Thoughtful and reflective. Good enough for an editorial in the Daily Star. But of no relevance to the solutions of our problems. I am the devil's advocate and I am here to challenge you:
You are, perhaps unwittingly, part of the problem and not part of the solution. Perhaps I am too. But my party and my people are not in power - yours are.
How easily the term BNP cadre flows from your lips! How unsurprising that you did not mention the term AL cadre! Well, it is physically impossible for you to mention the term. And so you twist that way and this way.
How effortlessy you paint, oh so delicately, a horrible crime into an unfortunate case of natural justice!
How wonderfully you avoid any accountability on the part of the police, the local AL, the local MP, the Minister, the AL GS and the Party Leader!
How you deliberately avoid what possible deals were made in the run up to this event! That the murderers were given the green light even before the election. That the murderers committed the crime in broad daylight because they expected no comeback from the AL or the law.
How you fail to acknowledge that the PM had to get involved only because of the public outrage! That she had to get involved because nobody in the party would take any action against the murderers!
How nicely you sidestep the issue that this is not about the course of tragic events and the exercise of natural justice. If the same had happened to my father I may well have behaved like the murderer here. But that is not the issue - even though you try to make it seem like that. The issue is the relationship of the murder with the law and with the politics of the country.
Too bad you are not a senior leader of the AL eh? Which of your leaders reflects your thoughtfulness?
When people like you start holding the party you support accountable for what happens in the country when it is in power - we will finally start making progress. You just don't understand that the essence of democracy is accountability and that if you, the AL supporter, held AL accountable then the performance of AL would improve and many people would sign up to AL.
So carry on. Don't blame AL for anything. Blame everyone else. And watch as AL digs its own grave.
It's so unreasonable to expect you to hold the party leader accountable for the lack of reform within the party and the crimes committed by its cadres. Maybe it's a medical condition? ;
Ezajur Rahman
--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Shamim Chowdhury <veirsmill@...> wrote:
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> I condemn this and all killing and pray to almighty Allah for the departed soul, hope the perpetrators will be brought to justice and maximum punishment will be given and peace will find a footing in this valley of death.
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> One must jog their memory to go back to the beginning of this sad episode of continued political killing which in time turned once peaceful rural community of Baroiagram of Natore into a death valley. It all started in the year 1980 when the then Member of Parliament from Baroiagram -Gurudashpur and district Awami League General Secretary Rafique Shorkar was hacked to death, hence starting a series of violent killing changing the socio-political turf of Baroiagram forever.
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> Ruhul Qudus Talukdar Dulu the notorious state minister of last BNP-Jamaat government from Natore initiated a violent campaign to annihilate Awami League and their supporter’s right after coming to power. Natore become a thorny point of Bangladesh’s violent politics. Thousands of Awami League workers and leaders as well as a vast number of minorities flee away form Baroiagram after their houses were burn down to ashes, business been looted and temple put to ruin..
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> Ruhul Qudus Talukdar Dulu’s name will come up with anything awful happening in this locality and earned him the title of godfather. Tragic death of Sanaullah Noor Babu also happened in a rally welcoming Ruhul Qudus Talukdar Dulu to Baroiagram.
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> Startlingly this heartbreaking incident happened exactly where another heartrending incident took place on 29th March of 2002. Dr. Ainal Haque the then President of Baroiagram unit Awami League and Chairman of Baroiagram union was picked up from his chamber by a group of armed BNP cadres lead by now deceased Sanaullah Noor Babu and taken to powerful local BNP leader Principal Akaram’s house. Dr. Ainal Haque was roped behind a motorcycle and dragged to Bonpara bazaar where he was killed brutally by chopping his body with machete. Forty houses in Banpara-Mohisbhanga-Kalikapoor belonging to Awami League supporters was burn down the very next day of Dr. Ainal death lead by Sanaullah Noor Babu.
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> As I have mentioned earlier, violence brings violence and bloodshed brings more bloodshed, hostility brings vengeance. Jakir Hossain, suspected murderer of deceased BNP leader Sanaullah Noor Babu is none but the son of deceased Awami League leader Dr. Ainal Haque who was brutally chopped to death after being paraded in Bonpara bazaar led by Sanaullah Noor Babu.
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> Revenge of one death will bring another revenge, settling of scores will bring more death. Natore needs a closure of this turbulence. In last eight years many lives has gone untimely in Banpara-Mohisbhanga-Kalikapoor, we hope Sanaullah Noor Babu’s death will be the last one in this death rally and peace will return.
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