Untold Facts

Shaikh Hasina’s Blood Thirst still Unmet!

A retired judge of the Bangladesh High Court, a close senior friend of mine, phoned me on the 16th September morning and conveyed some of his feelings about P.M. Sheikh Hasina’s latest note of caution given in the floor of the House on the 15th in apprehension of another Peelkhana massacre. He began his reaction, “ROKTO JOKHON DIECHI ARO ROKTO DIBO” that her father did arrogantly stated on the 7th March 1971 Ramna Race Course historic meeting. The blood letting episode that followed, some recorded and some not recorded at all, is now tragic part of Bangladesh history, he reminded me on the telephone.

Hasina told the house further that she believes in the democracy as had been defined long ago in the mid nineteenth century by US the President Abraham Lincoln. She did not say anything though that the very US President gave his life not only to save democracy in his own country the way they believed in and practiced but also preserved the Federation and its integral sovereignty right then threatened to be from falling apart. That she spoke about the Peelkhana tragedy of blood bath perpetrated on the February 25-26 gone on for over fifty odd hours under her administrative nose and knowledge, how is that she had again the information for similar and another bloodletting to tell the Parliament for what! To wash off her hand in advance for any blame? How can she do that wash off that she cannot do for the simple reason that she is the all-powerful Prime Minister of Bangladesh as ever with absolute majority in the Parliament having all control at her disposal including the Defense Force of the country? Are not the rhetoric she made then in the matter something fishy?

On the 16th morning fortunately I got in the Internet a 14,000+ words item that analyzed in minute details the BDR massacre. The gist, I should say, was that some well-known top ups of the Awami League (I refrain from naming them for security fears) were fully involved in the massacre from behind and in full knowledge of the P.M. Hasina and the Army Chief Moin. The fact has other proofs in that the 3 investigation processes have already been seriously dented and so kept many issues secret for protecting the masterminds behind of the ruling party. The trial process thus, according to a senior specialist, is certain to run into ‘hocus-pocus’ (See weekly Holiday, Dhaka, 18 September 2009). There is reason to believe that Hasina had the nod for the massacre for reasons close to her heart. One, she believes in reprisal killings at the rate of ‘ten for one’ that she had a standing order to her cadre killers. Two, she hates politics but has taken on it for ‘avenging the blood of her father’ as she had on record told to the renowned BBC journalist Serajur Rahman in early 1980s in London Bush House (BBC Head Quarters) (See also Dhaka Bangla daily the Naya Diganta, 24 March 2009). The skeptics are saying that the brutal killing of the 57 brilliant and senior army officers in the February mayhem was not enough to meet her thirst for blood of the genre who killed her father in August 1975; that is why she is on planning to have some more bloodletting to meet her unmet thirst for blood, and to keep her, according to Serajur Rahman again, HUQQA HUAs or sycophant lots blind following in chorus.

After all democracy is conscientious active participation in arguments, reasons and rationality of all concerned and not HUQQA HUAs blind followings.

Author: Dr. M.T. Hussain