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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

[ALOCHONA] Vague War Criminal Trial



যুদ্ধাপরাধের বিচার বিষয়ে রোম স্টাটিউটের বিধান
অভিযোগ উঠলে নিস্পত্তি না হওয়া পর্যন্ত কেউ বিচারকাজে যুক্ত থাকতে পারবেন না
সামছুল আরেফীন : ইন্টারন্যাশনাল ক্রাইম ট্রাইব্যুনালের চেয়ারম্যান নিজামুল হক নাসিমের বিরুদ্ধে ঘাতক দালাল নির্মূল কমিটি (ঘাদানিক) গঠিত  জাতীয় গণতদন্ত কমিশনের সাথে যুক্ত থাকার অভিযোগ উঠেছে। যেই গণআদালত যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের বিচারের দাবিতে মাঠে ময়দানে সোচ্চার ছিল, দুই দফা তালিকা করে ফাঁসির নির্দেশ দিয়েছিল, সেই আদালতের সাথে যুক্ত ব্যক্তিই এখন যুদ্ধাপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনালের চেয়ারম্যান। এই অভিযোগ করেছেন, যুক্তরাজ্যের হাউস অব লর্ডস এর সদস্য, ইন্টারন্যাশনাল বাংলাদেশ ফাউন্ডেশনের চেয়ারম্যান লর্ড এভিবেরি। নিজামুল হক নাসিম যে গণআদালতের সাথে যুক্ত ছিলেন তা বর্তমানে ঘাদানিক সভাপতি শাহরিয়ার কবিরের সম্পাদিত বই-এ উল্লেখ রয়েছে। আন্তর্জাতিক আইন ও রীতিনীতি অনুযায়ী, কোন বিচারকের বিরুদ্ধে অভিযোগ উঠলে, তা নিত্তি না হওয়া পর্যন্ত তিনি আর বিচারকার্যের সাথে যুক্ত থাকতে পারেন না। নিজামুল হক নাসিম শুধু গণআদালতের সাথেই যুক্ত ছিলেন না, তিনি ছাত্রজীবনে মুজিববাদী ছাত্রলীগের রাজনীতির সাথেও যুক্ত ছিলেন। ট্রাইব্যুনালে চেয়ারম্যানই নয়, চিফ প্রসিকিউটরসহ অন্যান্যের বিরুদ্ধেও রয়েছে একই অভিযোগ। আজকে যাদের ট্রাইব্যুনালের মাধ্যমে বিচারের মুখোমুখি করা হচ্ছে, গণআদালতে তাদের বিরুদ্ধেই ফাঁসির আদেশ দেয়া হয়েছিল।
বাংলাদেশ রাষ্ট্রীয়ভাবে ইন্টারন্যাশনাল ক্রিমিনাল কোর্ট (আইসিসি) এর রোম স্ট্যাটিউট অংশীদার। বাংলাদেশ ইতোমধ্যেই এর অনুমোদন করেছে। তাই আইসিসি এর অপরাধের উপাদান, আইসিসি'র কার্যপ্রণালি, মামলার দলিল বাংলাদেশের নাগরিকদের ব্যাপারেও প্রযোজ্য হবে। এ ছাড়া বাংলাদেশ ইন্টারন্যাশনাল কনভেনট্যান্ট অন সিভিল এন্ড পলিটিক্যাল রাইট্স (আইসিসিপিআর)সহ বহু আন্তর্জাতিক মানবাধিকার চুক্তি, কনভেনশন এর অনুসমর্থন দিয়েছে।
রোম স্ট্যাটিউট অনুযায়ী, কোন বিচারকের বিরুদ্ধে অভিযোগ আসলে তা নিত্তি না হওয়া পর্যন্ত তিনি আর বিচারকার্যে অংশগ্রহণ করতে পারেন না। রোম স্ট্যাটিউট এর আর্টিক্যাল-৪১ এর ২(এ) তে বলা হয়েছে, A judge not participate in any case in which his or her impartiality might reasonably be doubted on any ground. A judge shall be disqualified from a case in accordance with this paragraph. if, inter alia, that judge has previously been involved in any capacity in that case before the Court or in a related criminal case at the national level involving the person being investigated or prosecuted. A judge shall also be disqualified on such other grounds as may be provided for in the Rules of Procedure and Evidence.
এ ছাড়া আইসিজে স্ট্যাটিটিউ এর আর্টিক্যাল ১৭(২) এবং ৩ অনুযায়ী কোন বিচারকের বিরুদ্ধে অভিযোগ আসলে তা নিত্তি না হওয়া পর্যন্ত বিচারক বিচারকার্য থেকে বিরত থাকবেন। আইসিটিওয়াই (যুগোশ্লাভিয়ার ট্রাইব্যুনাল)-এর রুল ১৫(এ) অনুযায়ী, কোন বিচারকের বিরুদ্ধে পক্ষপাতিত্বের অভিযোগ আসলেই তাকে সংশ্লিষ্ট মামলার কাজ থেকে প্রত্যাহার করা হয়।
লর্ড এভিবেরির অভিযোগ
সম্প্রতি যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে আইনমন্ত্রী ব্যারিষ্টার শফিক আহমদের সাথে বৈঠককালে যুক্তরাজ্যের হাউস অব লর্ডস এর সদস্য, ইন্টারন্যাশনাল বাংলাদেশ ফাউন্ডেশনের চেয়ারম্যান লর্ড এভিবেরি বাংলাদেশের যুদ্ধাপরাধের বিচারের ক্ষেত্রে ২০টি সমস্যা চিহ্নিত করেছেন। এর মধ্যে অন্যতম ছিল, ট্রাইব্যুনালের সদস্যরা ১৯৯০ সালে গণতদন্ত কমিশন (গণআদালত)-এর সদস্য ছিলেন, যেখানে-এর বিচার হয়েছিল। সেখানে অভিযুক্তদের শাস্তি দেয়া হয়েছিল, মৃত্যুদন্ডও দেয়া হয়েছিল। এখন সেই অভিযুক্তদেরই বিচারের সম্মুখিন করা হচ্ছে। আর যারা সে সময় বিচারের সাথে সম্পৃক্ত ছিলেন, তারাই এখন ট্রাইব্যুনালের সাথে যুক্ত।
বৃটিশ আইন বিশেষজ্ঞের অভিযোগ
বাংলাদেশে মানবতাবিরোধী বিচারের নামে রাজনৈতিক উদ্দেশে বড় ধরনের প্রহসনের আয়োজন করা হয়েছে বলে মনে করেন বিশিষ্ট বৃটিশ আইন বিশেষজ্ঞ জন কামেগ। ওয়াশিংটনে এক আলোচনা অনুষ্ঠানে তিনি এ কথা বলেন। তিনি বলেন, বাংলাদেশ সরকার আন্তর্জাতিক অপরাধ ট্রাইব্যুনাল (আইসিটি) গঠন এবং কিছুসংখ্যক বিরোধীদলীয় রাজনীতিবিদকে মানবতাবিরোধী অপরাধ সংঘটনের জন্য অভিযুক্ত করে তাদের বিচারের নামে বড় ধরনের প্রহসনের আয়োজন করেছে। এ বিচার সম্পূর্ণভাবে রাজনৈতিক উদ্দেশ্যপ্রণোদিত এবং যাদেরকে ট্রাইব্যুনালের বিচারক ও প্রসিকিউটর হিসেবে নিয়োগ দেয়া হয়েছে তাদের অনেকেই ইতিপূর্বে 'গণআদালত' গঠন করে অভিযুক্তদের বিরুদ্ধে রায় প্রদানের সাথে জড়িত ছিলেন।
গণআদালতের সেক্রেটারিয়েট সদস্য নাসিম
ইন্টারন্যাশনাল ক্রাইমস ট্রাইব্যুনালের চেয়ারম্যান বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক নাসিম ঘাতক দালাল নির্মূল কমিটি  (ঘাদানিক)  গঠিত  জাতীয়  গণতদন্ত কমিশনের সেক্রেটারিয়েট এর সদস্য ছিলেন। এ তদন্ত কমিশন বর্তমানে কারাবন্দি ছয় নেতৃবৃন্দসহ  মোট ১৬ জনকে যুদ্ধাপরাধের অভিযোগে অভিযুক্ত করে দুই দফা তদন্ত প্রতিবেদন পেশ করে ১৯৯৪ এবং ১৯৯৫ সালে। গণতদন্ত কমিশনের সেক্রেটারিয়েট এর কাজ ছিল অভিযুক্তদের বিরুদ্ধে তদন্ত কাজে কমিশনকে সর্বাত্মক সহায়তা করা। 
বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক নাসিম গণতদন্ত কমিশনের সাথে সম্পৃক্ত থাকা ছাড়াও ১৯৯২ সালে গণআদালতের রায় বাস্তাবায়নের দাবিতে তখন সমাবেশে অংশ নিয়েছিলেন। জাহানারা ইমামের নেতৃত্বে গঠিত গণআদালতের ধারাবাহিকতায় ১৯৯৩ সালের ২৬ মার্চ  মুক্তিযুদ্ধের চেতনা বাস্তবায়ন ও  ঘাতক দালাল নির্মূল জাতীয় সমন্বয় কমিটি গঠন করে জাতীয় গণতদন্ত কমিশন। কবি সুফিয়া কামালকে করা হয় এর চেয়ারম্যান। কমিশন ১৬ জনের বিরুদ্ধে ১৯৭১ সালে যুদ্ধপারাধের অভিযোগ তদন্ত করে।
যে তদন্ত কমিশন বর্তমানে আটক নেতৃবৃন্দকে আগেই যুদ্ধাপরাধের অভিযোগে অভিযুক্ত করেছে সেই কমিশনের সাথে সম্পৃক্ত হাইকোর্টের তৎকালীন এডভোকেট (বর্তমানে বিচারপতি) নিজামুল হক নাসিমকে করা হয়েছে ট্রাইব্যুনালের চেয়ারম্যান। ট্রাইব্যুনালের প্রসিকিউটর জেয়াদ আল মালুমও তখন গণতদন্ত কমিশনের সেক্রেটারিয়েট সদস্য ছিলেন। ট্রাইব্যুনালের চিফ
প্রসিকিউটর গোলাম আরিফ টিপু গণআদালতের রায় বাস্তবায়নের দাবি জানিয়ে জাহানারা ইমামের সাথে ঢাকা, রাজশাহীসহ সারাদেশে অসংখ্য সমাবেশে বক্তব্য রাখেন। বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক নাসিম শুধু যে গণতদন্ত কমিশনের সাথে সম্পৃক্ত ছিলেন তাই নয় বরং জাহানরা ইমামের নেতৃত্বে গঠিত গণআদালত ১৯৯২ সালে জামায়াতের তৎকালীন আমীর প্রফেসর গোলাম আযমের বিরুদ্ধে যে ফাঁসির রায় দিয়েছিল সেই রায় বাস্তবায়নেরও দাবি জানিয়েছিলেন তিনি। গণআদালতের রায়ের প্রতি আইনানুগ ব্যবস্থা  গ্রহণের দাবি জানিয়ে ১৯৯২ সালের ১০ এপ্রিল শুক্রবার সুপ্রিম কোর্ট আইনজীবী সমিতির সভাপতির কক্ষে আইনজীবী সমন্বয় পরিষদের একটি সভা হয়। এ সভায় অংশগ্রহণ করেন বর্তমানে ট্রাইব্যুনালের চেয়ারম্যান বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক। এ বিষয়ে ১৯৯২ সালে ১১ এপ্রিল দৈনিক সংবাদে পরিবেশিত প্রতিবেদনে বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক নাসিমের নাম রয়েছে।
তাছাড়া গণআদালতের কারণে জাহানারা ইমামসহ যে ২৪ জনের বিরুদ্ধে তখন রাষ্ট্রদ্রোহ মামলা হয়েছিল সেই মামলায় আসামী পক্ষের আইনজীবী ড. কামাল হোসেনের সাথে তখন বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক নাসিমও আইনী সহায়তা প্রদান করেন। যুদ্ধাপরাধ তদন্তে কবি সুফিয়া কামালকে চেয়ারম্যান করে যে  জাতীয় গণতদন্ত কমিশন গঠন করা হয় সেই কমিশনকে তাদের কাজে সহায়তা করার জন্য গঠন করা হয় তদন্তকমিশন সেক্রেটারিয়েট। আইনজীবী, সাংবাদিক এবং লেখকদের সমন্বয়ে মোট ৪০ জন সদস্য ছিলেন সেক্রেটারিয়েটে।
ট্রাইব্যুনালের চেয়ারম্যান বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক নাসিম যে ঘাদানিক ও গণতদন্ত কমিশনের সাথে ওতপ্রোতভাবে জড়িত ছিলেন তার প্রমাণ গণতদন্ত কমিশনের প্রথম ও দ্বিতীয় রিপোর্ট, শাহরিয়ার কবির সম্পাদিত এবং লিখিত দুটি বই যথাক্রমে 'একাত্তরের যুদ্ধাপরাধ ও যুদ্ধাপরাধীদের বিচার', 'গণ আদালতের পটভূমি'  এবং বিবিসি সাংবাদিক সাবির মুস্তাফা অনূদিত গণতদন্ত কমিশনের ইংরেজি ভার্সনসহ  (রিপোর্ট অন দি ফাইন্ডিংস অব দি পিপলস ইনকোয়ারি কমিশন..) সর্বত্র নিজামুল হক নাসিমের  নাম উল্লেখ রয়েছে সেক্রেটারিয়েট সদস্য হিসেবে।
বর্তমানে কারাবন্দি মাওলানা মতিউর রহমান নিজামী, আলী আহসান মোহাম্মদ মুজাহিদ, মুহাম্মদ কামারুজ্জামান, মাওলানা দেলাওয়ার হোসাইন সাঈদী, সালাহউদ্দিন কাদের চৌধুরী, আব্দুল কাদের মোল্লাসহ মোট আটজনের বিরুদ্ধে ১৯৭১ সালে যুদ্ধাপরাধের তদন্তে জাতীয় গণতদন্ত কমিশন গঠন করা হয় ১৯৯৩ সালের ২৬ মার্চ। মুক্তিযুদ্ধের চেতনা বাস্তবায়ন ও একাত্তরের ঘাতক দালাল নির্মূল সমন্বয় কমিটি এ  কমিশন গঠন করেন। শাহরিয়ার কবির সম্পাদিত এ বিষয়ক বইয়ে উল্লেখ করা হয়েছে, জাহানারা ইমামের নেতৃত্বে গঠিত গণআদালত গোলাম আজমের যে প্রতীকী ফাঁসির রায় দিয়েছে তারই ধারাবাহিকতায় অন্যান্য নেতৃবৃন্দের যুদ্ধাপরাধের তদন্ত এবং তাদের বিচারের দাবিতে জনমত তৈরির লক্ষ্যে গঠিত হয় গণতদন্ত কমিশন।
১৯৯৪ সালের ২৬ মার্চ প্রথম দফায় কমিশন আটজনকে যুদ্ধাপরাধের অভিযোগে অভিযুক্ত করে প্রতিবেদন প্রকাশ করে। এরা হলেন আববাস আলী খান, মাওলানা মতিউর রহমান নিজামী, মুহাম্মদ কামারুজ্জামান, আব্দুল আলীম (বর্তমানে জামিনে মুক্ত) মাওলানা দেলাওয়ার হোসাইন সাঈদী, মাওলানা আব্দুল মান্নান, আনোয়ার জাহিদ এবং আব্দুল কাদের মোল্লা।
১৯৯৫ সালের ২৬ মার্চ কমিশন তাদের দ্বিতীয় প্রতিবেদনটি প্রকাশ করে। এখানে যাদের বিরুদ্ধে যুদ্ধাপরাধের তদন্ত করা হয়  তারা হলেন, সালাহউদ্দিন কাদের চৌধুরী, আলী আহসান মোহাম্মদ মুজাহিদ, মাওলানা এ কে এম ইউসুফ, মাওলানা আব্দুস সোবহান, এ এস এম সোলায়মান, মোহাম্মদ আয়েন উদ্দিন, এবিএম খালেক মজুমদার এবং ড. সৈয়দ সাজ্জাদ হোসেন।
নিজামুল হক নাসিমের রাজনৈতিক সম্পৃক্ততা
বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক নাসিম ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে পরিসংখ্যান বিভাগে অধ্যয়নকালে এস এম হলের একজন ছাত্র ছিলেন। তিনি এস এম হল শাখার জাসদ ছাত্র লীগের জিএস নির্বাচিত হন। বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক নাসিম ১৯৬৭ সালে এইচএসসি পাস করে ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে অনার্সে ভর্তি হন। এর আগে পটুয়াখালি সরকারি কলেজে ইন্টারমিডিয়েটে অধ্যয়নকালে বিচারপতি নিজামুল হক নাসিম ছাত্রলীগের (আওয়ামী লীগ) একজন সাধারণ মানের কর্মী/সমর্থক ছিলেন বলে উল্লেখ করেছেন তার কলেজ জীবনের পরিচিতরা।


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[ALOCHONA] Re: India: New Killings, Torture at Bangladeshi Border



India calls 'ceasefire' on border crossings

By Syed Tashfin Chowdhury

DHAKA - Efforts to transform the India-Bangladesh border from a 4,000 kilometer long zone of terrorism, smuggling and human trafficking into a peaceful barrier punctured by numerous trade corridors took a big step forward last week with a pledge that India's Border Security Force (BSF) would no longer shoot people crossing from one country to the other.

Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram made the promise in Dhaka after signing of comprehensive border management deal on July 30.

"Let me make it very clear ... we have issued strict instructions to our Border Security Force that under no circumstances should they fire upon anyone trying to cross from either Bangladesh to India or India to Bangladesh. The message has gone down to the last jawan [private soldier]," he told a press conference.

The BSF has killed 20 Bangladeshis and wounded 50 so far this year, according to Bangladesh-based human-rights organization Odhikar. Chidambaram said seven people had been killed at the border this year, and 33 last year. As many as 930 Bangladeshis were killed from 2000 to last September, according to Human Rights Watch, citing Odhikar data.

"The only situation in which we have said firing may be justified is when a gang actually attacks a BSF jawan or an office," said Chidambaram. "Then he has to protect himself and fire in self-defense."

The director general of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Major General Anwar Hussain, and the director general of the Indian BSF, Raman Srivastava, earlier signed a "Bangladesh and India Coordinated Border Management Plan" to stop cross-border crimes such as terrorism, drug smuggling and human trafficking. The sides agreed to cooperate on security and expressed their resolve to jointly combat insurgency, militancy and terrorism.

Chidambaran's visit precedes a trip to Dhaka early next month by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh when a series of border-related agreements are expected to be finalized, an indication of the increasingly warm ties between the two countries.

At the end of last month, a border weekly market, or haat, was allowed to operate in Meghalaya district for the first time since 1971, and also in July the Indian Supreme Court gave the go-ahead to a ground-breaking cross-border cement project agreed to more than 10 years earlier.

Bangladesh has meanwhile taken a "political decision" to give transit to India as the "current government wants to establish all modes of connectivity in the region", Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said last month. One goal is to ease transit across Bangladesh's northern and eastern borders to improve sea access for India's far northeastern states.

India also wants improved road and railway routes that would allow it better access from Kolkata, the commercial capital of eastern India, across the Ganges Delta to the important port of Chittagong.

Chidambaram said outstanding issues concerning 6.5 kilometers of border demarcation, the transfer of enclaves and disputed land possession may be resolved during Manmohan's visit. As many as 51,000 people, 17,000 of them Bangladeshis, live in the 162 enclaves and exclaves that dot both sides of the border areas.

Asked whether the residents would be provided the opportunity to choose citizenship, he said the fate of the inhabitants would be decided by the countries' prime ministers when they met in Dhaka.

At a meeting of officials, Bangladesh's State Minister for Home Affairs, Shamsul Hoque Tuku, expressed "deep concern over the killing of innocent Bangladeshis by BSF, trafficking of women and children and smuggling of phensedyl from India to Bangladesh".

Phensedyl is an intoxicating cough syrup banned in Bangladesh and manufactured at factories along the Indian side of the border. Bangladeshi Home Minister Sahara Khatun told the meeting the factories had now been closed.

According to a recent United Nations Children's Fund report, about 400 women and children in Bangladesh are trafficked each month from Bangladesh. More than 300,000 Bangladeshi women and children had been trafficked to India in the past decade and another 200,000 were sold in Pakistan, the report said.

One issue that may continue to test relations is Dhaka's determination to secure the capture of Captain Abdul Majed and Risaldar Mosleuddin Khan, two fugitives found guilty of being involved in the 1975 killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the country's first president. The Bangladesh government believes the two, who have been sentenced to death, are in India.

Bangladeshi Home Minister Sahara Khatun told the press conference that Bangladesh had sought India's cooperation in the search for the two men. Chidambaram said they may be in India and his government would "leave no stone unturned to apprehend the convicts" although they will need more information and intelligence from Bangladesh on the issue.

On the general border issue, Bangladesh would "hand over a list of vulnerable border points being used for criminal activities", the Daily Star reported, citing a Home Ministry official. At least 700 kilometers of the border, on rivers and other points, are unfenced.

As relations have improved, and amid Bangladesh's repeated requests to India to stop killings and torture at the border, the BSF has resorted to more unusual methods, as widely reported in the Bangladesh media this month.

Bangladeshi cattle trader Rafiqul Islam was killed on July 2 while crossing the Saniyazan River with cattle, after being hit by stones thrown by BSF jawans. BGB officials later confirmed the killing.

Two days earlier, a 25-year-old Bangladeshi farmer, Selim Hossain, while working at a paddy field on the Bangladesh side of the border, was allegedly dragged into Indian territory by BSF jawans who had crossed the border in Chuadanga district, locals said. An hour later, people found Selim's body hanging from an electrified barbwire fence on the Indian side of the border.

Residents in dangerous areas will be hoping that the BSF will abide by Chidambaram's order from now on.

Syed Tashfin Chowdhury is a senior staff writer at New Age in Dhaka.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/MH04Df03.html


On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
End killings, abuses, HRW asks BSF

Rights watchdog Human Rights Watch (HRW) has asked the Indian government to carry out investigations into fresh allegations of killings, torture and other abuses by its Border Security Force (BSF) on Bangladesh border.

Saying that killings and severe abuses continue to take place despite India's stated commitment to abide by international principles and exercise restraint at the border, the New York-based organisation asked the Indian government to ensure prosecution of those found guilty of such crimes.

In December last year, a HRW report titled 'Trigger Happy' prompted the Indian authorities to announce steps to stop killings at the border, including the use of rubber bullets instead of more lethal ammunition, a HRW news release said Monday.

The report outlined extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, torture and mistreatment of both Bangladeshi and Indian nationals by the BSF over the past decade.

Although there has been a significant decline in the number of deaths caused by shootings at the border this year, at least 17 Bangladeshis have allegedly been killed by BSF soldiers since January, according to Odhikar, a Bangladeshi non-governmental organisation.

Local groups documented several cases of deaths as a result of severe beatings by BSF men, as well as cases of aggressive intimidation.

Earlier this year, Odhikar reported two separate incidents where cattle farmers died as a result of excessive violence.

Mizanur Rahman, 25, was allegedly beaten to death by BSF men after he crossed the border into India. His body was later dumped into the Saniyazan River. The BSF also killed Rekatul Islam, 17, as he and his accomplice tried to smuggle cattle into the neighbouring country.

Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director of the HRW, demanded an end to the longstanding impunity for abuses along the border.

"The [Indian] government has issued some positive new directives, but it needs to prosecute those who commit abuses so the soldiers will understand they can't act with impunity," she said.

The BSF is responsible for addressing illegal activities at the border, such as narcotics smuggling and human but in most cases victims were cattle rustlers, farmers, or labourers hoping to supplement their meagre livelihoods by working as couriers in the illegal cattle trade at the West Bengal border.

The HRW press release concluded that Indian authorities need to do more to ensure accountability for violations committed by their border force men and to ensure compliance with international laws.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=31095

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Human Rights Watch

(New York, July 25, 2011) ­– The government oof India should undertake a speedy, fair, and transparent criminal investigation into fresh allegations of killings, torture, and other abuses by the Border Security Force (BSF) at the border with Bangladesh, Human Rights Watch said today. Those against whom there is credible evidence of culpability should be prosecuted as part of an effort to end longstanding impunity for abuses along the border.

In December 2010, Human Rights Watch released a report, Trigger Happy, documenting extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, torture, and ill-treatment by the BSF. In the past decade, the BSF has killed Indian and Bangladeshi nationals. After the release of the report, Indian authorities assured Bangladeshi officials that these killings would be stopped. The government announced that it would order restraint and encourage the use of rubber bullets instead of more lethal ammunition, steps welcomed by Human Rights Watch.

While the number of deaths due to shooting has substantially decreased in 2011, the Bangladeshi non-governmental organization Odhikar has documented at least 17 alleged killings of Bangladeshis by the border force and other instances of severe abuse since January. Local groups have documented several cases of deaths as a result of severe beatings by the BSF.

Despite orders from New Delhi to end killings and abuse and to exercise restraint in dealing with people crossing the border, new deaths and other serious abuses are being reported, said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director for Human Rights Watch. The government has issued some positive new directives, but it needs to prosecute those who commit abuses so the soldiers will understand they can't act with impunity.

MASUM, a Kolkatta-based non-governmental organization that conducts fact-finding in the border areas, reports that while the number of shootings at the border has significantly reduced, BSF soldiers have been brutally beating and torturing suspects. Indian residents in the border area, while expressing relief that the indiscriminate shootings have stopped, have complained about aggressive intimidation and beatings.

In one recent example, MASUM reported to the National Human Rights Commission of India that on July 13, a group of soldiers from the 91st battalion of the border force threatened a local human rights worker, Kanai Mondal, in the village of Char Rajanagar, holding a gun to his head to demand that he take down posters calling for an end to torture. The soldiers also threatened other activists and confiscated posters, MASUM said.

On June 30, BSF forces killed Mizanur Rahman, 25. According to Odhikar, he had slipped into India along with four other cattle rustlers, when border guards intercepted them. The others escaped, but the soldiers allegedly beat Rahman to death and dumped his body into the Saniyazan River.

On June 2, Odhikar documented two cases where BSF soldiers intercepted groups of cattle smugglers. According to Odhikar, Rafiqul Islam, 35, from Satkhira, was badly beaten and then dumped inside Bangladeshi territory, where Bangladesh Border Guards found him and took him to a hospital. In a separate incident, Indian soldiers caught Fazlur Rahman and his accomplices near the Panitor-Gazipur border. While the others escaped, Fazlur was badly beaten and left unconscious inside Bangladesh.

On April 18, 2011, border force soldiers killed Rekatul Islam, 17, as he and his accomplice, Mohammad Shahdat Hossain Odhikar, tried to smuggle cattle across the border. Shahdat said they were stopped by BSF soldiers as they tried to cross the border with 10 cows. Shahdat was injured, but escaped.

On April 9, MASUM reported that Biswanath Soren, an elderly Indian man, was beaten by border force troopers he believes were intoxicated. They brandished their firearms to intimidate him and finally released him, he said. Soren sent a written complaint to the police, but no action has been taken.

The excessive use of force and the arbitrary beating of people along the border are unjustifiable, Ganguly said. These abuses call into question india's stated commitments to the rule of law.

Many people routinely move back and forth across India's frontier with Bangladesh to visit relatives, buy supplies, and look for jobs. Others engage in petty and serious cross-border crime. The border force is mandated to address illegal activities, especially narcotics smuggling, human trafficking for sex work, and transporting fake currency and explosives. It also works to stop militants planning violent attacks in India's restive northeast.

In many of the cases investigated by Human Rights Watch, however, the victims were cattle rustlers, farmers, or laborers who said they were hoping to supplement their meager livelihoods by working as couriers in the lucrative but illegal cattle trade that is rampant at the West Bengal border.

Local police forces rarely register complaints against border security and sometimes encourage the victims to drop their cases, telling them that nothing will come of it. One victim told Human Rights Watch that the police informed him that the border forces had committed no crime since they were there “to beat the people.

The Indian government needs to do more to ensure accountability for violations committed by the border force soldiers and to ensure compliance with the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, Human Rights Watch said.

While the Indian authorities vigorously protest attacks on fishermen who enter Sri Lankan waters, they seem unwilling to act against their own border forces when they commit crimes against Bangladeshis, Ganguly said. As a regional power, India should lead by example in South Asia to end the culture of impunity for security forces.
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Re: [ALOCHONA] Justice Party, a new name for Jamaat! Jamat highlyfore sighted

I think its a smart move to rename. The more viable opposition parties we have the better. And to be clear, NONE of our parties have illustrious pasts.
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Sent: 2 Aug 2011 18:27

Yes indeed a bunch cowardly traitorous geniuses. Too afraid to face their past and acknowledge their crimes against humanity & come clean. So a new gimmick changing their name. Will they sacrifice their elders in order to get power. Name changing is not even imaginative, a cheap copy from  Erdogan's party in Egypt. Erdodan is a hundred times smarter than these clowns in Jamaat.
 
BTW what number Bhuiyan are you. You join the ranks of the Bongo Mahathir, Joglu the fake Ottoman, Hakka Hua (Foxy) Alamgir & Hannan the Bureaucrat. What a crowd!!!
 
 
-----Original Message----- From: Banglar Bhuiyan Sent: Jul 31, 2011 4:51 AM To: "alochona@yahoogroups.com" Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Justice Party, a new name for Jamaat! Jamat highly fore sighted   Jamat e Islami politically opposing destruction of Pakistan. These leaders are more and highly far sighted than any other politicians of Bangladesh or then East Pakistan.   Todays Bangladesh is:   Secularist Faith on Allah removed from the constitution Removal of "relations with Muslim world" from the constitution Passage for India Border Killing Indian Market creation Padma water taking offs   All were known by them in advance in 1971     From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> To: Sent: Monday, 25 July 2011, 9:35:02 Subject: [ALOCHONA] Justice Party, a new name for Jamaat!   Justice Party, a new name for Jamaat! Hannan Amir, Razzak Secretary General Jamaat is on the verge of a split. Five of the party's top leaders are in the dock for crimes against humanity and it is almost certain they will be sentenced. In order to shrug off the this stigma, the younger and moderate leaders of the party plan to reorganize the party and give it a new name – Justice Party. Shah Abdul Hannan and Barrister Razzak are to take leadership of the party. Five top leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami are now facing charges of crimes against humanity. The International Crime Tribunal has almost completed investigations against the imprisoned Jamaat leaders – the party's Amir Moulana Matiur Rahman Nizami
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Re: [ALOCHONA] FW: The ideology of thought control in Pakistan Dawn By Maheen Usmani



Lets go for non religious see how they work:
 
Non religious do not have a single moral standing - in 1954 anti corruption minister in 1971 becoming father of the nation.
 
In 1972 nationalising all the industries - by that way destryed all the industrial booming (Zia de-nationalised, saved the nation) 
 
1974 Bakshal established
 
All these are RANGILA acting by so called upper class non-religious RANGILA literate Actors.

From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 18:03:34
Subject: [ALOCHONA] FW: The ideology of thought control in Pakistan Dawn By Maheen Usmani

 
             The "ideology of Pakistan" comes in vari-colored packages and 'moraks' in Bangladesh and we are too dumbed down by the politicians to pause and ponder.  One of the packages is labeled "Shonarbangladesh," a web magazine of the Jamaat. There is also the newspaper Amar desh.
                        
             The interesting point made by this article is that the brainwashed people are the literates, the educated and the middle class.  We in Bangladesh automatically assume that the illiterates are the ones who are the first to be duped by the bogey of Islam.
 
              In my opnion illiterates are the smarter and being more genuinely religious, they are the ones who reject the fake 'dharmo-onuragi' amongst the populace and the politicians.  Our literate middle class people love false mollas or 'bok-dharmiks'.
 
                Farida Majid    

The ideology of thought control in Pakistan

By Maheen Usmani
 
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It has become something of a personality cult in Pakistan. Nowhereis this cognitive dissonance more visible than amongst the educated who refuse to accept facts and logic, clinging instead to a neurotic persecution complex.
 
Columnist Khaled Ahmed says: "The vast majority of literate Pakistanis take comfort in ignorance, skepticism and conspiracy theories. The self-glorification of an imagined past matched by habits of national denial have assumed crisis proportions today when Pakistan's existence is under far more serious threat from fellow Muslims than it was in 1947 from rival non Muslim communities." What lies beneath this inability to critique and lack of intelligent analysis? Undoubtedly, one's education influences views on politics and society. As Robert Frost aptly puts it: "education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
 
To sift the chaff from the grain, let us consider a ubiquitous slogan about the 'ideology' of Pakistan. A staple of our school textbooks, it echoed in massive public rallies as well as debates on secularism. Pakistan ka matlab kiya? La illaha il lallah (What is the meaning of Pakistan? There is no God but Allah) has become the rallying cry of the campaign to Islamise Pakistani society. Ironically, it is a slogan that was coined long after the creation of Pakistan, but it is now being falsely ascribed to the leaders of the Pakistan movement in 1947.
 
Religion has often proved to be a powerful binding factor which has merged heterogeneous groups into a distinct nationality. Through appeal to supernatural authority, religion promotes national unity as a divine command. Examples abound in contemporary history: the Greek church as a source for Greek nationalism, the Catholic church as a factor in Irish separatism, Judaism and the state of Israel, Islam and Pakistan.
 
Soon after he seized power in 1977, General Zia ul-Haq sought to create a nation based on religion rather than on secular principles. An important part of the Islamisation agenda was defining the Islamic 'ideology' of Pakistan. In stark contrast to modern textbooks, no textbook written prior to 1977 mentions the 'Ideology of Pakistan'.
 
Since education was a key factor in Zia's Machiavellian manoeuvrings, a presidential order was issued that all Pakistan Studies textbooks must "demonstrate that the basis of Pakistan is not to be founded in racial, linguistic, or geographical factors, but, rather, in the shared experience of a common religion. To get students to know and appreciate the Ideology of Pakistan, and to popularise it with slogans. To guide students towards the ultimate goal of Pakistan – the creation of a completely Islamised State."
 
Instead of being a Muslim state as envisaged by its founders, Pakistan was recast in the mould of an Islamic state, where Islamic law would reign supreme. A state sponsored and systematic purging of liberal and secular values of future generations of Pakistan ensued.
 
History was rewritten to redefine Pakistani as an Islamic society, and no research on ancient India, the medieval period or the colonial era. Our history was linked with the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, thus alienating it from ancient Indian history. This interpretation creates a Muslim consciousness that seeks it's identity outside India.

Historian Mubarak Ali cautions "History should not be influenced by religious beliefs since history has no religion. Pakistan came into being in 1947, but our history existed before this which cannot be deleted."
History textbooks written soon after Partition – a time when the grief of shattered families who experienced communal killings was at its peak – show a more liberal mindset. The history of the subcontinent was taken to start with the ancient Indus valley civilisations rather than with the conquest of India by the first Muslim invader, Mohammad bin Qasim, in 712. In contrast to today's history books, these books contained discussions of the empires of Emperor Ashoka and the Maurya dynasty. Has there has been a deliberate revival of communal antagonism over 30 years after Partition? Undoubtedly, the permanent militarisation of society requires a permanent enemy.
 
Although Edward Everett may state that "education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army", the task of defending Pakistan's ideological borders has been entrusted to the military as they are defenders of the 'faith.' Textbooks extol the achievements of Muslim conquering heroes, as well as those of the Armed Forces. In sharp contrast, no contributions by any heroes in fields like education, medicine, law or social work are highlighted.

September 6 commemorates the defense of the country against an Indian attack in 1965. According to our textbooks, it was India which attacked Lahore in the middle of the night, without any provocation, but our army won this war. The reality is that Pakistan started the 1965 war on August 5 by sending soldiers into Kashmir and India retaliated the following day.
 
Instead of the soul searching and accountability undertaken by nations like Japan and Germany after devastating wars, our history textbooks explained the separation of East Pakistan in 1971 as an evil design by India which created the guerrilla group Mukhti Bahini in order to seize Pakistani territory. Although we lost half of Pakistan, there was no mention of the gross inequalities which led to the grievances of the Bengalis. Tens of thousands died, millions were displaced, atrocities were committed and the country was rent asunder. But the guilty were never punished.
 
The seeds of the distortion of history and the preponderance of religious dogma which were sown decades ago are bearing fruit today. Examples from the curriculum designed by the Federal Ministry of Education abound. The Social Studies textbook for Class 7 says: "European nations have been working during the past three centuries, through conspiracies on naked aggression to subjugate the countries of the Muslim world."
 
14-year-old students of Pakistan Studies are being taught that: "one of the reasons of the downfall of the Muslims in the sub-continent was the lack of the spirit of jihad."
13-year-olds are instructed: "In Islam jihad is very important…..The person who offers his life never dies….All the prayers nurture one's passion of jihad."
Thus, a primary and secondary school environment is being created which is nurturing prejudice and extremism. "College and university come much too late; change must begin at the primary and secondary school level," sums up physicist and lecturer Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy.

Although religious schools or madrassas in Pakistan are often blamed for breeding extremism, only 6 per cent of children are educated in these schools. Furthermore, research does not confirm the link between madrassa education and terrorism. The cause for the intolerance experienced by Ahmadis, Hindus and Christians lies in public education, structured as it has been to defend Pakistan against some phantom enemy. Non-Muslims are forced to read the same textbooks which contain derogatory remarks against Hindus, e.g being eternal enemies of Muslims. Our myopic educational system discourages questioning and causes ethnic and religious minorities to be viewed with suspicion.
 
Pakistan is primarily a young country, so it is the youth which is severely impacted by rampant unemployment, inflation, corruption and violence. Many amongst this disenchanted segment have started seeing religion as their anchor and are attracted to demagogues like Zaid Hamid. A self-proclaimed jihadist who claims to have fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan, Hamid banks on the insecurity and frustrations of college students and television viewers. Just as Adolf Hitler dwelt on Germany's 'wounded honour' in his famous beer-hall oratory in Munich (where he promised that Germany would conquer the world), Hamid calls for the Pakistan Army to go to war against India and liberate Kashmir, Palestine, Chechnya and Afghanistan.
 
Our curriculum stresses the formal and ritualistic aspects of Islam, as against those which emphasise social justice. Science and secular knowledge are regarded with contempt. Dr Hoodbhoy says, "I have never seen a first-rate Muslim scientist become an Islamist or a terrorist even when he or she is a strong believer. But second-and third-rate technologists are more susceptible. These are people who use science in some capacity but without any need to understand it very much—engineers, doctors, technicians, etc.—all of whom are more inclined towards radicalism. They have been trained to absorb facts without thinking, and this makes them more susceptible to the inducements of holy books and preachers."

The steady diet of religious fundamentalism and blind faith has clouded objective and rational thinking, and transformed Pakistan from a moderate Muslim-majority country into one where the majority wants Islam to play a key role in politics. A 2008 survey by World Public Opinion found that 54 per cent of Pakistanis wanted strict application of Sharia. The British Council polled 1226 young Pakistanis between 18 and 29 in 2009 and found that 'three-quarters of all young people identify themselves primarily as Muslims. Just 14 per cent chose to define themselves primarily as a citizen of Pakistan.'
 
Pakistan's skewed priorities may account for the huge amount spent on its ever increasing "defence needs" and only 1.5 per cent of it's GDP on education. But lost in the brouhaha over the lack of access to education is the dire need to revise the dogmatic and distorted school curriculum. As the pendulum swings in Pakistan between radicals and moderates, we need our friends to stand with us and demand that Pakistanis don't need an education which stunts, blinds, distorts and deadens any more. As Alvin Toffler said, "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
 
Maheen Usmani is a freelance journalist. She has reported on varied subjects, ranging from socio-political issues to sports, travel, culture and counter terrorism.
 





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[ALOCHONA] Re: India wants total surrender: Beware of these RAW writers

Dear Robin

Writing against RAW and the regional machinations of India is not communal. Writing against ISI and the regional machinations of Pakistan is not communal. It's simply regional politics. But actual communalism, supporting confrontation based siply based on identity, is sinful. The fact that a country is predominantly Hindu or Muslim is largely irrelevant – power has its own drivers.

I am concerned about India building dams which kill our rivers and allowing its soldiers to shoot dead our citizens. Somehow, most anti communalists have no problem with this and stay silent. I know in my heart that my position has nothing to do with being anti Hindu or pro Muslim. There are bad Muslims and bad Hindus.

There is much good that can come from good relations with India. There is much we can learn from India. But Deshi politicians, of any ilk, have no concept of balanced good relations or what it is that we should learn. We are either hysterically anti or grossly slavish depending on whether BNP or AL is in power. And assuming that India is some sort of benign being is surely wrong.

India, as the dominant regional power, is at least capable of wanting domination over its smaller neighbours. It's nothing to do with communalism or religion. It's natural for any superpower to want that – just as it is for any smaller neighbour to want to resist domination, again without heed to communalism or religion.

"India wants total surrender: Beware of these RAW writers"

No – I don't have a problem with this headline because I don't see anything communal in it. That in itself does not prevent Zaglul from being wrong.

You will find that the Nethris are the sole arbiters and it is in that direction that you should one day make your charge. For many of our Deshi intellectuals and politicians, feigned tolerance is a device for putting up with all kinds of nonsense and criminality, in the interests of preserving, or indirectly supporting, a particular political bias.

It's why all the closet diehard AL supporters (ie closet Nethrists) could never conceive of objecting to their Nethri for 1) giving direct protection to the plunderers of the stock market and 2) then giving these same plunderers the scope to whiten their black money with a mere 10% tax. These are the same people who will stay quiet if Rehana or Joy slips into the PM role. They may say there is no alternative but they never asked for an alternative even once in their clever little lives. Same is true of BNP Nethrists.

It's why all these Nethrists would rather talk about everything under the sun EXCEPT about how the country is governed when their party is in power. Anything goes – as long as their party is in power. It's the way of the Bangladeshi intellectual. It's a kind of political communalism – and it is this which is killing us most.

I already wrote that Zaglul could be many things. But protesting India - on the basis of actual shootings, actual threats to our rivers, actual actions on our land - does not make him an ISI agent seeking world domination.

We need Nethrists of both parties to start talking openly and logically in support of their leaders or to be able to voice dissent. Instead they will continue to pretend they are genuinely neutral and stay silent when their party breaches values taught to them by their own parents. Poor Bangladesh.

It's a stinking hypocrisy which lies at the very heart of our miserable political condition.

Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait

Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: India wants total surrender: Beware of these RAW writers

Ejaz
Nobody is asking you not to be concerned about India. But to give a communal twist to everything as Zoglul the Pretend OTTOMAN does reflects Pakistani & muslim supremacist thinking. That is not helpful and only be construed as ill-motivated.

You dont seem to have a problem with his provocative headline but you have problem with a response. Second what makes him or you for that matter the sole guardian of the interests of Bangladesh. You have your interests and conceptions and others have theirs.

Robin
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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: India wants total surrender: Beware of these RAW writers


The comment you made is hysterical gibberish. Pakistan has nothing to offer Bangladesh and can take nothing from Bangladesh. The country with whom Bangladesh has the most critical relationship is India. That's why a lot of people are concerned about India. Its far better to be worried about India (like me) than not to be worried about India at all (like you).

Zaglul, like you or me, could be many things. But he is not an Islamist Paki agent just for being worried about India.

Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Turkman" <turkman@...> wrote:
>
> ... and Islamist Paki Agents in B.D. want total domination of the world.
>
> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@> wrote:
> >
> > ------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Zoglul Husain <zoglul@>
> > Date: Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:54 PM
> > Subject: RE: India wants total surrender
> > To: Isha Khan <bdmailer@>
> >
> > I thank Zana Ghutekurani for refuting the anti-Bangladesh false propaganda
> > of Bhaskar Roy. I refer also to Shah Ahmad Reza's article in Amar Desh, 15
> > June 2011, where he refuted Bhaskar Roy:
> > http://www.amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/06/15/87311.
> >
> > As we do not have a think tank for the patriots, we are dependent on
> > individuals who sincerely do the work whatever way they can.
> >
> > *Bhaskar Roy* is a regular contributor to reportedly RAW's website, South
> > Asia Analysis Group (SAAG). He frequently writes for the Bangladesh section
> > of the SAAG website.
> >
> > One of the other regular contributors to this website is *B. Raman* or
> > Bahukutumbi Raman, a former Additional Secretary (Retired), Cabinet
> > Secretariat of the Government of India and former head of the
> > counter-terrorism division of India's external intelligence agency RAW. He
> > is currently the director of the Institute for Tropical Studies, Chennai. As
> > a former intelligence official, B. Raman regularly writes about security,
> > counter-terrorism and military issues regarding India and South Asia (from
> > Wikipedia).
> >
> > There is another frequent contributor to SAAG, *Kazi Anwarul Masud*, a
> > former diplomat and Secretary of Bangladesh. He projects the views of RAW.
> >
> > The website link of SAAG is:
> > http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/
> >
> > The link of its Bangladesh section is:
> > http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/searchb10.asp?search=bangladesh&searchtype=all
> >
> >
> > The latest 30 articles in the Bangladesh section are: (You can access the
> > other articles from the above link, by clicking the word 'NEXT' at the
> > bottom of each page)
> >
> > 1. *LET BANGLADESH SOLVE ITS POLITICAL
> > ISSUES*<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers46/paper4531.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 6/6/2011
> >
> > 2. AS PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH PREPARES FOR BRICS
> > SUMMIT<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers45/paper4422.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 12/4/2011
> >
> > 3. BANGLADESH: PAST MUST BE RESOLVED TO ENSURE
> > FUTURE<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers45/paper4401.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 29/3/2011
> >
> > 4. THE FALL OF NOBEL LAUREATE MUHAMMAD
> > YUNUS<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers44/paper4370.html>by
> > Rajeev Sharma on 9/3/2011
> >
> > 5. DERAILING INDIA-BANGLADESH RELATIONS WILL COST
> > BOTH<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers44/paper4325.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 9/2/2011
> >
> > 6. PAKISTAN: SALMAN TASEER'S MURDER & THE BLASPHEMY
> > LAW<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers43/paper4266.html>by Kazi
> > Anwarul Masud on 9/1/2011
> >
> > 7. CAN FOSSILISED IDEOLOGY DERAIL BANGLADESH'S
> > DEVELOPMENT?<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers43/paper4215.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 7/12/2010
> >
> > 8. OPPOSITION SMEARING BANGLADESH'S CROWNING
> > GLORY<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers42/paper4141.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 2/11/2010
> >
> > 9. CHINA'S RAILWAY LINK-UP WITH CHITTAGONG VIA
> > MYANMAR<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers42/paper4103.html>by
> > B.Raman on 18/10/2010
> >
> > 10. BANGLADESH: FEEL FOR THE STONES WHEN CROSSING THE
> > RIVER<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers41/paper4056.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 22/9/2010
> >
> > 11. *INDIA-BANGLADESH EMBARK ON STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP -
> > SILENTLY*<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers41/paper4032.html>by
> > Rajeev Sharma on 11/9/2010
> >
> > 12. CONSOLIDATING
> > BANGLADESH<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers40/paper3987.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 19/8/2010
> >
> > 13. SOUTH ASIAN STAKE IN GLOBAL
> > CONSTRUCT:<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers40/paper3959.html>by
> > Kazi Anwarul Masud on 31/7/2010
> >
> > 14. ANATOMY OF BANGLADESH OPPOSITION: SK. HASINA MUST
> > ACT<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers39/paper3867.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 19/6/2010
> >
> > 15. CHINESE INTEREST IN HAMBANTOTA, CHITTAGONG PORTS --- AN
> > UPDATE<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers39/paper3863.html>by
> > B.Raman on 16/6/2010
> >
> > 16. BANGLADESH ON A STRATEGIC
> > TIGHTROPE<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers38/paper3796.html>by
> > Col. R. Hariharan on 5/5/2010
> >
> > 17. IS COEXISTENCE WITH RADICALIZED ISLAM
> > POSSIBLE?<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers38/paper3748.html>by
> > Kazi Anwarul Masud on 5/4/2010
> >
> > 18. BANGLADESH ECONOMY- PROBLEMS & PROSPECTS- PART
> > II<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers38/paper3735.html>by Kazi
> > Anwarul Masud on 27/3/2010
> >
> > 19. BANGLADESH ECONOMY- PROBLEMS & PROSPECTS- PART
> > I<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers38/paper3734.html>by Kazi
> > Anwarul Masud on 27/3/2010
> >
> > 20. BANGLADESH AND SHOCK
> > DOCTRINE<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers38/paper3718.html>by
> > Kazi Anwarul Masud on 14/3/2010
> >
> > 21. INDO-BANGLA RELATIONS IN THE NEW GLOBAL
> > CONSTRUCT<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers37/paper3663.html>by
> > Kazi Anwarul Masud on 13/2/2010
> >
> > 22. INDIA & BANGLADESH-SECURITY RELATED
> > ISSUES:<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers37/paper3652.html>by
> > B.Raman on 6/2/2010
> >
> > 23. CAN INDIA AND BANGLADESH CREATE A
> > WIN-WIN<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers37/paper3647.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 4/2/2010
> >
> > 24. SHEIKH HASINA VISITS INDIA - A VIEW FROM
> > DHAKA<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers37/paper3629.html>by Kazi
> > Anwarul Masud on 27/1/2010
> >
> > 25. INDIA AND BANGLADESH MUST COME
> > TOGETHER<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers36/paper3592.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 6/1/2010
> >
> > 26. TERRORISM IN BANGLADESH - MONSTER CHILD OF BNP -
> > JAMAAT<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers36/paper3509.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 17/11/2009
> >
> > 27. PRO-POOR DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AND GLOBAL
> > SECURITY<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers35/paper3420.html>by
> > Kazi Anwarul Masud on 17/9/2009
> >
> > 28. BANGLADESH, INDIA AND THE GLOBAL
> > CONSTRUCT<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers34/paper3396.html>by
> > Kazi Anwarul Masud on 6/9/2009
> >
> > 29. BANGLADESH: SITTING ON HISTORY'S
> > EDGE<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers34/paper3386.html>by
> > Bhaskar Roy on 3/9/2009
> >
> > 30. BANGLADESH ECONOMY IN GLOBAL
> > MELTDOWN<http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers34/paper3383.html>by
> > Kazi Anwarul Masud on 2/9/2009
> >
> > ------------------------------
> > Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:58:10 +0600
> > Subject: India wants total surrender
> > From: bdmailer@
> > To:
> >
> > India wants total surrender
> >
> > by Zana Ghutekurani in FaceBook
> >
> > Bhaskar Roy doesn't understand why the people of Bangladesh are not happy
> > with India, though he praises Bangladesh Awami League and Mujib.
> >
> > In his article Eurasia Review he says : "In 1971, the most common words on
> > the lips of a common Indian was "Joi Bangla", victory to Bangladesh. The
> > India-Bangladesh honeymoon lasted till August 15, 1975, the day Sk. Mujibur
> > Rahman was assassinated" Â…. that one night India-Bangladesh relations went
> > into a tail spin".
> >
> > He asks, "Should religion divide Bangladesh and India? If that were so, then
> > East Pakistan would not have broken away from West Pakistan to liberate
> > itself. Language, culture, tradition, blood and history proved much stronger
> > than religion. India has around 18 per cent Muslims and Bangladesh has
> > around 14 per cent Hindus".
> >
> > Why Mr Roy informed 14% Bangladeshis are Hindus I do not know. Did he make
> > mistake? or over the years the population of Hindu migration into Bangladesh
> > increased, or they have plan to migrate ? Let me not become paranoid now
> > before reading the whole article.
> >
> > Though Mr Roy gave us wrong data, this is not my problem, the problem is his
> > claim "Language, culture, tradition, blood and history proved much stronger
> > than religion" which sounded very contradictory to me. Because:
> >
> > 1. Urdu was created inside India, yet did not get place.
> >
> > 2. People of Bangladesh, who are Muslims and mixed have blood connection
> > with Afghanis, Middle Eastern gene pole (Muslims are not restricted to
> > marrying within castes).
> >
> > 3. Traditional (e.g.,celebrating EID, Shab-e-Batar) similarities with other
> > Muslim countries. 4. Bangladeshis have clearly afghan and middle eastern
> > influenced eating habits (Polaw,Firni, use of various spices, Halwva etc).
> >
> > 4. Along with many other ancestors (e,g., adivasi tribes ) Bangladeshis have
> > blood connection with Afghan, Persia and other Middle Eastern countries. The
> > blood connection also connects them with Muslims in India and also in
> > Pakistan apart from religion.
> >
> > 5. The most striking difference is suggested by History which suggest that
> > there were a clear difference between East Bengal and West Bengal even
> > before the arrival of the Muslims.
> >
> > Therefore, when Mr Roy tells, "Historically, in the region of greater India
> > that is Bangladesh there was hardly any religious conflict to talk about
> > between the two communities" I did not have anything to say, as he
> > completely forgot to mention all the conflicts and the struggles that the
> > people of this part were having and how they were subjected to change
> > themselves to adjust with the minority.
> >
> > But things did not stop here , he surprised me while advises "it would be
> > wise for today's politicians like Begum Khaleda Zia to heed the advice of
> > these roving philosophers of yester years if they really want peace and
> > development."
> >
> > When the/a Roy tells about the development of Bangladesh, it may scare our
> > people as probably people will not be able to trust it. The article itself
> > contains the main reasons. One obvious reason is that Mr Roy's inability to
> > understand the reasons behind the dissatisfaction of the people of
> > Bangladesh.
> > Later he accuses two political parties of this country, BNP and Jamaat for
> > harbouring "visceral hate-India mindset" because "After all, they were
> > committed to Pakistan and remain so" . Especially he deliberately accuses
> > Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) and its allied religious groups.
> >
> > I have no information on if Jamaat and other Islamic parties expressed its
> > hatred towards India, but, if anyone criticise Indian aggression and actions
> > towards its neighbouring countries and if this is interpreted as "visceral
> > hate-India mindset" I question the objective of such articles.
> >
> > Mr Roy keeps on saying, "In the early part of this decade the JEI leaders
> > appeared to have been confident to form the government in Dhaka on their own
> > by 2012. They also spoke of making Bangladesh a confederate of Pakistan." At
> > this point it seems he is scared of a Bangladeshi Party in Bangladesh for
> > its work inside Bangladesh. I wonder why is that?
> >
> > The second political party he accuses is BNP. "But what is Begum Khaleda
> > Zia's enduring problem with India?", he asks . "Her late husband President
> > Zia-ur-Rehman was a liberation war hero and fought along with Indian
> > soldiers. But why did he turn against India so viciously? He even banned
> > "Rabindra Sangeet, songs written by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. But
> > he stopped short of changing the Tagore Song "Amar Shonar Bangla" which
> > Bangladesh adopted as its national anthem after liberation. Today, Tagore is
> > more alive in Bangladesh than even in India, clearly underlining how strong
> > culture can be as a cohesive bond surmounting religious barriers."
> >
> > Again , I am not sure if Mr and Mrs Zia ever expressed their "visceral
> > hate-India mindset" and banned "Rabindra Sangeet? Neither I realised why he
> > was advocating for Tagore written national anthem which was written 100
> > years ago when the condition of the subcontinent was completely different.
> > Then he keeps going on, "But she has always suggested by her behaviour and
> > policy a deep emotional link with Pakistan". Yes , Mr Roy mentions current
> > Pakistan's 13 times, expressed his enormous "visceral hate-Pakistan
> > mindset". Completely forgot that in 1947, the people of east Bengal
> > constituted Pakistan willingly along with other present Pakistani provinces.
> > He was completely oblivion of the fact that the present day Pakistan was a
> > part of British India, quite a big number of its population migrated from
> > present India too. If he could not forget expressing his hatred to formation
> > of Pakistan , if India could not remove its animosity towards its own people
> > for choosing and wanting to build a nation and harbour their "visceral
> > hate-Pak mindset", how can how can they expect others to love them?
> >
> > The article is a packed with wrong information, hatred towards Pakistan,
> > hatred towards the muslims, accusation towards two political parties
> > supported by many Bangladeshi people, alluring people towards development,
> > and showing Bangladeshis the "only way" of development is to suck up India,
> > preparing people not to change national anthem, accusing people for their
> > personal choice (liking or disliking India) and of course trying to make
> > people grateful towards India for the distress caused during 71.
> >
> > To read the article of Roy:
> > http://www.facebook.com/l/WAQDkmBh4AQD8uK3HWFAFc48rm4q1eXJVsQnOMJVTdglXkA/www.eurasiareview.com/can-india-find-a-way-to-bangladesh%25E2%2580%2599s-heart-analysis-20072011/
> >
> > Please note, the writer Mr Roy writes for SAAG. SAAG is the South Asia
> > Analysis Group, a non-profit, non-commercial think tank. It says "The
> > objective of SAAG is to advance strategic analysis and contribute to the
> > expansion of knowledge of Indian and International security and promote
> > public understanding", in other words to influence and change opinion of
> > people according to their goal. In other words this is part of Indian
> > Intelligence.
> >
> > Personally it is hard for me to hate anyone though I get annoyed by these
> > types of works. In Bangladesh I have seen many writers are feeding people
> > with their garbage works. And exploiting peoples' trust to satisfy I request
> > those pretending "atel" garbage writers to grow some social responsibility
> > and not to engage in exploiting peoples' trust.
> >
> > My words will not stop people from working in ignorance, rage, anger, envy ,
> > jealousy or even in exchange of tangible interests , but nothing wrong in
> > asking for being sensitive and accept those people who are different and
> > bear their difference.
> >
> > I also request people from remain alert and aware about the activities of
> > those organisations, such as, SAAG. This is an example of how India keeps
> > its eyes on other countries and influence.
> >
>

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[ALOCHONA] Bangladesh looks back Misusing the past





Bangladesh looks back : Misusing the past


WHY isn't there more cheering in Bangladesh as the country gets ready to mark 40 years of independence? So far there have been few efforts to rouse the masses, though the government did confer a posthumous prize last week on Indira Gandhi, as a way of crediting India for helping create Bangladesh in 1971. Ties between the neighbours are warming, with India's home minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, just in Dhaka to sign a new deal that is supposed to bring an end to killings along their long, shared border. But there is little evidence yet of ordinary Bangladeshis rushing to celebrate. Perhaps this is in part a reaction to official efforts to commandeer the nation's history for fleeting political goals.

Bangladesh's birth—the secession of the eastern part of Pakistan from the western bit—was painful and bloody. No one is sure how many people died: the total was perhaps in the hundreds of thousands, though the wildest estimates talk of millions of deaths and of attempted genocide on the part of Pakistan. In March 1971 Pakistan's army (dominated by soldiers from the western part of the country) and their Bengali allies did carry out massacres in a brutal effort to quell the secession. That failed, provoking a more intense push for the break-up, floods of refugees and finally military intervention by India. By December 1971 Pakistan's forces were defeated.

In the process however, there were many more massacres, retaliatory killings and a host of other forms of score-settling, such as between Bengalis and "Biharis", non-Bengali Muslims who had moved to the territory during India's partition in 1947. Pakistani forces were responsible for a host of horrors, such as a massacre of intellectuals in Dhaka very late on. But as a correspondent of The Economist pointed out on December 25th 1971: "It is often forgotten that the bloodshed in the spring was not all one-sided, and that the east Bengalis killed thousands of non-Bengalis." After the war, as Bangladesh struggled to come to terms with its new existence, little effort was made to account for who did what.


Now, however, some efforts are under way to reassess that history. The official effort, directed by the current government of Sheikh Hasina, is to start a process of war-crimes trials. The first of these is supposed to get under way in the next few weeks. In theory this is welcome, and could indeed bring wrongdoers to account, even four decades on. In practice, there are strong reasons to doubt the process. These trials are to investigate only seven individuals (so far), seven who sympathised with the idea of a united Pakistan, but who deny any criminal wrongdoing. The facts that they happen to be leading members of the opposition today, and that the government has taken little advice from human-rights groups or international war-crimes bodies, cast doubt on the purpose of the prosecution. Nor is it reassuring that Bangladesh's judiciary looks increasingly politicised.


The trials also happen to come amid efforts by Mrs Hasina's government to claim more powers by amending the constitution, which will revert to a version which the country had instituted shortly after independence. Apart from some outdated promises (a devotion to Socialism with a capital S) and apparently inconsistent ones (all religions are to be treated equally—though Islam is the state religion—while the state is also secular), the resurrected constitution will make it easier for Mrs Hasina's party to control the running of the next general election in 2013. On top of that, it encourages a personality cult around the figure of Bangladesh's murdered independence leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Mrs Hasina's father. Now the late Sheikh Mujibur is to be hailed as the father of the nation, and his portrait must be put up in every office or business. It all smells of emerging autocracy.


Beyond the government, too, there is evident touchiness over unofficial attempts to reassess what happened at independence. For example a new book by an Oxford scholar, Sarmila Bose, has drawn vitriolic scorn by reviewers and historians of Bangladesh. "Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh war" is an effort by an Indian former journalist to interview Bangladeshis and Pakistanis who took part in, or were victims of, atrocities during the war. Her book is indeed flawed: it rushes to sweeping judgments and fails to offer much context for the snippets of interviews she presents. For its failings, the book deserves sharp criticism. Yet Ms Bose also does something rather admirable in raising difficult questions about the numbers of people who actually died in 1971, casting doubt on the official tally of 3m or so. And she speaks to perpetrators and victims on different sides, recording their testimony. In the process she provides a reminder that it is not for governments alone to write any country's history.


http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/08/bangladesh-looks-back?fsrc=scn%2Ffb%2Fwl%2Fbl%2Fmisusingthepast


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