars just flee away from the streets to escape from their traumatic life or why not the human rights people pick these helpless children for their rehabilitation! Yes, that was also exactly my question when in 2009 I myself had tried to persuade a child beggar at Purana Paltan into quitting his begging. Later, after I googled different sources to learn about a variety of tricks the mafia leaders adopt to control their agents and indentured workers it has became clear why the young beggars would keep mum if you approach them to forsake their painful life on the streets and do something else for a better living.

According to norms practiced by mafia leaders, the abducted children are first made dependent on drugs or alcohols. Physically maimed children are drugged to be maimed also mentally before they are sent on to the streets for begging, always with someone of the gang overseeing their movements. These crippled children desperately beg all day long and go home in the evening with a hope that they would be getting something that their addicted body and mind needs. They rather prefer hunkering down beside their mafia lords to leaving their begging profession.

Continuous intake of drugs causes their brain not to function normally. These children engaged for begging, whether mutilated or not, are gradually and fully addicted to drugs, solvents, alcohols and hashish laced with opium. They become physically and mentally dependent on the supply of the intoxicating substances their masters provide for them free of cost. They are thus under full control of their bosses.

Some children who know that they were maimed by their bosses are also too terrified even to speak out the truth; instead of blaming their masters for their mutilated body they would rather say their limbs 'just disappeared' or they would blame untrue 'accidents'. If law enforcement people try to catch them for their rehabilitation they would just flee away, lie low, bide their time and return eventually to their used livelihood of begging. No other pathways are open to them.

Of course, not all the beggars we find on the streets are domesticated or indentured workers of the beggar mafias. Many of the begrimed men, old women with matted hairs and children with disabilities and sores stretching out their palms peremptorily and soliciting our charity are actual beggars. Many children beg because their parents who cannot feed them send them out to beg. Many parents of these children are destitute, very ill or disabled. And, a great number of adult beggars are congenitally disabled and frail or suffering from stigmatized ailments like leprosy or mental sickness which debars them from normal work. They are too weak even to sing or make a monkey dance or offer an article for sale for a living. They are genuine beggars. They need our attention. They need to be rehabilitated in destitute homes in the first place.

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