I did not know lies and unfounded allegations could become facts to
WELL-PLACED, INTELLIGENT, NEUTRAL, WISE, OBSERVANT, EXPERIENCED people,
and materials for thought-provoking (?!?) article. Thanks for giving
us lesson in HYPOCRISY 100.
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, maqsud omaba <maqsudo@...> wrote:
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> Attn MT Hussain
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> Thanks for your thought-provoking article with so may " little-known"
statements/facts about PM Hasina.
> I am not an english teacher. I am also not a master in english
literature/language.
> Understandably, english is also a 2nd. language for me, just like you
and majority of the readers.
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> While reading your interesting article, I felt that the flow got messy
because of the inclusion long sentences in the article.
> And .... use of too many " unusual + uncommon english words ", took
away my excitement
> occasionally, while concentrating on Hasina's story.
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> I hope my feedback will be useful to You. After all we are getting
quite a few well-researched articles from you in this site.
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> Best wishes.
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> Khoda hafez.
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> dr. maqsud omar
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> From: bd_mailer@...
> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:38:31 -0700
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] 100 Days of Vicious Vengeance
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> 100 Days of Vicious VengeanceAuthor: M.T. Hussain
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> Propaganda for 100 days
>
> It is nothing unusual that on the 100th day of their rule of
> Bangladesh, the Awami League's third term in their show up in the
State
> power and second term of Sheikh Hasina that started in early January
> 2009 and finished 100 days has as usual with their propaganda from
> inside and from across the border, particularly in Kolkata, went
> unparallel.
> Crushing Poverty
>
> In Bangladesh, one of the poorest country in the world and with
> millions starving each day in and out for no work, no money to buy
> basic essentials including food cereal rice and wheat, in particular,
> from the open market, the question of food security is in rhetoric
> rather than in reality.
> Cereal price down
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> Even so, the poorest of the poor should be happier that the prices of
> basic cereals have gone down for whatever reason that could not be
> clearly perceived at that level. Say, for example, the worldwide
> recession if improved, the prices of essentials would again go up
> signaling that it was a temporary phenomenon and nothing durable or
> sustainable over a long period ahead. The continuation of the VGF
> (Vulnerable Group Feeding), restart of the OMS (Open Market Sale),
> organizing food rationing for the poor, reactivating the TCB (Trading
> Corporation of Bangladesh) or market intervention, etc. left with no
> doubt that widespread poverty in the country remains a continuing evil
> ahead, for how long it's anybody's guess.
> Production incentive lost
>
> The other worrying issue is that should the price level of food
cereals
> remain low for years, productivity of all such items is certain to
fall
> for loss of incentive for the producers or the farmers in this case.
In
> such case import bill of food cereals would not only adversely affect
> the macro economy but also increased dependence on outside source for
> supply against Bangladesh's demand. That the government reduced
the OMS
> price of rice fixed earlier from Taka 18/ per Kg to Taka 16/, never to
> be able to reduce to Taka 10/ that would further shatter the
> macro-economy as had been ineptly promised in their election manifesto
> in December 2008.
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> Obama's Change and DIN BADAL
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> During the December election campaign particularly of the Awami League
> that brought them the big `win', if one would give damn to the
fraud in
> the whole matter, was that Sheikh Hasina possibly had stolen the term
> `Change' that Barak Obama coined and continued to use in his
> Presidential campaign in 2008, when by accident of history or by
design
> Hasina stayed in that country for about six months for `treatment
of
> ears and eyes' but translated in Bengali Obama's term for
"DIN BADAL".
> Unenlightened feudal mindset
>
> To me, the first and foremost change needed in Bangladesh politics is
> the mindset of the politicians, albeit, others, as well playing
> important roles in reshaping mindset of the new progeny. One may call
> it also as change of political culture of the country that we had in
> the past to something else. To what in more specific term?
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> Democracy misunderstood
>
> If we take the case of democracy and pluralism, first of all that
means
> equality, respect for and dignity of each and every individual, no
> matter high or low in social status. I wonder at times that the
remnant
> of feudal mindset of many of our top leaders hardly fits into plural
> democratic demand as are in practice in the West. Although I don't
> expect anything change overnight, there should have been a beginning
> somewhere that at least I expected when I heard the word DIN BADAL or
> Change that Obama had coined. That the DIN BADAL now has boiled down
in
> Bangladesh for the last one hundred days having no sign of its end
> except in reprisal and vengeance.
> Vengeance rooted back
>
> It is appreciable that vengeance of the particular genre had its root
> in early 1980s when Hasina took to politics by the magnanimous
approach
> to her of General Zia and the President of Bangladesh who had his sole
> burden to bring back Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh from self-exile in
> India then stayed about six years. Within 17 days of her arrival in
> Dhaka, Zia was brutally killed by some elements supported by the
Indian
> Federal Intelligence Agency, R&AW (Research and Analysis Wing,
> certainly a misnomer if not anything else). She proved her
involvement,
> at least indirectly, in the killing of Zia when on the day 30th May of
> Zia's killing, she tried to flee Bangladesh through Akhaura border
once
> again to India. She was, however, apprehended by the law enforcing
> agency of Bangladesh,
> Politics for avenging father's blood
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> In an interview at the London BBC Bengali Service immediately
> afterwards, she stated in verbatim that she hated politics to take on
> to except for inflicting vengeance of her father's killing (See,
BBC's
> Serajur Rahman's item, 24 March 2009, Dhaka Bengali daily Noya
> Diganata).
> Kill ten for one
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> That she was only after blood in beastly vengeance well documented in
> various sources when in power for the first term in an official visit
> to Chittagong she openly asked her cadres to `Kill ten for
one' of
> their killed by their imagined opponents.
> Taka 50,000 advance for killing Khaleda
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> During her 2001 election campaign tour in northern districts, as
Matiur
> Rahman Rentu had recorded in his autobiographical sketch AMAR FANSI
> CHAI, she offered the boatmen of the Ferry of the Dharla river in cash
> Taka 50,000 in advance for drowning to death Begum Khaleda Zia into
the
> river while she would be visiting that area and would cross over the
> river in that ferry. She further promised to pay another Taka 50,000
> when the drowning job would be finished.
> Orchestrated game for her father's `killers'
>
> The whole game she orchestrated for the trial of the so-called
> `killers' of her father during her first term through
manipulation of
> the State power and also giving perks on the one hand and intimidating
> the judges in the framed up trial during five years, June 1996 to July
> 2001, on the other, producing only gross miscarriage of justice in the
> so-called `murder case' that by all legal norms had been a
victorious
> coup d' etat being itself indemnified has remained in history the
most
> notorious example of her vicious vengeance.
> Humbug about war crimes trial
>
> The war crimes trial that her father made lot of humbug about and then
> abandoned for practical difficulties and moral questions involved is
> taken now in 2009 after 38 years when it is almost impossible to
> meaningfully pursue even any single case in the matter as no evidence
> is available for natural reason of time lag. Besides, Bangladesh, much
> less the government of independent Bangladesh, did not exist in the
> soil except the Government of East Pakistan; many like me would serve
> and draw regular salaries as employees of the East Pakistan Government
> until November 1971. Neither did any government in the world recognize
> the entity of independent of Bangladesh but only India lately though
on
> the 6th December and that also for legal complicacies for her waging
> war on the 3rd December. How come then the war of Bangladesh in 1971
> and so the imaginary war crime in Bangladesh during March to December
> 1971? Well, there had been civil strife and so had human rights
> violations in East Pakistan and that also perpetrated by some rogue
> elements of both sides, not of one group. That Bangladesh did not
exist
> in reality, instrument framed after that period as the so-called
> Collaborators Act of 1972 and so also the 1973 War Crimes Tribunal had
> been that provided for giving retrospective effect is certain to be
> invalid or of no legal effect as no law can be given retrospective
> effect in legal jurisprudence.
> 25-26 February BDR massacre
>
> It is argued at many levels inside the country and outside the border
> that it was only Hasina's misperceived vengeance that took lives
of
> over six dozens of valuable senior army officers in the 25-26 February
> BDR campus mayhem. That herself and some other among her close
> associates have already been proved by the fact that she is not
serious
> about bringing out neutral report on the massacre of unprecedented
> nature in history, and just buying time to make the likely report of
> their own liking that she did in the framed up case of the coup heroes
> of the 15th August 1975.
> Khaleda's Moinul Road Residence
>
> Hasina's vengeance stooped to the lowest of minimum sense of
dignity
> and lack of humane feeling to Khaleda's residence she bought in
lease
> for 99 years nearly three decades ago, and the lease to expire in
> another seven decades hence in late 2060 A.D. That was offered to
> Khaleda then by humane consideration as a helpless widow following her
> husband's brutal killings in May 1981, and she had nowhere to go
for a
> living being the widow with two young children to look after of the
> late army chief and the civilian President Ziaur Rahman. Hasina in her
> all pliant members cabinet and in Srajur Rahman's term `HUKKA
HUA' took
> the unlawful decision to cancel the lease document of the old Bungalow
> of about 40 years old wherein she lived for about 30 years with all
the
> memories of her celebrated husband and the former President of
> Bangladesh.
> 100 days of vicious vengeance
>
> Thus I would have my fully considered opinion that Hasina's 100
days in
> power of the rule should be notoriously marked by the vicious
vengeance
> and vengeance alone of the worst kind that included killings of the
> comrades of the same genre among the students not beyond knowledge of
> Hasina but that is what she entered into politics for vengeance of the
> only goal in view.
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> http://www.untoldfacts.com/bangladesh/100-days-of-vicious-vengeance/
>
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