Can someone explain which political party kept any of their pledges? In fact any ONE of their pledges? We have to stop writing these academic treatises as if we are surprised or clever.
We are stupid.
Anyone who expects the nation to be advanced through the current political leaders is stupid.
We should be encouraging, pushing and demanding the wholesale rejection of the houses of Zia, Hasina, Ershad and the Jamaat crazies.
To do otherwise is an exercise in intellectual snobbery - nothing more.
Oh and of course, stupid.
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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Crucial challenges of 2011
Sent: 11 Jan 2011 10:10
Crucial challenges of 2011
The government faces a host of challenges as the new year begins -• political cohesion • price control • Bangladesh-India treaty • energy security • food security • law and order • and more. PROBE speaks to prominent analysts, political thinkers and experts on the issue
by ANWAR PARVEZ HALIM
In its election manifesto, Awami League had pledged to establish good governance, the rule of law, transparency, human rights, an end to extra-judicial killing and more. But the ground reality is that it has failed to a great extent to keep its commitments. The year 2010 saw a flurry of human rights violations. The human rights organisation Odhikar published these in detail in their annual report. Another organisation Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) reports that law and order was in a sad state throughout the year. It expresses apprehensions over the increase in individuals being picked up by persons in the name of law enforcement personnel and being killed. According to ASK, there were 133 extrajudicial killings last year alone. The government hasn't refuted these reports and so they are being taken as factual.
The deterioration of law and order, abductions and killings are not the only problems that the nation is facing. Power shortage, gas shortfall, the upward spiral of prices, all this also featured prominently in 2010. The people are quite naturally asking how this new year will prove to be. Will they continue with this baggage of problems or will they find some sort of relief? A number of prominent analysts speak to PROBE about these issues. None of them has shown much sign of hope, some saying we will remain plunged in the darkness of the previous year. They say the government may spew out rhetoric of change, but it doesn't have a magic wand to transform things overnight. Some analysts say the year 2011 will be a crucial year as the government will have to tackle a host of challenges. This will certainly not be an easy task.
Certain common challenges cropped up in the comments of the analysts.
Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com
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