Untold Facts

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