Dear Readers,
1. The practice of calling/enforcing hortal in Bangladesh is to start burning vehicles on the road (at least few) from the previous night; continue burning any vehicle found on the road, destroying public and private properties, picketing, and attacking police; and that is what needs to be STOPPED,
2. Plain (vanilla) calling of hortal and carrying posters/placards like "We are not working" is OK (the way it is done in the developed countries) and that is what is allowed in the International Law.
With best regards,
Em Pannah (a.k.a. Muktijodha Emarat Hossain Pannah)
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Dr. Em Pannah
Doctor of Management (Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Identity Theft), MS, MSc., CISSP, CAP, CISM, NSA-IAM, NSA-IEM, Foundations of Cybersecurity
1. The practice of calling/enforcing hortal in Bangladesh is to start burning vehicles on the road (at least few) from the previous night; continue burning any vehicle found on the road, destroying public and private properties, picketing, and attacking police; and that is what needs to be STOPPED,
2. Plain (vanilla) calling of hortal and carrying posters/placards like "We are not working" is OK (the way it is done in the developed countries) and that is what is allowed in the International Law.
With best regards,
Em Pannah (a.k.a. Muktijodha Emarat Hossain Pannah)
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Dr. Em Pannah
Doctor of Management (Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Identity Theft), MS, MSc., CISSP, CAP, CISM, NSA-IAM, NSA-IEM, Foundations of Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity Professional, Textbook Writer/Publisher, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in USA
Primary email: epannah@yahoo.com | Secondary email: em.pannah@faculty.umuc.edu
Primary phone: (443) 690-3955 | Secondary phone: (301) 358-9232
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Primary email: epannah@yahoo.com | Secondary email: em.pannah@faculty.umuc.edu
Primary phone: (443) 690-3955 | Secondary phone: (301) 358-9232
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From: Jiten Roy <jnrsr53@yahoo.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] No more hortal - please STOP it at any cost
It will not be possible to ban Hortal; I think - this is a part of the international labor law. If we want democracy, we cannot ban the right to call Hortal. It is only banned under Emergency Rule.My first proposals to Bangladesh government was:a) 1. Ban 'picketing and procession' for Hartal.Political parties can call Hortal, but no picketing for it. They can publicize on radio, television, newspaper, and distribute bills. If people like to support their cause, they can stop going to work. But, no one can force them to do something they don't like.b) Political parties will be liable for all damages to public and private properties during the Hortal.Jiten Roy--- On Thu, 5/9/13, Dr. Em Pannah <epannah@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Dr. Em Pannah <epannah@yahoo.com>
Subject: [mukto-mona] No more hortal - please STOP it at any cost
To: "Bangladesh-Zindabad@yahoogroups.com" <Bangladesh-Zindabad@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013, 11:34 PMDear Readers,1. Please join me to demand "No more hortal" in Bangladesh" and request the government to do whatever is needed there to STOP hortal.2. Hortal is the recipe to destroy the economy of our beloved Bangladesh. The enemies of Bangladesh do not care about its economy.3. No body has the right to call hortal - an individual can only STOP working himself/herself if he/she does not like to work.With best regards,
Muktijodha Emarat Hossain Pannah-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Em Pannah
Doctor of Management (Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Identity Theft), MS, MSc., CISSP, CAP, CISM, NSA-IAM, NSA-IEM, Foundations of CybersecurityCybersecurity Professional, Textbook Writer/Publisher, and Adjunct Assistant Professor in USA
Primary email: epannah@yahoo.com | Secondary email: em.pannah@faculty.umuc.edu
Primary phone: (443) 690-3955 | Secondary phone: (301) 358-9232
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Jamaat calls hartal Sunday
Hefajat calls off
Staff Correspondent
Jamaat-e-Islami yesterday called a countrywide daylong hartal for Sunday, nearly an hour after Hefajat-e Islam withdrew its hartal declared earlier for the same day.
A key component in the BNP-led 18-party alliance, Jamaat called the hartal in protest at the verdict that sentenced its leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman to death for involvement in war crimes.
Jamaat announced the hartal in a statement at 6:30pm, rejecting the verdict delivered by an international crimes tribunal.
Ashraf Ali Nizampuri, Hefajat's literature and cultural affairs secretary, told The Daily Star at about 5:30pm that they had withdrawn the hartal on the instructions of its chief Shah Ahmed Shafi.
About the reason for the withdrawal, the Hefajat leader said the hartal would disadvantage many of their men who had suffered injuries in clashes with police and were undergoing treatment at different hospitals.
He noted that they would also be trying to find out "the activists who were made to disappear" during the clashes.
Asked the number of their casualties during a police drive at Motijheel on May 5 and 6, he said their district-level chiefs would prepare a list of the "martyred" and the wounded activists.
Meanwhile, the two-day countrywide hartal called by the 18-party alliance ended last evening without occasioning much violence.
However, at a press conference at its Nayapaltan head office, the BNP last night claimed that three of its activists were killed during the hartal, one each in Chapainawabganj, Feni and Comilla.
Our correspondents in the districts did not have any such information as of the filing of this report at 8:00pm.
Talking to The Daily Star, many people — especially day labourers and roadside vendors — aired their grievances about the BNP-called general strike.
"In the last two-day hartal, I could not earn even one-fourth of what I normally do," said a vendor who sells burgers near the BNP central office .
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