Dear Alochoks
Today is a good day for me. I have been in some kind of trauma since the 25th of February.
I hope that you too have recovered some composure – if you have been unfortunate enough to lose it.
Reading the messages in Alochona today was quite sobering.
Everybody is making good points. And yet, perhaps, there is no point to anyone’s point.
Here is a summary of where we are today:
- We are correctly urged to show restraint, caution and patience.
- We know that there can be a whitewash and the truth may not come out.
- Some sections blame ISI and
- Some sections blame RAW and
- Some sections blame savage factionalism within the Army
- Hasina’s televised speech was very good
- The escape of so many guilty men is not good at all for
- Khaleda’s absence on the 25th is very bad indeed
- Sending Nanak and Mirza Azam – even Sahara Khatun - was a disaster
- It may emerge (as a whitewash or as reality) that allies of Al Qaeda are involved.
We can commend Sahara Khatun’s bravery – but was she the best negotiator in
Possibly. We are talking about
It’s possibly correct that he Army was not sent in earlier. I too didn’t want it to enter.
But the BDR camp should have been surrounded earlier.
And why all the concern about civilians in nearby building when civilians were massed at the gates and walls?
The 10th point is evolving at the moment.
The hotel bombing in
The FBI and Scotland Yard, having been now called in, will likely focus most on this possibility.
I have exercised restraint on the forum because my friends have urged it.
I am trying to wait for the investigation even though we have never satisfactorily concluded anything.
I am trying to wait because that surely means I still have hope. That's all.
Yesterday, my niece’s husband was buried. I wrote this message below to a Mama in a moment of great sorrow and anger.
It is completely unrestrained. I hope it will be posted because I want anger and sorrow to be recorded too. That’s all.
No one should really mind the ugliness in it.
For no one really minds the closeup shots of the disfigured dead on our television screens while our children watch.
No one should really mind the provocation in it.
For no one really minds the daily provocations of the elected representatives and leaders of AL and BNP.
No one should really mind its poor quality.
For no one really minds the abysmal quality of debate and decorum in Parliament.
How well our MPs captured the national mood in Parliament the other day! How comforting they were!
How reassuring it was to see their moral strength and principled resolve! How glorious our choice of MPs!
Forgive me friend. I’ll stop and get comfort from a coffee so hot it will hopefully burn my tongue.
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2/3/09
Mama
The janaza of my niece’s husband, Lt Colonel
Last night in
We prayed for all our fallen soldiers.
Mama. There are two pains howling mournfully in all our hearts.
One pain is for our soldiers. We can express our grief a little, like babbling, bumbling deeply wounded fools.
Another pain is for our beloved country. That grief has no expression. That grief smothers our voice like a murderous pillow.
Mama. They gutted us like a fish.
They were brothers in arms and yet they had no arms.
One unarmed brother died trying to help his unarmed brother.
Our men are not trained to die for nothing.
Our men are not trained to call for help and backup does not arrive.
I’m glad it was on 25th February. I mean no disrespect to anyone but I believe we always do too much of some things in order to hide other things.
Now 21st February will get a reality check. Our self congratulatory tricks will be more exposed now.
If that's what you do for less than 10 dead on 21st February – what will you do for 150 dead on 25th February?
25th February will show us where we really are right now – not 21st February which shows us who we were back then.
Maybe now our young men will not just sing songs about pretty girls, pink flowers, red saris.
Maybe now our young men will not just act like eunuchs, without courage, without backbone.
Maybe now our young men will know that it’s their country, their future and it’s being taken from them.
We won the War of Sovereignty in 1971. But not the War of Independence.
For
My information is that junior officers hurled abuse at Hasina and Generals at the Shenakunja yesterday.
For myself. I thank God I am not a trained soldier. For I am sick of seeing the same faces, again and again.
Mama. If we can absorb this… We can absorb a few more deaths… Just a few more…
Justice has never found even a small home in
Right now I am uncivilized. Because I have not acted, with my bare hands, against a shipping magnate from
Irrespective of whether he is guilty or not.
On Judgement Day Allah will ask us – Hey
And we will say – we didn’t have enough time. And Allah will rage at us that He did give us time.
It’s just that we spat in the face of time. And kept saying Shomoi lagbeh! Astheh dhireh hobe!
We don’t want
I’m just waiting for the bill in this Parliament that will close all Madrasahs.
When do you think it will happen? Why not? Does Jamaat have a majority?
I am young am I not? Yes I am. I am foolish am I not? Yes I am.
Forgive me.
God rest our fallen men. God keep them close. God give their families peace.
God give no quarter to all patriots who dare to call themselves real men. God give them no peace and no rest.
Until a country, worthy of the fallen of 1971 and 2009, is returned to the next generation –
unbeholden to anyone one man or his family.
Ameen.
Junel
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