I did not find AL anywhere in your piece and I was not looking for it. I said it was a good initiative.
I don't hate AL and BNP per se. I hate the stupidity and wickednes that has consumed these two great parties which house the politics of the majority of our countrymen.
Which crimes do I attribute unfairly to AL - or BNP? Come on - tell me. Rather, you unfairly attribute too little to any party. And in doing so you withdraw your valuable voice from the majority of our citizens who suffer daily at the hands of our politicians.
Politics is everything in Bangladesh. Everything. That little which is not impacted by politics is so little that it might as well be included in 'everything'. I have been around long enough to have seen many a technical discourse - intellectually pure, bereft of any politics. And the result? Apart from the self satisfaction of the particpants - absolutely bloody zero. Because of POLITICS.
What do you think? That the issues of 1971 are not impacted by politics? From top to bottom politics will play its role. Because you, the darn private citizen, are a nobody. Unless you happen to be on the right side of the politicians on the day.
Traitors of 1971 should all be hanged. I believe it. But is that it? 30 bodies hanging from a rope? Enough? How about a 20 second soundbite on BBC World Service? Or even 3 minutes of Dipu Monu on CNN saying Bongobondhu five times? Well it would be enough for our countless political baboons. Okay - lets hope we get at least that far. But...
We don't want to know how many of our people died in 1971! We don't want to apportion any repsonsibility to Mujib for turning on the very democracy that empowered him! We don't want to hold Pakistani war criminals to account! We don't want to have an unreserved apology from Pakistan! We don't want reparations from Pakistan! Above all we don't want to change the way we are today! All because of our politics! Thanks Farida for defining the scope of justice.
And still you say that AL is too stupid to be held accountable for many things. What are you doing? That's a classic cover used by AL/BNP to reject responsibilty and accountability. And you espouse it. Real power, the only power, is vested in politicians. If they are too stupid to exercise that power properly well, they are still accountable.
This is not turning into an anti AL forum. It's turning into an anti government forum and that government happens to be formed by AL. Sure the BNP dogs are having a field day. But you don't have to deal with them - let me know directly what you think I should not be complaining about. The same was true when BNP was in government.
Lets hope the war criminals are hanged quickly.
And lets hope soon after that you will break your deafening silence and start taking to task those who hold real power.
Unless of course you are one of those closet party supporters who turns a blind eye to murder, extortion and injustice perpetrated by people in the AL(or BNP)fold because you think these are necessary evils. I hope not.
I can't be polite forever.
-- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid <farida_majid@...> wrote:
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> Where exactly did you find a mention of "Awami League" in either my plea, the statement of
> Mohahammadullah, or the Press Releae? What has your hated "Awami League" got to do with what we were
> doing all over the world in 1971 for an independent, democratic, secular Bangladesh? You attribute far too
> many crimes to Awami League which the stupid party was not capable of committing, either in 1971 or in 2010.
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> This forum has become BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL obssessed to a ridiculus extent!
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> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> From: Ezajur@...
> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:03:00 +0000
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: FW: Testimony of Sixty event: Program & PRESS RELEASE
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> This is a good initiative.
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> Lets hope that Awami League 2010 behaves differently to all governments, including Awami League 1972, and conducts an actual count of the war dead. Of course whatever Mujib says is the gospel truth for many but it may not be enough on the international stage.
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> The world, especially Pakistan, has never taken seriously our claims of 3 million dead. 3 lakh dead still constitutes a genocide.
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> I hope the mass murderers of 1971 are brought to trial. And I hope an international inquiry is set up into just how many of our people were killed directly by Pakistanis and Rajakars.
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> And I hope the actual dead is 3 laks and not 3 million - firstly because a smaller loss of life is better than a biger loss of life. And secondly because maybe, just maybe, more of us will realise that much of what we stand on is rotting garbage.
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> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid <farida_majid@> wrote:
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> > To all ALOCHONA members:
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> > Please circulate the following Press Release to the deshi Bangla and English print and electronic
> > news outlets.
> > It is important fpr us to gather sympathy and good will from deshi, protibeshi, or bideshi friends,
> > just as we did 39 years ago, NOW, as we start trial works at the International War Crimes Tribunal
> > to seek justice for the Genocide 1971.
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> > Prof. Farida Majid
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> > Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2010 12:50:18 -0700
> > From: smullah41@
> > Subject: Fw: Testimony of Sixty event: Program & PRESS RELEASE
> > To: akkuchoudhury71@; oli@; hasanferdous1971@; sarawarharun@; sarwarharun@; minhaj23@; minhaz23@; tajulimam@; razib_stv@; fahimnur@; farida_majid@; Ziauddin.Ahmed@; bangalee@; banglapatrikausa@; bzkhasru@; bzkhasru@; ibutsab@; janmobhumi@; jyotipadutta@; kamallohani1934@; khabor@yahoogroups.com; lutfunnahar777@; lutfunnahar777@; mithunahmed@; mithunahmed@; mithunny@; mithunny@; modaktabla@; Mohidur.Rahman@; muktadhara@; muktomona@yahoogroups.com; mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com; mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com; niniwahed@; nykiron@; odhomrana@; purabibasu@; purabidutta@; razib_stv@; reepia@; salekin22@; sbiswas1@; arif.ullah@; arif_ullah@; asifllh@; atiqueullah@; zahmed@; ziatoronto@; smullah41@
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> > Dear Friends,
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> > We now have finalized our program for the Testimony of Sixty event on October 21 in front of the United Nations. Permission for holding the event has been acquired by Mr. Oli Mohammad from the police precinct. It has been decided that there will be a gathering on that date at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on 47th Street between 1st and 2ndnd Avenues in New York City. It will beging at 10 A.M. and continue to 4 P.M, the peak time being 12-2 P.M. Tributes will be paid to the martyrs of 1971 Bangladesh and speakers will draw attention to the need for bringing to justice the persons responsible for the genocide and express support to Bangladesh's current government's initiatives in this regard. Posters depicting the genocide, atrocities, massacre and uprooting of millions of people in Bangladesh in 1971 committed and caused by Pakistan army and its collaborators will be displayed at the site. Such posters are available with Mr. Tanvir Rana. Flyers in English will be distributed among the passersby. One flyer will include a very brief introduction to the events of 1971 Bangladesh, followed by the full text of the 'Testimony of Sixty' statement issued on October 21, 1971 by sixty leading citizens of the world deploring and calling international community's attention to the genocide being committed in Bangladesh. Haroon and I discussed the possible idea of printing it as a trifold. If this can be done, then the first and last page of the six-page brochure can have pictures of killings and uprootings. There may be another one-sheet flyer describing the events that took place in 1971 in Bangladesh, the initiative of the current government to bring to trial those responsible for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Bangladesh in 1971 and the on-going efforts to build a permanent and fitting museum in Dhaka to commemorate the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh. Mr. Oli and Mr. Sarwar Haroon are requested to finalize and print the tri-fold and flyer. Separetely, I am issuing a press release on our October 21 New York event. As agreed before, Mr. Minhaj Ahmed is requested to circulate it among the Bangladeshi media both in America and in Bangladesh. Besides, he is being requested to forward the release to all our compatriots in the cause urging them to come, join us along with their family and friends at the October 21 event in front of the United Nations. Besides, all of us who are involved with the October 21 event in front of the United Nations are urged to contact by e-mail and phone and through various internet sites as many people and groups as possible requesting them to participate at the event.
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> > Thank you all,
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> > Syed M. Ullah
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> > The Press Release
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> > A day-long event commemorating the historic document known as the 'Testimony of Sixty', a statement issued On October 21, 1971 by sixty outstanding citizens of the world including Mother Theresa and Senator Edward Kennedy deploring and calling international attention to the genocide being committed at the time in Bangladesh by Pakistani armed forces and their cohorts will take place this year on Thursday, October 21 in front of the U.N. Headqurters in New York City (Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 47th Street off 1st Avenue).
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> > The event will commence at 10 A.M. and will wound up at 4 P.M. but the peak time will be 12-2 P.M. An elaborate program has been drawn up for the event which will include speeches, poster displays and flyer distribution, among others.
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> > The observance of the anniversary of this Testimony has acquired added significance in the light of the current initiative of the Government of Bangladesh to bring to justice persons responsible for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Bangladesh in 1971. There have been persistent denials by groups and persons responsible that any such crimes were committed and like in the past they are engaged even now in an elaborate, well organized and well funded campaign at home and abroad to sabotage and derail the trial effort. They have powerful allies within and outside the country.
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> > We urge all who believe in the cuase of truth and justice and want to see that those responsible for commiting acts of genocide, massacre, rape and other crimes against humanity in Bangladesh in 1971 should be brought to justice to come and join the this October 21 rally in front of the United Nations and make their voice heard both nationally and internationally.
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