Abid Bahar
Lately,I was listening to a friend just returned from Bangladesh who was talking about his uncle who was once a TV program director lived in rented apartments all his life but in his retirement began house building business and now he owns 5 beautiful buildings and keeps 3 cars. The uncle explained to his nephew, that he borrowed money from his friends and built his first building and then sold the condo apartments and made money, paid the debt and reinvested in new projects. I said this is capitalism. In Bangladesh, Bangladeshis are learning the capitalist tricks. It is true, in capitalist system, if you have the right contact and the right investment, you become rich as if like the popular saying, over night a finger turns into a banana tree.
But again business or capitalism are not free of corruption. That is why the department of anti-corruption is there to catch violators. But in a country like Bangladesh when the military Generals find ways to take over power, they use the jingle of anti-corruption. This is not fighting corruption; it is a different story. It is politically motivated. In Bangladesh, Moin U who himself was known as his corrupt brother's keeper, ask to torture an alledged criminal businessman then sends to the court then sent him back to the cantonment and torture him again to find out how he made his money because when he he began business he had no money. In Bangladesh to some fools, some old style Stalinist free-thinkers, the brother's keeper army General it is to purifying the nation. But they all should be taught the lesson of how capitalism works.
The anti-capitalist and anti-business move by the military to capture power is simply chocking the nation and the foreign backers have been telling all along that Bangladesh is the world's #1 corrupt country even surpassing Chad, Pakistan and Afghanistan etc. not necessarily because they are corrupt but because Bangladeshis are becoming to smart to know how capitalism works and the army-backed anti-corruption drive is simply to deny the growth and development of Capitalism in Bangladesh. In this scenerios, of arrested development, chocking the nation, anti-Bangladesh drive, are the Bangladeshis going to miss the boat?
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