Untold Facts

Awami Tyranny Should Force BNP to Rethink and Reach Out

It seems Bangladesh Awami League (BAL) is determined to crush BNP as well as BNP-Islamist Alliance just as Fakhruddin-Moinuddin-Shamsul Huda did try to break BNP into pieces and tear it apart. It seems the current brute Baksalite dictatorship is much worse than the 9/11 blueprint for the suppression, even annihilation, of BNP. It is clear that Awami League has already established a regime in its effort to perpetuate its rule of oppression and persecution turning the country into a gulag-type police state and politicizing every branch of the government. For example, look at

(1) Awami League’s harassing ouster attempts on Khaleda Zia from her house,
(2) Dropping thousands of lawsuits against Awami supporters while keeping active all those against the BNP leaders,
(3) Filing more and more lawsuits against the BNP followers,
(4) Throwing into jail and physically torturing during the evil practice of remand the BNP leaders one after another (Ehsanul Hoque Milon, Mahmudur Rahman, Goyesshor Chandra Roy, Shamsher Mobin Choudhury, Shahid Uddin Anny, Mirza Abbas and many more),
(5) Closing down the media outlets with or without the slightest hint of objective and unbiased stance such as Channel 1, Daily Amar Desh and the wonderful talk show Point of Order hosted by Kazi Zesin on Bangla Vision,
(6) Calling public meetings where BNP also previously called meetings around the country and declaring 144 so that BNP can be prevented from generating public support,
(7) Arresting and remanding top Jamat leaders,
(8) Endlessly attacking BNP-Jamat alliance right and left for the kind of misdeeds which they (AL) themselves are now committing, circumventing the all-empty slogan of “Din Bodol” into the nefarious and vindictive agenda of “Din Dokhol;” and
(9) Changing the names or naming scores of national institutions after Sheikh Mujib only by way of the ancient cult culture and idol worship and North Korean-style leader/hero worship (Bangabondhu Convention Center, B. Medical U, B. Shetu, B. SAF Games, B. International Airport (proposed), B. Avenue, B. Hall, B. College, so on. And now, Mr. Mohammad Musa, a diehard Awamite with a loud voice dedicated against BNP-Jamat alliance, who has been appointed secretary to this AL govt. under the freedom-fighters quota, has proposed the naming of Dhaka city as B. City on the talk show Trityo Matra. Apparently a God-fearing man, unfortunately, he has recently fallen from grace due to his alleged unjust and immoral relationships with a number of his house maids as reported in the daily Amader Shomoy. Ah! Mr. Mohammad Musa).

The above are just some examples of Awami destructive, vindictive and repressive politics. Under the circumstances, BNP should do everything possible to gather strength to take on AL. One of the things BNP should do is to reorganize its party apparatus. In this connection I would like to bring the following to the attention of Begum Khaleda Zia and the BNP leadership for their consideration:

1. BNP must immediately reach out and bring back B. Choudhury, Oli Ahmad, Mir Shawkat, Ferdous Koreshi, Choudhury Tanvir, Alamgir Kabir, and the independent MP (Mr. Azim) and others who until recently belonged to BNP. All of them will definitely make the party strong. If AL can accept Ershad and win the election and go on with such a dictatorial rule, why can’t BNP be able to accept those mentioned above?

2. BNP should drop those who are hopelessly weak and ineffective such as Dr. R A Ghani or Barkatullah Bhulu and replace them with those who are stronger and louder with a considerable amount of public influence.

3. BNP should bring to the forefront Major Hafizuddin Ahmed—an able and competent man, eloquent and articulate and forceful. Let’s forget about his so-called “reformist” past which, it is true, was extremely painful. He made a serious mistake but should be given a chance. He does indeed deserve a chance. He is an asset to the party, no doubt. If the late Saifur Rahman and Lt. Gen. Mahbubur Rahman could be back on the Standing Committee, why not Major Hafizuddin? He is a lot more, much more effective than Saifur and Mahbubur. Major Hafiz is one of the best and ablest men in BNP.

4. In order to strengthen and energize the party, BNP may consider dropping Khandoker Delwar and replacing him with some one abler and more charismatic, more inspiring. While Khandoker’s political statements are sound and shrewd, he is too old to be impressive and to motivate others. He is also not perceived to be a man of clean image. He is old and weak—another elderly sitting Saifur.

5. In order to strengthen and energize the party, BNP should increase the number of SC members and that of VPs and advisers to include many other prominent figures from around the country on regional representation basis so that all districts are represented in the central leadership and the rank and file supporters become happy, active, and excited.

6. A very important suggestion is that Madam Chairperson ought to meet will all organizational wings – SC members, VPs, Advisers, and Executive Committee members more frequently for regular exchange of views and ideas as well as the publicity on the media. Such frequent meetings, not just with SC members but all other party wings, are very important.

7. BNP Mohila Dal is very weak. It needs to be strengthened under the exciting leadership of the current female MPs who are doing a fantastic job strongly defending the party and vigorously attacking AL. Look how strong Awami Mohila organization.

8. There should be a BNP think tank comprising intellectuals and journalists and professors and lawyers and retired bureaucrats and army officers and technocrats and industrialists.

9. BNP should remain in alliance with Jamat and all other Islamic parties and strengthen the alliance. There must be a BNP Ulema Dal without delay. AL has already one.

10. BNP leaders are so soft and polite that they do not mind addressing Sheikh Mujib as “Bangabandhu” but unfortunately AL leaders never address Zia with respect as President or General Zia, who was also a great freedom fighter and whose magical announcement in his unsurpassable magical voice of the independence struggle on the Radio in 1971 took the struggle forward to success and would remain a key moment of utmost significance in the history of Bangladesh. BNP leaders should stop addressing AL leaders as “Manonyo” since they never address BNP leaders in the like manner. Anyway, in the West, no such form of address. All are addressed just by their proper names.

11. While BAL leaders attack anything and everything which has the slightest smell of opposition, BNP leaders are so simple and naïve they never attack the Daily Star, Observer, Prothom Alo and Bhorer Kagoj and Shangbad and Jugantor, all of which are directly supportive of AL, almost as its propaganda mouthpiece.

I hope BNP leadership would consider the above suggestions. They need to bring together those who are inspiring, loud-speaking, tough-talking, sharp, brilliant, smart, and intelligent with organizational skills and clean image.

Author:Jalal Uddin Khan

Genealogy of militancy in Bangladesh and some threatening worries

During the last four-party coalition government, some sporadic and inept militant incidents occurred across Bangladesh, which left the country people utterly shocked and dumb-founded. Such incidents involving religious zeal had no place in Bangladesh in the past. In no time, Bangladesh became a news headline and different theories were being concocted. As a result, the country terribly suffered both economically and politically.

Bangladeshi expatriates and migrant workers especially those in the Middle East and in countries like Malaysia started to have the brunt of this image injury of their country. They have been looked down upon with a prism of suspicion and distrust. Foreign investment in Bangladesh, especially in garment industries, was halted for a period and still is not as it had been before.

A neighboring country became the immediate beneficiary of the embarrassment that Bangladesh was having. While many Bangladeshi migrant workers were being sent home, those from that neighboring country started to receive special treatment. Their gate to the international labour market became wider.

The above facts should be important in understanding those militant incidents in Bangladesh in the 2005s. Militancy in Bangladesh did not benefit the political parties that were in power at that time or those who do not subscribe to India’s political interest in the region. So it would be a worthwhile investigation to look into the genealogy of militancy in Bangladesh.

In all likelihood, the strong intelligence service of the country that has been the beneficiary of all such negative developments in Bangladesh was behind these incidents, especially in the training of the militants. And in all likelihood, the preparation period of militancy was during the last Awami regime 1996-2001 when some quomi madrasas were allegedly being used for stirring up militancy and for training purposes.

Despite the widespread damage to Bangladesh’s image in the international world, those militant incidents failed to give the neighbouring country and its ally Awami League inside the country the fullest dividend. They failed to establish a link between militancy and Bangladesh Jamaat Islam, a party that refuses to bow down to the Indian political and economic hegemony.

In my opinion, the recent arrest of the three most prominent Jamaat leaders (Motiur Rahman Nizami, Delwar Hossain Saidee and Ali Ahsan M. Mujahid) is to wrap up that un-finished task. Members of the intelligence service of the neighbouring country and Awami League ministers are well aware of the huge love and respect that these three leaders command among the rank and file of Jamaat Islam. Tortures on such highly respected people and religious scholars will definitely upset many religious people in the country, especially those belonging to Jamaat Islam. Anger may lead some of them to militancy; few individuals may even take the wrong route of suicide bombing out of desperation. If such things happen, God forbid, Bangladesh will fall to the category of Iraq, Palestine, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the full mission of the neighbouring country will be accomplished with the complicity of the Awami regime. Bangladesh is the last remaining hurdle for this regional power to reap the strategic and economic interests in South Asia.

Awami League and its subcontinental patron are using the sentiment of Bangladesh’s liberation war of 1971 for a wrong intention. I hope the people of Bangladesh will wise up to the viciousness of this plot against the country before it is too late, before we find our beloved country turned into another Afghanistan, another Pakistan!

Author: Shimul Chaudhury

BAL Brutality on Mahmudur Rahman

Bangladesh has become an utterly Baksalite country under the bully that is the present government with ruthless oppression cruelly descending down on all kinds of democratic dissent, however legitimate and rightful they may be, and wildly devouring any semblance of freedom of expression, however informed and critically discriminating that may be. The situation in the country is such that it has lapsed into a filthy demonic, draconian and iron-fisted rule, worse than any military dictatorships, Stalinist Russia, contemporary Arab and African mouth-gagging regimes and Prophet Musa’s pharaonic fearful Egypt. No wonder, following the assassination of Sheikh Mujib in 1975, the late Abdul Malek Ukil of his own party remarked in London with a feeling of great relief that Bangladesh had been saved from the tyranny and repression of a Bangladeshi pharaoh. Just to give one example (not to speak of the other recent nakedly biased actions like the blind and blanket changing of the names of many national institutions, and the dropping of thousands of lawsuits against the Awamites, etc), look at the tyrannical closure of Channel 1 (One), Kazi Zesin’s fantastic and brilliant talk show Point of Order on Bangla Vision and the esteemed Daily Amar Desh. It is an extremely painful and disturbing development that a man like Mahmudur Rahman, perhaps the finest technocrat-turned-intellectual politician and journalist Bdesh has ever seen, has been under arrest for no reason and brutally tortured during the 12-day remand like Bdesh scuttling back into the dark ages of pagan beastliness in the distant European past. May the Almighty Allah save the nation and its people from the brutish suppression of the current government. May He return the benevolent and patriotic elements to power in order to be able to bring to justice those who are now perpetrating and gloating with goatish glee at the inhuman, immoral and unacceptable torture hurled on the mega-mind that is Mahmudur, a national conscience, a towering national treasure, a solid storehouse of knowledge and learning. Mahmudur’s was a dispassionate and disenchanted critical dissection with a penchant for objective and fair and balanced analysis as opposed to the biased yellow slavish servility of other mean and mediocre semi-journalists and quasi-intellectuals licking the boots of the beastly and biodegradable political elements belonging to the present government. A man of unique intellectual luster, Mahmudur is a class by himself. Those who are torturing and stripping Mahmudur do not have family and children of their own? Don’t they have any sense of shame? Don’t they have their male and female parts attached or included in their body? Don’t they have mothers and daughters? Don’t they have sons and fathers? Curse on them and their children to be the victim of the same shame, same torture one day, even more and more and more. I hope one day they who are allowing themselves to be the raw and blunt tools of Awami torture and persecution will be punished. I hope that the hands of the opposition will be strengthened soon to retaliate the Awami vindictiveness with icy and iron hand.

By: Jalal Uddin Khan

AL and the Daily Amar Desh

AL Govt has started a dictatorial Baksali-style rule. Recently there has been dozens and dozens of lawsuits for anything that was thought to be slightly critical of them. Amar Desh, Channel One, Kazi Zesin’s talkshow Point of Order on Bangla Vision, BNP Parliamentary leader Joinal Abedin Farouk, Press Club President Shawkot Mahmud, BNP Standing Committee member Saka Choudhury are just some of the glaring examples. Ministers have been threatening with provocative speeches at the arguably reliable media reports. Where are the freedoms of speech and the media? The government wants others to ignore, be silent, connive at and even support their alleged misdeeds including the withdrawal of thousands of lawsuits against the Awami supporters, the release of Sajeda Choudhury’s son from the corruption case involving him and the matter of Sajeeb Wajed Joy as reported in the Amar Desh, a first-rate, prestigious national daily. As such, one is very apprehensive about the future of the country. If there is any allegation of corruption against anybody, let it be investigated and dealt with in a judicial manner within the system of the law of the country. Why lawsuit just for reporting an alleged corruption on the media? How can then the truth come out and the unhindered freedom of reporting by journalists be cultivated? Where is the democratic right to criticism? Why is there such a suppression of the media and the shielding of the alleged? All Bangladesh media should be vocal and come forward in defence of Amar Desh, a well-known reputable daily as it is.

Everybody should have the freedom to say whatever s/he likes to say in his/her logical estimation and sensible analysis of the government and politics of his/her country. Why should then AL be so tyrannical? In Western democracies everybody has the right to criticize anybody including the top political leaders. That’s how democracy survives and succeeds. Are we under the medieval or neo-modern or postmodern kingship or dictatorship? Are we under a Myanmar-style military junta or in repressive communist archipelago in which we are not allowed to be critical of the government or those close to the government? Tareq Rahman is criticised by AL right and left even though he is liked by the public as well as the party apparatus for a number of reasons not to be mentioned here. It is none of AL’s business if TR is made senior VP or senior JS of his party. On the contrary, one may question in what capacity Joy took part in the Govt. delegation meeting with the US Govt. or at the UN when he was none of the government, none of AL, none of the parliament.

Why should one be forced to say Bangabandhu instead of just Sheikh Mujib? It is a matter of one’s personal choice and personal conviction. One should not be forced if one does not want to. Look at George Washington, JFK, Mahathir Mohammad, Lee Kuan Yew, Charles De Gaulle, Winston Churchill, Mao Tsetung, Vladimir Lenin, Che Guavara, Fidel Castro, Adolf Hitler–all are just known and addressed by their simple proper names; all are remembered in a passing, casual manner once in a long while, not a million times a day. They are hardly celebrated with flower and fanfare on a daily basis. But this does not mean their legacies have been cornered or confined, truncated or tarnished, reduced or hindered; instead they are celebrated through the works, not words, of the leaders and the generations since their death.

AL does not mention President Zia’s name with respect and dignity as someone who was a freedom fighter of the highest order, who made the crucial and essential announcement of the fight for freedom and liberation in his magical and magnetic far-reaching voice over the Radio and who proved to be a great, exemplary president of the country successfully leading it to the road of democracy and prosperity.

When AL does not show respect to President Zia, a proud and illustrious son of the soil, one of the most bona-fide and heroic souls Bangladesh has ever seen, how can AL expect others to show respect to Sheikh Mujib? Millions of people mourned the assassination of Zia while they danced in joy at the assassination of Shekh Mujib. No assassination can ever be supported (it is always a heinous crime) but the rejoicing at the death of Sheikh Mujib, even by the elements of his own party, was indeed a fact. He was a great leader but his rule was highly compromised and controversial with people suffering from famine, anarchy, lack of security, Rakkhi-Bahini torture and the dictatorial operation of his government. All’s well that ends well. His post-71 role/rule was in dispute by all means. Sure he did a lot for the country, from Benapol to Tamabil, but so did General Zia too, from Teknaf to Tetulia. Having said so, we got to get out of the quagmire of the past, stop mudslinging at each other, unite the nation and move forward.

Author: Jalal Uddin Khan

Reasons for collective actions to shield Mahmudur Rahman from Awami regime’s cruel exercise of power

It appears that Sheikh Hasina’s government has a sinister plan to continue torturing editor Mahmudur Rahman in the name of legal proceedings. What is most worrying is that the Supreme Court (including the High Courst and Appellate divisions) is on holiday till 3 July 2010. If the repressive regime takes this long vacation as an opportunity to persecute this patriotic man in police custody, freedom loving people in Bangladesh and beyond have a very good reason to feel disturbed.

On a personal note, let me make it very clear that I am not a member of any political groups in Bangladesh. But I have deep respect for Mr Rahman, as I know that he has been honest and brave in exposing the wrongdoings of the people in power. When many columnists remained largely silent and exercised self-censorship during the last army-backed government, he was the one to write relentlessly against human rights violations during those two years. He was the man to challenge them! After Awami League came to power, he continued writing for the betterment of his country and against India’s political and economic hegemony in the region and against the Bangladesh government’s subservient policies.

Recently I contacted a lawyer who has been partly involved in handling Mr Rahman’s case. This is what he said to me:

“He [Mahmudur Rahman] was taken to an unknown place, eyes were folded, he was undressed, tortured,,,,was not allowed to sign a letter of authority for ‘appointment of lawyer’ (it was later allowed), he was kept in police custody without food and drink for long hours, he was not allowed to see his lawyers / family members for over 24 hours. He was arrested on 1 June, by now he has lost his weight @ 7 Kgs, he was taken on police custody for interrogation in criminal cases which were filed after he had been arrested!!!…..his life is endangered. Please see the reports (Naya Diganta, Amar Desh, others 3 June - 15 June). His very arrest was unlawful. He said to his lawyers/family members and even to the Court that he had been brutally tortured: physically and mentally….starvation, inhuman and degrading treatments in violation of all norms of human rights, constitutional safeguards….all have taken place by now….”

Upon court appearance, Mr Rahman told the judge that he was not supposed to be alive after what he had gone through in police custody and asked the judge to save his life.

Historically, Awami League, the political party currently in power in Bangladesh has always been against freedom of the press. On June 16, 1975, the then Awami League government had closed all newspapers except four under government control and banned all other political groups. Since this regime came to power in early 2009, it has kept torturing people of opposition political groups, threatening journalists and shut down television channels like Channel 1and Jamuna TV, and the second most widely-circulated newspaper Amar Desh.

What I have gathered after reading different news stories on Mr Mahmudur Rahman’s arrest and tortures on him is that: He was severely tortured by unidentified five people in one early morning in the name of remand; he was blindfolded, stripped naked. When those men started torturing him, he fainted and remained senseless for many hours. He was questioned not about the issues relating to his cases; but about other extra-judicial matters.

People in Bangladesh believe that Mr Rahman has been the target mainly for his writings where he talked about the regime’s complicity in the killings of about 60 army officers in February 2009 and about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Joy’s involvement in financial corruptions.

I most humbly request all to do whatever they can to put pressure on the Bangladesh government to rescue this uncompromising writer.

Author: Shimul Chaudhury

Thoughts on BAKSAL, Mahmudur Rahman and the media

The first Awami regime after the birth of Bangladesh introduced a one-party political system in the country by banning all other political groups and shutting down all opposition news outlets. This is a fact and not a fiction. That regime committed a criminal act and waged a war against democracy, for which Awami League has never apologized. People of the country including those belonging to Awami League know this very well.

The political strategy the current Awami regime is following gives us a clear signal that Sheikh Hasina’s government wants to remain in power for a very long time by re-establishing the one-party political system in Bangladesh; and that is why she is stifling political dissents and disallowing opposition rallies, which she may dare to believe will lead to the perpetual rule of her party.

Despite this blatant undemocratic stance of Awami League, both domestic and foreign media are largely silent about Awami brutalities. Since the media largely influence public opinion, people of the country are thus kept in oblivion about the fascist nature of the current regime in Bangladesh. What a section of media usually highlights, for example, is Jamaat-e-Islam’s political stance of 1971 in favour of a united Pakistan. After about four decades of the liberation of Bangladesh, Jamaat’s political stance in 1971 can be interpreted in two ways: firstly, it was totally wrong to espouse to retain a united Pakistan given all the inequalities that existed between West Pakistan and East Pakistan; secondly, the way Indian BSF personnel are killing hundreds of Bangladeshis every year and given other Indian economic and political exploitations of Bangladesh may vindicate the Jamaat fear of 1971 that a Bangladesh axed from Pakistan would be subject to Indian hostilities, which is actually the present day reality. However, this is a matter of political and historical analysis and should be done in an academic way.

Nonetheless, if Jamaat’s stance was wrong (and I believe it was), it can also be interpreted as its right to hold a political opinion. What is important to note is that Jamaat leaders have wholeheartedly accepted Bangladesh and shown loyalty to the state. I do not know any Jamaat leader who has said that Bangladesh should rejoin Pakistan. In terms of the gravity of crime, establishing BAKSAL was not a lesser offense. What is more, Awami League has not yet declared that it would never pursue such a political goal and their current activities suggest that they do not tolerate any opposition parties or dissent voices. The current Awami government has practically turned many police stations in Bangladesh into torture cells for the opposition party people and for the ones like Mahmudur Rahman who expose the regime’s misdeeds.

Unfortunately, the Awami BAKSAL crime is not highlighted in the media. The line of reporting of a section of Bangladeshi newspapers seems to meet the ‘wishes’ of a neighboring country that is bent on scoring political and economic dividends from Bangladesh while Awami League in power. Shutting down electronic and print media is now deemed to be taken for granted. While an editor is being tortured most inhumanly in police custody, many media agencies are turning blind eyes to the regime’s fascist inclination. Tortures on Mahmudur Rahman have now become a normal practice and many media people are not using their influence to rescue him.

Let us imagine that an editor of one of the many newspapers ‘loyal’ to the neighboring country is tortured in the way Mahmudur Rahman is, what would be the reaction of the local and international media? The leverage of our neighbouring country in international politics and in the media world may be the main reason why global media is largely silent about the tortures on Mahmudur Rahman. It is true that being a poor country we may not be able to exercise such leverage in the near future. But what is frustrating is that a section of our local media is also keen on going along with outside instructions in its reportage.

Mahmudur Rahman’s patriotism is now being tested, and I believe he will remain firm and true to his country in the face of all these state persecutions. We pray to God so that we will see him alive and unharmed after the inhuman remand tortures he is going through at the moment. Mahmudur Rahman’s love for the country has set a target which is beyond the reach many editors who are busy earning the pleasure of the regime.

We know about a number of sweet sounding international organizations like Amnesty International, PEN, Article 19, Reporters sans frontier and Human Rights Watch that are supposed to defend free speech and human rights. Unfortunately, we may not see their intervention to stop the tortures on Mahmudur Rahman, and that is perhaps because he does not fit in their international political agendas. However, I strongly believe that a Mahmudur Rahman – alive or dead – after these tortures in remands will have a greater claim on the gratitude of the people of Bangladesh. A true national hero is in the making, while editors of many newspapers are carousing in the kitchen and pantry of Awami League and its foreign patrons.

Author: Shimul Chaudhury

Eye wash or window dressing

A high ranking Opposition stalwart, as the report published in his verbatim in some dailies on the 7th June, stated in an open discussion forum that the Awami League must seek apology for all their misdeeds during Mujib’s rule during 1972-75. Would that be enough to ask from them? How about not referring with deep hatred the significant other anti-national actions they orchestrated during 1996-2001 and as well as of one and half year misrule now on since January 2009? Did he not try to act to hedge Hasina’s past and present oppressive misrule and her killing democracy and supporting her tacitly in many grossly anti-national activities and leading the country to re-embark fully on to the BKSAL?

The truth about the first to mention is that Hasina’s oppressive misrule, more or less, still in people’s memory but the 1972-75 of her father and of the same party that ended 35 years ago that had been given to let to be almost totally forgotten in the memory of the present generation in which the Opposition has a lot contribution. The present generation rather, hurrah, to the endless uninterrupted huge mountain of propaganda, have began to forget Mujib’s role of betrayal repeated in history like that of the Mir Zafar of Pallasey’s 1757 A.D. and so many have accepted him without serious question as the angel of the time, if not for worship as demigod by the Muslims for their belief in the Tawheed or Absolute Monotheism.

There must not have any doubt that the people soon after 1971 independence had started to bitterly realize that Hasina’s father was nothing but a demagogue. Unfortunately they had no scope for respite from the demagogue’s absolute rule until fortune favored people all in the successful army coup organized and operated by a few exceptional quality heroes of the army middle ranks who in turn had jubilant support from the people at home and abroad. Anything short of due and honest appreciation of the heroic act could hardly be of any worth of condemnation of the Awami League/ BKSAL.

The Opposition, the main being the BNP’s stalwarts, have had always shied away from the great event of history of Bangladesh. In other words, they have only, in this matter, lined up tacitly at least with the Hasina’s demonic administration of shear vengeance against the heroes during 1996-20001. Among many examples, they did not oppose the Indemnity Act repeal bill in the Parliament in late 1996. Very cleverly they boycotted the session while the repeal bill had been passed with slender majority, not two third as required, as if they had nothing to do uphold the 15th August 1975 revolutionary change, the stark reality though remained that had there been no 15th August, BNP would not have even been born. The rebirth of some other minor Muslim/Islamic parties as well would not see any light of the day for democracy and pluralism. On this account, it is clear a thesis proved that they have no identity except as the betrayer just as the Awami League happens to be for the people and of the country.

God willing should the right sense prevail now, they have to keep on condemning the judicial murder of the five of the heroes executed in unusual haste on the 27-28 midnight 2010 in the Dhaka Central Prison so that the sins already committed by the opportunist Opposition elements might be reprieved to some extent. Otherwise, it will remain an eye wash to hoodwink common people or for something of window dressing to artificially cover up their gravely sinful omission.

Author: BK Din

On the 27 January BKSAL Reappeared in Bangladesh

Real pities for those who now lament for reappearance of the notorious BKSAL in Bangladesh after it had the formal burial 35 years ago back in the year 1975 in the early morning of the 15th August but did hardly oppose the ‘murder case’ against the heroes of the great event in Dhaka.

I would term them, forgive me, to be harsh that they had already missed the bus at least about six months ago for cowardice to stand up to against the judicial murder of the great actors and brilliant heroes of the team of the Bangladesh army men who resolutely and determinedly fought and worked to make the formal burial on the auspicious August morning that memorable day in the midst of mass jubilation of the people in and out. In fact, the patriotic people of Bangladesh had enjoyed the fall and burial along with the fall of the dictator who sponsored and initiated the demon of BKSAL. The successful coup then recognized internally and externally as such provided full legitimacy to the great change from BKSAL to openness and multiparty democracy. The heroes had automatic indemnity for the unfortunate blood letting on both sides in the engagements, very brief though for minutes, legitimated as also had been their Indemnity for the great act of change. They had in no way been ordinary killers but successful army coup operators.

In mid 1996 soon after Hasina took on the State power of Bangladesh she swooped on the heroes of the 15th August as ‘ordinary killers’ of her father, the notorious 20th century Mir Zafar of this country that had in 1757 A.D. the first notorious betrayer ruler Mir Zafar in greater Bengal of the period.

The formal Indemnity provided by the post 15th August 1975 Bangladesh Government had been cancelled in the Parliament by Hasina with slender majority, not two third as it had required being part of the 5th Amendment of the Constitution adopted in April 1979. The most curious thing was that the Opposition BNP in the Parliament did boycott the session to get the Indemnity cancelled by Hasina to frame up ordinary murder case against the 15th August heroes! She had her firm stand to quench the blood for blood so much so that she misused further all State powers at the disposal ultimately to get a death sentence passed by KANGAROO COURT (Lisa Journal April-June 2010, London) and execution made in unusual haste on the 27 -28th mid night in the Dhaka central prison. She cared nothing for appeals made from almost all civilized countries and humanitarian organizations that she had had joined politics for to avenge the blood of her father (See daily Naya Diganta, 24 March 2009, Dhaka, etc and many other publications). That the trial leading to the death sentence was solely driven by Hasina’s politics of shear vengeance was recorded by many here and there (See, for example, The Economist, 27 November 2009).

Once the 15th August anti BKSAL coup had been nullified by the execution, the BKSAL has had automatically reappeared here with still more ferocious venoms not only to bite and eat up all Opposition forces including the BNP but also the independent existence of Bangladesh, the BIG NEIGHBOR in all her mode this time can not afford to loose to keep Hasina and the dynasty alive and in continuity as their most loyal puppet in Bangladesh and not as anything of the independent and sovereign entity. In fact, that is why for Delhi’s serious need and for their supportive plan the heroes had been hastily executed.

The road map is now set for the patriotic people for the only job to rise against the machinations in a revolution still much bigger in momentum than the 15th August of 1975 for Delhi is now much better equipped with nuclear arsenal than in 1975, and further that the highly intelligent army men led by Farook-Dalim-Shahriar successfully operated the coup by bluffing then both the PM Indira and her intelligence, the RAW.

Author: BK Din