I may be fooled once that Ayi Bahar Mela writes in English language, but upon a second look I realize that I was not such a fool to begin with when a sneaky suspicion told me that 'this was gobbledygook'.
Any way, I was reminded of a quote by a member of ALOCHONA, S. Turkman, who was a Pakistani before settling in the USA:
We should be forced to break out singing "hawoa me uRta jaye, mera lal dupatta mal mal ka, ho ji, ho ji....." if we have any more of Ayi Bahar Mela.
Farida Majid
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 20:40:46 -0800
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Imposing Shackles on Bangladesh and Dozens of Bangladesh's concerns
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Hasina : Normalizing the Unthinkable: Imposing Shackles on Bangladesh and Dozens of Bangladesh's concerns
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me."
Abid Bahar
"Normalizing the unthinkable," is the process whereby ugly, degrading, murderous, and unspeakable acts become routine and are accepted as "the way things are done.' There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationalizing the unthinkable.""Normalization of the unthinkable comes easily when money, status, power, and jobs are at stake."(1)
I was nauseated seeing the mutiliated bodies of our Bangladesh army officials and some of their families and even surprised seeing the mainstream dailies like the daily Star congratulating Hasina for her sucessful handling of the event. There were more surprises we see everyday in the increased number of extrajudicial killings, arrest torture or intimidation of the newsman and surprisingly there were no protest from the opposition party BNP leadership against these unthinkable acts by the Hasina government that came to power with a landslide victory in January 2007 alledgely with a helping hand from the military backed CTG government.
In addition, to the above more shocking of all is Hasina helping India imposing shackles on Bangadesh in many areas, building dams, getting transit in exchange of nothing. In this, she is swallowing one after another of the Indian bitter pills agenda with herself and her partymen's praise of the Indian government's so-called help and shamelessly celebrating her so-called success at home and abroad as if everything is normal while her countryman fuming in disgust.. AL's normalization of the unthinkable is demonstrated in giving India transit through Bangladesh without having a national referendum on this vital issue. Instead of showing concern of the effect of Thista, Farakka and now the Tipaimukh dan, the AL government ministers and the carefully controlled newsmedia praise the AL government.continue
While Hasina celebrates her successful one year term, in her tours to different national capitals with a large retenue, she does haj, prays for her countryman now without her former hijab, but demonstrating things as normal, however, big changes are taking place; the nation is slowly losing its independence in several sensitive areas such as in the army, police and the BDR. We see a crop of new pro Indian recruits loyal to Hasina taking charge in the administration and Hasina at the helm, implementing India's longstanding policies of making Bangladesh a dependent country. This reminds us the past Mujib era government when India fooled us once now Hasina is fooling us again.
It is as if like the saying "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me." But when she is normalizing the unthinkable, this time, it is shame on the nation not to react to the process. In this radical transformation, one can see the difference between Mujib eras and now is that due to the lack of media help Mujib couldn't give the appearance of the normalization of the unthinkable and he failed. Whereas now with Indian expert help in media manipulation, and Hasina's AL's spending money, status and power is normalizing and rationalizing the unthinkable and imposing shackles on Bangladesh, but once implemented will be hard to remove.
Not long ago, Hasina openly said she hates politics and she is in politics only to punish her father's killers. True, she showed her success in this in the efficient handling of the event by appointing judges in quick succession interfering in the judicial affaires. This is Hasina, the Prime Minister of Bangladesh in her second term in office.
But what concerns us is that she is dealing with the fate of the nation. "National strategy is total in concept and has potential, diplomatic, economic, commercial, cultural and military facets. Among the many anti Bangladesh issues she is following, at least a dozen could be identified as grave violation rights and about issues of national interest, some of them are as the following:
1. Repression by the Hasina government against the opposition increased substantially to the point of breaking the past record. Hasina's government continued killing and intimidating the newsman and the opposition has exceeded the BKSAL regime as if the nation's return to the Mujib's BKSAL days. It is reported, "Police and Rapid Action Battalion made 500,787 arrests around the country over the last 10 months, a report of police headquarters said Sunday."(2) Dhaka, Nov 8 (bdnews24.com) http://ca.mg2.
2. Similar to Mujib's, Hasina is also keeping her Indian Rakkhi Bahini with the new uniform. In Mujib's days Rakhi Bahini was employed to secure Mujib's rule. In Hasina's more sophisticated information Indian personnel in the Shere Bangla Nagar who are now in charge of information monitoring connected to Bangladesh defence give sector. Indian National in the BRTC now working as if Hasina's Rakkhi Bahini Faisal Rahim(Weekly Holiday) reports:
3. Defying Bangladeshi's mass opposition to the transit issue, and without any election mandate for it or without a national referendum immediately after the election winning, Hasina began the process of giving the transit to India without anything in exchange from India. It is as if like Bangladesh is for sale. But the AL machinery's handling of the event shows it as if a normal thing.
4. She even dared to bring the four principles of the 1972 constitution back despite 71.44 % Prothom Alo, 72.47% Shamokal and 1957 Jugantar readers do not support reinstating 72 Constitution removing the Fifth amendment by Ziaur Rahman's government that brought multiparty democracy. She is also taking measures to remove Ziaur Rahman's name from museums, and the Zia International airport.(4)
This shows Hasina's AL is still "encrusted by Mujib time Stalinist organizational precepts and extreme hatred to the opposition."
Her new moves include the re-establishing of the BKSAL secularism, an idea Mujib government borrowed from Indra's West Bengali Congress syndicate, which in the past was proven to be one of the reasons for Mujib government's downfall. She even dared to have an education policy changed in line with Indian anti Islamic stance of Dhormohinotha approach in Bangladesh. But in the name of secularism Dharmo nirophekota, (neutrality) she is establishing anti-Islamic foundation in Bangladesh (Dhormohinota)
5. Hasina lately took away the neutrality of the judiciary by hiring pro AL and firing neutral judges in dramatic reshuffling of the judiciary. She has also fired Golam Azam's son from the army for no reason other than his father's sins. Bangladesh observers ask if she deserve the same treatment by the nation to be condemned as a Prime Minister for her father's BKSAL dictatorship and turning the Bangladesh nation into a bottomless basket case.
6.Hasina is responsible for the Pilkhana massacre to take place even knowing well that the carnage was in progress. She seemed to be more interested in the 39-year-old 1975 massacre that was a spontaneous act against the BKSAL dictatorial government. To the observers, Pilkhans massacre was aimed at deliberately allowing the destruction of the independent –minded army.
It is unthinkable to see the heart attack death of the BDR personnel in custody, those who are apparently saying the truth behind the massacre. Questions are repeatedly asked about those mysterious BDR deaths. It appears that these deaths must be to build a strong pro-Indian army and BDR.
7. Hasina seems more interested to arrest Indian rebels who took shelter on Bangladesh soil while Chakma rebels and Bangabhumi anti Bangladesh rebels still keep their head quarters in Calcutta and New Delhi.(5)
8.Immediately after her election winning, Hasina's AL has the return of the tender grabbing gold rush or SL killing/ beating of the rival student/ professors in the university campuses. And her appointed Home Minister through nepotism getting forgiveness of crimes and presidential forgiveness to criminals. In Mujib's time while such practices led the fall of the Mujib government, in Hasina's it is seen as something normal. The emerging question to the nation is with Hasina as the Prime Minister where again Bangladesh is heading for?
9. Despite the national outcry of India's dam building projects, Hasina completely ignoring the imminent danger from the effects of the Tipaimukh dam. We must question where she is obliged to the welfare of her country and the constituency or she is accountable to others.
10. Hasina opening the border wide to Indian business and helping to weaken the local enterprises, a practice also was in force during Mujib's pro-Indian government.
11. Hasina is increasing the trade deficit with India by buying more from India.
12. For some unexplained reason she dismissed her experienced ministers and employed as if baby ministers for responsible portfolios as the ministry of foreign affaires, home affaires, industry and trade, flood control and water development that normally require experience. In these we saw AL ministers with their defence of Indian interest during Tipaimukh dam protest even seemed as if the Indian Congress syndicate chose the entire AL cabinet.
13. Hasina's government is borrowing money from ADB, IMF for big projects and making profit from local and international contracts and observers claim that Joy Wazed working as her paid advisor making millions from supposedly the grand father's Bangladesh zamindari
Why Hasina is so dared to do it while Mujib showed reluctance? Many believe that now clan is relocated in countries abroad and in Bangladesh those Sheiks that are in some kind of deputation receive royal protection to change their fate from rags to riches. This is a strange phenomenon similar to the improvised Ethiopia the respect given to Hailisalasi but the king was finally removed from power with disgrace. But unfortunate though in Bangladesh with external help' particularly from India, Mujib was re-enacted as the father of the nation.
Despite Hasina, anti-Bangladesh policies, many wonder why there was a civil war in Mujib's time and none in Hassian's. Clearly, the pro Indian media was not present in Mujib's time, now presents the unthinkable as normal. Secondly, India and its spy agency RAW is now more experienced from its past mistakes and is now firmly behind Hasina with its super connection with the super powers. With things in place like in Mujib's time, the RAW and now Hasina's DGFI monitor every movement of the Bangladesh opposition. It appears that until Bangladesh becomes a heavily India indebted country (when it will have direct repression and attack) India will keep Hasina's puppet regime with a show of democracy. Under the circumstances, Bangladesh watchers find Hasina's continued success to stay in power despite her unpopular moves for the reasons that:
Both Mujib's BKSAL and Hasina's AL based its success on propaganda and controlling the street and defying the opposition through creating terror. On the contrary the present opposition is intimidated and demoralized and even unable to face the newly released AL muscleman like Joinal Hazari and the others. Under the circumstances what the nation demands is that Hasina should be resisted for imposing shakles on Bangladesh.
Hasina Over the PrecipiceHasina using powerful media is normalizing the unthinkable and depriving the Bangladeshis of the much-sought Bangladesh dream, the theme of the liberation war. While Mujib was condemned for being a Pro-Indian and being the killer of democracy in Bangladesh, Hasina came to power by asking for forgiveness of her father's mistakes but now she is repeating the same BKSAL mistakes -betraying with the nation. It appears that much to the chagrin of Bangladeshis,
Endnotes: (1) Lisa Peattie "Normalizing the unthinkable," Bulletin of Atomic Scientists of March 1984. (2) Dhaka, Nov 8 (bdnews24.com) http://ca.mg2. (3) Faisal Rahim(Weekly Holiday) Yes, Indian Nationals in the BRTC seem Hasina's BKSAL Rakhi Bahini. (4) 71.44 % Prothom Alo, 72.47% Shamokal and 1957 Jugantar readers do not support reinstating 72 Constitution. Link: http://www.prothom- alo.com/onlinepo ll/ (5). One Prajnalankar Bhikkhu, instead of doing devotional work in the kiangs, he provides anti Bangladesh propaganda materials from India from the following address: Peace Campaign Group (PCG) (6) Sadeq Khan in his, "A softly softly approach at last?" (Holiday, January 1, 2010) says The present attorney-general of Sheikh Hasina's grand alliance government earned a dark reputation already for his habit of brow-beating the judges with veiled "people-power" threats when he is short of convincing legal arguments. Of late he chose to intervene in a most unlikely legal procedure for the state to step in.
(7)No Maritime strategy yet. Maritime strategy: Bangladesh perspective by Vice Admiral Sarwar Jahan Nizam |
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