Untold Facts

Hasina’s Subservience went up to sky limit

Hasina, a confirmed stooge and poodle of Delhi, of late has offered Bangladesh’s airport system to Delhi’s control. Their specially trained armed forces shall onward make surveillance and hold control of Bangladesh’s, particularly, the capital’s only international airport. That was what the news published in widely circulated national dailies on the 18th May. The reason advanced was that Delhi wants to be certain that there would be no attack on their transport planes in the airport! Whether the surveillance will consist of only Indian army personnel or more than that of even special supra power air cover electronic gadget fitted in the upper space of Dhaka sky as the name hinted at or by any powerful electronic equipment fitted in top secrecy by the Indian Air Force is not clear.

It’s curious to learn about the arrangement agreed by Hasina in the topmost secrecy. First, that she has thus conceded that our own security provisions are not capable enough to guard the Indian planes. How could then we have no peacetime record of any failure in the last four decades? Could such argument be at all tenable when all others are fully satisfied with our arrangements? Not at all unless there must have some hidden ulterior motive and reason for them, not for self dignity of Bangladesh.

Before the main issue concerning our sovereignty is reasoned through, we may first seriously consider some other relevant on going matters. The Indian Air Force system has already been pressurized to make surveillance and air attacks against the Maoists insurgents (having support base among the poor low caste millions) inside Indian territory for the Para military force has miserably failed to contain and keep at check the Maoists inside India so much so that the PM Monmohon Singh (scared though for support for the Maoists by intellectuals like Arundhati Roy, etc) termed them lately as ‘the single biggest threat to Indian security’. The Union Home Minister Chidambaram has been pursuing the argument inside the ministry in Delhi for use of Air Force to crush down the Maoists of all 7 provinces (11 according to other source) spread all over areas mainly adjacent to the western border of Bangladesh. There has not been any consensus decision despite Chidambaram’s insistence for over months. There was a distinct division arguing against Chidambaram that the Indian Army and Air Force were not organized and trained for quelling any internal trouble but only for attacks on external enemies, particularly, Pakistan. The other argument was that the air force bombers might be fired upon by the Maoists equipped with even modern weapons like mortars, rocket launchers, etc. during any operation that would cause many other civilian casualties outside the Maoists Guerillas.

The points of concern particularly for Bangladesh, if the air attacks go on, could be that some Maoist might spill over inside Bangladesh itself aggravating and multiplying Bangladesh’s security risks not only from such refugee Maoists but also for probable Indian Air Force planes chasing them for strikes inside Bangladesh territory like the US Drones in western Pakistan border making other civilian casualties here. In other words, the so called SKY MARTIAL operation by India would further worsen Bangladesh’s internal law and order situation and for furtherance of other hidden objectives of India. Even other outside powers may combine together as they had been doing against Muslim countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.

Bangladesh is a sovereign country that the overwhelming majorities aspire for and not like Hasina making to keep it subservient as the poodle of Monmohon-Sonia nexus and Delhi. That was what just her father as well did pursue through unequal treaties for subservience (the 25 Year India-Bangladesh Treaty of March 1972: Arts. 8, 9 and 10 but became ineffective after mid August 1975 change, though Hasina tried to renew in 1997 but failed for stiff opposition of the people), obviously callously for his poor merit and intellect and love for continued power in dynastic chain. She must not forget, despite her only transitory apparent triumph on the 27-28 January (10) night judicial murder episode orchestrated through the Kangaroo Court and Political Trial, her father was condemned almost universally on the 15th August 1975, and so also Hasina worldwide for the judicial murder of the five heroes and martyrs. The deeply patriots inspired by the anti-BKSAL ideals of the 15th August coup live on to see that its ghost in any form must not forcibly grab and swallow open democracy, pluralism, independence and sovereignty of Bangladesh. I am sure that those contended soul must continue to inspire from the Jannatul Firdous the patriots against the Fifth Columnists and aggressive design through the so called format of the SKY MARTIAL.

Author:B K Din