Motia, Ogni Konna or a fascist! 
It is true, socialism in many respects contain some of the elements of fascism; especially its ideology of party domination. Stalin was a world famous fascist who in the name of serving the proliteriates killed millions. Compared to him our BKSAL founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a petit south asian fascist who in the name of promoting the Bhai culture infact helped BKSAL renters and to keep his reign killed thousands and turned Bangladesh into a bottomless basket case. If we remember the BKSAL party days, we know Moni Singh and Muzaffer were the guiding forces behind converting the semi literate Mujib into a socialist fascist with his Mujibbad ideology. At the time Motia was one of the BKSAL gangmembers. It is not a surprise to me in the way she talks because she is one of the pro-moscow fascists. The contemporary Motia- Hasina BKSALITES use their might to develop Mujibès ideology of favoratism to their party followers. Both believe in repression-  'logi-boitha' (pole-oar) and calling Ogni.-strike while in opposition and now repression! These are known Bangladeshi fascists. God save Bangladesh!
 
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Matia Chowdhury's outburst : Who are the conspirators, Begum Matia Chowdhury?

By Zoglul Husain, UK
Email: zoglul@hotmail.co.uk
 
London 7 October 2009. Matia Chowdhury, the Agriculture minister, exposed her quite a furious and fierce demeanour yesterday, 6 October 2007, when she said that all those who talk about commodity prices, Eid bonus, wages, oil-gas and BDR issues, are in deep conspiracy against the government and the country, and that the government has been compiling a list of those 'conspirators' in order to take punitive actions i.e. the government would suppress the public and the opposition through brutal repression. 
 
This uncalled-for mood of her political belligerence absolutely and totally contrasts the image of 'Ogni konya' (girl of fire), as her party supporters used to call her, in her yesteryears when she was in opposition to the governments of yesteryears. Now in power for the second time as agriculture minister, has she turned into a fire-breathing fascist dragon, ready to pounce on the critics? Does her government believe in democracy at all? And when she talks about democracy, does she speak with a forked-tongue? We, the members of the general public, are not at all amazed at the metamorphosis of many, but not all, politicians from their state in opposition, when they say one thing, to their state in power, when they say quite the opposite.
 
Before I briefly examine the validity of her press statement, I refer to the wise reader the following two reports:
 
1. Those who are talking about commodity prices, oil-gas and BDR issues are conspirators: Matia Chowdhury (Amar Desh report, today, 7 October 2007)
http://www.amardeshbd.com/dailynews/detail_news_index.php?NewsID=241650&NewsType=bistarito&SectionID=home&BYN=VRHFQPOM
 
2. Matia alleges evil designs at destabilizing govt (News From Bangladesh report, today, 7 October 2007)
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=287870
 
To examine the validity of Matia's sort of a frenzied tirade against the general public, including the critics of and opposition to the government, we must first examine the validity of her position as a minister and then we can take up her allegations one by one.
 
Is Matia's government a conspiratorial government?
 
The answer must be in the affirmative. Abdul Jalil, the former BAL secretary, confirmed in London that the election victory of BAL on 29 December 2008 under military deployment was the result of an 'understanding' between the BAL and the then military-backed caretaker government (CTG). Though he retracted the statement later, probably under unfavourable circumstances, but the cat was already out of the bag. Another of BAL's electoral ally, Gen Ershad, claimed before the Jalil episode that without the help and support of the military, the present government would never come to power. And about the performance of the present government in the first six months, another of their electoral ally, Dr Kamal Hossain, after an extended meeting of the Central Committee of his party, the 'Gonoforum', for two days, claimed that the present government perpetrated more corruption and terrorist crimes in the first six months than what the previous BNP government perpetrated in five years. Again, the 'logi-boitha' (pole-oar) conspiracies of BAL and the hectic conspiratorial activities of many ambassadors, between 28 October 2006, when the BNP government handed over power at the end of their term, and 11 January 2007, when the military-controlled caretaker government assumed power, are generally known to the informed circles and the denials of the conspirators would not persuade the informed.
 
So, there cannot be any doubt that the last election was massively rigged, after two-year's of conspiratorial government of the CTG for preparing the ground, and that the present government is a conspiratorial government. We do not raise these questions about the previous three elections, because despite defects and shortcomings, the previous three elections were acceptable to the people at large. The certificates given by many foreign governments about the 29 December 2008 election, are offered by those governments who lied world-wide about WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) to use it as a pretext to kill more than one-million people in Iraq, wound more than two-million and render several million homeless. Also their certificates are conspiratorial, as they themselves were involved in the election conspiracy, just as they were involved in the Iraqi and Afghan elections.
 
So, where is the legitimacy of the present government? And who is it that Matia is speaking for? Certainly not for the people.
 
Are those people, who talk about commodity prices, in deep conspiracy against the government and the country?  
 
Matia's accusation in her statement that the people who talk about the commodity prices are in deep conspiracy against the government and the country, is bound to beggar belief. How many people are there in the whole wide world today, let alone Bangladesh, who do not talk about price spirals and inflations? Are they all, who talk about commodity prices, conspiring against her government and the country? Did she feel isolated from the people when she hurled the allegation against the people of the country? Didn't her party and the BAL-influenced media cry shrill about the commodity prices when the BNP-government was in power?


Do those people, employees and workers, who ask for pay rise, bonuses and higher perks, and the trade unions in general, conspire against the government and the country?
 
According to Matia's statement they do. And can she be thought to be in right frame of mind when she issued the statement? Whether a pay claim or demand is justified or not is not the issue here, but how many employees and working people in the world would not cherish a pay rise if that can be achieved? The trade unions generally operate legally and they often negotiate pay claims with the employers and sometimes they go on strike legally. These are generally considered as legal economic struggles, which are not often related to direct politics. Thus when she brands these legal activities as conspiracies, she unmistakably verges to the policies of neo-fascists, which is diametrically opposite to her past background in the NAP, which is considered to be involved in the left of the centre politics.
 
Is the National Committee to protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Port and Power engaged in deep conspiracy against the government and the country?
 
The members of the above Committee are generally regarded as patriotic people. They formed the Committee in 1998 to protect mineral resources from the plunder of the multinationals, generally of the rich countries, and to protect the national interests of Bangladesh against the clutches of uncaring- or predatory countries and forces. At the time the World Bank was pressing Bangladesh to export gas and the Committee opposed the move, saying that we did not have enough gas for ourselves. Both Hasina and Khaleda governments saw the point and they declared that they would not export gas without keeping deposits for fifty years. The Committee was proved right.
 
The Committee also vehemently opposed the downright plunder of the gas fields by the multinationals through Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) and the huge corruption to facilitate the contracts. The Committee demanded a whitepaper on these corruptions and they also demanded justified compensations for the huge gas explosions due to negligence of the operative multinationals, which caused great losses to the country, direct and colateral. The patriotic informed-circle know that the Committee is absolutely right on these issues.
 
When an American stevedoring company wanted the lease of a very large area near Chittagong Port for 199 years to develop a container terminal, the Committee opposed it, as it would jeopardise the existing port, our defence and our economic interests. The proposition of the company was thwarted by a court ruling that their tendering process was irregular, thereby upholding the Committee's position.   
 
In 2006, the Committee opposed the proposal of Asia Energy, a multinational, for open-pit coal-mining at Phulbari, Dinajpur, as the mine is situated in a densely populated agricultural area. Open-pit coal-mining here would uproot about one-hundred thousand people and would cause great environmental disaster, so that the country would lose many times more than the meagre benefit it would have through the proposed mining, while Asia Energy would make reckless profits and their local collaborators would get fat largesse at the cost of the country's interest. In a situation when both the government and the multinational were adamant, about 80 thousand people at Phulbari took to the streets for a protest march and the police and BDR opened fire, in which three people were martyred and more than a hundred wounded. The then BNP government was compelled to sign an agreement with the Committee and it was agreed that Asia Energy would be asked to leave Bangladesh, the families of the martyrs and the wounded people would be compensated and proper policies would be worked out before mining. Has Matia conveniently forgotten that, at the time, Hasina strongly supported the Committee, at least in order to oppose the BNP government? 
 
The present government is about to sign deals with ConocoPhillips and Tullow Oil for offshore gas (also may possibly be oil, if found) blocks 5, 10 and 11 with a PSC, which would allow the companies to export 80% of the gas by contract and another 20% by underhand influences. This callous give away of the national assets is opposed by the Committee. The Committee held a protest march in which, on a targeted atrocity by the police, more than fifty people were injured, including the member-secretary of the committee, Professor Anu Muhammad, who had both of his legs fractured by the brutal assault. In protest, the Committee called a half-day general strike, which was observed successfully and very peacefully, and which was supported by the BNP, some Islamic parties and most of the Left parties.
 
It is for Matia to observe that the Committee was supported by the BAL when the BNP was in power and by the BNP when the BAL is in power at present. According to Matia, then, the BAL and the BNP have been alternately conspiring against the government and the country. As the Committee have been steadfastly protecting the natural resources and the national interests of Bangladesh, what if the Committee accuses Matia of betraying the country and conspiring against the people?"
 
Does any one, who talk about the BDR massacre, is in deep conspiracy against the government and the country? 
 
Matia's assertion in the addirmative is tantamount to an insinuation against the entire country in that, according to her, the whole country has been conspiring against the government and the country itself (!), as there is hardly any person who does not talk about the BDR. And what about those members of the BAL, including herself? Have they all refrained from talking about the BDR? 
 
It was yesterday when Matia delivered her press statement and it was yesterday again when a BAL leader, president of the BAL ward commission of Dhaka city, Al Haj Torab Ali Akhand, who confessed his involvement in the BDR 'mutiny' before metropolitan magistrate Farhana Ferdous under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code. He also confessed that preparatory meetings for the 'mutiny' was held at his house. (Reference: 
http://newsfrombangladesh.net/view.php?hidRecord=287905, News From Bangladesh).
 
So, a little bit of introspection for Matia would be absolutely in order. The government's cover-up and hide-and-seek about the entire terrible massacre, have given rise to dozens of nerve-chilling questions for the government. The government cannot extricate itself from the responsibilities of solving the mystery. It has to correctly answer who were the members of the massacre-delegate who saw Hasina in the morning of the massacre? It has to explain the movements of Nanak, Azam, Sahara and many others during and shortly after the event. It has to explain why Hasina's programme in the BDR HQ on the day of the massacre was cancelled and by whom? It has to identify, from the photographs of the persons in operation, those who did not look like BDR at all, especially with their hair much longer than is normal for the BDR.  
 
The public also want to know how the Indian media got the massacre details long before Bangladesh media or the government. They want to know why Pronob became hyper-active in instanteneously offering money and troops, who were put on alert and a few of their airports readied for operation? The public want to know who controls the border and the CHT now? The public have many more questions, which will not be raised here in connection with Matia's accusations against the people of Bangladesh. It simply is our realisation that this government is not the last government in Bangladesh and also that if the public can topple the Ayub, yahya and Ershad governments, then they can also tople any incumbent government. Governments also get toppled by foreign conspiracies, such as Mujib and Zia governments. And as it happens, there is a tomorrow for a very long time in the future, and the one-way arrow of time does not stop at Matia's tenure of power.
 
Conclusion
 
We have now evaluated Matia's outburst against the people of Bangladesh. As general members of the public, we cannot help observing that when Matia began her political life as a student, she placed herself on the side of the people and, now, as a minister, she has elevated her position to a place, much above the people, from where she has been trying to gag the people by intimidation of repression. How many governments of the world forget a quote of Abraham Lincoln, which is: You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. And how many politicians can see that the fascists and perpetrators of genocide like Hitler-Mussolini and Bush-Blair are ultimately destined to be designated to the scrap-heap of history?
 
Writer: Zoglul Husain
E-mail: zoglul@hotmail.co.uk