Dear Alochoks
Saifur Rahman's body was recovered from the water and placed upon a broken, makeshift bed of sorts. The television camera zoomed in on his bare chest and panned up towards his face. He had on no shirt or vest. His face and body were swollen with water. The odd finger poked his body. Another odd finger lifted an eyelid as if to confirm his death. Ignorant and stupid members of the public (our celebrated jonogon has a lot of trash in it) jockeyed for position before the cameras, or sought to get as close to the body as if to sniff the scent of death on the body, or stood around scratching their unwashed armpits.
Later the networks broadcast the same footage with the mournful wail of a Deshi flute, celebrating this pathetic death.
Pathetic is a Deshi word nowadays.
We are shameless with no concept of how to respect a dead body. You know what I mean. Even in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan they do not show footage of the dead the way we do.
I suspect our cameramen get bonuses for every shot of a dead body. Not just any shot - must be a closeup, so close to the face that death can be certified by lack of a breath's mist upon the camera lens.
But Delwar and BNP have no knowledge of such things. They don't care if Saifur Rahman's body was given no respect. But no problem demanding a state funeral!
Saifur Rahman has done his good and his bad on this earth. He will make his peace with Allah and we pray for his eternal salvation.
Down here on earth the wretched ethical and spiritual condition of our nation continues as usual.
Watch the news for your next gloriously disgusting closeup of a dead body. If he's a politician you may also get some music to enjoy at the same time. Make sure the kids are watching too.
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Ezajur Rahman" <ezajur.rahman@...> wrote:
>
> Ex-finance minister Saifur dies in car crash
> BNP announces 3-day mourning programme
> Courtesy New Age 6/9/09
>
> Staff Correspondent
>
> <http://www.newagebd.com/2009/sep/06/img9.html>
>
>
>
> Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member M Saifur Rahman,
> who served as the country's finance minister for the longest period, was
> on Saturday killed in a road accident in Brahmanbaria.
> Saifur met with the tragic accident when his car fell into a ditch at
> Khariyala of Ashuganj on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at 2:30pm.
> He was taken to Brahmanbaria General Hospital where physicians
> pronounced him dead at about 3:30pm. He was 77.
> He was on his way to the capital from Moulvibazar, his constituency
> for which he had been elected lawmaker four times between 1979 and 2001.
> Saifur, who had already lost his wife, Durre Samad Rahman in 2003, is
> survived three sons and a daughter.
> The police, quoting witnesses at Khariyala, said the car in which
> Saifur was travelling, fell into a ditch after the driver lost control
> trying to save a dog.
> The Rapid Action Battalion rushed to the spot and began rescue
> operation immediately.
> Local Awami League lawmaker Lutful Hai Sachchu told reporters the car
> skidded off into a ditch and fell into five-to-six-foot water.
> 'Saifur Rahman was wearing a seat belt. It took 10 to 12 minutes to
> get him out of water by breaking open the door of the car and cutting
> the seat belt,' said Lutful Hai.
> After rescuing him, the battalion took him straight to Brahmanbaria
> General Hospital where physicians pronounced him dead. As the news
> spread, hundreds of people rushed to the hospital premises.
> Saifur's private secretary Shamsul Huq, Sajib Miah, Sharif Ahmed,
> Miraj Hossain and Shams Miah who were accompanying him were all
> critically injured. All of them were admitted to Brahmanbaria General
> Hospital.
> The accident marks an end to the eventful life and chequered
> political career of Saifur Rahman, who was handpicked by the late
> president Ziaur Rahman into his advisory council in 1976 in charge of
> commerce. He then became finance minister.
> The BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia, expressed her deep shock at the
> death of the senior most member of the party's standing committee. The
> BNP has postponed all its programmes for Saturday and Sunday showing
> respect to Saifur and announced a three-day mourning programme.
> 'As a successful finance minister and politician, Saifur Rahman had
> contribution to the country's economic development. He also played a
> significant role in establishing the BNP and its expansion working as a
> close aide to the late president Ziaur Rahman. He also played an
> important role in restoring democracy to the country,' Khaleda said.
> 'The nation lost a wise politician in his sudden death. It is an
> irreparable loss for the country and it has created a vacuum in national
> politics,' Khaleda said.
> Saifur's body was brought to his house at Gulshan in Dhaka in the
> evening. A pall of gloom descended there as the microbus carrying
> Saifur's body entered the Jalalabad House.
> Khaleda visited the place to pay her respect to Saifur. The body was
> laid in state in front of the house and mourners filed past in solemn
> silence.
> A cross section of people flocked to Saifur's house. The finance
> minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, industries minister Dilip Barua, Awami
> League advisory council member Tofail Ahmed, Awami League presidium
> member and chairman of the committee on public undertakings Muhiuddin
> Khan Alamgir, state minister for home affairs Shamsul Haque Tuku,
> Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal
> president Hasanul Huq Inu, Dhaka University professor emeritus
> Anisuzzman, Awami League lawmaker Subid Ali Bhuiyan, Awami League
> president's adviser Salman F Rahman, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers
> of Commerce and Industry president Annisul Huq, former Bangladesh
> Garment Manufacturers and Exporters' Association president Anwarul Alam
> Chowdhury Parvez also went there.
> Former Jatiya Sangsad speaker Jamiruddin Sircar, BNP secretary
> general Khandaker Delwar Hossain, opposition chief whip Zainul Abdin
> Farroque, BNP standing committee member M Shamsul Islam, vice-chairmen M
> Hafizuddin Ahmed, Sarwari Rahman and Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf, BNP
> chairperson's adviser ASM Hannan Shah, joint secretary general Selima
> Rahman, office secretary Rizvi Ahmed and Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal president
> Barkatullah Bulu also went to Saifur's house and consoled his two sons
> and the daughter. Saifur's eldest son, Naser Rahman, has started for
> home from Saudi Arabia.
> Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mujahid and
> assistant secretary general Muhammad Quamaruzzman also went to Saifur's
> house.
> The family said the first namaz-e-janaza would be held in the Gulshan
> Azad Mosque at 11:00am, and then the body would be taken to the BNP's
> central office at Naya Paltan at 12:30pm for the second namaz-e-janaza.
> The third namaz-e-janaza will take place on the national assembly
> building premises at 2:30pm.
> Saifur will be laid to rest in his family graveyard in Moulvibazar
> Monday afternoon after holding namaz-e-janazas at Shahi Eidgah in Sylhet
> at 1:00pm and in the Moulvibazar Government High School ground at
> 4:00pm.
> The body was taken to the mortuary of the United Hospital at Gulshan
> from his house Saturday night.
> The New Age correspondent in Moulvibazar said normal life in Saifur's
> hometown came to a halt at the news of the death.
> Most of the offices and business establishments immediately pulled
> down their shutters to show respect to Saifur.
> Similar was the situation in Sylhet where Saifur went on Friday to
> say prayers at the shrine of Hazrart Shah Jalal.
>
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