Untold Facts

Colonel Farook’s son Tarik Rahman’s Interview

Akidul Islam from Sydney: Five of the accused in the Bangabandhu murder case have been hanged. Colonel Farook Rahman is a prominent figure among them. His eldest son Tarik Rahman resides permanently in Australia. Australia is his primary address. He came here in 95’ for higher education.

Two days after Colonel Farook was hanged (30th January) at a two hour long interview in Sydney, Sayed Tarik Rahman termed his fathers hanging a Judicial murder. He was murdered politically. This was the present regimes pre planned decision. Today people are saying that having gone through a proper judicial process the verdict has been free from bias and coercion. The execution of the verdict has resulted from a free and fair process. This is all media propaganda. Awami influenced media are projecting this image. The truth is the trial did not have any legal grounds to start with. From the start to the end the trial has been politically motivated and influenced. I have been following the legal process from 96’ onwards with utmost keenness and discipline. I have consulted with lawyers both nationally and internationally. They have assured me that if the trial is fair, free from political influence and interference, then the accused can never be convicted. The parliament with only the Awami League present, whereby the Indemnity Bill was repealed had no opposition members present. Without the presence of the opposition and only based on personal whims and vendetta of the AL, a bill cannot legally be passed in parliament.

Tarik Rahman said that before the 1996 elections Sheikh Hasina pledged to the nation that she would not intervene in or prompt the judiciary regarding her father’s murder trial. There are lot of evidence to back this up. However right after coming to power she arrested leaders of the 1975 change. Only in the name of trial and for the last 13 years under the guise of different pretexts the final blow came on the 28th midnight. Keeping the world in slumber this tragic incident came to pass.

On obtaining the permission of Tarik Rahman his entire interview was recorded on tape. In related context he said, after the hanging of my father, most of the daily newspapers of the country have tried to contact me through different media sources. Everyone wanted to take an interview of me. They wanted to know what I had to say. I have not spoken to any papers as yet. At this moment we do not want our message to be printed in a manner that is not correct. He told the reporter that, after receiving your call I spoke to some of my confidantes. Even if I do not know you personally I am aware of your writings since long. Those whom I spoke to are also aware of your writing. We thought that since you have no personal inclination towards any political ideology we can talk to you. Presently we seriously lack trustworthy coverage. We want our message to be printed in the media word for word.

Colonel Farook’s son further said, after the hanging of my father, there has been a countrywide spread of rumours. The country has become a country of rumour. Residing in Australia we are hearing all kinds of news that is very untrue. Some of this is being projected in a very pre planned manner. My father’s mercy plea petition, for example. Day before the hanging it is being said that my father made a mercy plea to the President. This is also a pre programmed rumour. This kind of rumour is being spread to tarnish the image of the Colonel Farook, leader of the 1975 change. To spoil the image of my father in the eyes of the nation by showing his appeal for mercy is a kind of pre planned game. Major Bazlul Huda’s mercy plea petition was also a similar farce. Later in front of media his sister denied any mercy petition appeal from him. The same is true in case of my father.

Tarik Rahman sadly said the dirty manner in which the rumours are spread, makes me ashamed to even think about it. About my father, they are saying that he did not take a bath or seek forgiveness before his death. These rumours have no validity. One day the truth will be told. One newspaper went to the extent of even defaming his manners while he was in Jail. How low can humans become for the media to spread such derogatory messages?

Tarik Rahman with a sense of firmness said that he has at times discussed the events of 1975 with his father, after his arrest. Whenever I went to visit him in Jail, my father discussed the 1975 political change with me. He never thought that he made a mistake or committed a crime. He was not regretful of that event. He was proud and felt accomplished. He often used to tell me that the Nation will acknowledge us as National Heroes one day – that day is not very far. The Nation will testify that we did no crime.

Tarik further said that those who do not know him will not believe how much faith and confidence my father had. Even after 13 years in prison he did not lose his determination and conviction. He always looked jubilant. Every time I went to visit him he told me that this dark period shall too pass. Always hold your head up high. Never think that we have been defeated. Or lose hope. The life struggle or revolution you are in now needs to continue on. Never stop. He has inspired me and my younger brother to be dedicated to our nation. He said Country above all else. Even if you have studied abroad, you need to return to your Country. Use your knowledge and skills in the service of your Nation. We have upheld those ideals. I always feel like returning home. I have studied Airline Business management. I hold an Australian Commercial Pilot’s Licence and regularly fly aircraft here. I want to work for our Nations Airlines.

When posing a question to the Acting Chairman of the Freedom Party, Sayed Tarik Rahman, regarding an evaluation of the revolutionary event of 75, his reply was, on consultation with my father I have learnt that killing was not part of the plan. They wanted to arrest Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Sheikh Mujib was a victim of cross fire.

On analysing the TRAGIC event of 15th August 75, Tarik said that my father has no blood in his hands. In his speech before the military operation he made it very clear that they were going to arrest Shiekh Mujib and put him on trial. He wanted not a killing spree but a political solution. Now the whole country knows that, on that day before the military my father made it clear that they did not liberate the country for an Autocratic, One Party dictatorial rule. All Political parties were being banned and BAKSAL established. All newspapers except for the four run by the AL Government were banned. The military budget was reduced and the politically motivated cadre the Rakhi Bahini budget increased. Arresting Sheikh Mujib and holding him in the racecourse or Presidential office these dastardly acts needed to be repealed. Upon that understanding the military went to Dhanmondi 32. It is historically true, that day they went and saluted Sheikh Mujib requesting him to go with them. We have come to arrest you. At that moment Sheikh Kamal started open firing. Startled, the military in defence started firing back. Sheikh Mujib died in the crossfire. An ordinary person analysing that event in all fairness can conclude that the killings that day were not a pre planned murder.

Tarik further said, in 1971 when the Pakistan Army went to that same address to arrest Sheikh Mujib he did not offer any resistance. There was no pushing or shoving. No arguments even. Sheikh Mujib believed that one day the Bengalis would rescue him from the Pakistan prison. The Pakistani Army cannot hold him in prison. Therefore when the Armed forces of his own country went to arrest him, why did he not have faith that his Nation would rescue him one day? The armed force cannot hold him hostage. As he did not have faith in his Nation, this tragic event unfolded. If he would have gone with the army that day, the history of Bangladesh may have been quite different today.

Sayed Tarik Rahman said about his father that he was a very patriotic man. In 75, the political change was under full control of my father. The Presidential office, Parliament and the armed forces were all under his influence. That is why the Chief of three armed forces went to the radio station to show acceptance of the revolutionaries, to welcome them. If he wanted he could have taken the power at that time. But he did not, instead he requested the politicians to run the country. I have heard from my father that even the Army chief requested him to take over power at that time.

Tarik further said all the previous governments have tried to keep my father out of the country, however no matter how much they enticed him with opportunities and benefits he still preferred not to stay abroad. Even after being aware that Awami League would be coming to power in the 96 elections, he did not flee the country. Although he was not physically involved in the killings that day, he did not apportion blame on others. He has taken full responsibility of 15th August on himself. If there was no 15th August, there would be no other political party other than BAKSAL. No more Newspapers other than the four. The Army would slowly be phased out also.

Sayed Tarik Rahman is one of the accused in the Barrister Fazle Noor Taposh bomb attack incident. In this regard when I wanted to know his opinion, he claimed that this government is so vengeful and holds such a vendetta against those who removed Sheikh Mujib that they are not even sparing the sons, daughters and relatives of the accused. However and whoever they can attack they are attacking. Those who they can frustrate and tire they are vilifying. This is a similar story. In a pre planned way they are trying to involve us in the Barrister Taposh bomb incident. The arrest of Colonel Rashid’s Daughter Mehnaz and displaying of such inhuman behaviour, goes against the acceptable norm of any civilised country.

Answering a question, Tarik said after the verdict was given we tried to commute the sentence in various ways with all out effort. We spoke to various humanitarian organisations. Personally I spoke to the Heads of State of several countries. I do not want to mention all the countries names. However we got some assurances from Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom that this verdict most likely cannot be carried out. There was International pressure on the Awami League Government in that regard. Due to that reason they did not wait even a day after the review petition was rejected and went about to carry out the hanging. Bangladesh and the whole world have witnessed a pre concocted murder.

Source: The Daily Amadershomoy, Tuesday, February 2nd 2010

Mujib Zia Equation?

Some intellectuals have of late in their efforts in some column have been trying to put Mujib and Zia at par as historic personalities of Bangladesh. They are free to do so. They might be generous in such evaluation, but such measurement must lead to trying to mix completely oil and water into one emulsion pitifully in nothing but only in failure, because they represented politically speaking two distinct ways for salvation of the people of Bangladesh.

There is no denying the fact that they are both now historic personalities and past political leaders of Bangladesh. They had their both achievements and failures in their life time running the country for three and half years of P.M. and President Mujib and about five years of President Zia. They had credits and condemnations somewhat in usual occurrence and naturally normal for any human being of average caliber. None of them were exceptional anything and had been products of historical accidents, follies and misadventures. The people as well had the misfortunes and some fortunes under their rule in the early 1970s of Mujib and late 1970s to early 1980s of Zia.

Both Mujib and Zia enjoyed popularity. For Zia the charisma went on through to the end but in case of Mujib the popularity stayed high only for shorter period and did not last until the end. One must look for the differences in rise and fall not only of the persons but also of their popularity.

Muib rose in height of popularity as the opposition leader upholding the cause of the people for open democracy and economic well being of East Pakistan in rhetoric somewhat like a demagogue. He had been mostly guided by high pitch of emotions, hardly been realistic. On these two accounts Zia had been realistic, pro-active and did not go on emotional rhetoric alone but by on the field action programs like canal digging for natural water reservation and use for utility needs.

In action programs, Mujib failed not only to deliver goods to the people as he had promised earlier, and so ended up in endless condemnation from one time BONGOBONDHU or friend of Bangla to BONGOSHOTRU or enemy of Bangladesh (The term Bongoshotru was rightly used by the renowned British journalist Anthony Mascarenhas as in an article published in London Sunday Times on the 17th August 1975). Zia ended up in endless love and felicitations as had been seen attendance in his funeral prayer attended by hundreds of thousand mourning people held in Dhaka on the 31st May 1981.

Mujib was the product of street politics of about two decades that hold on to democracy and yet he destroyed open democracy. Zia was raised in army discipline in no democracy but pro-actively worked for plural democracy and fairness to get root among the people in the aftermath of the dictatorial fascist left over of Mujib’s unenlightened rule, throttling freedom of expression by banning almost all newspapers except four, inhuman repression on the one hand and on the other, providing for illegal money making business of his own party men and relations, by engaging Delhi’s remote controlled JRB (Jatitya Rakhsmi Bahini) and private killer hoodlum units organized and operated by his kith and kin - son, nephew etc.

In the critical hours of the freedom movement of Bangladesh in late March 1971 Mujib vacillated, failed to make UDI that would have been worth at that moment but Zia was prompt, though questionably worth of it, decidedly turned into action and declared the UDI (Unilateral Declaration of Independence) that the present Hasina government has already ordered to eliminate from the pages of history, reading materials and all media outlets. Mujib failed to steer the nation at the international level except as the undignified lackey of the big neighbor India making the economy an appendage as supplementary and complementary to India and so turned the country into the position of ignominy, the International Basket Case. But Zia raised the productive potentials and actual productivity of the country in addition to strengthening sovereign status and self dignity of the people of Bangladesh among international communities including among all Muslim nations.

The most significant of all attainments of Zia was that the history, identity and philosophical basis of the country were pulled out of debris and put back to the right track that Mujib’s unenlightened authoritarian rule had had threatened in the octopus of anti-human caste ridden Brahmanism of the pre-historic Kautilyas and Chanakyas. Zia gave the country a newly revised Constitution that gave renewed life to the nation otherwise remained threatened by Mujib’s ignorance and lust for power being happy in the position of lackey of the anti-human Barhmanists, and perpetuating in lieu his dynastic rule.

In the real perspective of historical continuity, Mujib remained confused in ideas and actions but Zia re-charted the path and mode of the people of Bangladesh in terms of geography, values, beliefs and basic aspirations of the people in the community of all nations.

Despite on going massive propaganda now going on inside, engineered and heavily supported from across the border and the Israeli Mossad, Mujib’s image is limited to a certain group not beyond. Once a political change comes, the currently ongoing propaganda would certainly fall to low ebb. Zia is not going to be lost but to have better hold and also certain to survive naturally in the minds of the overwhelming majority people in perpetuity for his living with and up to people’s beliefs, aspirations and expectations.

Both will mark the pages of history but as distinctly different personalities, in no case as one of same stature. Mujib would be remembered as historically hated Faraoh (Abdul Malek Ukil, the Speaker during Mujib’s time Parliament and then Awami League Acting President used the term FARAOH as Mujib fell in the victorious coup of the 15th August 1975 in London in his interview there), Hitler and the despised many likes but Zia as the democratically loved person of common men. In the recent propaganda the KHUNIs of 1972-75 abused Zia as a KHUNI, but there was some retort that MUJIB was the biggest ever KHUNI as he had in credit extrajudicial killings unleashed by the unconstitutional and Indian R&AW controlled RAKHSMI BAHINI with impunity of Seraj Sikder plus nearly 40,000 plus!

Zia as a practicing Muslim committed to Islamic ideals until the last moment of life and so in all likely he attained martyrdom at death, but Mujib, an adopted son of Sheikh Lutfor Rahman from an unwed Hindu young girl of Calcutta in 1923 at about the boy’s three years old (See, Jiban Smriti, Dhaka, 2006, p.643) had all along been a non-religious person and so no chance of his being a martyr at death at all.

Zia possibly can not escape the verdict of history that though he impliedly appreciated the action program of the 15th August 1975, he had been an escapist so far as full appreciation of the heroes of the 15th August revolutionary change was concerned. His party BNP later on fully betrayed the great cause as, for example, among other omissions, did not oppose annulment of the Indemnity Act of 26 August 1975 in the Parliament in late 1996 that gave Hasina the golden scope to ultimately hang the five highly welcomed heroes on the 27-28 January (2010) night through miscarriage of justice in the worldwide condemned political trial through the Kangaroo Court.

Author: B.K Din

Plight of Muslims under terrorism

(The waging of ‘War on Terror’ on Muslims by the sole super power – the USA – have given its strategic partners - India and Israel – to kill, humiliate and dispossess the Muslim population under their control with the US public eying it with approval. Thus the USA is seen an accomplice in the murders and mayhem that goes on in Israel and India. +Usman Khalid +)

Never before was the situation for the Muslims in India so awful as today. An accused in terror attack in Mumbai 26/11 Fahim Ansari wants bail to come out and search a lawyer who can defend him. Reason: his lawyer Shahid Azmi has been shot dead by Chhota Rajan gang in the name of “patriotic killing.” His move suggests that he accepts the judicial system. Despite its shortcoming he still trusts it to exonerate him ultimately. Azmi himself had gone through the rigmaroles of the judicial system and had successfully overcome hurdles including five years in jail when he completed junior college education and graduation. He knew that the system was biased against the minority and yet he did not lose faith in the institutions of the country. They redeemed him only to be killed as he was fighting for many others like him who were incarcerated. The Sachar commission has already documented that the highest number of inmates everywhere in the country is of Muslims.

Another accused is Saquib Nachan booked for local train blast at Mulund 2003. He has petitioned the SC to investigate all the cases of terrorism since 2002. There is something terribly wrong with conduct of investigation and the judicial system. According to him the Muslim youths are languishing in prisons across the country without trial. He has spent seven years in prison and others have also gone through the same length of time and even more.

The suffering of Nachan and Ansari or the late Azmi must also be viewed as an off shoot of the global strategy of Americans in the region. The gravitational pull that India and Pakistan exercise over the Americans is reflected in local bomb blasts in India.

Of late President Obama has authorized operation Af-Pak; and Marjah in Afghanistan has been baptized in fire. The fall out of this can and does affect situation in India. Muslims as a community in India are unconnected to the war on terror either in Afghanistan or Pakistan or even in Kashmir valley. The Af-Pak strategy and the Pakistan’s strategic depth into Afghanistan primarily bring the US into the subcontinent. Every drone attack or ground advance beyond the Khayber pass means more bomb attacks in Pakistan and its spill over into India.

If Pune blast is a consequence of this it proves foreign secretary Nirupama Rao right because she had pointed out at the possibility. “We have to be constantly alert to this possibility.” However if we have not got the clues and found any lead in the matter, it would give away our weakness in the investigation of the matter. In a hurry, as it often happens, to show some breakthrough to the bosses or to affiliates in ideology, it is also possible that more people like Ansari or Nachan would be made to wear the cross like some of the accused in Malegaon blast of 2006 whose only “crime” was to carry placards depicting Laden and denouncing the unjust war of George Bush on Iraq. The entry of terrorism thanks to America has destroyed what Alexander Pope rejoiced, happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bind, content to breathe his native air in his native town.

Author: Mustafa Khan
Malegaon, Maharashtra

Hasina’s Vendetta: State Terrorism: The 15th August Spirit can save all

That the vendetta in action of the Bangladesh P.M. Hasina in the role of almost universally cursed Yazid has already hanged to death and martyred the five heroes of the August 15 1975, she has now taken on to write off anything that suits her egoist vendetta like the change of appellation of the Zia International Airport at the cost of Taka 1,400 Crore or Taka 14,000 million (The New Nation, Dhaka, 24 February, 2010) at robbing poor men’s pocket and the way crush every opposition through orchestration of state terrorism. Her strength is discernible for she has fully surrendered to the ‘Radar Control of‘ Delhi’, particularly, following her signing three treaties, undertaking two MoU’s and whatever she had in one to one give and take in her mid January visit to Delhi, everything kept secret as yet to the people of Bangladesh.

Internally Hasina has many devil instruments of terror, formal institutional and informal. She is, however, fortunate in the inheritance of the terror organizations that her rogue father had maintained and ruthlessly operated in independent Bangladesh against all his imaginary enemies and so obviously not for welfare of the people but only for self-aggrandizement toward his perpetuation in absolute power. In this sense she rightly inherits the gene of the demon, hardly of any value laden human. being.

The first of the rogues (the term rogue I have coined just as was used for Mujib by the great social worker and father of the Comilla Model Cooperatives the late Akhtar Hamid Khan), unfortunately, are our sons and daughters in schooling in colleges and universities. In pre-1971 days their forerunners had not been rogues but patriots of the first order. The syndrome changed after 1971 in independent Bangladesh as soon as the big rogue took up the administration, and his son Sheikh Kamal got to herding as rogues the college university simpleton youth students. The August 1975 change succeeded effectively to keep away those rogues out of the political scene. Unfortunately, when Hasina had been saddled to State power for follies of some of the then political actors here began reinvigorating the later edition in her first term (1996-2001) with crude ruthlessness so much so that she openly asked them to ‘kill ten for one of them killed’. I have got no ready reference at this moment of the figures they have killed, tortured, maimed. But among the 300 extra-judicially killed in 13 months as the credible NGO ADHIKAR put the figure, many of those were victims of the so-called students but in reality they were the terrorist of Hasina’s own making and sustained by her in unknown underhand dealings. These are all state terrorism, plain and simple.

On and on from January 2009 soon after she took up the position of the P.M. of Bangladesh for the second term, they resurfaced with more vigor and now little over one year after any individual or any group they consider opposed to the P.M. Tortures, beatings, killings by them in campuses with impunity are almost every day affair. The recent addition is their beating of journalists. They make illegal money in the campus by what is now known as the new students’ admission trade racket in addition to snatching tenders, making random rent seeking, etc. It is heard at times that the P.M. made some rebukes, but such rebukes, many say, were not meant for stopping their murderous action programs but for a sort of indirect patting and public show up. She maintains constant relations with them. This is after all a cell phone world and Bangladesh too.

She has other organs for perpetuating state terrorism, the Jubo League musclemen, the Shechya Sebak (Selfless volunteers) League, the party hoodlums, the Labor League activists, almost all doing illegal earnings as the student league members do. At times they fight among themselves for shares of booty and tender snatching illegal incomes. She has now made by the one year a month gone by the administration, the police, the RAB, even the judiciary ‘yes madam’ (some one was saying the other day in a close door meeting that she distastes ‘madam’ address, because, the address is used for Khaleda Zia, instead she preferred your honor, Excellency).institutions. She is not only the most powerful but most unfortunately of low IQ woman Prime Minister of Bangladesh but also the most dangerous one in the world of free nations. She cares none just as her father did before his tragic fall. Her word is law, and she is the prosecutor, the judge and the jury!

Hasina may not formally declare herself the life long ruler of the fiefdom of Bangladesh, because there are contenders like Rehana, Taposh, Joy etc. in succession, but once the 5th Amendment of the Constitution written off the way it came in front through plant judiciary, she may well be saddled as the all powerful absolute ruler of the country in the BKSAL mode her father missed formal decoration for hours only on the 15th August 1975 early morning.

The matters as such in all practical sense have put the country at ransom of state terrorism for re-establishing her father’s model of absolutism of the much hated BKSAL for perpetuating only the dynastic fiefdom. What the people and the opposition may do for saving and salvaging open democracy, rule of law, human rights and pluralism? Pondering over the overall political syndrome as we the older people had experienced with deep pain the position in early 1975, both subjective and objective vicious conditions, I see no way out except only to unite in mass movement in the right spirit of the 15th August 1975. This time it must be the people and people and no other force that the unadulterated nationalists and Imander Islamists, not the Munafiqs, take to the holy Jehad only to win for respectable survival, preserving distinct identity and entity, sovereign self-dignity and historic honor of the country.

Author: B K Din

Lessons: Indictment of AL BNP etc.

Both the Awami League (AL) and the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) have lately asked each other to have lessons. The AL chief has stated in verbatim as reported on the 19th February that by her government’s decision she has changed the name of the Zia International Airport dropping off Zia from the Appellation to teach BNP right lesson. One BNP’s senior leader, not the chief, on the other hand, on the following day urged the AL to take lessons from their own past mistakes. Both are right in their assertions. In wider perspective, however, not only the two parties but also some other as well have had lessons that they have unfortunately had forgotten, not only for their omissions, commissions, opportunism, vengeance but also in likely withering away possibly from the political scene of the people, sovereign entity and dignified identity.

The people of the land now called Bangladesh has no doubt a long past and history. But the governance through political party system is not that old but of recent development. The oldest political party is the Muslim League founded in 1906 but had rebirth in late 1970s. So had the rebirth of the Awami League from much condemned BKSAL in late 1970s, along with the Jamaat e Islami, Communist Party, etc. BNP was then in embryo and born in 1978. The Jatiya Party was born still later in early 1980s. In a brief sketch one can say with 100% certainty that all the major political parties now operating in Bangladesh had a new life and beginning in late 1970s and early 1980s. To be specific, they would not have been born or have any life in this country, had there been no historic 15th August of 1975. The victorious coup d etat of the few brilliant, heroic and patriotic sons of the soil opened avenues for the political parties to make start, re-start, function, capture and enjoy state power, and yet the beneficiary parties forgot the great event and the heroes who sacrificed even their lives in shear vengeance of political trial. Had there been no 15th August historic change, BKSAL would stay on keeping hereditary line going on possibly in order of Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal, Sheikh Moni, Sheikh Russel, etc. No Awami League would have re-birth, much less Hasina became the P.M. but was certain to end up a house wife of Wazed Mia as she was married off in her teens for the ‘father’ also wished so for her being of very low IQ (See, BBC fame Serajur Rahman, Daily Naydiganta February 2, 2010). Similarly Khaleda would have passed her house wife career of an army General, at best. Similarly, Ershad would have retired long go before forming his Jatiya party. Nizami would not have reborn so far his rise with the Jamaat was concerned.

Munafiqs - hypocrites and Nimakharams – ungratefuls are the two terms in usage in our social interactions. I wonder if the sensible people in this country would ask these Munafiqs and Nimakharams to take lessons in their escapist and opportunist dealings with the heroes of the 15th August.

Its correct to say that historically the psychic waves of people in this country is like two extremes of the cloak pendulum. The vacuum and information gap of over 35 years in the minds of the overwhelming millions of younger generation under 40-45 years age has totally obscured the realities of 1975. Thus the propaganda had totally taken over the truths and vicious realities of the 1972-75 that made the 1975 15th August change obvious and profusely welcomed not only by insiders but also by outsiders including many big powers in their immediate recognition of the post coup government.

The pity was that when those five heroes were being hanged through Kangaroo Court verdict, the execution of the great heroes were opposed by almost everywhere in the more civilized countries and by organizations of repute like the Amnesty International, the European Union, Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales, etc., the insider Munafiqs, and opportunist Nimakharams stayed very silent. They had booties to secure from the vengeful P.M. of the country and also likely from the Indian Intelligence R&AW and the Israeli secret service Mossad sources!

Its true that the 15th August spirit is not lost in execution of the five for the simple reason that the parties born and revived in the gainful fruit of the 15th August have not only been operating with ease but also continue to enjoy all fruits along with the people. What however seems very worrying that ‘Radar Control’ of Delhi on Dhaka got further boost and strengthened in the execution of the most patriotic nationalist heroes may easily cost many thing of Bangladesh’s vitality in terms of sovereignty, historic identity and distinct entity beyond redemption. The Munafiqs and the Nimakharams should have all additional lessons in the 15th August 1975 occurrence, I am sure.

Author: B K Din

India’s belated turnaround

The Indian proposal to Pakistan for open-ended talks at the level of foreign secretaries to discuss all outstanding issues is a belated admission by New Delhi that its refusal to engage in a dialogue with Pakistan more than a year after Mumbai has been hurting Indian interests more than it is harming Pakistan’s. Reflecting this recognition, Indian officials have uncharacteristically been quite civilised in their language and tone towards Pakistan recently, and especially since the proposal was made.

India has so far shown reluctance to agree to the Pakistani proposal that the old format of “composite dialogue” should be revived, but the last word has not yet been said. When the two foreign secretaries get together later this month, the major task before them will be to prepare the ground for a meeting between their prime ministers at the sidelines of the SAARC Summit in the Bhutanese capital of Thimphu on April 26 and 27. If things go according to plan, a formal resumption of bilateral dialogue will be announced at this summit.

Manmohan Singh’s willingness, if not keenness, to start the dialogue process with Pakistan was evident also at the Sharm el-Shaikh Summit last July, at which he agreed to de-link the issue of talks from that of terrorism. But Manmohan Singh was made to backtrack by the unexpectedly strong backlash which came not only from the opposition BJP but also from within his own party and the Indian foreign policy and security establishments.

More than half a year since then, the Manmohan Singh government has now launched another diplomatic initiative to resume dialogue with Pakistan. He has a difficult balancing act to perform. He has to convince Pakistan that the talks will be not only about terrorism but will cover other issues of interest to it, while assuring domestic public opinion that the focus will be on terrorism and that progress on other issues would be linked to action by Pakistan on punishing the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack.

According to Prime Minister Gilani, India has been forced to the negotiating table because of world pressure. This is a mistaken view. True, Washington has been urging Delhi to relieve pressure on Pakistan’s eastern borders to enable the Pakistani army to concentrate more on the fight against terrorists on its western borders. But Delhi’s readiness to resume talks, despite its unhappiness over what it sees as lack of action by Pakistan against terrorists who seek to target India, is founded in India’s own calculation that its wider interests and goals are better served by restarting a dialogue with Pakistan. There are several reasons for this.

First, India recognises that its “coercive diplomacy” towards Pakistan has failed. In 2004, when India last resumed talks after a terrorism-related suspension, it extracted a price: a commitment from Musharraf that he will not permit any territory under Pakistan’s control to be used to support terrorism in any manner. This time, India initially demanded a bigger price: a dismantling of the “infrastructure of terrorism.” Since then, India has been scaling down its demand. On Feb 3 Foreign Minister S M Krishna said that Pakistan’s readiness to accept Ajmal Kasab’s confessional statement as evidence to prosecute the planners of Mumbai was a constructive signal and that India “should be quite satisfied with Pakistan taking a few steps to investigate the Mumbai attacks.” This is a far cry from the demand made in 2008 by M K Narayanan, then India’s national security adviser, for “destroying” the ISI.

Second, India has been rattled by the recent US readiness to take the Taliban on board in an eventual Afghanistan settlement and by Karzai’s offer to hold talks with their top leaders. India was virtually alone in opposing the endorsement given by the London Conference to the plan to win over the Taliban. Besides, there is the emerging recognition by the international community that Pakistani concerns about Indian domination of Afghanistan are not without foundation and will have to be taken into account.

Delhi’s fear is that it would be marginalised if a peace process which eventually gives the Taliban a share of the power were to take hold. One of India’s great strategic minds has now even proposed that Manmohan Singh should invite Karzai and Zardari for a trilateral summit on Afghanistan.

Third, India is keen to enter into talks with the “moderate” faction of the APHC on the grant of autonomy to Kashmir. But since Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who heads this faction, lacks broad support within Kashmir for such a deal, he is reluctant to take the political risk of negotiating with Delhi without at least the tacit understanding of Pakistan that Musharraf was prepared to give him.

India would also like autonomy talks with “moderate” Kashmiri leaders to proceed in parallel with backchannel talks with Pakistan on a “non-territorial” settlement of Kashmir which were initiated under Musharraf. The deal he was negotiating with Manmohan Singh would have sanctified the division of Kashmir along the Line of Control in return for self-governance in different parts of the divided state. Manmohan Singh sought to revive these talks soon after Musharraf’s ouster from power. This was the “good news” Zardari promised to the nation in his first press conference after taking over the presidency.

Left to himself, Zardari would have followed in Musharraf’s footsteps. But after the Kerry-Lugar fiasco and the NRO judgement, he is not in a position to bypass the foreign ministry and the military establishment in policy-making on issues of national security. In a welcome departure from past practice, the government’s response to the Indian offer of talks has been prepared after careful deliberation involving all the institutions concerned.

The position taken by Foreign Minister Qureshi on Musharraf’s backchannel deal with Manmohan Singh on Kashmir is particularly welcome. On Feb 7 he rejected repeated claims made by his predecessor Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri that the Kashmir dispute had been close to settlement through backchannel diplomacy under the Musharraf regime. Qureshi said that if the previous government had been negotiating with India on any such proposal, it was a “secret” between some “selected individuals.” It had never been debated in the government and there was no record of it in the foreign ministry. If Qureshi’s statement means that the government has now decided to repudiate the deal that Musharraf was negotiating, it is probably the most sensible foreign policy decision that this government has taken.

Qureshi also said that though backchannel diplomacy was important, disputes between nations were always resolved through formal talks. Since this government has also named former foreign secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan as its envoy for talks with India, it owes an explanation to the nation on where it stands on the question of backchannel diplomacy. Was our emissary’s meeting with S K Lambah last November in Bangkok a “secret” between “selected individuals” like those under the Musharraf regime, or was it a part of formal talks? And if it was wrong for Musharraf to negotiate through the backchannel, why is it right for this government to do the same?

Qureshi was right, though, in cautioning that a Kashmir settlement was unlikely during the tenure of the present government. That is not a tragedy because a settlement in the present international environment would be based on the status quo, which is what the Kashmiri people have been fighting against all these years. They have suffered a lot but they can wait because time is on their side.

After a long period of militancy, the movement for azadi has now entered a new phase. It has become a deeply rooted and broad-based political movement that cannot be suppressed indefinitely through brute force. Our policy should aim at generating international pressure on India to allow this movement to operate at the political level, while promoting links between the people in the two parts of the state through increased trade and travel across the Line of Control. The rest will follow.

Author: Asif Ezdi

The writer is a former member of the Pakistan Foreign Service.
Source: The News Pakistan

Slogan of Change of Days Vs Change of Names: Hasina to Hinda, Sheik to Shekhor

From my faith and life experience I do firmly believe ‘What is allotted can’t be blotted.’ I don’t believe at all, the political leaders work learning from the writings of walls or from the teaching of history. They are directed by their own destinies. When they are fated to flourish they from their own intuitions choose the right path and, on the other hands, when ill-fated to disaster, they ignore all advices, warnings or signs of doom. The path of peril seems to them so paved, smooth and colorful.

The avarice of power make them so paranoid that those who being well-wishers try to advise or warn them, are taken as enemies. They know ‘Excess of anything is bad.’ But they think they are always doing the best being within perimeter of normalcy, they are transgressing their limit, though. It happened to every body of power and celebrity stature who were, in the ends, destined to sheer dooms. We have seen it in the early to the latest history of Pharaoh to Namrud, Shahan Shah of Iran to Saddam of Iraq and Meer Jafar to Sheik Mujib of Bangladesh.

When Sheik Hasina is damn-care about those histories or stories, I don’t wonder at all. She is not heeding to any warnings; and she is intrigued by the every move her in-built devils make for her. She is thinking her every step is superb and peerless; and she is making a new era in the history. She is over confident and vain-glorious with the belief that whole country is behind her like a solid rock.

But alas! She became blind to look back the fate and example of her own father. Can she imagine, how much popular leader his father was. Even though , now and after 1972, I was one of the harshest critiques of Sheik Mujib, I was during the time of liberation war million times ready to sacrifice my life for him and our country. But what happened within a very short span of three an half years! Those who were once ready to give their blood and lives for the leader, didn’t even shake or shiver to severe the soul of the leader from his body. Sheik Hasina can never reach to the level of Sheik Mujib. May Allah save her from such dooming destiny her father had. But I am afraid, if any thing happen to her government in such calamitous scale, we may see Mr. Khondker Abdul Hamid leading a delegate to Saudi Arabia or other middle eastern countries and won’t not feel shy to comment like “Nation is now relieved of Princess Hasina, modern time’s Hinda of the east in the same vein Malek Ukil, Sheik Mujib’s parliament speaker told in London that we are now relieved of Sheik Mujib, the Pharaoh.

Sheik Hasina is a born-deceiver . She has given hope and slogan of changing days from worse to better for the people. But what we are witnessing is, she is not doing anything in that direction. We only see her too busy with taking the revenge. She doesn’t care about her promise and getting the hearts of people, rather she became crazy to chew the Kolija of her alleged enemies. She executed the dauntless heroic freedom fighters who readied them for any sacrifice for the oppressed people of the country to undo BAKSAL [ I call it Kal Bas or Black Bamboo] and overthrow the repressive regime of Sheik Mujib. Now she is hyper-embolden after being able to hang his fathers killers. Now she is adamantine to put the once pardoned collaborators to trial and thus, root out the Jamat-Shibir, the strongest potential enemies of her evil agenda and party. By the way, there is nothing in her world shameful or immoral that she can’t do for the sake of power and self-appeasement. She didn’t once hesitate to flirt with Golam Azam and Nizami for the Shahi Kursi. Now she is hell-bent to guillotine them.

Again, she did extra-ordinary job of getting the court verdict nullifying the 5th amendment of constitution. She has been consolidating power and is in the ever best position to fulfill the dream of Sheik Mujib and perhaps,she is thinking of restituting BAKSAL [KAL-BAS] of his father dream project or Mujibbad. With this dianosorous dream in the down-town of her brain, She is trying to remove all the possible obstacle in the way. So She has been trying desperately to weaken the Zia’s nationalist force. And with that end she is resorting to all the meanest means to tarnish the image of Zia. But she may not know it or forget, everything doesn’t happen in the way one wishes for. Maybe this name changing game or scheme will not help her at all, rather it may hurt her so badly and can‘t tolerate that pain . Her all ill-wills and intents may turn to boomerang. She never does remind herself the saying ‘Man proposes and God disposes.’ She may think, that proverb is not for her because she is a woman, not a man and Allah is always on her side. Well, if God wants someone’s doom He keeps him or her in complacent or darkness. As we have known from the story of Sheik Mujib. When Sheik Mujib was warned about the possible conspiracy, he brushed off every warning telling that the Bangalees can’t kill him as he loves them more than he loves himself.

Hasina is, of course, transgressing her limit. She is trying to efface the name of Zia from everywhere. She doesn’t want to understand, it is too adventurous mission impossible. Not only in Bangladesh, Zia is in the heart of millions of Bangladeshi all over the world. She can , perhaps, delete the name of Zia everywhere in Bangladesh. But again, no wonder, what will she do if she sees roads or streets in the vicinity of Kaaba Sharif or Medina-Monowara are named after Zia or a gate of Kaaba named after Zia as Babel Zia or a street around white house is named as Zia Avenue. Then probably she will find no alternative but to suicide.

She won’t recall the proverb “ Eek Maguey Sheet Jayna“. BNP and its allies may have good time and Awami-BAKSAL may have bed time at some cyclical turn of political history. And they, maybe, again BNP become victorious overwhelmingly or with absolute majority. And they then may follow the same evil-revenging example of Hasina. They may change everything and every given name of Hasina government in more dramatic way. Like, they may change the name of her father’s birthing village with Pakistani fashion asToongisthan instead of Toongipara, TariqNagar for Gopal Ganj, Khaleda City for Farid pur, Zia City for Dhaka; And they may get daredevil in changing also the name of individuals who they dislikes like CHANDRA SHEKHOR for Sheik Mujib, HINDA for Hasina and PORAJOY for Mr. Joy.

People, especially the rulers should be humble and grateful to God because powers come from God and maybe for great testing. And certainly, Allah dislikes the transgressors. May Allah give all of us ‘taofique’ to understand His great design through us in our every step of life. Aameen.

Author: Mohammed Giashuddin

Stop Baksali State Terrorism & Smash Their Illegal Supremacy

Not only political debating, our people need their practical action against AL govt. reactionary and brutality. Bangladesh people need their freedom and liberty. People’s lives & goods are not the personal properties of ruling bourgeoisie and their govt. AL.

All governments are temporary servants of the people.

Awami-Baksali govt. is not our gods; their politics is wrong and they should leave the power. They must respect people’s will. If not then that will be their ignorance and big mistake and they should carry all responsibility for revolutionary people’s existential hostile reactions.

The AL must know violence is a force and crime against the natural balanced of laws. Any law and Rule be excepted if those are directly recommended by the people and equally good for all citizens. If, any system does not work properly for the public interest then that is not a good systems any more and it is very easy to understand. We beloved universality of HUMAN RIGHTS: no killing, no injured, no hard-punishment, no rape, no rubbed and no illegal compensation of bribery. Philosophy of anarchism brought up and explained the characters of the State, Govt. & God or gods are not existential but even though we’re not against any believers. Many contemporary anarchists are also religious and we meant that is individual matters and we have the respect.

Our main protest against illegal forces and reactionary governmental all institutions. We do not except coercive government. Illegal legislator bodies are the founders of all governments for their class interest to protect themselves; those few who never got any permission to legalized so called law & orders over the citizens. Statist bourgeoisie formed their terror state. No privileged elites have any right to terrorized over the citizens natural rights. We’re completely disappointed with Awami-Baksali behaviors.

Bangladeshi common people’s combined action must success against Awami league fascist & Nazi (ultra nationalist) Hasina govt.

We anarchists always against various forms of oppression. We support and demands at least or minimum universalisation as follows:

freedom of speech; freedom for meetings, protest March and demonstration; Life safety and security for all human lives etc . around the world must be the same.

Author: Sam.kohl

Hasina’s Zia Phobia

In a cabinet meeting on February 15, 2010, the ‘mohajote’ government led by Awami League decided that anything bearing the name of the late president Ziaur Rahman would be eliminated, be that Zia International Airport or the name Ziaur Rahman in school textbooks. The decision was said to be in compliance with the Supreme Court verdict to void the 5the amendment of the constitution. Earlier, Zia’s announcement of independence in March 1971 was nullified by another court order. Yet earlier, Zia’s murals and pictures had been destroyed or erased from public places. The people in general did not seem to approve these vindictive partisan behaviors. It was a manifestation of immaturity and politics of hatred, they remarked. One may not be surprised if the Zia Mazaar is destroyed, renamed or reassigned to someone else!

There is an old saying that British Parliament can do anything except making a man a woman and vice versa. Looks like the current mohajote parliament can do even that. If it declares Prime Minister Hasina is a man, the decision will be ram-rolled irrespective of public acceptance. It seems to the parliament, to the government as well as to the judiciary of today, logic or relevance does not matter! If it says Zia did not exist, so be it. If there was no Zia, there should be no Zia Mazaar either. Hasina had already made insinuating remarks to the effect that Zia Mazaar was a fake one; it did not contain Zia’s body. Who dares challenge one who has almost 90% ownership of the parliament and who virtually thinks ‘I am the law’! However, 70 million voters—majority of whom rejected Awami League in the last elections–will keep counting for their time to come again, nonetheless.

The Zia phobia in Sheikh Hasina and her cohorts can perhaps be explained by a few factors, within and outside.

Zia outdid Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by declaring the independence of Bangladesh on March 27, 1971. Mujib himself never disputed that historic reality, although his grudge against Zia was displayed by appointing Zia’s junior K M Safiullah as the army chief. Mujib followers, however, could never digest the fact that an unknown ‘Major Zia’ stole the show by making that announcement which they thought ought to have come from their supreme leader. Let us revisit our recent past history.

Nobody denies Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s contribution to the independence of Bangladesh. He ascended the position of an undisputed leader in East Pakistan in the late 1960s through his 6-Point program that was primarily crafted for the autonomy of East Pakistan. Never did he say a word about an independent East Pakistan or Bangladesh. Even his famous March 7, 1971 speech fell short of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI). That the March 7 speech could not be considered an UDI was borne by the fact that Sheikh Mujib went on to negotiate with the Pakistani military junta from March 15 to 24, 1971 in Dhaka favoring an unified Pakistan. In fact, it was Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani who first hinted of an independent East Pakistan as early as in 1957 and spoke it finally in December 1970.

On March 1, 1971, President Yahya Khan postponed the inaugural session of the new parliament, to be held in Dhaka in two days. The student leaders and a section of Awami League had since been pressurizing Mujib to make the UDI. Mujib refused to do any such thing, not even on March 7, despite generation of much public hype on that day. He finished his 17- minute speech with Joy Bangla and Joy Pakistan, because he still believed in an united Pakistan and wanted to form the next government in Islamabad.

It was, however, strange that being a seasoned politician, Mujib failed to visualize the game plan of the junta that was amassing military power in East Pakistan, ostensibly in preparation for a showdown. A representative from Lt Col M R Chowdhury, Major Ziaur Rahman and others in Chittagong conveyed to him on March 17 about the ominous military built up there and sought immediate advice, further hinting that Bengali elements were ready to strike before they were attacked. As always, Mujib never took military advice seriously and reportedly balked at the representative not to take any preemptive action at a time when he was engaged in ‘fruitful’ talks with the West Pakistani leaders. A visionary, strategic and timely direction at that crucial time could have saved lives of hundreds of thousand innocent Bengalis.

On March 25, President Yahya quietly left Dhaka, leaving instructions to ‘butcher’ Lt General Tikka Khan to start Operation Searchlight the same night aimed at ‘teaching the Bengalis a lesson’ or in other words, annihilating them. Yet on the same day, Mujib retorted at the inquisitive journalists that he was making progress in ‘talks’ and he had a meeting scheduled with Yahya soon (Please see Ittefaq, Observer, Dawn and many other newspapers of March 26, 27, 1971). Meanwhile, the rumor of Operation Searchlight spread outside the Dhaka cantonment and people started fleeing the city or preparing for resistance. Top political and student leaders were on the run knowing that they would be the immediate targets of the military. Many of them requested Sheikh Mujib to move to a safe location but Mujib did not care. According to a source, a few student leaders led by A S M Abdur Rob went to Mujib around 10 pm with a written declaration of independence. Sheikh Mujib was coerced to sign it. Rob can explain if it was a fact and what happened to that declaration, if any.

There were reports that Mujib talked with the US ambassador Joseph Farland in Islamabad that night. Shortly after midnight on March 25, Sheikh Mujib was taken into custody from his residence and flown to West Pakistan. His family was allowed to stay at his residence under Pakistan military protection and with a fat allowance. Young Sheikh Hasina seemed to have been enjoying the life pretty well then; she conceived Joy during that period.

It is thus not clear when and how did Sheikh Mujibur Rahman make the declaration of independence, other than what we heard of the Rob-version.

Even in the absence of any political direction, the patriotic Bengali elements of the army, Bangladesh Rifles, Police and Ansars gave gallant fights against the Pakistani murderers. Students, teachers, bureaucrats and others also organized their own fights. In such a chaotic and disjointed activities of resistance to the Pak army’s wholesale genocide, came an announcement from Chittagong Radio Station on March 27, 1971 declaring Bangladesh an independent country and asking the people to fight the occupation forces. It was Major Ziaur Rahman of 8 East Bengal Regiment. I understand the first announcement was made in his own name, later it was changed in the name of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. That was the first such announcement people heard and the message spread from mouth to mouth like wild fire, locally and internationally. Even if there was a declaration from Sheikh Mujib, nobody knew of it. Was it an offence on the part of Zia to make that announcement at that critical juncture to give a direction to the people, and more particularly to the fighting forces of Bangladesh? Perhaps, it was ‘an unpardonable offence’ in the eyes of the Awami League and its sycophants, thus Zia should be punished for his ‘audacity’. Ironically, the Supreme Court had to come to the rescue of the Awami League on this controversial issue!

It was President Ziaur Rahman who allowed Sheikh Hasina to return to Bangladesh in 1980 from her self-exile. Well tutored by her mentors during asylum in India, the first thing she worked on was to get rid of Zia, because Zia always reminded her of her father’s failures and he was too assertive to the liking of India (Please see “Amar Phansi Chai” by Matiur Rahman Rentu, onetime Hasina’s aide). Indeed the fall of Zia came soon; he was killed on May 30, 1981. According to reports, Hasina was caught near Kasba while trying to flee to India at that time. In death, Zia became much larger than life; people understood what the man he was and what a leader Bangladeshis lost!

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the most loved person in Bangladesh on January 10, 1972 when he came to independent Bangladesh after release from Pakistani custody. By the time he died on August 15, 1975, few shed tears, no Innalillah heard. To contrast, hardly anybody knew Major Ziaur Rahman before March 27, 1971, but some 3 million people gathered at his Janaza in 1981 in Dhaka.

Zia was no angel, he might have flaws and perhaps made mistakes, but his mistakes of 6 years, if any, fade before the blunders Mujib committed in 3 and half years’ from 1972 to 1975.

Thus, Zia fear in the Awami circle is understandable. However, can it erase Zia from history? In addition, what pains me to note in my limited legal comprehension that the citadel of our judiciary seems to have become part of this partisan political game.

Author: A Obaid Chowdhury
New York, USA
Source: Internet

BDR Massacre one year on: Fixing up Scapegoats for Hiding Real Culprits

The Goebbels of Bangladesh, it is known through a news published, has taken on to observe the first shameful and most painfully notorious ‘first anniversary’ of the 25-26 February 2009 massacre at the Dhaka BDR Head Quarter as “Pilkhana Killing Day”. Why? What about the inquiry reports? Where are the authentic documents about tortures, killings and rapes of the victims’ female members? Who the behind culprits and planners had been of the mayhem of unprecedented barbaric nature? Why one year gone by and people are still in almost total dark about the inside stories of the worst savagery? Why had been so far the continuing hush up? Not to hedge and hide Hasina’s own and big musclemen cadres? Not to keep off facts of involvement of commandos from across the border that had been pointed out by reliable quarters immediately after the 25-26 February (09) commando-style attack?

One year is too long a period in the backdrop of the fact that the Government first of all stated clearly to finish up the inquiry in a week. On they kept extending the time to finish it. In the mean time, the people have been kept in dark about the actual fate of the reports whatever had been done, one by the government intelligence and the other made by the army. The army one faced first hurdle as changes made in composition of the committee, it is alleged, for interference with ulterior motive from the top. Possibly, the crucial matters lie in this area.

P.M. Hasina just like her father abhors anything about and of the Army. That idea and attitude just fitted well with the big neighbor’s strategy. The rationale behind the common attitude is very simple. Bangladesh need not have any regular army. The cost for keeping the army for the poor country is unnecessary. For Hasina the regular army is not only superfluous but also that it might pose threat to her lust for emerging and continuing in dynastic absolute power. In 1975 it made the serious threat that might again be equally threatening. Her father from the same fear raised a parallel Para military force, so called Jatiya Rakhsmi Bahimni not kept under the constitutionally state control but under India’s control. In fact, India’s top level intelligence officer had planned, organized and controlled the force from Delhi’s remote button. The 1975 victorious August coup put a halt and proscribed the force, and merged that into the regular army. Since then the national army got integrated and gained strength and confidence to guard the sovereignty of the country. That turned eye sore to India.

Naturally as the worst ever lackey of India unmatched in intellectual power of the Kautilyas and Chanakyas, Hasina naturally does not feel at ease with the confident army set up of the country. Since she took up politics in early 1981 she spared no moment not condemning the patriotic armed forces. Her sole psychological wound was that the army had killed her father. He declared in open that she hated politics but to take reprisal of her father’s blood she took up politics ( See, BBC fame Serajur Rahman, Dailyt Nayadiganta, Dhaka, 24 March, 2009). She did that in the crudest way of POLITICAL TRIAL blackening the face of Bangladesh judiciary, albeit having had the most loyal and most obedient servant there, unfortunately, for the nation. She got the job done as she psychopathically crammed in the most vengeful way.

Through the power game she played since 1981, she got the triumph in 2010 January 27-28 in hanging the ‘killers’ of her father to her greatest sadistic joy. In power she had the similar sadistic joy in 2009 February killing of the 57 army officers in the BDR head quarter, it is well known, in her full knowledge so much so that the BDR chief Major General Shakil Ahmad himself in his last moments of life being shot at repeatedly phoned Hasina through mobile set in the morning at about 9:30 A.M on the 25 February to do something that Hasina then did not deny, certainly for her carelessness. Had she responded promptly with the army ready then to counter attack the rebels, many lives of the officers under armed attack could have been saved. The killings, disposing dead bodies after killing, raping officers wives, killing after raping, looting of house hold ornaments and properties - all these despicable barbarities went on for two days and two dark nights snapping off electricity - all in the full knowledge of Hasina.

She took ‘pride’ that she had managed the rebellion ‘peacefully’! At what cost? Lives of 57 army officers and 16 other civilians in letting the savagery go uninterrupted while the army chief stood in silence beside her as mere spectator while their cohorts got killed in the most cruel way and in unarmed position!. In between all the acts of savageries the killers met and bargained for immunity for the killings they did that Hasina ‘graciously’ agreed to do.

The drama went further beyond. Her Home Minister Sahara and some behind the scene actors went inside the BDR Head Quarter for assuring the killers that they would be pardoned and no reprisal would be taken. But savagery had then not been stopped but been going on inside. Again not outside Hasina’s information and knowledge.

The episode has lately been further out in the shape and kind of virulent attacks by Hasina and her close ones of late President Ziaur Rahman. The dismantling of Zia’s murals at different places, replacement of names of institutions, removal of almost all historic reading materials mentioned about Zia in school textbooks, decades old documented reference materials like Muktijudho O Rifles (Weekly Holiday, Dhaka, 20 February, 2010) and lately abandoning Zia’s name from the appellation of the International Airport of Dhaka that Hasina mentioned in a meeting on the 19th February in Bengali verbatim, BNP KE SHIKHYA DEAR JONYO - to teach BNP lessons- are only symptoms in the same megalomaniac psyche of the wrong headed crazy lady. There is a strong rumor that Zia’s Mazar at the Dhaka Sher e Bangle Nagar site would not only be defiled soon by her cadres/hired hoodlums but the grave itself as a whole with whatever contents are there would be removed. One group is saying that it would be done at dead of night through blasting high power bombs creating deep crate like a small pond there. It may not be irrelevant to recall the fact that the woman taking the best advantage of the broadness of Zia re-entered Bangladesh on the 17th May 1981 after six years of self exile in India, and in concert with her vengeance the R&AW operatives killed him in two weeks on the 30th May as the fact was later on published in Indian media itself. One must believe that the vengeance of the psychic case lady is at the worst in political history of this country.

One may ponder about that she got the courage just after she had managed through mockery of justice to hang the anti BKSAL coup leaders on the 27-28 January night.

All the vile actions as are some mentioned above including her involvement in the 2009 February BDR massacre now orchestrating to observe the first ‘anniversary’ on the 25th February 2010, it seems that with confidence Hasina is up to for she is fully, to put it in the verbatim of Indian Bengali retired General Shankar Roychoudhury, under ‘Delhi’s Radar control’.

Internally the real culprits in planning the massacre in close concert with the anti-Muslim Indian intelligence R&AW and one of the most efficient and more ruthlessly anti-Muslim Israeli secret service Mossad operatives are around and very close to Hasina for decades that she has been trying to hedge and hide not only in the hush ups of the facts to fix up scapegoats but also by making razzmatazz in the notoriously Goebbels style observance of the so called anniversary.

Soon after the BDR massacre Indian born renowned journalist Sunita Paul in a dispatch made on the 29th March (09) raised 30 pertinent questions about the massacre game. I am not certain if the inquiry teams put any effort to find answers to them. One point may be recalled here. Hasina’s son Joy dashed to Dubai Airport on the 27th February (09), that is, within hours, and there he handed over thick envelops containing cash dollars to fleeing men presumed to have actively participated in the massacre. Did anybody neutral have this point rightly sorted out to minimum satisfaction? Joy’s teacher at the university in the USA, a Jew and possibly a secret service Mossad man, co-authored ‘thesis’ with him about Madarasa educated ‘terrorists’ both in the Bangladesh army and in action in society!.

Author: BK Din