Untold Facts

Pilkhana Success Story Of Hasina !

I had an occasion to listen to a noted person of Dhaka in a foreign media in the morning of the 6th July wherein, while eulogizing the success story of the 2009 Awami League Government’s six months in office, he listed at top of the success the handling of the Pilkhana mayhem of the 25-26 February 2009. How could one differ with him? He did not elaborate, but we may do it for the people of Bangladesh.
1. The Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina in orchestrating the mayhem in full knowledge, first of everything got rid of to brutal deaths of as many as 65 meritorious and highly trained and experienced Bangladesh Army officers in a single go of nearly 56 hours.
2. That she on her own did not permit the much more expected neutral and impartial report on the mayhem made and to see light of the day. The hush up could not have been but for saving certain elements in the orchestration linked to the high ups.
3. That she has already let Moin, the then army chief, who could have saved almost all lives of the 65 but for his inaction on the 25th February morning in full connivance with the P.M., to leave the country.
4. That she has, by the orchestration, broken the morale not only of the national army but also of the BDR, police and other auxiliary forces that could otherwise face with more confidence the enemy from across the international geographical border.
5. That after breaking the morale of all these forces, she has taken further on to remove some other highly trained and brilliant ones, as well, the latest one being the straight dismissal of Brigadier Azmi on the 25th June. It is known that his only fault was that he happened to be the son of former Ameer of the Jamaat E Islami, Professor Ghulam Azam, the old man in his mid eighties and naturally very near to the grave. Hasina might have thought that Azmi would go for any putsch! One might recall here that in her first term (1996-2001) she went all her way out in shear vengeance not only to make judicial murder of the 1975 15th August coup leader but also harassed the family members in all possible ghastly forms. She had removed Col (R) Farooq’s sister Yasmeen and her husband Ashfaq from their permanent jobs of senior pilots in the Bangladesh Biman!
6. That it is easy to be pretty sure that Hasina emboldened by the February orchestration she is going to play similar other havocs not only in the army, BDR, police etc. but also in the civil administration for her own ego centricity and lust for elongation of the State power that has further been nodded and confirmed by the Cabinet on the 6th July, the day they marked the so-called six months’ success story by duly putting on additional burden in giving not only Hasina but also Rehana, two of Mujib’s now surviving daughters, the highest security of the SSF at huge public cost for life, unprecedented in the history of mankind except in case of some Royal Sovereigns.
7. That she has the big neighbor’s paratroopers ready to help her solidify the base of power that she was assured during the orchestration that in fact threatened Bangladesh’s sovereignty, she had thus the moral boost guaranteed from across the border, and may be so also the HUQQA HUA cabinet guaranteed her and Rehana the Sovereign’s SSF protections for life.
8. Now she can do and undo anything that the BDR mayhem had opened for her the great opportunity to remain in power until her life ends, but again to transfer to her second in throne Rehana and then followed by Joy in the line of succession.
9. I am sure some other guys more intelligent than me can add many other ‘success’ stories like fortune making through all forms of dubious means, TENDERBAJI being only one of many in Sheikh Hasina’s and her bully boys corporate success story, in addition to the BDR mayhem of Bangladesh.

Author: Dr.M.T. Hussain