Untold Facts

Hasina’s Caricature Continuing

That Hasina is champion of speaking repeated untruths and making propaganda of falsehood is known to all intelligent and inquiring men and women. She keeps on repeating that Ershad tried to rehabilitate Col ® Rashid, Major ® Huda, etc in politics. Well, they were facts of mid 1980s. They did very rightly so, because they were free citizens for the Indemnity Act of 26th August 1975 was in force. Careful men and women, however, can recall well that she herself in deep love with Ershad not only rehabilitated him but also legitimized his illegitimate rule during the same time. That she went with Ershad for the so-called Long Drive’ or ‘Love Drive’ to give him legitimacy in the mid 1980s election by herself and her party participated in and the main opposition party BNP boycotted is recorded on fact. Certainly she takes the advantage now of people’s short memory for grinding her own political axe.

Huda has already gone to the after world, I am sure, as one of the great Shahids or martyrs for he along with his four other great colleagues of the 15th August 1975 welcome change made the very difficult but much sought for dethroning the FARAOH possible in general jubilation of the people possible. For they had a ‘Political Trial’ (The Economist 27 November 2009) and mockery of justice in Kangaroo Court of the spineless judges formed by Hasina’s past party cadres, nothing of anything to uphold rule of law, making the clear cut mutiny as a simple murder case flouting illegally the indemnity inherent and specifically provided for by the legitimate government of post 15th August of President Khondoker Moustaque Ahmad. That was why the civilized countries and international organizations like Amnesty International, European Union, powerful Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia etc. had tried until the last moment to stop executing the five heroes on the night of the 27-28 January that was so illegally and immorally made just only to meet the lust of Hasina for blood in shear vengeance and nothing else. That the overwhelming majority people of Bangladesh except only the HUQQA HUAs of Hasina shared their disapproval for the judicial murder of the five heroes done in clear miscarriage of justice along with the civilized people.

Col ® Rashid convicted in the same case is yet to be brought back to Bangladesh from his fugitive status by her government and then put to the gallows in the same way. In the meantime, however, Hasina smarted to put Rashid’s only daughter and the baby grand daughter to the prison, understandably as the hostage. She did employ the same tactics in 1996 in caging Rashid’s wife Zobaeda in rigorous police remand as hostage for Rashid had been out of the country as fugitive and could not have been arrested in the framed up ‘murder case’. She failed to keep Zobaeda in prison for long, much less try her due to mounting international pressure; she was freed with honor and allowed to leave the country and since has not returned.

Recalling back about Hasina’s snare, typical of telling lies for befooling the gullible lots almost all the time, she announced publicly not to participate in the same election process in her Bengali verbatim in English version, ‘Whosoever would take part in the election would be national betrayer’. She had not the slightest remorse to turn herself as the ‘National betrayer’ as she announced to participate in the same election under Ershad, albeit, immediately after the Long or the Love drive.

She maintained love with Ershad, not to mean the sort of what Matiur Rahman Rentu had elaborated in his autobiography AMAR FANSI CHAI, and so the debauch was freed from long imprisonment just to gain political advantage and power of the Prime Minister in 1996. She had then made some political love with the Jamaat as well. Ershad is still in love but the Jamaat is on severe attack so much so that might face even extinction of the post 1971 kind.
These are some examples, not all, of Hasina’s political caricature that the sane people must reckon, the ‘slow poisoning’ episode being lately debated that went up to the court, to chart out the right mode and destiny for the people of Bangladesh vis a vis Hasina’s snares and political caricatures.

Author: B K Din