Untold Facts

BAL Brutality on Mahmudur Rahman

Bangladesh has become an utterly Baksalite country under the bully that is the present government with ruthless oppression cruelly descending down on all kinds of democratic dissent, however legitimate and rightful they may be, and wildly devouring any semblance of freedom of expression, however informed and critically discriminating that may be. The situation in the country is such that it has lapsed into a filthy demonic, draconian and iron-fisted rule, worse than any military dictatorships, Stalinist Russia, contemporary Arab and African mouth-gagging regimes and Prophet Musa’s pharaonic fearful Egypt. No wonder, following the assassination of Sheikh Mujib in 1975, the late Abdul Malek Ukil of his own party remarked in London with a feeling of great relief that Bangladesh had been saved from the tyranny and repression of a Bangladeshi pharaoh. Just to give one example (not to speak of the other recent nakedly biased actions like the blind and blanket changing of the names of many national institutions, and the dropping of thousands of lawsuits against the Awamites, etc), look at the tyrannical closure of Channel 1 (One), Kazi Zesin’s fantastic and brilliant talk show Point of Order on Bangla Vision and the esteemed Daily Amar Desh. It is an extremely painful and disturbing development that a man like Mahmudur Rahman, perhaps the finest technocrat-turned-intellectual politician and journalist Bdesh has ever seen, has been under arrest for no reason and brutally tortured during the 12-day remand like Bdesh scuttling back into the dark ages of pagan beastliness in the distant European past. May the Almighty Allah save the nation and its people from the brutish suppression of the current government. May He return the benevolent and patriotic elements to power in order to be able to bring to justice those who are now perpetrating and gloating with goatish glee at the inhuman, immoral and unacceptable torture hurled on the mega-mind that is Mahmudur, a national conscience, a towering national treasure, a solid storehouse of knowledge and learning. Mahmudur’s was a dispassionate and disenchanted critical dissection with a penchant for objective and fair and balanced analysis as opposed to the biased yellow slavish servility of other mean and mediocre semi-journalists and quasi-intellectuals licking the boots of the beastly and biodegradable political elements belonging to the present government. A man of unique intellectual luster, Mahmudur is a class by himself. Those who are torturing and stripping Mahmudur do not have family and children of their own? Don’t they have any sense of shame? Don’t they have their male and female parts attached or included in their body? Don’t they have mothers and daughters? Don’t they have sons and fathers? Curse on them and their children to be the victim of the same shame, same torture one day, even more and more and more. I hope one day they who are allowing themselves to be the raw and blunt tools of Awami torture and persecution will be punished. I hope that the hands of the opposition will be strengthened soon to retaliate the Awami vindictiveness with icy and iron hand.

By: Jalal Uddin Khan