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From: Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:12 PM
Subject: RE: Foreign interference unacceptable
To: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 7:12 PM
Subject: RE: Foreign interference unacceptable
To: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>
Looks as though the govt has defied Blake on Yunus issue. Previously, on the same issue, they defied Hillary Clinton and all the congress members, who were concerned. Muhit trashed the report of formation of any committee for compromise. According to a report, Mozammel Babu, a columnist and businessman close to the government, has recently been involved in setting up a 'loose group of about 500 people' called the "Friends of Bangladesh" (the counter of "Friends of Grameen") to try and counter the influence of international pressure relating to Yunus along with other issues. He reacted and remarked, 'This is aggression from the west in the name of Dr Yunus on a sovereign country in applying the law of the land.'
It seems that a battle line has been drawn against Obama, with Manmohan as Hasina's mentor. Or, is it just an external show while compromise has been reached? Dipu Moni says every thing is normal, but Blake's press conference does not seem to confirm her assessment.
However, this is the govt, which India-US (Bush) brought in power. The rule of this govt is a rule of thugs and a reign of terror. I wrote recently: "The present illegitimate govt was brought in power through a rigged election on 29 December 2008, with pre-determined results, under military deployment and conducted by the so-called Care Taker Government, which was a covert military govt for two years, run under emergency rules and which in turn was brought in by the vicious conspiracy of the so-called 1/11 2007 engineered by India-US (Bush) and supported by their allies, including their rubber stamp, the UN."
We are keeping an eye on the developments, arising out of Yunus' dismissal.
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:14:54 +0600
Subject: Foreign interference unacceptable
From: bdmailer@gmail.com
To:
Foreign interference unacceptable
Rashed Khan Menon, president of the left-leaning Workers Party of Bangladesh, a component of the Awami League-led ruling alliance, has rightly pointed out in the parliament that foreign countries, particularly the United States, is interfering in the internal affairs of the country. Menon was referring to the case of removal of Dr Muhammad Yunus from the post of the Grameen Bank's managing director by the government and the US administration's repeated demand that a negotiated settlement be reached between the two parties.
Menon observed that such interference was 'unacceptable.' We cannot agree with him more. While we do not accept the visible governmental efforts to malign Dr Yunus, or any person for that matter, on the basis of yet-to-be proved allegations of financial corruptions, we have no reason to accept the foreigners' continued pressures, direct or indirect, on our elected government to reach a negotiated settlement of a legally controversial issue, pending with the country's highest court. If Dr Yunus has flouted the law of the land to retain his administrative position in the bank, he should be removed from the position for the sake of the rule of law, which promises equal treatment of all citizens by the state. If Dr. Yunus is genuinely considered still indispensable for the Grameen Bank, the government is free to amend the law concerned, increasing the age-limit for the managing directors of all the banks.
However, a truly nationalist government committed not only to the political, economic and cultural interests of the people but also to the national sense of dignity can make sincere efforts to avoid foreign pressures in conducting the affairs of 'nation state.' The ruling Awami League-Jatiya Party coalition, like its BNP-Jamaat predecessor, has hardly displayed its sense of dignity in governing the state on its own. The Wikileaks report showed only the other day that the government's foreign affairs adviser had 'briefed the US administration' about the contents of the agreements signed between the prime ministers of Bangladesh and India which have never been properly disclosed to our people. Besides, the country's ruling class politicians of rival camps have long been seen, to the disgust of the ordinary millions, rushing to the foreign missions in Dhaka to complain against each other and seek their interventions in resolving local political disputes.
It is too much to expect that the country's political class voluntarily seeking foreign interference in the local affairs would now be able to resist interference with the domestic affairs by foreigners. So, who knows, the incumbents may eventually surrender to the US and its Western allies and work out a negotiation and thus make Yunus and his foreign friends have the last laugh. However, Yunus, claiming to be a big champion of nationalist causes, should not have allowed his powerful foreign friends to interfere in the country's internal affairs so nakedly. He should have rather resisted the governmental wrath against him, if there is any, with the active support of the millions of the poor that he claims to be supporting him for years now.
Meanwhile, the democratically oriented sections of our people need to organise themselves politically against the political class vulnerable to foreign pressures at any given time. Tolerating foreign interference, after all, is inconsistent with the people's spirit of the liberation war that they fought 40 years ago.
http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/editorial/12555.html
US interference unacceptable: Hanif
http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=190626&cid=2
It seems that a battle line has been drawn against Obama, with Manmohan as Hasina's mentor. Or, is it just an external show while compromise has been reached? Dipu Moni says every thing is normal, but Blake's press conference does not seem to confirm her assessment.
However, this is the govt, which India-US (Bush) brought in power. The rule of this govt is a rule of thugs and a reign of terror. I wrote recently: "The present illegitimate govt was brought in power through a rigged election on 29 December 2008, with pre-determined results, under military deployment and conducted by the so-called Care Taker Government, which was a covert military govt for two years, run under emergency rules and which in turn was brought in by the vicious conspiracy of the so-called 1/11 2007 engineered by India-US (Bush) and supported by their allies, including their rubber stamp, the UN."
We are keeping an eye on the developments, arising out of Yunus' dismissal.
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:14:54 +0600
Subject: Foreign interference unacceptable
From: bdmailer@gmail.com
To:
Foreign interference unacceptable
Rashed Khan Menon, president of the left-leaning Workers Party of Bangladesh, a component of the Awami League-led ruling alliance, has rightly pointed out in the parliament that foreign countries, particularly the United States, is interfering in the internal affairs of the country. Menon was referring to the case of removal of Dr Muhammad Yunus from the post of the Grameen Bank's managing director by the government and the US administration's repeated demand that a negotiated settlement be reached between the two parties.
Menon observed that such interference was 'unacceptable.' We cannot agree with him more. While we do not accept the visible governmental efforts to malign Dr Yunus, or any person for that matter, on the basis of yet-to-be proved allegations of financial corruptions, we have no reason to accept the foreigners' continued pressures, direct or indirect, on our elected government to reach a negotiated settlement of a legally controversial issue, pending with the country's highest court. If Dr Yunus has flouted the law of the land to retain his administrative position in the bank, he should be removed from the position for the sake of the rule of law, which promises equal treatment of all citizens by the state. If Dr. Yunus is genuinely considered still indispensable for the Grameen Bank, the government is free to amend the law concerned, increasing the age-limit for the managing directors of all the banks.
However, a truly nationalist government committed not only to the political, economic and cultural interests of the people but also to the national sense of dignity can make sincere efforts to avoid foreign pressures in conducting the affairs of 'nation state.' The ruling Awami League-Jatiya Party coalition, like its BNP-Jamaat predecessor, has hardly displayed its sense of dignity in governing the state on its own. The Wikileaks report showed only the other day that the government's foreign affairs adviser had 'briefed the US administration' about the contents of the agreements signed between the prime ministers of Bangladesh and India which have never been properly disclosed to our people. Besides, the country's ruling class politicians of rival camps have long been seen, to the disgust of the ordinary millions, rushing to the foreign missions in Dhaka to complain against each other and seek their interventions in resolving local political disputes.
It is too much to expect that the country's political class voluntarily seeking foreign interference in the local affairs would now be able to resist interference with the domestic affairs by foreigners. So, who knows, the incumbents may eventually surrender to the US and its Western allies and work out a negotiation and thus make Yunus and his foreign friends have the last laugh. However, Yunus, claiming to be a big champion of nationalist causes, should not have allowed his powerful foreign friends to interfere in the country's internal affairs so nakedly. He should have rather resisted the governmental wrath against him, if there is any, with the active support of the millions of the poor that he claims to be supporting him for years now.
Meanwhile, the democratically oriented sections of our people need to organise themselves politically against the political class vulnerable to foreign pressures at any given time. Tolerating foreign interference, after all, is inconsistent with the people's spirit of the liberation war that they fought 40 years ago.
http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/editorial/12555.html
US interference unacceptable: Hanif
http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=190626&cid=2
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