[ALOCHONA] Dhaka proposed Tipaimukh dam: ex-FM

Dhaka proposed Tipaimukh dam: ex-FM

 

Dhaka, Jan 20 (bdnews24.com)--Former foreign minister Anisul Islam Mahmood has said it was Bangladesh that proposed the controversial Tipaimukh dam in 1988 to control flooding.

Speaking at a discussion meeting on prime minister Sheikh Hasina's India visit, the Jatiya Party MP said the hydro-electric dam may not reduce Bangladesh's water availability in the downstream. Mahmood, who served for seven years as foreign and water resources ministers under General H M Ershad's nine-year rule starting in 1982, however, opposed water diversion by India in Phulertala, down the Tipaimukh point.

"It is Bangladesh which demanded the Tipaimukh dam in 1988. I take full responsibility of this statement," Mahmood told Wednesday at a discussion meeting jointly organised by the Independent newspaper and the Centre for Foreign Affairs Studies at BEL tower in Dhanmondi.

He comment backs former Indian high commissioner Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty who in September last year said that the damming of the Barak River in the northeastern India was demanded by Bangladesh. Mahmood said the Tipaimukh dam may contribute to controlling flood in downstream in Bangladesh. "Of course, we oppose the barrage in Phulertala, in Tapaimukh's down," he said. "We oppose any water diversion by India... Tipaimukh dam is a power generation project," he said.

Foreign minister Dipu Moni, chief guest at the meeting, supplemented Mahmood's comment, saying the then government at the meeting (14th) of the Joint Rivers Commission in 1978 agreed with India for carrying out a joint study on construction of a water storage in Bangladesh's upstream.

The dam was aimed at controling flood in the Sylhet region and in India. Main opposition BNP's de facto founder Major Gen Ziaur Rahman was in power in 1978.

BNP is opposing the construction of the dam since the Awami League took office on Jan 6 last year. Environmentalists both in India and Bangladesh are vehemently opposed to building the Tipaimukh dam over Barak which enters into Bangladesh as two rivers--Surma and Kushiara.

Hundreds of canals and major rivers in the greater Sylhet region are totally dependent on the Surma's water flows and the rivers and canals are lifeline for millions of people in Sylhet area. A delegation of Bangladesh parliament, at the invitation of the Indian government, on July 29 last year went to India to see the Tipaimukh construction site. The parliamentary team on their return told journalists that the dam did not exist and the Indian government had assured them of not doing anything which would hurt Bangladesh in the downstream.

Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh during Hasina's recent visit to India assured her that his country would never take any step on the proposed dam that would adversely affect Bangladesh.

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[ALOCHONA] Emailing: Front Page-Two news from New Age daily--Cutting of hands by Juba League and Grabbing hindu property by ruling party people

Dear sirs,

 

Assalamu Alaikum.Please see who cuts vein and hand yourself. They allege others as vein cutters without any court verdict or even case.

Please also see who grabs property of minorities .

 

Shah Abdul Hannan

 

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THE DAILY NEWSPAPER   Pages   Others       Juba League men cut off intra-party rival’s arm Our Correspondent . Kurigram A group of activists of the ruling party’s youth front Jubo League cut off an arm of their intra-party rival at Kathalbari in Kurigram sadar on Tuesday late night, said the police and the family of the victim.    A critically injured Uzzal, 21, was shifted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital for better treatment after he had been admitted to Kurigram Sadar Hospital.    Some Jubo League cadres called Ujjal to Kathalbari Girls High School ground at around 11.00 pm on Tuesday and beat up him mercilessly, according to his family. At one stage, the attackers hit with a sharp weapon Ujjal’s right arm which immediately got separated from the body.    The officer-in-charge of the Kurigram sadar police, Taharul Islam, admitted the incident, which, he said, might have occurred as a sequel to previous enmity among the activists of the same group.    Local sources said Ujjal was involved in cutting the ear of one of Hemal group in Kanthalbari area a year ago.    The Hemal group now engaged other activists of the party to cut off the arm of Ujjal, the sources added.    No case in connection with the incident filed and none was arrested as yet. Ruling party men in spree of grabbing minority people’s land Staff Correspondent Religious minorities in Bangladesh remain subjected to repression by the ruling quarters which appear to be in a spree of grabbing their land, leaders of a coalition of religious minorities said.    The Hindu-Buddhist Christian Unity Council recorded 150 incidents of repression on minority people in different parts of the country in six months, the organisation’s general secretary Rana Das Gupta told New Age on Wednesday.    He said least three people were killed because of repression while many houses were burnt and families were driven out from their homesteads.    The assailants carried out attacks, looted valuables and tried to drive away families to take control of the land of minority communities. The minorities account for about 15 per cent of the country’s total population.    Incidents of arson and extortion were reported from some places. Most of the land grab incidents took place in Natore, Pirojpur, Chittagong, Narsingdi, Bagerhat, Bariasl, Manikganj, Tangail, Satkhira, Pabna, Manikganj and Munshiganj, according to the organisation report.    Many of the families are under constant threats by influential people, according to complaints lodged with police stations.    ‘Politically powerful quarters are involved in most of the case of repression and there has been hardly any remedy,’ Rana said, adding that the administration did not care much about the cases if ruling quarters were involved in the incidents.    The police carry out investigation only of the cases having no direct involvement of political quarters, he said.    ‘We have been witnessing repression on minority communities for a long time. During the previous regime, it was a minority cleansing and now we see ruling party activists in a land grabbing spree,’ the organisation secretary said.    The president of the organisation, CR Dutta, also a veteran freedom fighter, said it was a fact that the minorities were repressed during the tenure of the present government.    ‘We have informed the government of the atrocities. All should understand that the people do not take such persecution easily. The people responsible for such persecution will not be spared,’ he said, reminding the government of its electoral pledge to ensure safety and security of the minority communities.    New Age correspondents from outside the capital said the activists of the ruling Awami League and its front organisations were mostly involved in such grabbing of or attempt to grab the land of the minorities.    Some of the complaints were sent to the Prime Minister’s Office seeking government’s intervention against such incidents.    The New Age correspondent in Natore said local Awami League activists were extorting money from the minority people, mostly belonging to the Hindu community.    On his failure to pay extortion money, Narayan Chandra, a resident of Natore, was forced to give his colour television set to the local goons at Lalpur. Another man, Bacchu, was forced to pay Tk.1.85 lakh he received by selling his property to a local government representative in the same upazila.    At Baraigram, ruling party activists set on the fire the house of a minority family as the family refused to withdraw a criminal case filed against the activists who chopped one of the family members, Pradip Kumar.    The correspondent in Khulna said four incidents of repression took place in the district after the Awami League-led government had assumed office in January 2009.    According to the Dumuria police, Kamalesh Mistri, a resident of the area, filed a case with the police on November 17, 2009 against 8 people alleging that his niece, Shampa Mistri, 15, had committed suicide on November 13, 2009 as some young men used to harass her on her way to and from school.    The family said most of the accused were activists of the Awami League and they had pressured the family to withdraw the case.    The investigation officer of the case, SI Golam Rasul, said he had submitted the final report on the case as the complainant was unwilling to proceed.    The homesteads of 14 Hindu families were levelled to the ground at Deuatala of Batiyaghata on November 24, 2009 by a group of musclemen, who were relatives of a local Awami League leader.    The family of Anil Maitra at Kotla of Dighalia in Khulna were attacked, the house was looted and five of the family were injured early April 15, 2010. Anil’s son Amrita Maitra reportedly protested at the harassment of a teenaged girl by a local Juba League man.    The Dighalia police said a case of robbery had been lodged in connection with the looting and attack on the family and the house.    The Khulna district and city units of Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council at a meeting in its temporary office    in Khulna on May 14, 2010, said brother of a Dumuria Awami League leader had recently set up a brickfield by encroaching on the land of a religious minority family at Dumuria.    In Bagerhat, at least three incidents of oppression on religious minorities were reported. The allegations are grabbing of 130 bighas of shrimp enclosure at Bakultala of Rampal by a local influential person in February, felling of 40 trees belonging to a Hindu family at Bandhkhali in the sadar upazila in March, and grabbing of the Arpara Bazar temple land in the sadar upazila in the second week of May 2010.    At Bamna in Barguna, schoolteacher Shyamal Chandra Karmaker said an influential quarter on May 26, 2010 had removed the boundary pillar and red flags put up on a court order demarcating his land.    In a petition filed with the Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Unity Council, a group of Hindu community people of Chitalmari in Bagerhat sought protection against repression by a group. They said more than 100 people had migrated from the vicinity after felling prey to repression by Surat Ali Sheikh and his men during the previous BNP-led alliance government. They said the same group hand changed its colour and committed atrocities on the minority people.    In Chittagong, failing to grab a piece of land of a Hindu family, a gang demanded Tk 5,000,000 from Manoj Kumar Barua in April 2010. As the land owner refused to pay the money, the gang attacked Barua’s house on Harish Dutta Lane.    A real-estate company has allegedly taken a project a piece of land of the Hindu community at Raujan. The residents of Pahartali union a year ago urged government steps against the project but there had hardly been any progress, the leaders of the community said.    In Munshiganj, a group has been out to grab 1.73 acres of land belonging to a temple used by 50 Hindu families at Dighirpar of Tongibari. A local Awami League leader has allegedly built five houses on the temple premises.    A minority community girl was abducted from her house at Sultanpur of Harirampur in Manikganj by a group of local goons in June 2006, the victim’s father said in an application filed with the home ministry.    The complainant said the goons had left the girl near a marshland after rape. The incident was reported to the local police station but the police were unwilling to extend cooperation while the accused continued to threaten the family asking not to take up the matter with court.    In June and July 2009, schoolteacher Akhil Chandra Saha in Rajshahi and businessman Suman Goala and a young man, Asish Sarker, in Jamalpur were killed by miscreants. Repression of minority people continues: CR Dutta Abdullah Juberee and Moloy Saha The president of Bangladeshi Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad, Chitta Ranjan Dutta is unhappy with the ruling Awami League’s treatment of the minority communities although it was their hard work that helped the party gain overwhelming majority in parliament.    ‘I would like to say 90 per cent of us are supporters of the Awami League as it believes in four guiding principles of the state — secularism, democracy, socialism and nationalism. Now, I think the time has come for the Awami League to realise the situation and take our issues into consideration,’ Dutta said in an interview with New Age on Monday at his DOHS residence.    Dutta lamented the continued suffering of the minority people, even during the tenure in the Awami League-led government, and demanded ‘some action’ against the oppressive acts.    ‘Lands of our people are being gabbed. Even the lands of the national temple Dhaleshwari Mandir has been occupied by giant corporate houses and multi-storey buildings are being erected there,’ he said.    ‘We have told the prime minister about it, we told [the deputy leader of the house] Sajeda [Chowdhury] and they said they would look into the matter. They are not saying anything negative, but they have to show us some action,’ he added.     [ The full text of the interview is on Page OPed ]         MAIN PAGE | TOP   EDITOR: NURUL KABIR FOUNDER EDITOR: ENAYETULLAH KHAN Copyright © New Age 2009 Mailing address Holiday Building, 30, Tejgaon Industrial Area, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh. Phone 880-2-8153034-39 Fax 880-2-8112247 Email newagebd@global-bd.net Web Designer Zahirul Islam Mamoon

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[ALOCHONA] Re: [bangla-vision] FW: ( ) FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

Jewish people flourished under the Muslim rule until 12th century and had to suffer under christians (it means not by oppressive rulers) in Vienna's street or in Poland, people used to spat at them and eventually attract an attempt of complete annihilation. than they rose silently and gradually to the apex of their achievements. today they dominate the world and irony is they are being used against Muslims. What ever the hate campaign either against Prophet Mohammad (Sallallahu Alaihiwasallam) or Islam, Islam will prevail and can not be defeated. Muslims need to rise using their intellect based on their Imaan and faith. 9/11 strengthened Islam!  Watching the destructions and annihilation of Iraqi nation or watching live on TV the indiscriminate bombings, hundreds of tons TNT that night, I thought 'finish' these nations are totally destroyed. In the morning what I am going to see, and yes, after Fajar prayer I did switch my TV on to see, after the night of Tora Bora bombing. Sun still rising over those mountains, not Binladen but Mullah Omar is at large after such a deadly campaign by their media and military power, and surprisingly even 'popy' fields are in full blossoms today.  Bagdad still in defiance without Saddam, not Kandahar but Kabul has no security and in New York, London, Torento, Sydney and Berlin Islam is more visibile then any time before. Therefore, Muslim need to rely on Allah's acts and need to use their intellect wisely and should be careful about the ploy to drag them into so called Jihad and chaos. Just think 'it is between them and Allah' and at the same time we need to put up with the best phase of Islamic values and teaching. Haque         --- On Thu, 27/5/10, A. Moussa <emfmoussa@gawab.com> wrote: From: A. Moussa <emfmoussa@gawab.com> Subject: [bangla-vision] FW: ( ) FREEDOM OF SPEECH. To: "A. Moussa" <emfmoussa@gawab.com> Date: Thursday, 27 May, 2010, 5:48 AM       From: ikhwanonline@ yahoogroups. com [mailto: ikhwanonline@ yahoogroups. com ] On Behalf Of Abo Abdollah Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 3:21 AM To: shasamir@hotmail. com Subject: ( ) FREEDOM OF SPEECH.               When you attack Black people, they call it RACISM.   When you attack Jewish people they call it ANTISEMITISM.   When you attack Women, they call it SEXISM.   When you Homosexuality, they call it INTOLERANCE.   When you attack your own country, they call it TREASON.   When you attack a Religious sect, they call it HATE SPEECH.   but   When you attack Prophet Muhammad S.A.W.W. (May Peace be upon him), they call it FREEDOM OF SPEECH!!!!!         ************ ********* ****** إذا كنت لا تقرأ إلا ما يُعجبك فقط، فإنك إذاً لن تتعلم أبداً!  المصدر:                       ************ ********* ****** لست مجبراً على إرسالها ولن تأثم على إهمالها بإذن الله      فإن شئت أرسلها فتؤجر أو أمسكها فتحرم   ************ ********* ******                لا إله إلا أنت سبحانك إني كنت من الظالمين   ************ ********* ***** سبحان الله، والحمدلله، ولا إله إلا الله و الله أكبر Shasamir@yahoo. ca للانضمام لمجموعه شباب الاسلام فضلا اضغط هنا

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Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Their bad politics, their dismal record - Syed Badrul Ahsan

The Editor is a brilliant narrator, I used to read most of his articles until I learnt he is head to toe a Mujib worshiper. I happened to talk to him over phone few times (I urged and encouraged him to write in international media, but in vain). If BNP's past blunders and mistakes disqualifies them from talking against Awami League who happen to be only opposition party in our kind of democratic system, who would speak up then. It is the writer's ploy to shut all dissents against Awami League. He represents our todays writers and intelligentsia who champions democracy, human rights and can not see any undemocratic practice and  crime committed by current government.  Country could not breed a group of writers who would only write in favour of our people. This is our biggest tragedy. Considering his writing ability, what and how he exercise it, is a complete waste.  --- On Mon, 24/5/10, ezajur <Ezajur@yahoo.com> wrote: From: ezajur <Ezajur@yahoo.com> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Their bad politics, their dismal record To: alochona@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, 24 May, 2010, 8:44 AM   The Editor condemns BNP but seems rather forgiving of AL. I would not reduce the worst events under this government to 'mistakes'! The breakdown of law and order, as sponsored by this government, empowers the BNP with each passing day. BNP is under no obligation to reform when the ruling party is under no obligation to reform either. Adn if the shoe was on the other foot there is nothing that AL would say differently - or do differently. --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote: > > Their bad politics, their dismal record > > Syed Badrul Ahsan > > > > BEGUM Khaleda Zia would like a change of government in Bangladesh. And to > make sure things happen in line with her desire, she stands ready to lead a > movement, spearheaded by her party, that will bring about the fall of the > Awami League-led grand alliance government. > > All of this sounds rather strange, for quite a few reasons. Go into that > matter of a movement first. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is not quite > the vehicle you envision as a symbol of popular uprising. We will not waste > words on this point here, but do go into the history of the party since its > formation in the late 1970s and nowhere will you find an instance of it > leading a mass upsurge in defence of democratic rights in the country. Yes, > yes! You will be sorely tempted to point to the struggle against the Ershad > autocracy in the 1980s. Do not forget, though, that had the Awami League not > been there as the leading voice of the fifteen-party alliance, not much > would have happened. > > The difficulty with the BNP is the tradition it has come wrapped in. Its > rise in the late 1970s, per courtesy of Bangladesh's first military > dictator, was made possible through bringing together an assortment of > elements whose sole objective was to keep the Awami League at bay. > > So-called leftists happy to identify themselves as pro-Peking; old Pakistan > followers, whose collaboration with the Pakistan army in 1971 disqualified > them from enjoying the fruits of Bengali liberation; and communal elements > not quite happy about Bengali nationalism banded together to form the party, > which in truth was a platform arrayed against the fundamental principles on > which the War of Liberation was waged in 1971. > > In more ways than one, the BNP was a reminder of what the Convention Muslim > League used to be in Ayub-era Pakistan -- a happy gathering of men and women > whose future was assured by association with the army. Such a happenstance > is at variance with talk of a movement. > > The bigger problem with Begum Zia and her party is somewhere else. And that > is the corruption typified by the BNP in the years between 2001 and 2006. > Let us make no mistake: the government of the BNP-Jamaat alliance is the > worst example of a political administration in the history of this country. > You only have to recall the tales of the simple men who had nothing in 2001 > but by 2006 were the owners of newspapers and television channels. > > The tales of the sons of the Begum and their associates still put us all to > collective shame. The indignities that respectable men like Muntasir Mamoon > and Saber Hossain Chowdhury were put through, the search for a scapegoat for > the August 21 explosions in the person of a naïve Joj Miah, the mass arrests > of citizens day after day, the farce of an Election Commission under Justice > Aziz, the brazen attempts to replace the Proclamation of Independence with a > fictitious account of reality into the constitution are a measure of the > sufferings we went through as citizens in the years when Begum Zia presided > over the fortunes of this country. > > And now these very people who would not let us out of the deep, dark woods > speak of their desire to topple a legally, constitutionally elected > government. You do not do that in a political condition where the nation has > chosen the men and women who will preside over the state for five years. And > you especially refrain from doing that when your own reputation is not > something to be proud of. Ah, but who listens? Begum Zia, having remained > absolutely silent for weeks and months on the matter of the war crimes > trials, now decides that speaking out on the issue is in order. > > Sheikh Hasina's government, she proclaims vociferously, is set to divide the > nation through these trials. Give your memory a little jog. Wasn't it the > military regime of the BNP's founder which sliced through Bengali national > unity in the 1970s with its ham-fisted treatment of the fundamental > principles of this people's republic? "Bangladeshi nationalism" was never an > invention of the Awami League, if you would care to remember. Secular > Bengalis did not protect the assassins of 1975 for decades on end. > > The Begum is indignant about the war crimes trials and would first like the > war criminals in the Awami League to be put in the dock. That is a bit rich > coming from one in whose party and government known collaborators of the > Pakistan occupation army have cheerily run the show. It was a shame for the > BNP to have allowed war criminals into it in the first place. It was a > scandal when it co-opted two known associates of the Pakistan occupation > army in the government it formed in October 2001. > > Begum Zia and her party have got their priorities all wrong. It is not > enough for them to hammer away at the Awami League government's putative > incompetence and corruption. They will be doing themselves and the country > much good if they go for a degree of introspection, acknowledge the blunders > they made in the years in office and inform the nation that they are ready > to reform themselves. Sheikh Hasina's government has been making mistakes, > yes. Begum Zia's party, given its dismal record in government, is not quite > qualified to pronounce judgment on it. > > Syed Badrul Ahsan is Editor, Current Affairs, The Daily Star. > Email: bahsantareq@... > > http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=138019 >

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[ALOCHONA] Jamaat Calls Public Gathering on 31 May 2010 at Paltan Maidan. [1 Attachment]

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Salam   Jamaat Calls Public Gathering demanding for uninteruptible supply of Electricity, Gas and Water and protesting of Tipaimukh Dam on 31 May 2010 at Paltan Maidan.   Pls join it

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[Nagorik_Shokti] Five Ways to Keep Online Criminals at Bay

 

Five Ways to Keep Online Criminals at Bay On Wednesday May 19, 2010, 7:45 pm EDT THE Web is a fount of information, a busy marketplace, a thriving social scene — and a den of criminal activity. Criminals have found abundant opportunities to undertake stealthy attacks on ordinary Web users that can be hard to stop, experts say. Hackers are lacing Web sites — often legitimate ones — with so-called malware, which can silently infiltrate visiting PCs to steal sensitive personal information and then turn the computers into "zombies" that can be used to spew spam and more malware onto the Internet. At one time, virus attacks were obvious to users, said Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, a training organization for computer security professionals. He explained that now, the attacks were more silent. "Now it's much, much easier infecting trusted Web sites," he said, "and getting your zombies that way." And there are myriad lures aimed at conning people into installing nefarious programs, buying fake antivirus software or turning over personal information that can be used in identity fraud. "The Web opened up a lot more opportunities for attacking" computer users and making money, said Maxim Weinstein, executive director of StopBadware, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that receives funding from Google, PayPal, Mozilla and others. Google says its automated scans of the Internet recently turned up malware on roughly 300,000 Web sites, double the number it recorded two years ago. Each site can contain many infected pages. Meanwhile, Malware doubled last year, to 240 million unique attacks, according to Symantec, a maker of security software. And that does not count the scourge of fake antivirus software and other scams. So it is more important than ever to protect yourself. Here are some basic tips for thwarting them.   Protect the Browser The most direct line of attack is the browser, said Vincent Weafer, vice president of Symantec Security Response. Online criminals can use programming flaws in browsers to get malware onto PCs in "drive-by" downloads without users ever noticing. Internet Explorer and Firefox are the most targeted browsers because they are the most popular. If you use current versions, and download security updates as they become available, you can surf safely. But there can still be exposure between when a vulnerability is discovered and an update becomes available, so you will need up-to-date security software as well to try to block any attacks that may emerge, especially if you have a Windows PC. It can help to use a more obscure browser like Chrome from Google, which also happens to be the newest browser on the market and, as such, includes some security advances that make attacks more difficult.   Get Adobe Updates Most consumers are familiar with Adobe Reader, for PDF files, and Adobe's Flash Player. In the last year, a virtual epidemic of attacks has exploited their flaws; almost half of all attacks now come hidden in PDF files, Mr. Weafer said. "No matter what browser you're using," he said, "you're using the PDF Reader, you're using the Adobe Flash Player." Part of the problem is that many computers run old, vulnerable versions. But as of April, it has become easier to get automatic updates from Adobe, if you follow certain steps. To update Reader, open the application and then select "Help" and "Check for Updates" from the menu bar. Since April, Windows users have been able to choose to get future updates automatically without additional prompts by clicking "Edit" and "Preferences," then choosing "Updater" from the list and selecting "Automatically install updates." Mac users can arrange updates using a similar procedure, though Apple requires that they enter their password each time an update is installed. Adobe said it did not make silent automatic updates available previously because many users, especially at companies, were averse to them. To get the latest version of Flash Player, visit Abobe's Web site. Any software can be vulnerable. Windows PC users can identify vulnerable or out-of-date software using Secunia PSI, a free tool that scans machines and alerts users to potential problems.   Beware Malicious Ads An increasingly popular way to get attacks onto Web sites people trust is to slip them into advertisements, usually by duping small-time ad networks. Malvertising, as this practice is known, can exploit software vulnerabilities or dispatch deceptive pop-up messages. A particularly popular swindle involves an alert that a virus was found on the computer, followed by urgent messages to buy software to remove it. Of course, there is no virus and the security software, known as scareware, is fake. It is a ploy to get credit card numbers and $40 or $50. Scareware accounts for half of all malware delivered in ads, up fivefold from a year ago, Google said. Closing the pop-up or killing the browser will usually end the episode. But if you encounter this scam, check your PC with trusted security software or Microsoft's free Malicious Software Removal Tool. If you have picked up something nasty, you are in good company; Microsoft cleaned scareware from 7.8 million PCs in the second half of 2009, up 47 percent from the 5.3 million in the first half, the company said. Another tool that can defend against malvertising, among other Web threats, is K9 Web Protection, free from Blue Coat Systems. Though it is marketed as parental-control software, K9 can be configured to look only for security threats like malware, spyware and phishing attacks — and to bark each time it stops one.   Poisoned Search Results Online criminals are also trying to manipulate search engines into placing malicious sites toward the top of results pages for popular keywords. According to a recent Google study, 60 percent of malicious sites that embed hot keywords try to distribute scareware to the computers of visitors. Google and search engines like Microsoft's Bing are working to detect malicious sites and remove them from their indexes. Free tools like McAfee's SiteAdvisor and the Firefox add-on Web of Trust can also help — warning about potentially dangerous links.   Antisocial Media Attackers also use e-mail, instant messaging, blog comments and social networks like Facebook and Twitter to induce people to visit their sites. It's best to accept "friend" requests only from people you know, and to guard your passwords. Phishers are trying to filch login information so they can infiltrate accounts, impersonate you to try to scam others out of money and gather personal information about you and your friends. Also beware the Koobface worm, variants of which have been taking aim at users of Facebook and other social sites for more than a year. It typically promises a video of some kind and asks you to download a fake multimedia-player codec to view the video. If you do so, your PC is infected with malware that turns it into a zombie (making it part of a botnet, or group of computers, that can spew spam and malware across the Internet). But most important, you need to keep your wits about you. Criminals are using increasingly sophisticated ploys, and your best defense on the Web may be a healthy level of suspicion.   http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Five-Ways-to-Keep-Online-nytimes-705997581.html?x=0&.v=1

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[ALOCHONA] Re: Khaleda_ Delwar Must change their vindictive attitude

Dear Alochok Mahathir

We think the whole world lives in the same political gutter that we live in. We have no concept of time. We think we will never die and that our land will be the last one to fall on Judgement Day. This is why we do not understand the importance of time. And so educated Bangladeshis are quite happy to say that our condition is the best we can possibly expect, that our condition is both normal and natural - and that we can afford to wait for another several decades before we reach a half decent condition. So it is that democratic reform, intellectual enlightenment, civil rights and the enfranchisement of the citizen can just wait. And wait. And wait.

Until the royal families feel like behaving differently.

Look. You can't use 'typical narrative' with me - it just won't work. I suggest you are hypocritcial in your complaints about the CTG. You think (and you are not alone) that there was no alternative in 1975 but to kill Mujib. You think there was no alternative but for the military rule of Zia. You think that it there was no alternative but for the opposition to AL to unite under a general. What is so democratic about such thoughts? Similarly there were many who thought there was no alternative on 1/10 but to go ahead with the CTG's agenda on 1/11.

And what do you mean by 'until a better leader comes along'? Better leaders are not allowed by either Hasina or Khaleda, AL or BNP. You want to wait - well, I think you only want to wait till Tareq comes along. He will slip into position - just because he is the son - and you will say lets keep him until a better leader comes along. And then his daughter may come and you will say the same thing. 

But it is clever people like you who lobby most for status quo politics - not the poor, not the disenfranchised, not the suffering people.    

You know the lesson of 25/2? It is that anything is possible in Bangladesh and the worst is yet to come. That's the lesson. And nothing has changed for the better since that date. Except more power station documents have been signed and power diverted to farming. Big bloody deal.  

You and I live in a bosthi. We act like pig ignorant imbeciles. Even well intentioned foreigners may shoot some of us to help us. Anyone can interfere in Bangladesh - the Bangladesh of Hasina and Khaleda.

You talk about waiting till someone better comes along but inside BNP you won't lobby for change, argue for change, name your proposed leader, start a movement, protest criminality, condemn ignorance or demand change and accountability. But you are a democrat?!

BNP: Mahmudur Rahman should be given full power to reform the party. But you don't want him. You want goru Hanan, foga Delwar and Prince Tareq. That's your future?     

Its okay. More violence will come won't it? Lets see who is the last man standing. You really think somewhere someone isn't planning another shorter, more violent version of 1/11? Why? Because everyone amongst 150 million poeple is willing to wait a few more decades before cadres of a ruling party stop rape and murder? 

Ezajur Rahman

Kuwait

 

 

 

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Mahathir of BD <wouldbemahathirofbd@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Ezajur ,
>  
> I do agree  that we  need to change  our leaders . But  I am very  strongly against changing the leaders  in any reactive  way  like  that  of Moeen, Fakhruddin gong .
>  
> Untill and unless  better leader than khaleda  hasina comes  out we have to  try our best to  change them gradually.
>  
>  If any better leader than them comes, he/she will be  able to  replace them with his/her leadership  quality  in pro-active way.
>  
> Better leaders wouldn't need  reactive way like that Moeen gong  or better leader wouldn't try to form party under the umbrella of emergency  like manager(not leader ) Dr. Yunus.
>
>  
>  May Allah send us a leader like Mahathir soon for Bangladesh.
>
> The test of patriotism is not a one-off event for anyone, let alone the political quarters, that once passed is passed for ever. It is rather a perpetual process, especially for the ruling political quarters that have to pass it every moment- Nurul Kabir , Editor , The NewAge
>
> --- On Mon, 24/5/10, ezajur Ezajur@... wrote:
>
>
> From: ezajur Ezajur@...
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Khaleda_ Delwar Must change their vindictive attitude
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Received: Monday, 24 May, 2010, 5:10 AM
>
>
>  
>
>
>
> Dear Alochok Mahathir
>
> You are condoning and perpetuating the status quo by appealing to the good nature of our political royalty. Our nation is controlled by who controls the murder and mayhem on our streets - not who can frame an argument politely on Facebook.
>
> The very existence of Hasina and Khaleda in Sylhet depends on the relative strength of their armed cadres in Sylhet. So appealing to either of them in a newpaper or online is a complete waste of time.
>
> Who are you and what is your message when she can call 10,000 people to a meeting and have them applaud anything she says - because her party gave them cheap saris and lungis to attend or because the people are so easily fooled!
>
> If you cannont actually change your leader then you can never change your leader's mind. Because your leader doesn't need to worry about what you think.
>
> If you can actually change your leader then you can change your leader's mind. Because your leader does need to worry about what you think.
>
> Either you come from a stupid country with a stupid people who can't change their two nethris or their destiny. Or you come from a great country and a great people who just need to get organised to change their two nethris and their destiny.
>
> Your call.
>
> Ezajur Rahman
> Kuwait
>
>
> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Mahathir of BD wouldbemahathirofbd@ wrote:
> >
> > Dear Alochok Ezajur,
> >  
> > As long as we don't have  better leaders  to replace our present leaders  in proactive way , we have to try to change the attitude and  behaviour of our present leaders. In this  digital age, we can easily  reach  our leaders  or their close associates.
> >  
> > For example in facebook, you can easily say BNP " we  don't want to listen any more lecture untill and unless  you take any measures against the armed cadres of Sylhet"
> >  
> >  I think asking questions  and saying something to the leaders (Whatever way  one can do that) can  make them change their attitude.
> >
> >
> > The test of patriotism is not a one-off event for anyone, let alone the political quarters, that once passed is passed for ever. It is rather a perpetual process, especially for the ruling political quarters that have to pass it every moment- Nurul Kabir , Editor , The NewAge
> >
> > --- On Tue, 11/5/10, ezajur Ezajur@ wrote:
> >
> >
> > From: ezajur Ezajur@
> > Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Khaleda_ Delwar Must change their vindictive attitude
> > To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> > Received: Tuesday, 11 May, 2010, 4:37 AM
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >
> >
> > Dear Alochok Mahathir
> >
> > We have often fought in the past and it is likely we will fight in the future.
> >
> > But this is because I see a disconnect between your past statements and your statement below:
> >
> > "Untill and unless we educated citizens of the country focus on how we can change attitude and behaviour of our leaders, we can not make country progress at a satisfactory pace."
> >
> > Perhaps I was wrong in the past. But I am wholeheartedly committed to your statement above. It is encouraging indeed.
> >
> > The question then is do we want our leaders to change or do we want to change our leaders? If we can't change our leaders why would we expect our leaders to change?
> >
> > Democracy means being able to change your leaders. We can't do that. Because we don't really have a proper democracy.
> >
> > Thank you for a wonderful email which is a fine example of hope and inevitable change.
> >
> > Warm regards
> >
> > Ezajur Rahman
> > Kuwait
> >
> > --- In alochona@yahoogroup s.com, Mahathir of BD <wouldbemahathirofb d@...> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Khaleda-Delwar must change their vindictive attitude. They shouldn't say like that they would make BAL leaders to run in the corridor of court by suing them and winter of Mag would also come for BAL leaders. Firstly, because we want get rid of the vicious cycle of vindictive politics. Secondly, such statement will increase BAL's atrocity. They will think whatever happens later, they will see. Now they will try to torture BNP and it’s supporters to such a level that BNP does not have the ability to take revenge.
> > >
> > > Thirdly, such open comments will encourage BNP workers and supporters to be vindictive when they will come to power next election. They will take law at their hand, this will badly damage the image of newly formed govt and anti BNP media like Prothom-alo, will high light it very badly though Alo didn’t mention the political identity of rapist who raped mother and daughter on the previous night of Vola-3 by election as they were workers and leaders of BAL.
> > >
> > > BNP leadership must increase the margin of differences in their comments, conviction, attitude and behaviour against BAL leadership so that even critique of BNP can find difference between BAL and BNP.
> > >
> > > BNP leadership must not compete with BAL leadership to be worse. They should focus to be better to increase the differences.
> > >
> > > Actually BNP should form a watchdog group with the pro-BNP intellectuals that will observe every word BNP leaders utter. For example, BNP leaders should not use the ambigous world like "selling of the country". rather they should use very specific world such as "sacrificying the interest of the country" so that BAL propaganda mechine can not interpret it differently and raise question about it . BNP can use council of advisers to Khaleda zia for forming such group.
> > >
> > > Untill and unless we change the attitude and behaviour of our leaders who should lead to change the attitude and bahevious of grassroot level workers and supporters, Bangladesh can not make satisfactory progress. Unless and untill attitude and behaviour of party workers and supporters change, violence and tender snatching , torture on women will not be reduced by administrative measures. The sooner our leaders understand that, the beterr is it for our Country and nation.
> > >
> > > Untill and unless we educated citizens of the country focus on how we can change attitude and behaviour of our leaders, we can not make country progress at a satisfactory pace.
> > >
> > >
> > > The test of patriotism is not a one-off event for anyone, let alone the political quarters, that once passed is passed for ever. It is rather a perpetual process, especially for the ruling political quarters that have to pass it every moment- Nurul Kabir , Editor , The NewAge
> > >
> >
>

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[ALOCHONA] No 'crossfire' halt despite promise: AI

No 'crossfire' halt despite promise: AI

 

Syed Nahas Pasha

Dhaka, May 27 (bdnews24.com) – Amnesty International has come down hard on the incumbent government for not stopping extrajudicial killings as it pledged. In its annual report, the UK-based human rights watchdog also criticised human rights violations in the trials of BDR members and violence against women.

The organisation launched Amnesty International Report 2010: State of the World's Human Rights, on Thursday and the 430-page report has dealt with major abuses that happened in 2009 in 159 countries.

In its assessment on Bangladesh, it was stated that prime minister Sheikh Hasina after assuming power had pledged that the government would end extrajudicial executions. Police and RAB were implicated in the alleged extra-judicial executions of up to 70 criminal suspects in the first nine months of 2009. Police authorities usually characterised suspected extrajudicial executions as deaths from "crossfire" or after a "shoot-out".

Referring to a "crossfire" event, the report said family members of Mohsin Sheikh and Mohammad Ali Jinnah, two pro-government student leaders, alleged that RAB shot the two men dead. "The RAB claimed that the men disregarded a warning to stop at a checkpoint. It said that in the "gunfight" that followed, the men were shot dead. An autopsy of the bodies showed that none of the bullets fired by RAB officers had gone astray, which suggested that this was a planned killing and not a "gunfight"." Police launched criminal investigations against 10 RAB personnel, but no one was brought to justice yet.

The report alleged that BDR personnel are suffering human rights violations, including torture and unfair trials for their alleged involvement in the 2009 mutiny that saw deaths of over 70 people, including 57 army officers deputed to the paramilitary force. Thousands of BDR personnel were subsequently confined to barracks and denied all outside contact.

It said over 3,000 BDR members were detained after the mutiny. Among them, at least 48 BDR personnel died in custody. There were allegations that torture may have been the cause or a contributing factor in some of these deaths. It was not clear what resources, particularly in terms of additional training for judges, were available to courts to provide fair trials to such an unprecedented number of defendants, the AI said.

Amnesty International Bangladesh researcher Abbas Faiz told bdnews24.com that they are keeping an eye on the trial process of the people accused of human rights abuses during the 1971 independence war. Amnesty said it is still doubtful about the process. "We welcome the government initiative. But we oppose any trials in unfair manner," Faiz told bdnews24.com

He said they are disappointed that Bangladesh have not set up any investigating agency. Abbas said any trial have to be fair, transparent and impartial. "We are looking at it very carefully. We are urging the authorities to ensure that these trial conforms to international fair trial standard."

The report alleged that police continued to use unnecessary and excessive force against protesters. It referred to the police attack on a peaceful demonstration organised by the National Committee on Protection of Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports that left at least 20 people, including chief prof Anu Mohammad, injured.

Amnesty said Bangladeshi newspapers reported that at least 21 cases where a husband had killed his wife because her family could not afford to give him dowry money. Police sources said they had received at least 3,413 complaints of beating and other abuse of women over dowry disputes between January and October.

In many of the known cases, prosecution led to conviction, but the authorities failed to develop, fund and implement an action programme to actively prevent violence against women. Women's rights groups said many cases of violence against women, such as the alleged rape of sex workers in police custody, were not reported for fear of reprisal and lack of protection.

The report said some 64 people were sentenced to death over the last three years. It also criticised the death penalty given to three killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The report stated that power politics across the world is jeopardizing the establishment of fair justice.

In its annual assessment of human rights worldwide, Amnesty said a global justice gap is being made worse by power politics despite a landmark year for international justice. Powerful governments are blocking advances in international justice by standing above the law on human rights, shielding allies from criticism and acting only when politically convenient, the Berlin-based agency said.

"Repression and injustice are flourishing in the global justice gap, condemning millions of people to abuse, oppression and poverty," said Claudio Cordone, interim secretary general of Amnesty International. "Governments must ensure that no one is above the law, and that everyone has access to justice for all human rights violations. Until governments stop subordinating justice to political self-interest, freedom from fear and freedom from want will remain elusive for most of humanity."

Amnesty International called on all governments to ensure accountability for their own actions, fully sign up to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and ensure that crimes under international law can be prosecuted anywhere in the world. It said that states claiming global leadership, including the G20, have a particular responsibility to set an example.

The UN Human Rights Council's paralysis over Sri Lanka, despite serious abuses including possible war crimes carried out by both government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, also stood as a testament to the international community's failure to act when needed.

Meanwhile, the recommendations of the Human Rights Council's Goldstone report calling for accountability for the conflict in Gaza still need to be heeded by Israel and Hamas. Worldwide, the justice gap sustained a pernicious web of repression. Amnesty International's research records torture or other ill-treatment in at least 111 countries, unfair trials in at least 55 countries, restrictions on free speech in at least 96 countries and prisoners of conscience imprisoned in at least 48 countries.

Human rights organisations and human rights defenders came under attack in many countries, with governments preventing their work or failing to protect them. In the Middle East and North Africa, there were patterns of governmental intolerance of criticism in Saudi Arabia, Syria and Tunisia, and mounting repression in Iran.

In Asia, the Chinese government increased pressure on challenges to its authority, detaining and harassing human rights defenders, while thousands fled severe repression and economic hardship in North Korea and Myanmar. Space for independent voices and civil society shrank in parts of Europe and Central Asia, and there were unfair restrictions on freedom of expression in Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Uzbekistan.

The Americas were plagued by hundreds of unlawful killings by security forces, including in Brazil, Jamaica, Colombia and Mexico, while impunity for US violations related to counter-terrorism persisted. Governments in Africa such as Guinea and Madagascar met dissent with excessive use of force and unlawful killings, while Ethiopia and Uganda among others repressed criticism.

Callous disregard for civilians marked conflicts. Armed groups and government forces breached international law in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka and Yemen. In the conflict in Gaza and southern Israel, Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups unlawfully killed and injured civilians.

Thousands of civilians suffered abuses in escalating violence by the Taleban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, or bore the brunt of the conflicts in Iraq and Somalia. Women and girls suffered rape and other violence carried out by government forces and armed groups in most conflicts.

Globally, with millions of people pushed into poverty by the food, energy and financial crises, events showed the urgent need to tackle the abuses that affect poverty. "Governments should be held accountable for the human rights abuses that drive and deepen poverty. The UN review meeting on the Millennium Development Goals in New York, USA, this September is an opportunity for world leaders to move from promises to legally enforceable commitments," said Claudio Cordone.

Women, especially the poor, bore the brunt of the failure to deliver on these goals. Pregnancy-related complications claimed the lives of an estimated 350,000 women, with maternal mortality often directly caused by gender discrimination, violations of sexual and reproductive rights, and denial of access to health care.

"Governments must promote women's equality and address discrimination against women if they are going to make progress on the Millennium Development Goals, " said Claudio Cordone, interim Secretary General of Amnesty International.

Amnesty International also called on G20 states that have failed to fully sign up to the International Criminal Court – USA, China, Russia, Turkey, India, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia – to do so. The international review meeting on the court, beginning in Kampala, Uganda on 31 May, is a chance for governments to show their commitment to the court.

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