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[ALOCHONA] INDIA'S SIKKIM POLICY IN BANGLADESH



INDIA'S SIKKIM POLICY IN BANGLADESH

By Abid Bahar, Canada

It is interesting for Bangladeshis to learn and grow from many lessons
about India's policy in Sikkim and how Sikkim eventualy lost its
independence to India. If we look at the global Indian policy in South
Asia toward its neighbours, we see that eversince it became
independent, it occupied Goa, Hydrabad, Kashmir, even Monipur in 1949
and in 1975 it swallowed Sikkin. It is now trying to swallow Maldvip,
Nepal and Bhutan. Please read the recent developments in those
countries to see the eventual eclips of those countries.

India follows the old colonial British policy of swallowing the
smaller neighbourings nations. This is consistent with Neheru's India
Doctrine ( variously named as the "akhonda Bharota," "Ram Rajya,"
"connectivity").(1) Indian sucess in Bangladesh to make it a dependent
state, began with Mujib's 25 year Friendship Treaty with Indra Gandhi,
followed by Awami League's merger with the pro- Indian Moni Singh's
Bangladesher Communist Party and Mujib's subsequent policy of keeping
the Indian led Rakkhi Bahini in Bangladesh. Mujib's three year rule
ended Bangladesh into "a bottomless basket case". Please read similar
story of Indian policy in Sikkim.
http://sikhim.blogspot.ca/2009/08/indias-illegal-occupation-of.htmlI
India Doctrine is not a myth; it was born with a brain to make people
suffer for the sake of a chauvinistic nationalism called Brahmoism.
When one reads the history of Bromo imperialism in South Asia began
from Ram Mohan Roy, then from Nehru's ideas, it makes sense.(

Many observers believe that the 1975 coup in Bangladesh that removed
BKSAL from power was a great escape by Bangladesh to its reassertion
of independence. Frustrated to lose the Moina Pakhi ( India's dear
game bird Bangladesh) it now squeezes Bangladesh to its submittion, it
built dams in all most all the rivers flowing from the Himalayas
through Napal and India. India didn't build that number of dams in any
of its provinces. It is a case of open hostality toward Bangladesh.
Some people like Illias Ali and others who vigourously campaigned
against the Tipaimukh dam and its effects in Bangladesh were known to
have been abducted and killed by Indian trained cadres code named the
" 100 crusaders." Today like in Mujib's time, when over 30 thousand
people were abducted or killed (one of them was Siraj Sikder,)
opposition leaders are not safe fearing to be killed if stayed home or
outside the home fearing to be abducted( thus the popular phrase
recently came into use "Hasina's Ghoree thaklee Khoon bairai thaklee
goom). People who oppose Hasina's "khoon or goon policy are condemned
by the rough Awami cadres as the "enemies of the liberation war" and
are"razakars." with "a Pakistani agenda". In this category Awami
cadres even don't hasitate to include Ziaur Rahman.

It is widely claimed that Moin U supervised election in 2008 that
brought Hasina to a landslide victory was engineered by the Indian
RAW. Before the election, Hasina was found equally corrupt by the CTG
making money in bags that clients brought to her home. Moin U was
previously awarded 6 horses by India and there were reported secret
meetings held in Western cities in New York and Sanskatwan to hatch
the RAW Plan for installing Hasina. Experts agree that RAW offices to
impliment India's imperialist ambitions in Bangladesh have been
carried out from Calcutta and Agartala in its BD research centres.
Pronob Mukherjee is directly responsible to coordinate the action.(2)

In the cultural and media front, Rabindranath Tagore as a Bengali poet
(who despite his great literary contributions was opposed to the
establishment of Dhaka University) has been seen as a bridge between
West Bengal and Bangladesh and the socalled secular cultural teams and
pro Indian newspapers like Prothom Alo established in 1993 and the
silly newspaper Jonokhonto and few othe in Dhaka, carries out the
Indian agenda in Bangladesh. (3)

It is true, "India would definitely go for merging more small
independent neighboring nations with [her smaller neighbours
like]Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka but at the same
time would also be at a very high risk of dissolution and collapse on
herself, yielding into 15 to 25 independent nations." (4)

A Sikkimese says: "India follows British legacy. their policies are
colonial and imperialistic. If us the sikkimese could get our heads
out of the sand and the pointless lepcha bhutia nepali arguments we
would have seen what india did to manipur in 1949, india's annexation
of kashmir, etc. the chogyal asking his people not to take up arms was
justified as the import of arms had been banned by a treaty signed
between sikkim and delhi. on another note the chogyal's hands were
tied as he was a buddhist king and his holiness the dalai lama had
been given sanctuary by india. it is up to modern, forward looking
sikkimese youth to bring forward a freedom movement!" (5)

Can India swallow Bangladesh? With limited knowledge about the RAW we
have no clue. But India has been sucessful in causing poverty in the
western, northern and in the eastern region of Bangladesh. Hasina and
her team of so-called Indra secularists has strong influence in the
grass root level in Bangladesh to help India make its connectivity
policy. Under the circumstances it is recommended that the regional
countries to defend themselves, should monitor RAW activities and go
for forming a commonwealth of South Asian Nations/ or form a
confederation of South Asian nations.Good luck Bangladesh!

References:

(1) MBI Munshi, INDIA DOCTRINE

(2) Joinal Abedin, RAW

(3) Abid Bahar, Tagore Exposed in Dalia

(4) The Illegal Occupation of Sikkim by India"

http://sikhim.blogspot.ca/2009/08/indias-illegal-occupation-of.html

http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=7213

(5) Biraj Adhikari, Sikkim: The Wounds of History

http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=381641




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[ALOCHONA] Conflict and contentions in Assam



Conflict and contentions in Assam



ULFA & The Insurgency in Assam
by Mahfuz Ullah
Adorn Publications
March 2012
Price: Tk. 750; USD 20

In the northeast of the great democracy known as India, lies the Seven Sisters -- the states of Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal. And Assam is known as the gateway to northeast India.

Political unrest and armed conflict has long afflicted these northeastern states. Foreigners are barred from entry to this region. All seven states have armed insurgent groups who are fighting for independence. The largest and strongest of the lot is the United Liberation Force of Assam (ULFA). It was established in 1979 and over the past three decades its insurgent activities have caught international attention.

Perhaps the majority of Bangladeshis do not know much about ULFA, but those living near the Assam border are well aware about this militant organisation and its activities. And through this book, veteran journalist and political analyst Mahfuz Ullah reveals interesting details of this group and the prevailing situation in the region. The book, ULFA and The Insurgency in Assam, was published in March this year. This perhaps is the first book published in Bangladesh about ULFA.

The writer has filled the pages of the book with detailed research and investigation. He says that he has drawn from various books, the Internet and interviews of various ULFA leaders to get in-depth information on the issue. He had also interviewed ULFA's Foreign Secretary Shashadhar Chowdhury in person at the Weekly Onnesha's office. Mahfuz Ullah had been Editor of Onnesha at the time. Several key articles of the ULFA newsletter Freedom have also been included in this book.

During the last rule of Sheikh Hasina, on December 21, 1997, ULFA's Secretary General Anup Chetia (Golap Barua) was arrested from Mohammedpur in Dhaka, creating a sensation in the media. His sentence has been served, but he still remains in Jail. India, in the meanwhile, has been asking Bangladesh to hand him over. However, due to keen monitoring by human rights groups and also the absence of an extradition treaty, the government is not being able to easily hand over Anup Chetia to India.

ULFA once again came into the limelight when 10 trucks of arms were caught in Chittagong during the last rule of the four-party alliance government. It was said that ULFA's top leaders were directly involved in this matter. It was clear that ULFA had a firm foothold in Bangladesh. When the Sheikh Hasina's government came to power in Bangladesh, India stepped up its watch on ULFA.

During Sheikh Hasina's visit to India in 2010 and also during Manmohan Singh's visit to Bangladesh in 2011, both the Prime Ministers laid stress on security and anti-terrorism issues. And it was during this government's rule that several ULFA leaders were apprehended and arrested in Bangladesh. These included Shashadhar Chowdhury and Chitraban Hazarika in 2009 and, on December 3 the same year, ULFA Chairman Arabinda Rajkowa and others. There was a lot of speculation at the time as to whether these leaders were arrested on Bangladesh's soil or in India, but the fact remains that they were arrested on consensus of the governments of both countries.

These arrested led to fresh polarisation in ULFA leadership. ULFA's military chief Paresh Barua luckily managed to escape arrest. It is reported that Arabinda Rajkowa and other ULFA leaders under arrest in India opted for compromise with the government. On the other hand, Paresh Barua and his followers continue in their struggle.

On November 23, 2011, the pro-Paresh Barua faction formed their new 16-member central committee. Arabinda and his people have not been included in this committee. It is assumed that Paresh Barua is presently in China.

These facts concerning ULFA are nothing new, but have been published here and there in a scattered manner. Mafuz Ullah's job has been to get all this information together to come up with a comprehensive whole.

The question is, why has such an insurgent outfit grown in an independent sovereign country? Why has there been so much unrest and conflict? The answer to this lies in the history of these seven states lying in India's northeastern region. ULFA and The Insurgency in Assam has answers to many of these questions. It reveals much about the birth of ULFA, its growth, its armed struggler and the blood-stained history of Assam.

In countries all over the world, the governments use their armed forces mercilessly to root out such organisations which uphold the freedom of their people. Little heed is paid to human rights. The Indian government is no exception. Military presence is constant in Assam and the general people have to bear the consequences.

ULFA leader Shashadhar Chowdhury, presently incarcerated, has said, "We consider historically Assam is ethnically a separate entity from India. Besides, we are long victims of politico- economic disparity of the Government of India. We want to make it clear that we were never a part of India. The British rulers occupied Assam on 24 February 1826, using the Yandabao Agreement signed with the then ruler of Myanmar General Minijimaha Tilwar. Before that, Assam was never a part of India. The whole of Assam has been made a colony of India as the Government of India is trying to perpetuate its political rule over Assam to exploit the vast natural and mineral resources of Assam. So to break the chains of exploitation and deprivation, the only instrument of the people of Assam is the struggle for independence."

Referring to the 1971 independence struggle of Bangladesh, this leader says, "Once the people of Bangladesh fought for the independence. Today, we are also fighting for our independence. We are in no way involved in any terrorist activities."

The book under review has not only highlighted ULFA activities, but has also brought forth the history of Assam to its present. It speaks of the prevailing circumstances in Assam, the socio-economic situation and gives a picture of its culture and politics.

The place Kamrup Kamakhya in Assam was well-known to the people of this country as the source of magic and spells. Many would even travel to the place to learn the magical spells. The writer also dwells on the history of Kamrup Kamakhya. In the past, Western Assam was known as Kamrup. According to legend, when Shiva carried the body of his beloved Sati and a magical maelstrom, bits of her body fell here and there, creating sacred soil wherever they fell. One of her vital organs (probably her sexual organ) fell on the Kamakhya mount and that is where the Kamakhya Temple was created."

The book also talks about the neglected Bengali populace of Assam. In 1946, the Indian government incited an 'Oust Bengali' movement. In fact, the partition of the country brought about by very biased delineations of Lord Mountbatten and Cyril Radcliff, saw many Bengali speaking persons remaining in Assam, rather than in East Pakistan. It became hard for them to establish their rights and have always been treated with hatred.

The people of Assam are locally known as Ahamiya. Assam is also referred to as Aham or Asom. Asom means 'unequal'. The attitude of India's central government towards the state makes the name Asom relevant. ULFA says that they have taken up arms to save Assam from this inequality. They say, "ULFA is not involved with killing any innocent people. We are fighting against the Indian army and their collaborators... The independence of Assam is our only target and to achieve this, the last person would shed their last drop of blood."

It is hard to say when, if at all, this dream of ULFA will be fulfilled. As an organisation fighting for the independence of their land, they always look towards the people of Bangladesh, just as India stood beside the people of Bangladesh in 1971.

Mahfuz Ullah's book is an interesting look into Assam, its past and its present. He has done a praiseworthy job of bringing out the very essence of Assam and its conflicts.

http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=7995

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[ALOCHONA] Ghulam Azam: Anti-Bangladesh before & after '71



Anti-Bangladesh before & after '71


Ghulam Azam speaking at a Jamaat programme during Liberation War.Julfikar Ali Manik and Rizanuzzaman Laskar

Ghulam Azam's crusade to thwart the emergence of Bangladesh had continued even after the nine-month-long blood-spattered Liberation War in 1971, as he tried to revive East Pakistan and spread propaganda against Bangladesh for several years.

Just when Pakistan was on the verge of losing the war, Ghulam Azam went to Pakistan on November 22, 1971. He formed East Pakistan Retrieval Committee in Pakistan and campaigned until 1973 to build public opinion against Bangladesh and its recognition in the Islamic world.

While reading out the charges yesterday, Justice Md Nizamul Huq, chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal-1, gave a brief profile of accused Ghulam Azam.

He said Ghulam Azam went to London in 1973 and set up an office of East Pakistan Retrieval Committee there. He published a weekly, Shonar Bangla, in London, which was used as a propaganda tool against Bangladesh.

Bangladesh government cancelled his citizenship on April 18, 1973.

Ghulam Azam later visited Saudi Arabia in March, 1975. He met King Faisal and told him that Hindus have captured East Pakistan, the holy Quran has been burnt, mosques have been destroyed and converted into temples, and Muslims were killed.

He collected funds from the Middle East for rebuilding mosques and madrasas.

After the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Ghulam Azam returned to Bangladesh on August 11, 1978 with a Pakistani passport. He got back his citizenship and rejoined his post as the ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami. He served in the post until Motiur Rahman Nizami was elected ameer.

Ghulam Azam was born on November 7, 1922. He studied in a madrasa first and then obtained master's degree from Dhaka University in 1950. He was a teacher of Rangpur Carmichael College between 1950 and 1955.

He joined Jamaat-e-Islami in 1954 and served as its secretary from 1957 to 1960. He became the ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami in 1969. During the Liberation War, Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Sangha under his leadership opposed the Liberation War.

He played a pivotal role in forming Shanti (peace) Committee, Razakar, Al Badr, Al Shams (collaborator forces). He was an elected member of the national assembly from Tangail in the sham elections of 1971, Justice Nizamul Huq said.

The Daily Star went through historic documents and is able to shed more light on Ghulam Azam's records.

According to records on the Liberation War, Ghulam Azam began playing an active role in helping the Pakistani occupation forces even as the nation joined the armed struggle to free Bangladesh soon after the launch of a massacre by the Pakistani military on the night of March 25, 1971.

He was ameer of the East Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami before the Liberation War. As the ameer, he campaigned across Bangladesh and even in Pakistan (then West Pakistan) in an attempt to foil the liberation movement.

"Pakistan is the house of Islam for the world's Muslims. Therefore, Jamaat activists don't justify staying alive if Pakistan disintegrates," said Ghulam Azam in a speech to mobilise his party men and followers against Bangladesh and help the occupation forces. (Source: Jamaat's mouthpiece the daily Sangram, 1971).

Ghulam Azam is one of the front men who actively helped the Pakistani forces' attempts to foil the birth of Bangladesh. He was hyperactive against the Liberation War and became a symbol of war crimes in Bangladesh.

He met Pakistani General Tikka Khan, who was known as the "Butcher of Baluchistan", 10 days after the war started and earned the same title "butcher" as an architect of the genocide launched on the night of March 25, 1971 in Dhaka.

During the nine-month-long bloody war, Ghulam Azam and his party Jamaat-e-Islami, its student wing Islami Chhatra Sangha (later renamed Islami Chhatra Shibir) played a key role along with their other political partners to foil Bangladesh's independence struggle.

According to newspapers, including the daily Sangram, and books and documents on 1971, Jamaat and its student wing played a key role in forming the Peace Committees and some other collaborator forces like Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams.

Throughout the nine-month war, Jamaat, its student wing and the collaborator forces actively helped the Pakistani military in mass killing, rape and atrocities.

The Pakistani forces and their Bangladeshi collaborators committed genocide and war crimes that left three million people dead and around a quarter million women violated, besides the planned elimination of some of the best of Bengali brains on December 14, 1971.

War records show that Jamaat formed Razakar and Al-Badr forces to counter the freedom fighters. Razakar force was established by former secretary general of Jamaat Moulana Abul Kalam Mohammad Yousuf, and Al Badr included the Islami Chhatra Sangha activists.

Anticipating defeat, the occupation forces and their collaborators--mostly leaders of Jamaat and its student front--picked up leading Bengali intellectuals and professionals on December 14 and killed them en masse with a view to intellectually crippling the emerging independent nation.

Though Ghulam Azam was the brain behind Jamaat's anti-liberation efforts, incumbent Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, president of Islami Chhatra Sangha in 1971, played a vital role in collaborating with the Pakistani junta in committing genocide.

Nizami, who is also behind bars on charges of war crimes, had said, "Every one of us should assume the role of a Muslim soldier of an Islamic state and through cooperation with the oppressed and by winning their confidence we must kill those who are hatching a conspiracy against Pakistan and Islam." (Daily Sangram quoted Nizami on September 15, 1971)

Ghulam Azam and his party men and anti-liberation elements used to call the freedom fighters "miscreants", "Indian agents", "malaun" (an offensive word used against the Hindus), and "infiltrators".

On April 8, 1971, Ghulam Azam issued a joint statement with other Jamaat leaders. A book containing an account of the killers and collaborators titled "Genocide '71" quotes from that statement: "India is interfering in the internal affairs of East Pakistan. Wherever patriotic Pakistanis see Indian agents or anti-Pakistan elements and infiltrators, they will destroy them."

Genocide '71 also reads: "On June 18, on arriving at Lahore airport, Ghulam Azam spoke to journalists, stating that, in order to further improve the conditions in East Pakistan, he was going to provide some additional advice to the president [General Yahya Khan].

"However, he refused to elaborate any further on what sort of advice he was going to give. Regarding the situation in East Pakistan, he said: 'The miscreants are still engaged in destructive activities. Their main aim is to create terror and turbulence. These miscreants are being directed by Naxalites and left-wing forces.'"

On June 19, before Tikka Khan left for Dhaka, Ghulam Azam met then Pakistan president Yahya Khan. After his meeting with Yahya, he addressed a press conference in Lahore. He told journalists, "The miscreants are still active in East Pakistan. People must be provided with arms to destroy them."

Addressing Jamaat workers prior to the press conference, Ghulam Azam said, "In order to prevent the disintegration of Pakistan, the armed forces had to be deployed."

He further noted, "The recent tumult in East Pakistan is 10 times greater than the 1857 Revolution in Bengal."

Speaking at a press conference in Peshawar on August 26, he said, "The armed forces have saved us from the treachery of our enemies and from the evil designs of India. The people of East Pakistan are lending full support to the armed forces in destroying miscreants and infiltrators."

On November 23, Yahya Khan declared a state of national emergency.

Ghulam Azam welcomed this announcement. He told the press in Lahore, "The best way to defend ourselves is striking at our enemies." He said in order to restore peace in East Pakistan, each patriotic citizen, each member of the Peace Committees, Razakar, Al-Badr, and Al-Shams must be armed with modern automatic weapons.

At a meeting in Rawalpindi on November 29, he said, "There is no example in the history of a nation at war surviving without retaliation. Aggression is the best form of defence."

On December 3, he in Karachi said, "An East Pakistani should be in charge of the foreign office because it is only an East Pakistani who can cope with the Bangladesh tamasha [the Bangladesh farce]."

Immediately after victory on December 16, 1971, Ghulam Azam and many others like him fled to Pakistan and returned only after the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members in 1975.

After victory the first issues of newspapers of the new nation carried the government's decision to ban five communal parties, including Jamaat-e-Islami, on December 18 with immediate effect.

The banned parties were given the green light to resume politics during the regime of late president Ziaur Rahman.

Genocide '71 said soon after Ghulam Azam with a few of his followers went to Saudi Arabia, an advertisement, in the name of a fake organisation, appeared in several Middle Eastern papers. The ad proclaimed, "mosques are being burnt in East Pakistan, Hindus are killing Muslims and destroying their properties." On the plea that Islam had to be saved, the ad appealed for contributions.

It also said Ghulam Azam, in order to collect funds and to continue his campaign against Bangladesh, visited several countries of the region, including Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, and Beirut. After completing his tour of these areas, he left for London in April, 1973.

Even though he came to Dhaka on a three-month visa during the rule of president Ziaur Rahman in 1978, he never left Bangladesh. He became Jamaat's undeclared ameer taking over from alleged war criminal late Abbas Ali Khan who was the acting ameer.

In the early 90's, Ghulam Azam was officially declared ameer of Jamaat, while Shaheed Janani Jahanara Imam launched a unique mass movement demanding trial of war criminals.

She held an unprecedented People's Court as a symbolic trial of Ghulam Azam where thousands of people gathered and the court pronounced a verdict to the effect that offences committed by him during the Liberation War deserve capital punishment.

Ghulam Azam's citizenship issue came into focus when he came to Bangladesh as a Pakistani national.

In 1991, the BNP formed government with support from Jamaat and in 1992 Ghulam Azam filed a case with the High Court to get Bangladeshi citizenship. The government of the day arrested him and put him in jail.

However, after Ghulam Azam acquired Bangladeshi citizenship through a court order in 1994, the government released him from prison.

In 1998, BNP and Jamaat formed the four-party alliance and Ghulam Azam appeared at a grand public meeting with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Ghulam Azam left the party's top post in 2000 and was succeeded by Nizami.Ghulam Azam stayed out of focus since then but he is back into the spotlight after yesterday's court order.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=234068


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[ALOCHONA] Re: INDIA'S SIKKIM POLICY IN BANGLADESH

Mr. Bahar has all kind of conspiracy theories about how Bangladesh will be taken over one day by India? The question is why and when? And for what reason? Does India need brain power like Mr. Bahar? I hope not! What would India do with 160 mil people when it has it's own billion? He always makes up all kind of stories about CIA, RAW and Mossad. He knows exactly where they meet and plan plots against Bangladesh and Pakistan. He conveniently ignores mentioning Pakistani ISI because he might consider them as good guy? The question is whether the man is sane? Every time I read his post, I feel like throwing up. If this guy a teacher in Canada, I really feel sorry for Canadians.
-Shah Deeldar

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *INDIA'S SIKKIM POLICY IN BANGLADESH*
>
> By Abid Bahar, Canada
>
> It is interesting for Bangladeshis to learn and grow from many lessons
> about India's policy in Sikkim and how Sikkim eventualy lost its
> independence to India. If we look at the global Indian policy in South
> Asia toward its neighbours, we see that eversince it became
> independent, it occupied Goa, Hydrabad, Kashmir, even Monipur in 1949
> and in 1975 it swallowed Sikkin. It is now trying to swallow Maldvip,
> Nepal and Bhutan. Please read the recent developments in those
> countries to see the eventual eclips of those countries.
>
> India follows the old colonial British policy of swallowing the
> smaller neighbourings nations. This is consistent with Neheru's India
> Doctrine ( variously named as the "akhonda Bharota," "Ram Rajya,"
> "connectivity").(1) Indian sucess in Bangladesh to make it a dependent
> state, began with Mujib's 25 year Friendship Treaty with Indra Gandhi,
> followed by Awami League's merger with the pro- Indian Moni Singh's
> Bangladesher Communist Party and Mujib's subsequent policy of keeping
> the Indian led Rakkhi Bahini in Bangladesh. Mujib's three year rule
> ended Bangladesh into "a bottomless basket case". Please read similar
> story of Indian policy in Sikkim.
> http://sikhim.blogspot.ca/2009/08/indias-illegal-occupation-of.htmlI
> India Doctrine is not a myth; it was born with a brain to make people
> suffer for the sake of a chauvinistic nationalism called Brahmoism.
> When one reads the history of Bromo imperialism in South Asia began
> from Ram Mohan Roy, then from Nehru's ideas, it makes sense.(
>
> Many observers believe that the 1975 coup in Bangladesh that removed
> BKSAL from power was a great escape by Bangladesh to its reassertion
> of independence. Frustrated to lose the Moina Pakhi ( India's dear
> game bird Bangladesh) it now squeezes Bangladesh to its submittion, it
> built dams in all most all the rivers flowing from the Himalayas
> through Napal and India. India didn't build that number of dams in any
> of its provinces. It is a case of open hostality toward Bangladesh.
> Some people like Illias Ali and others who vigourously campaigned
> against the Tipaimukh dam and its effects in Bangladesh were known to
> have been abducted and killed by Indian trained cadres code named the
> " 100 crusaders." Today like in Mujib's time, when over 30 thousand
> people were abducted or killed (one of them was Siraj Sikder,)
> opposition leaders are not safe fearing to be killed if stayed home or
> outside the home fearing to be abducted( thus the popular phrase
> recently came into use "Hasina's Ghoree thaklee Khoon bairai thaklee
> goom). People who oppose Hasina's "khoon or goon policy are condemned
> by the rough Awami cadres as the "enemies of the liberation war" and
> are"razakars." with "a Pakistani agenda". In this category Awami
> cadres even don't hasitate to include Ziaur Rahman.
>
> It is widely claimed that Moin U supervised election in 2008 that
> brought Hasina to a landslide victory was engineered by the Indian
> RAW. Before the election, Hasina was found equally corrupt by the CTG
> making money in bags that clients brought to her home. Moin U was
> previously awarded 6 horses by India and there were reported secret
> meetings held in Western cities in New York and Sanskatwan to hatch
> the RAW Plan for installing Hasina. Experts agree that RAW offices to
> impliment India's imperialist ambitions in Bangladesh have been
> carried out from Calcutta and Agartala in its BD research centres.
> Pronob Mukherjee is directly responsible to coordinate the action.(2)
>
> In the cultural and media front, Rabindranath Tagore as a Bengali poet
> (who despite his great literary contributions was opposed to the
> establishment of Dhaka University) has been seen as a bridge between
> West Bengal and Bangladesh and the socalled secular cultural teams and
> pro Indian newspapers like Prothom Alo established in 1993 and the
> silly newspaper Jonokhonto and few othe in Dhaka, carries out the
> Indian agenda in Bangladesh. (3)
>
> It is true, "India would definitely go for merging more small
> independent neighboring nations with [her smaller neighbours
> like]Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka but at the same
> time would also be at a very high risk of dissolution and collapse on
> herself, yielding into 15 to 25 independent nations." (4)
>
> A Sikkimese says: "India follows British legacy. their policies are
> colonial and imperialistic. If us the sikkimese could get our heads
> out of the sand and the pointless lepcha bhutia nepali arguments we
> would have seen what india did to manipur in 1949, india's annexation
> of kashmir, etc. the chogyal asking his people not to take up arms was
> justified as the import of arms had been banned by a treaty signed
> between sikkim and delhi. on another note the chogyal's hands were
> tied as he was a buddhist king and his holiness the dalai lama had
> been given sanctuary by india. it is up to modern, forward looking
> sikkimese youth to bring forward a freedom movement!" (5)
>
> Can India swallow Bangladesh? With limited knowledge about the RAW we
> have no clue. But India has been sucessful in causing poverty in the
> western, northern and in the eastern region of Bangladesh. Hasina and
> her team of so-called Indra secularists has strong influence in the
> grass root level in Bangladesh to help India make its connectivity
> policy. Under the circumstances it is recommended that the regional
> countries to defend themselves, should monitor RAW activities and go
> for forming a commonwealth of South Asian Nations/ or form a
> confederation of South Asian nations.Good luck Bangladesh!
>
> References:
>
> (1) MBI Munshi, INDIA DOCTRINE
>
> (2) Joinal Abedin, RAW
>
> (3) Abid Bahar, Tagore Exposed in Dalia
>
> (4) The Illegal Occupation of Sikkim by India"
>
> http://sikhim.blogspot.ca/2009/08/indias-illegal-occupation-of.html
>
> http://www.sonarbangladesh.com/article.php?ID=7213
>
> (5) Biraj Adhikari, Sikkim: The Wounds of History
>
> http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=381641
>




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Humayun Ahmed.....



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[ALOCHONA] Re: Dhaka under pressure to sign US military co-op deal

This is probably a first salvo against BNP/Jamat to make sure no Osama friends get free food and lodging to start another menace in South Asia. I think the concerned parties got the message!



--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *Dhaka under pressure to sign US military co-op deal*
>
>
>
>
> Dhaka is under pressure from Washington to sign a military cooperation deal
> aimed at enhancing the rapid deployment capability of the US forces far
> away from their bases, officials said on Wednesday.
>
> The proposed deal called the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement was
> first put forward by the United States to Bangladesh's Armed Forces
> Division in 2006. But there has been no significant development in the
> following years as Dhaka showed less interest in the deal.
>
> The US embassy in Dhaka has intensified its diplomatic efforts since 2011
> to make the Armed Forces Division agree to sign the proposed
> deal.According to a US news release issued on April 24, the United
> States is
> aware of a plan of Bangladesh on military modernisation.
>
> The US assistant secretary for Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Andrew
> J Shapiro, at Carnegie Endowment Roundtable discussion in Washington on
> April 24 said, `The modernisation efforts provide an opportunity for us to
> expand our security cooperation, especially through our Excess Defence
> Articles programme, which makes US equipment that is surplus to our
> requirements available to our partners.' Shapiro, who led an 11-member US
> delegation to a dialogue in Dhaka on April 19, also discussed the potential
> for US security cooperation with India and Bangladesh.
>
> The recent visit by the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, in the
> capital expedited the US efforts.
> A team of US military officials is scheduled to visit the capital in the
> next week to discuss with the local military officials the proposed deal,
> the officials said.The officials said the US military officials would be in
> Dhaka in May 14-18 for detailed discussion on the proposed deal.
>
> The Armed Forces Division, meanwhile on May 7, held an inter-ministerial
> meeting before the official talks on the proposed Acquisition and
> Cross-Servicing Agreement.The Armed Forced Division is expected to hold
> another meeting in a couple of the days for further discussion on the
> proposed deal, draft of which has already been sent to the division.
>
> Sri Lanka was the 90th country to sign the ACSA with the United States in
> 2007.According to WikiLeaks, the US Embassy in the Sri Lankan capital of
> Colombo wrote in a message that the US Pacific Command had sought to enter
> into the deal with Sri Lanka since 2002.Sri Lanka, positioned astride major
> sea lanes and at the doorstep to India, can play a significant role in
> military readiness as political and military efforts shift focus on Asia in
> the new millennium, it said.
>
> `The signing will expand DoD's capacity and capability to conduct global
> operations by adding another logistical option in South Asia, which
> ultimately reduces cost and provides flexibility to US forces moving
> through the region,' it added.
>
> Dhaka and Washington on May 5 signed a joint declaration on a `partnership
> dialogue' to hold annual consultations to give strategic direction to
> bilateral relations. The joint declaration is a first major deal between
> Bangladesh and the United States that had for long discussed the signing of
> a deal on trade and investment-related issues, but failed.
>
> Local trade experts held a number discussions with US trade experts on the
> Trade and Investment Framework Agreement between 2001 and 2010 at home and
> abroad, but failed to reach a consensus.
> Both the sides are now discussing the Trade and Investment Cooperation
> Forum Agreement, an old document with a new name, to further bilateral
> relations.
>
> http://www.newagebd.com/detail.php?date=2012-05-13&nid=10126
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[ALOCHONA] Khadok.....



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Re: [ALOCHONA] To US Aid Recipients



Yup. Out of those FIVE, three have been bombed by the US (Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan). Egypt gets the money for signing a peace settlement with Israel. Israel gets the money for being "Israel". 

Israel has some powerful "Friends" inside the US. So they are the only one not getting bombed (Neither giving away land) but getting US tax money. What a deal!



Shalom!


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TOP  US  AID  RECIPIENTS:
.
1. Afghanistan:  $ 11.5 billion a year or 72% of 2010 GDP
2. Pakistan      : $ 2.85 billion a year or 1.6% of 2010 GDP
3. Israel:             $ 2.8 billion a year or 1.3% of GDP
4. Iraq:               $  2 billion a year or 2.6% of GDP
5. Egypt:            $ 1.4 billion a year or 0.8% of GDP

* 4 out of 5 top US Aid Recipients are Moslim Countries. 
* Besides 7 out of 44 Moslim Countries all live off Charity of US Aid and Loans but USA is the most hated country of crazy Moslims according to Surveys and Polls taken in Moslim Countries. .
* 8 out of 25 top US Aid Recipients are Moslim Countries and the 9th is Palestine Government.
* 44 out of 193 Countries are Moslim. 




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[ALOCHONA] Chowgachha Model Health Complex & Bangladesh's Commendable Advances in Healthcare..... [4 Attachments]

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Chowgachha is a sub-district (upazila) under the district of Jessore in Bangladesh. Every upazila of this impoverished nation has a govt. sponsored meager health complex to serve the huge population's healthcare. Chowgachha Upazila Health Complex, notwithstanding all its limitations in resources and lack of infrastructures, has earned the honor of a globally recognized (by WHO, UNICEF and the World Bank etc) model health complex. You may find the attached materials and the below links interesting to learn about Bangladesh's commendable achievements in materializing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) particularly pertaining to healthcare and in that context the brilliant contributions and achievements of Chowgachha Health Complex as a model that many developing nations are attracted to replicate.
 
The man behind the long episodes of successes of Chowgachha Health Complex as a model rural healthcare provider with extremely limited resources is Dr. Emdadul Haque. Please read UNICEF's article "Saving mother's lives: the dedication of a doctor" on this great pioneering man at: http://www.unicef.org/bangladesh/media_4795.htm.
 
You may also find the below links interesting to learn about the success stories of Chowgachha Model Health Complex:
 
Civil Surgeon Jessore Dr Md Salah Uddin Khan (Sitting Center), one of the initiator of the Model Health Complex in Chougacha in a meeting with WFL along with the hospital Management team: http://www.walkforlife.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=67.
 
6 European and 1 Canadian MPs visit Chougacha Reproductive Health Projects with Sustainable Development Focus: http://www.iepfpd.org/epf-news/57/bangladesh-6-european-and-1-canadian-mps-visit-reproductive-health-projects-with-sustainable-development-focus.
 
WHO Director General Dr. Margaret Chan addressing a function on presentation of the health service program after visiting Chougacha Upazila Health Complex: http://www1.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=93605$date=2010-03-08&dateCurrent=2010-03-18.
 
WHO support sought in improving community clinic services (in Chowgachha):  http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=129496.
 
Also read the Daily Star's report below. Best regards. Sincerely, Wohid
_______________________________
Muhammad Wohidul Islam
(LLM, Harvard Law School)
Legal Counsel
Qatar Investment Authority (QIA)
 

Daily Star
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Bangladesh's commendable advances in healthcare

Syed Mansur Hashim
 
Once touted as a "bottomless basket" by an American statesman in the early years of its journey as an independent nation, today, the country has a vibrant economy that has grown at an average of 6% per annum over the last decade; it is a major player in the world apparel industry, and it is known for its innovative microcredit programme that is being replicated on a grand scale in various continents outside Asia.
 
Bangladesh deserves to be known for another reason, i.e. in the area of healthcare. The country has made enormous advances in life expectancy and child health. The fertility rate has seen commendable reduction and high levels of immunisation coverage have been achieved; which in turn, has led to unprecedented reductions in maternal and child mortality. All these are indicators of the revolutionary change that has been experienced in the health sector. But then such improvement did not fall out of the sky. The fact that the country's policymakers had the foresight to make health a national priority, which happens to be enshrined into the constitution, effectively guaranteeing every citizen the "right" to healthcare proved to be visionary.
 
These steps taken early on in its journey as a newly-independent nation contributed to significant decrease in total fertility among women aged 15-49. In the mid '70s, total fertility was 6.6 births per woman aged 15-49 years; in 1994, it was 3.4; and by 2007, it was 2.7 (according to Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey, 2007). Similarly, as per WHO statistics (2010), infant mortality has declined dramatically from 85 deaths per 1,000 live births in the late '80s to 52 deaths per 1,000 live births over the period 2002 to 2006, i.e. a reduction of 63% over a period of two decades. Again, huge improvements in "under-5" mortality have taken place: from 202 per 1,000 live births in 1979 to 133 in 1989 to 94 in 1995 in 2006. Consequently, Bangladesh is on track to achieve MDG4 to reduced under-5 mortality. Another area deserving special mention is the reduction is in maternal mortality across the board, i.e. both national and sub-national studies. Studies conducted in the '60s point to maternal mortality standing between 600 800 deaths per 100,000 live births. A national survey conducted in 2001 (Bangladesh maternal health services and maternal mortality survey 2001) reported a decline from 514 deaths per 100,000 in the mid '80s to 322 per 100,000 in the late '90s.
 
These advances were made possible since Bangladesh, like many other South Asian countries, has a public system run by the state and a large non-state sector that play a major role in the delivery of health care services. The latter includes NGOs and private providers of modern and indigenous medicine. In the 1970s, the government developed a public health system along the Health for All model, with a nationwide network of hospitals, health complexes, family welfare centres, sub-centres, and Expanded Programme for Immunisation Outreach clinics. At the same time, a parallel network of family planning and maternal and child welfare centres was established, in some cases contracting NGOs to provide services. Some 2,000 NGOs work in Bangladesh and their activities are mainly concentrated in the rural areas, with recent expansion into semi-urban and urban slums. The non-state sector provides the overwhelming majority of outpatient curative care, while the public sector is used for a larger proportion of hospital deliveries and preventive care.
 
Despite worthy progress made in a number of health-related areas, significant challenges remain. One major drawback naturally revolves around shortage of skilled manpower, i.e. doctors, paramedics and nurses. This is evident by the fact that 90% of children suffering from acute respiratory infection and/or diarrhoea must obtain service from the private sector and not public sector. This is partly because of the lack of qualified health providers in rural areas. It is also because the Essential Services Package does not cover non-communi-cable diseases and health workers are not trained to manage these conditions; consequently for these health issues, people routinely turn to unlicensed providers for treatment.
 
Yet at the end of the day, Bangladesh stands out as a country that has taken giant steps in healthcare. Long before the emergence of contemporary global health initiatives, the government placed strong emphasis on the importance of childhood immunisation as a key mechanism for reducing childhood mortality. The Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) in Bangladesh is considered to be a health system success because of its remarkable progress over the last two decades. It provides almost universal access to vaccination services, as measured by the percentage of children under 1 year of age who receive BCG (a vaccine against tuberculosis). This increased from 2% in 1985 to 99% in 2009. Coverage of other vaccines has also improved substantially (Bangladesh EPI coverage evaluation survey, 2009).
 
The writer is Assistant Editor, The Daily Star.
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